Micro GCC · India · For AI & AI-native companies
Build the capability you need in India.Start with 8 to 10. Scale when you're ready.
Tell us what your business needs to be able to do. We design the roles, source and technically validate the candidates, hire and onboard the team, and seat them in a managed workspace. You pay for the developers. The seats are on us.
- No entity required to start
- Workspace included
- You approve every hire
- Transfer to your entity later
Get your Micro GCC plan
Tell us the capability. We come back with the roles, the ramp and the India cost - no obligation.
Start with 10 seats. Grow into your GCC.
Every seat after the first ten is added when the work is real.
8 to 10
people in your first India team
10
engineering roles to design the team from
1 to 2
validated profiles you interview per seat
1 partner
strategy, hiring, workspace, operations, scale
The problem
Don't start by building an office. Start by building a capability.
Traditional GCC thinking starts with real estate, entity setup and a headcount plan. Twelve to eighteen months and a signed lease later, the first engineer writes the first line of code. That is an enormous bet on a capability nobody has proven yet.
A Micro GCC starts from the capability instead:
- AI / ML Engineering
- Data Engineering
- Product Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud / DevOps
- QA / SDET
- AI Enablement
- Digital Transformation
“We need AI-first capability in India.”
“We need an India team that is genuinely part of our global engineering org.”
You define the capability. We design the roles, run the hiring, and put the team to work - before you commit to a building, an entity or a five-year plan.
How it works
From capability to a working Micro GCC
One line. Five steps. You keep every decision that matters; we do the operational work in India.
Step 1
Tell us the capability
One call. What the team has to be able to do for the business - not a stack of job descriptions.
Step 2
We design the 8 to 10
Roles, seniority mix, reporting lines and a month-by-month ramp, costed before you commit to anything.
Step 3
We source and technically validate
NeoHireX screens the market; practising senior engineers run the technical rounds against your real requirements.
Step 4
You approve every hire
The final interview and the offer decision stay with you, on every single seat. Always.
Step 5
We hire, onboard and run
Employment, payroll, statutory compliance, workspace, IT and day-to-day operations. Your team ships.
We handle
- Capability roadmap
- Role design and salary benchmarking
- Sourcing and technical validation
- Offer, onboarding and induction
- Payroll and statutory compliance
- Workspace, IT and security
- Day-to-day team operations
You keep
- Final hiring decisions
- Technical direction
- Product roadmap and priorities
- All code, IP and data
- Team culture and rituals
- The option to take it all in-house
Where you start
Your first 8 to 10 people need seats. Not an office project.
- Managed workspace in Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai
- Desks, meeting rooms and a secure network from week one
- Laptops, licences and on-site IT support
- No lease, no fit-out, no capex, no facilities hire
- Move onto your own floor when the team outgrows it
The seats are on us
You pay for the developers.
Workspace for your first 8 to 10 seats is included in the engagement. There is no lease to sign, no fit-out to fund, and no facilities manager to hire before your team can start work.
What it costs
Open book. You approve every salary. Our charges sit on top.
Salary and benefits
actual agreed cost, approved by you
Recruiting, HR and GCC operations
Payroll, entity and statutory compliance
Workspace, IT, connectivity and office support
Laptops and specialised hardware
at actual cost, or supplied by you
Fully loaded monthly cost = salary and benefits plus our charges on top.
Excludes laptops and unusual project-specific infrastructure.
You approve the salary for every role, and you see the fully loaded monthly cost for that role before anyone is hired.
Senior leadership, hiring process setup, operating cadence and initial GCC setup are included. No separate management retainer. Billing is monthly in advance.
Ownership
Choose how much you want to own, and when
Three ways to run the same team. All three start with 8 to 10 seats, and all three can graduate into a full GCC.
Your entity. Your compliance.
You already have an Indian entity, or you want one now. The team is yours on paper from the first hire, and we run the hiring, workspace and operations underneath it.
Best for
Groups with an India entity, or the appetite to set one up today.
Start without an entity.
The team is employed through NeoIntelli. You direct the work; we carry the employment, payroll and statutory obligations. Nothing to incorporate before your first engineer starts.
Best for
A first India team, or a capability you want to prove before you commit.
We build it. You take it over.
