How does the cost-plus model work? You negotiate salaries directly with the team and pay those salaries plus a fixed management fee. Every cost is broken out line by line — no blended rate hiding the margin.
What is included in the management fee? Recruitment and onboarding, payroll and taxes, office rent, utilities, cleaning and security, an equipped workplace, accounting, HR and recruiter time, internet with backup, and team perks including loyalty, medical and birthday bonuses.
Why is a Moldova-based team more cost-efficient? FusionWorks is a Moldova IT Park resident, which carries a 7% all-inclusive revenue tax in place of the usual payroll and profit taxes. That structure is what keeps the fully loaded cost of a team roughly 30% below Western European equivalents.
Who owns the relationship with the engineers? You do, day to day — you set direction, workload and culture. FusionWorks stays responsible for employment, compliance, operations and the engineering process the team works inside: quality gates, pipelines, AI tooling and grading.
Do the off-hours AI pipelines cost extra? No. Nights and weekends the same pipelines keep running review, refactoring and compliance work on your codebase, and the management fee does not change.
What is the minimum team size and commitment? There is no minimum on either. Start with one engineer and grow when the workload justifies it, with no minimum commitment period. At very small sizes staff augmentation is often simpler, since it bills as a single rate instead of salary plus management fee.