Global delivery · Helsinki HQ
NorthAlgo is a global outsourcing and consulting company. Contracting, invoicing, and liability sit with NorthAlgo Oy in Helsinki. Engineers are engaged through that company — dedicated to one client team each, primarily from the Philippines. We hold the Finnish commercial contract and the ongoing relationship; you direct the day-to-day work. Managed teams, consulting, and process-scoped AI come from the same company. You describe the gap. The founder replies with a seat plan, a monthly euro number, and a start date.
No recruiting fee, no setup fee. Flexible seats with 30-day notice per seat. No minimum term. Rates may be held for up to 12 months from each person’s start date, for price certainty. That is an optional rate hold, not a twelve-month commitment. A call is optional, and not the way this starts.
HQ and contract
Helsinki. Finnish Oy, invoice in EUR
The people
Dedicated. One client each.
The work
Seats, managed teams, and AI
What we do
NorthAlgo builds dedicated engineering teams, adds engineering leadership to a team you would rather not run yourself, delivers complete outcomes, and provides specialist consulting and AI engineering. The seat plan is how most engagements start, because a named engineer working directly within your stack is often the clearest first step. The other three models draw from the same engineering capability, structured around a different need.
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Per engineer, per month
Named seniors inside your stack, your standards, and the working window you agree in writing. You direct the work day to day. NorthAlgo engages and retains the engineer, and holds the Finnish commercial contract. Dedicated to you: one client per engineer, never split across accounts. Flexible seats with 30-day notice per seat. No minimum term. Rates may be held for up to 12 months from each person’s start date, for price certainty. That is an optional rate hold, not a twelve-month commitment.
The usual first step. Start with one seat.
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Per team, on request
A dedicated NorthAlgo team built around a tech lead, working inside your stack and your organisation. NorthAlgo carries the engineering leadership layer: technical coordination, code quality, and delivery discipline. You keep the product and the roadmap.
For three to eight engineers you would rather not manage day to day.
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Scoped per engagement
Outsourcing and consulting: you are buying an agreed outcome, not headcount. NorthAlgo determines the team and owns delivery end to end, including planning, code review, testing, and release. You supply the requirements, the product decisions, and the acceptance criteria.
When you need a package of work delivered, not only a person on the standup.
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Priced per process
One manual process at a time, scoped against a number agreed before work starts. Spreadsheets, document handling, reconciliation, reporting, approval flows that live in email. Usually the second engagement, once engineers already know the systems.
Where a script would do, we say so and write the script.
Mission, vision, value
Give companies anywhere a dedicated engineering capability they can actually run: senior people on one client each, managed teams and delivery when the work needs it, and a Finnish commercial contract for the relationship, the invoice, and the liability.
Be the outsourcing and consulting partner a procurement team can sign with and a delivery lead can work with. Headquarters and contracting in Helsinki; engineering teams across time zones, primarily in the Philippines; English-first client work, with Finnish and other European language support on request.
You buy dedicated capacity and a Finnish invoice, not a share of a bench and not a recruiting transfer. If the fit is wrong, replacement is handled in the written agreement. Consulting and automation come from the same engineers, not from a separate slide titled “AI practice.”
What it costs
Invoiced in euros. We engage and retain the engineer on our side; you hold the Finnish contract and invoice. Nothing is billed hourly, and there is no recruiting fee. Flexible seats with 30-day notice per seat. No minimum term. Rates may be held for up to 12 months from each person’s start date, for price certainty. That is an optional rate hold, not a twelve-month commitment. We do not publish a rate table: a rate without the shape of the work is a number without a meaning. Send the assignment and the number comes back in the reply.
Included
Not included
Context, not a quote
These are published Finnish figures for four senior engineers over twelve months. They are here so the conversation has a baseline. They are not NorthAlgo’s price, and they are not a promise that every Finnish local-hire cost is sitting inside our monthly number.
Where a Finnish year-one budget goes, before recruitment and equipment
Midpoint of the published range
A fifth of the bill is employer on-cost before anyone is recruited or equipped. Recruitment fees, equipment, and the holiday bonus sit on top of this bar. They are real costs that the published figures do not quantify.
Year one, published€319,200 – 377,280
Monthly per seat, not a year-one bundle. Seats can be phased.Quoted in the reply
A Philippine outsourcer can quote what we quote. What it cannot be is a Finnish legal entity holding your contract, your processing agreement, and the liability. NorthAlgo bills in euros per seat, per month. You can start with one seat and add others later. No minimum term. 30-day notice per seat. Rates may be held for up to 12 months from each person’s start date; that is a rate hold for price certainty, not a guaranteed year of spend, and not a twelve-month commitment. Send the assignment and the monthly number comes back the same working day, against the seat plan it applies to.