We build and run the team to an agreed standard, then transfer the people, contracts and operations to your entity. Transfer is triggered by milestones agreed at the start, not by an arbitrary date: team hired, stable operating state reached, your India entity ready, handover confirmed by both sides. Standard operate period is 18 months. A one-time transfer fee applies, agreed with you upfront. No per-head charge, no surprise exit fee. Mechanics are written into the SOW on day one.
Best for
Boards that want a captive GCC without carrying the first-year risk.
Design your team
What would your 8 to 10 person India team look like?
Build the team you actually need, then take it straight into our India cost calculator - city by city, seniority by seniority, operating model by operating model.
Engineering Manager
Owns delivery and the local team
1AI / ML Engineer
Models, RAG, agents, evaluation
2Data Engineer
Pipelines, warehouse, data quality
1Full-Stack Engineer
End-to-end product delivery
2Backend Engineer
Services, APIs, core platform
0Frontend Engineer
Product UI and design systems
0Cloud / DevOps Engineer
Infra, CI/CD, cost and uptime
1QA / SDET
Automation and release confidence
1Data Scientist
Analysis, experimentation, insight
0Mobile Engineer
iOS and Android delivery
0
Your India team
8 seats - exactly the Micro GCC starting shape.
- Engineering Manager1
- AI / ML Engineer2
- Data Engineer1
- Full-Stack Engineer2
- Cloud / DevOps Engineer1
- QA / SDET1
Opens our cost calculator with this exact team already filled in. Pick city, seniority and operating model there to see the full range.
The scale path
Start with 8 to 10. Build only when the business proves the need.
You do not have to predict today how large your India operation will be in three years. Add the first capability, measure it, and expand only where it earns the next seat.
Phase 1
8 to 10
Micro GCC
Prove the capability. One managed workspace, one team, one delivery line you can actually measure.
Phase 2
20 to 50
Adjacent capability
A second and third function join the same operating model. Still no lease of your own to sign.
Phase 3
50 to 100
Dedicated function
A dedicated floor, your own leadership layer in India, and formal governance around the centre.
Phase 4
100 to 400
Full GCC
An independent India operation with its own site, entity and charter - grown into, not gambled on.
Scale the capability. Not the complexity.
8 to 10 is not a discount version. It is the size that lets you start without a year of committee.
How this is different
A Micro GCC is not another outsourcing contract
| Dimension | Outsourcing | Traditional GCC | NeoIntelli Micro GCC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who the team works for | The vendor's delivery structure | You, after 12 to 18 months of setup | You, from the first week |
| People | Rotated, shared, replaced | Yours, once the entity exists | Named, dedicated, interviewed by you |
| Knowledge | Leaves with the contract | Stays, eventually | Compounds inside your own team |
| Starting commitment | A statement of work | Entity, lease, capex, headcount plan | 8 to 10 people |
| Control | You brief, they staff | Full - once it finally exists | Full technical control on day one |
| Growth | Buy more billable hours | Approved in annual budget cycles | Add seats when the work is real |
Why NeoIntelli
You shouldn't need five companies to build one India team
GCC advisory, recruitment, technical validation, workspace, HR operations and scale support usually mean five separate vendors and five separate contracts. Here it is one team under one operating agreement.
GCC strategy
Capability design, role architecture, cost model and the scale path.
Talent and hiring
Market mapping and sourcing across every role your team needs.
Interview and validation
Technical rounds run by senior engineers before anything reaches you.
Workspace and operations
Seats, IT, payroll, compliance and the daily running of the centre.
Scale support
The next 10, the next 50, and the handover to your own entity.
One partner · One system · One scale path
The hiring engine
NeoHireX, our in-house AI hiring OS
The team is only as good as the hiring behind it. NeoHireX is how we keep the bar identical on the first eight seats and on the eightieth.
Screens the whole market
NeoHireX ranks candidates against what the role genuinely requires, not against resume keywords.
Technical rounds by senior engineers
Practising engineers probe what someone built, owned and traded off - matched to the seat.
You interview 1 to 2 per seat
Only what survives validation reaches your calendar, so your leaders interview rather than screen.
Technical leaders, not delivery managers
For the manager seat we search for someone who has built and led the kind of team you need, for example ML platform, optimisation or backend platform, and who stays technically credible while managing engineers. You retain final approval on every hire.
Included in every Micro GCC engagement. No separate ATS to buy.
No recruitment retainer. Hiring is part of building and operating the team, not billed per search.
