Build your own engineering center

Build Operate Transfer (BOT)

Building global engineering teams is hard. Slow hiring, local regulations, and weak setup create long-term risk. CBTW’s Build-Operate-Transfer model helps launch a dedicated offshore development center we build and run, while you own IP and quality, with a clear path to full control and AI-ready delivery foundations.

Build Operate Transfer (BOT)

25+ BOTs set up in Vietnam
1000+ engineers transferred
15+ years of BOT experience
70% BOT revenue from client referrals
ISO 27001
A different way to scale engineering

What the Build Operate Transfer model means for your business

Build Operate Transfer is a phased engagement model that allows you to establish your own offshore development center in a strategic location while reducing execution risk from day one. CBTW builds and operates the engineering center on your behalf with full transparency, clear performance accountability, and strong governance. You work directly with a dedicated team that follows your standards, your tools, and your way of working.

 

From the outset, teams are set up with processes, tooling, and capability transfer practices that support both current delivery needs and future-ready skills including frameworks relevant to AI-assisted development and governance.

 

When the operation is mature, you decide if and when you want to take full ownership. The result is not an outsourced team but a fully integrated offshore development center that you control.

EXPERIENCE MAKES THE DIFFERENCE

Why Choose CBTW for Your Offshore Development Center

  • A turnkey offshore development center built around your business

    We build a dedicated engineering center that reflects your organization from day one. This includes your culture, delivery model, technology stack, and security standards. Your team operates as an integrated part of your business, not as an external supplier.

  • Scalable and predictable growth

    You gain access to a deep talent pool through a structured recruitment process where you have visibility and final input on every hire. Growth is planned, measured, and aligned with your roadmap so you can scale engineering capacity without losing control over quality, cost, or governance.

  • Intellectual property and engineering standards stay with you

    Your intellectual property, codebase, development practices, and strategic priorities remain under your control at all times. Engineers work within your processes and tools as if they were part of your internal organization. This includes ownership of any AI-related patterns, models, or automation components introduced as part of delivery.

  • Full ownership when you decide

    Once the operation is stable and mature, you can acquire the entire legal entity. This includes employees, contracts, facilities, and assets. The transition is predefined, transparent, and executed without disruption to delivery.

Clarity at every stage

How the BOT Model Works in Practice

1. Build: Fast and precise setup

We establish everything required to launch your offshore development center quickly and on a solid foundation. This includes recruitment, office setup, infrastructure, legal preparation, and structured onboarding. From the start, the team is embedded in your culture, standards, and ways of working so they are productive and aligned from day one.

 

Foundational practices also include frameworks for introducing modern engineering tooling and capability – enabling teams to grow with AI-aligned practices in ways that support your long-term roadmap.

2. Operate: High performance delivery at scale

3. Transfer: You take full ownership

You build a fully functioning engineering capability that delivers long term value

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Beyond short term delivery

What you can build with the BOT model

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  • Engineering and Delivery

    Engineering and Delivery

    Build and scale a core product engineering team aligned to your architecture, standards, security, and quality for predictable, long-term delivery.

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    Engineering and Delivery

    • Frontend Engineers

    • Backend Engineers

    • Mobile Engineers

    • Full Stack Engineers

    • Technical Leads

    • Quality Assurance Engineers

    • Automation Engineers

    • Cloud and DevOps Engineers

    • Database Engineers

    • Solution Architects
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  • Product and strategy

    Product and strategy

    Extend your product organization with roles aligning business, UX, and engineering to strengthen direction, prioritization, and decision making.

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    Product and strategy

    • Business Analysts

    • Product Owners

    • Product Managers

    • UX and UI Designers

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  • Leadership and operations

    Leadership and operations

    Establish local leadership and operations that support delivery excellence at scale, with governance that grows as your engineering center matures.

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    Leadership and operations

    • Development Managers

    • Project Managers

    • Engineering Managers

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Proven Success Stories

National Australia Bank with more than six hundred engineers transferred

CBTW partnered with National Australia Bank to build, operate, and transfer a large offshore development center in Vietnam through a long-term Build Operate Transfer engagement.

 

Over three years, CBTW established and ran a team of 600+ engineers supporting critical domains including fraud detection, mobile banking, digital platforms, and cloud services. Once fully mature, the entire operation, including the legal entity, teams, infrastructure, and governance, was successfully transferred to NAB, enabling full internal ownership without disruption.

Built for long term ownership and scale

Vietnam as a strategic location for Build Operate Transfer

Vietnam offers one of the strongest global combinations of engineering talent, economic stability, and long-term value for companies building permanent engineering capabilities.

 

For organizations pursuing a Build Operate Transfer model, Vietnam provides the scale, predictability, and workforce maturity required to support multi year engineering investment rather than short term delivery needs.

 

Key advantages
  • More than seventy thousand new ICT graduates entering the market each year
  • A highly motivated workforce with strong retention compared to regional benchmarks
  • Supportive government policies and incentives for technology and digital investment
  • A stable business environment with a competitive and sustainable cost structure
  • Recognition as a leading global destination for software engineering and IT services

 

These factors make Vietnam an ideal location for building and scaling an offshore development center, especially for organisations working with our teams across APAC where it enables even stronger collaboration.

For Australian businesses in particular, the BOT model provides a proven path to building an offshore development center with tighter governance, validation, and close collaboration with local stakeholders in Australia.

 

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You don’t have to build an engineering center alone or accept outsourcing with unclear ownership. The Build Operate Transfer model provides a structured path to build and own a long-term offshore development center with lower risk, faster execution, and full control of quality and IP. Let’s discuss if BOT is right for you.

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