Finnish side: gross €5,500–6,500 a month plus employer contributions of about 20.9%, giving €6,650–7,860 per engineer. Excludes holiday bonus, equipment, recruitment, and the cost of replacing someone who leaves. The NorthAlgo monthly seat does not include equipment or holiday bonus. Flexible seats with 30-day notice per seat. No minimum term. Rates may be held for up to 12 months from each person’s start date, for price certainty. That is an optional rate hold, not a twelve-month commitment.
How it starts
Write the gap: stack, what is missing, when you need someone. We come back with the seat plan, the monthly number, the start date, and the acceptance criterion the first deliverable is judged against.
We screen against the agreed requirements and present engineers for the seat, with interviews where you want them. Nobody starts without your approval.
We finalise the assignment, coordinate access, and deliver against the agreed acceptance criterion. Work happens in your environment, under your review process.
Dedicated to your team, one client each, no parallel engagements. Split attention is the main reason offshore engineers drift off a team. If someone leaves us, we replace and re-brief instead of handing you a gap.
What the first ninety days look like
Day 1
Access, environment, and repository sorted before they start. In your standup on the first morning.
Week 1
Small, real work that ships, so the fit is visible in days.
Day 30
The first deliverable is judged against the acceptance criterion written at the start.
Day 90
If the fit is wrong, replacement is handled in the written agreement.
After the seats are filled
Assembling an offshore team is the easy half. The hard half is month nine: the novelty gone, a recruiter calling with a better number, and nobody having asked the engineer how it is going. Keeping the team you approved is our work, and it does not stop when the last seat is filled.
One to one
Each engineer sits down with us on a regular cadence, separate from your standup. It is where we hear that something is wrong while it is still small.
Feedback
We ask you how each person is doing and act on the answer: coaching, correction, or a direct conversation.
Compensation
A competitor with a better number is the commonest reason an offshore engineer leaves. We review compensation on our side so that decision does not arrive on your team as a resignation.
Retention
Leave coordination, and being treated as part of a company instead of a name on a roster. An engineer who feels like a line item behaves like one.
How we screen
Engineers screen engineers here. The founder who runs delivery has sat on the other side of every one of these gates.
3 : 1
Typical shortlist per seat, before you see anyone
4–6 wks
Typical, per seat. A deeper filter takes longer, and we would rather say so.
The role, the stack, what “done” looks like, and the acceptance criterion. Agreed before we source anyone.
Seniority here means shipped systems: something taken into production and lived with afterwards. Most engineers who clear that have five years or more behind them. If your role sets its own experience requirement, that is the bar we screen to.
Fintech, healthtech, govtech, payments or similar. Someone who has been through an audit, a penetration test or a security review, and can talk about what happened.
There is no written test. Communication is assessed in the interview: how clearly a candidate explains a system they built, and how they hold up when the follow-up questions get specific.
Criminal record and employment verification. Our clients work with financial regulators, so this one is not optional.
Three qualified candidates for every open seat before a single name reaches you. Nobody joins your team without your approval.
The people
This site does not show example profiles. Describe the work and the founder comes back with who would sit it. A public card, if it ever ships, waits on a Legal Privacy pack.
Until then, the assignment comes first.
Describe the gapAI and automation
Most companies do not need an AI strategy. They need a handful of specific manual processes to stop being manual. We scope one, build the automation, and measure it against a number agreed before work starts. Then the next one.
This is usually the second engagement, because the work goes faster when it is done by engineers who already know your systems. Where an agent genuinely helps we build one with controls around it: what it can touch, what it cannot, what a human signs off, and what happens when it is wrong.
Typical first projects
The seats
Six areas we staff routinely. If your stack is not here, we say so in the first reply instead of taking the seat.
Services, APIs, and the seat most pods start with.
Node · Python · .NET · Java · Go
Application interfaces, with a designer on the pod for the weeks that need one.
React · TypeScript · Next.js · Flutter · Swift
Pipelines and environments your own engineers can debug at two in the morning.
AWS · Azure · Terraform · Kubernetes
Entity resolution and the data model everything downstream inherits.
Postgres · dbt · Airflow · Spark
Model integration and retrieval, shipped with an evaluation harness attached.
RAG · embeddings · agents · evals
A multi-day manual regression pass turned into a suite that survives our departure.
Playwright · Cypress · CI gates
Also staffed: a system architect, part time to start on most pods, holding the design gate so decisions get made before they get expensive.
Fit
Both columns are here on purpose. If the right-hand side rules us out, better you find out now than in week three.
