You're a growing business. You need some custom software fast, because the off-the-shelf options simply won’t work. But you don’t have a dev team sitting around. So, do you spin up an offshore agency, or build it yourself on a low-code platform like ours?
This decision matters. It affects your speed, your spend, your control, and your future. We’ve seen all approaches, but here’s the hard truth: outsourcing can deliver code, but not capability. Platforms like Rayven do both.
Offshore developers are cheaper per hour, but you’re not just buying hours - you’re buying ownership, agility, and long-term leverage. And on those fronts, outsourcing falls short.
Here’s what you’re really signing up for:
You might get a working app. But the second you need to change, grow, or fix it - you’re stuck.
There’s a common assumption going around: AI makes it easier to build software, so you don’t need a platform. Just fire up ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot and generate the code, right?
Not quite.
AI helps with code generation - but it doesn’t give you architecture, security, deployment pipelines, or maintainability. What you get is code, fast. What you miss is structure.
And that speed? It often leads to bloat: you go from zero to thousands of lines of logic you barely understand. Debugging it? Good luck. Scaling it? Even harder. Replacing a developer midstream? Nightmare.
We’ve worked with teams who went all-in on AI-assisted building - only to be buried in brittle, unmaintainable codebases within months.
This is where Rayven wins. You don’t generate code - you model intent. You don’t wire systems from scratch - you configure proven modules. You move faster and stay sane.
We built Rayven to solve this.
We give you a low-code app development platform where 70% of the job is already done, alongside a range of (optional) services that you can use to build a solution end-to-end, i.e. you handle the bits that matter to your business and we’ve got all the plumbing covered.
What that looks like:
Rayven isn’t a toy, and it’s not just for MVPs or prototypes, it’s a serious platform for building real business applications - the kind that run operations, serve customers, and integrate with your existing tech.
Our platform is used to build customer-facing products and critical systems in some of the world’s toughest industries:
This isn’t startup fluff. It’s industrial-grade, enterprise-capable tech you can run with today.
Don’t have an in-house product team or software capability? No problem.
Rayven’s Australia-based services team and global partners can take you from idea to live product:
Everything is built on our platform by people who know it inside out - no external agencies, no knowledge gaps, no handovers. Whether you're just starting or scaling a critical system, we’ve got your back. And yes, you own the IP of all of it - every logic block, integration, workflow, and interface.
Outsourcing feels easy - until it isn’t. When your business logic lives in someone else’s repo, you’ve lost control.
With Rayven:
This isn’t just about software. It’s about sovereignty. Your business should own what it runs on.
You’ll hear offshore dev is cheaper. It is - per hour. But total cost? Different story.
When you factor in total cost of ownership - delivery, iterations, maintenance, scale - Rayven wins. Every time.
They’re not all bad. You should consider outsourcing if:
But if you’re building a workflow tool, customer facing tools and dashboards, internal system, or even a SaaS MVP - Rayven will get you there faster, cheaper, and with more control.
This isn’t about code, it’s about how you scale.
You need:
Rayven gives you that, without the overhead, and with support that acts like an extension of your team. We’re not a dev shop and we’re not just a supplier; we’re your platform and your partner.
Start where others stall. Build faster. Ship smarter. Own everything.