IP and data
IP ownership, data protection and diligence-ready paperwork
Clean chain of title from day one
Every employee and contractor signs confidentiality and IP assignment obligations before starting. The NeoIntelli agreement assigns all work product and IP to your designated entity (for example a US parent), not only when the team transfers. Final language is set by counsel for your parent entity and the Indian employment structure, not a generic US work-for-hire clause.
DPDP compliance
The team operates under access, confidentiality, processing and security controls designed to support your obligations under India's Digital Personal Data Protection regime. Controller and processor responsibilities are documented in the DPA reviewed by both sides' counsel.
Data residency is your call
We do not require your production data or source systems to be hosted in India. US-only or EU-only hosting, specific cloud regions, VPN or VPC access, managed devices, restricted repositories and no local data persistence can all be built into the operating model.
Investor diligence
Executed employment, confidentiality, IP assignment, security and compliance documentation is available for investor or Series A diligence, subject to confidentiality.
For leadership teams new to India
Build in India without becoming an India operating expert first
The six things that usually stall a first India team - and who carries each of them here.
Reporting lines
The India team reports into your engineering structure, not into an account manager.
Working hour overlap
Shifts and rituals are set to your timezone overlap and written into the team's contracts.
Hiring quality
Every candidate is technically validated before you interview, so the bar is set once and held.
Attrition
Market-benchmarked compensation and career paths. If someone leaves while on our payroll, we start replacement sourcing immediately and aim to onboard the replacement before the notice period ends, with no additional recruitment fee. After transfer to your entity, a free replacement search applies if a hire leaves within the agreed 90-day period.
Compliance and payroll
PF, ESI, gratuity, TDS, POSH and state registrations handled as part of the operating fee.
Data and IP security
Your IP, your repositories, your access controls. IP assignment, DPDP compliance, data residency and diligence-ready paperwork are set out in full in the IP and data section above.
Questions before you book a call
Before you book the call
What exactly is a Micro GCC?
An 8 to 10 person India team that carries a defined capability for your business - designed, hired, seated and operated by NeoIntelli, and directed entirely by you. It is the smallest version of a Global Capability Centre that still behaves like one.
Can we really start with only 8 to 10 people?
Yes. Eight to ten is enough to own a capability end to end: a manager, engineers across the stack, and the quality and infrastructure roles that make delivery repeatable. Below that you have contractors. Far above it, you are committing before you have learned anything.
Do we need an Indian entity before we start?
No. You can start on our employment structure and move to your own entity later, or start on your entity from day one. The team, the work and the reporting lines are identical either way.
Who interviews and selects the team?
You do. The final interview and the offer decision are yours on every hire. We handle sourcing, screening and the technical rounds so only one or two validated profiles per seat reach your calendar.
What does it cost?
Open book, and the full breakdown is in the "What it costs" section above. You approve every salary; our charges sit on top of it. Workspace for your first 8 to 10 seats is included. Use the team designer above to get an India cost estimate before you ever speak to us.
After 12 months, what happens?
Whatever you decide: keep running as you are, expand into adjacent capability, or transfer the people, contracts and operations to your own entity under the milestone-based transfer mechanics agreed in the SOW at the start.
Do we have to commit to a headcount plan?
No. You commit to the first 8 to 10 seats. Every seat after that is added when the work is real - not because a three-year plan said so.
Is this only for AI companies?
No. AI and data are where most of our work sits, but the same model builds product, platform, cloud and quality engineering teams just as well.
Which cities do you cover?
Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai, with managed workspace in each. For AI, ML and optimisation teams we usually recommend Bengaluru for talent depth, Pune where cost efficiency matters most, and Mumbai when you need to be there for strategic reasons. We give you a role-by-role city recommendation before you commit.
How quickly can we start?
Role design inside the first two weeks, first validated profiles shortly after, and a seated, working team typically within 8 to 12 weeks - depending on seniority and how scarce the profiles are.
Ready when you are
You already know the capability you need.Let's build the India team around it.
One call to scope the capability. A costed 8 to 10 person plan back within days. No entity, no lease and no headcount commitment to get there.
- Roles and seniority mix designed for you
- India cost, city by city
- A month-by-month hiring ramp
- The scale path to a full GCC
Get your Micro GCC plan
Tell us the capability. We come back with the roles, the ramp and the India cost - no obligation.
Start your India team with 8 to 10