What we can say
What we cannot
The people
Ryan signs in Helsinki. John runs delivery in Cebu. The working day is shifted onto yours: the five to six hours are moved, not explained away. The people are a global delivery capability; the contracting entity is a Finnish Oy.
Founder and CEO
Ryan is the person you write to. The seat plan, the monthly number, and the start date come back from him. He holds client relationships and the Finnish contracting entity, NorthAlgo Oy.
Co-founder and COO
John turns a signed seat into a working week: onboarding, who is on which assignment, escalation when something slips, and the structure engineers need to stay on one team.
NorthAlgo Oy is a Finnish company on the public record.
Languages
Client work and the first reply run in English. Finnish is available for contracting and client communication. Other European languages can be supported on request; we confirm coverage in the seat plan. We do not claim native fluency in every European language.
The language of delivery, screening, and the first commercial reply.
Contracting entity, invoicing, and client communication from Helsinki.
Support is confirmed against the assignment. If your programme needs a specific language on the client-facing side, say so in the note.
Partners
These are partners, not named clients: companies we deliver with, subcontract for, and take work through. Clients stay unnamed until they put permission in writing.
Current
Dedicated engineering capacity inside a long-term partner engagement.
Related
Subcontracted delivery on funded-programme work.
Past
A completed partner engagement, under contract.
Four ways to work with us: subcontracted delivery, funded-programme work packages, sales partnership, and referral.
Questions
Something missing? Write to the founder and you will have an answer inside a working day.
Full monthly compensation for the engineer. Recruitment and screening. The Finnish contracting entity, the processing agreement, and the liability that sits with it. Invoicing in euros. There is no recruiting fee and no setup fee. Equipment, workspace, and holiday bonus are not included in the monthly seat. Your tooling, cloud spend, and on-site travel are not included either.
By where the work is done, not by where the contract is signed. Our engineers are in the Philippines and the rate reflects that market. The contract, the processing agreement, the liability, and the invoice are all Finnish. Leads and architects sit above the entry rate. Rates may be held for up to 12 months from each person’s start date, for price certainty. That is an optional rate hold, not a twelve-month commitment. Send the assignment and you get the number for your seat plan specifically.
They are dedicated: one client per engineer, never split across accounts. That is usually a full-time seat. Part-time happens where the work is genuinely part-time, and we say so in the seat plan rather than in the headline.
Both are yours. Handover is written into every engagement, and we prefer to spend the last weeks training one of your own engineers into ownership while we are still there to answer questions.
The gates that resist it are the live ones. Communication is judged in conversation, where an assistant cannot sit in. The technical gate is a conversation about a system the candidate actually carried through a bad year in a regulated environment. A live coding puzzle is easier to fake than either.
Correct, and it comes up in every enterprise procurement. NorthAlgo Oy is the Finnish contracting party and holds the processing agreement. Standard Contractual Clauses and a transfer impact assessment cover the transfer. Where possible, developers work inside your EU environment against masked or synthetic data, with access limited to a named short list.
Manila is five hours ahead of Helsinki in summer and six in winter. We shift the delivery day to build the overlap, and the working window is agreed in writing before anyone starts.
Flexible seats with 30-day notice per seat. No minimum term. Rates may be held for up to 12 months from each person’s start date, for price certainty. That is an optional rate hold, not a twelve-month commitment. Scaling down is your option, not our operating model. We staff for people to stay on one team, dedicated, and we do not move anyone off yours to cover another account.
Flexible seats with 30-day notice per seat. No minimum term. Rates may be held for up to 12 months from each person’s start date; that is an optional rate hold for price certainty, not a twelve-month commitment, and it does not stop you ending a seat on 30 days’ notice.
If the fit is wrong, replacement is handled in the written agreement.
Not on this site. Engineers are presented after you describe the gap. The founder comes back with a seat plan. A public card, if it ever ships, waits on a Legal Privacy pack.
Then we are the wrong supplier for that contract, and we say so early. Where the rule applies only to the client-facing side there is usually a workable structure. Where it applies to everyone touching the code, there is not.
No. Named clients stay unpublished until they put permission in writing. Partners on this site are partners, not client case studies. We do not publish a headcount. The contracting entity is on the Finnish Trade Register (Y-tunnus 3448558-7). Programme references can be discussed under NDA in the first reply.
English is primary: delivery, screening, and the first reply. Finnish is available for contracting and client communication. Other European languages can be supported on request; we confirm that in the seat plan rather than claiming fluency we have not staffed.
Start here
This form emails Ryan. It does not book a call. You should hear back within a working day with a seat plan, a monthly number, and a start date. If you would rather talk first, say so in the note and he will send a time.