Nearshore · UK & US hours

A senior team in your time zone, not your time zone problem.

We're a Croatian engineering studio: one hour from London, and working a full day that overlaps with New York. You get same-day answers, direct access to the engineer writing your code, and EU data protection — at European rates.

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London +1h — same working day 8:00–16:00 ET — full US overlap EU & GDPR — your data stays in Europe USD or GBP — card, ACH, or transfer
Plain english

What "nearshore" actually means.

Three words get thrown around in outsourcing, and most agencies use whichever one sounds best. Here is the honest version — including where we genuinely sit.

Onshore Nearshore Offshore
Where Your own country A nearby country, similar time zone A distant country, large time gap
Working hours Identical Mostly or fully overlapping Little to no overlap — overnight handover
Typical cost Highest Middle Lowest
Real cost of delay None A question answered the same hour A question costs you a day, every time
Where we sit For the UK & EU: yes, genuinely. Zagreb is London +1, a two-hour flight, inside the EU. For the US: geographically, this is us — but we work 8:00–16:00 ET, so you get nearshore behaviour without the offshore time gap.

We could call ourselves "nearshore for America" and most people wouldn't check a map. We'd rather be straight with you: we're offshore from the US by geography and nearshore by how we actually work.

Two markets, one team

Close to the UK. Awake for the US.

United Kingdom & EU

Genuine nearshore, one hour away

Zagreb is one hour ahead of London and a two-hour direct flight from most UK airports. Same working day, same quarter of the world, same regulatory space — EU company, GDPR by default, invoices in GBP or EUR. We've supported UK clients for years, including one relationship running past four years of continuous work.

United States

Your working day, covered live

We run a schedule with full-time overlap with the US East Coast day, 8:00–16:00 ET. Standups, Slack, and code review happen while you're at your desk — not in an overnight batch you read the next morning. Billed in USD by card or ACH, and your NDA is signed before the first call.

What we take on

A team you extend, not a ticket queue.

Product teams, extended

Senior engineers embedded in your existing team, your tools, your sprint cadence — not a black box that returns a build.

Whole products, delivered

Scoped, fixed-quote projects taken from blank page to launch, with weekly builds you can actually run.

Web & backend

React, Next.js, APIs, integrations, cloud migrations, plus the WordPress and Shopify work that keeps revenue moving.

Mobile & desktop

React Native for iOS and Android, and native macOS apps in Swift.

AI integration

LLM features, document intelligence, and agents built with evals and cost control — see AI integration.

Long-term maintenance

The unglamorous part: hosting, SSL, backups, upgrades, and being there when something breaks on a Friday.

Proof, not promises

Judge the engineering before you commit.

Most outsourcing pitches end at a case study you can't verify. Ours ends with software you can download and run: we ship our own Mac apps, signed and notarized by Apple, several of them open source.

15+ years
Shipping production software for clients across the US, UK and EU.
100+ projects
Delivered end to end — from focused tools to multi-year platforms.
7 apps of our own
Download them and read our Swift before you hire us.
4–5 year clients
Several relationships have run continuously for four and five years.
How it works

Scoped in days, not procurement cycles.

01

Scoping call

30 minutes in your working hours. We map the work, flag the risks, and say honestly if we're the wrong fit.

02

Fixed quote in 48h

A written scope with a fixed price in USD, GBP or EUR. No hourly meter, no surprise overruns.

03

Weekly builds

Something you can run every week. Feedback in your standup goes into the next build, not a change request.

04

Handover or stay on

Full handover with documentation, or we keep maintaining it. Your code and IP are yours either way.

Why Co Digit

What you're actually buying.

Direct line to the engineer
You talk to the person writing the code. No account manager relaying your requirements badly.
European rates
The technical depth of a top agency at a fraction of US pricing, and below a comparable London day rate.
EU data protection
Your data stays under EU law with GDPR-grade handling — not a jurisdiction you'd rather not explain to your customers.
NDA standard
Signed before the first call. Your code and IP are yours from the first commit.
FAQ

The questions buyers actually ask.

What does nearshore software development actually mean?

Nearshore means outsourcing development to a nearby country in a similar time zone — as opposed to onshore (your own country, highest cost) or offshore (a distant country, cheapest but with a large time gap). The whole point is overlapping working hours: you get answers the same hour instead of the next day.

Is Croatia nearshore for a UK company?

Yes. Zagreb is one hour ahead of London, a two-hour direct flight, and inside the EU and GDPR. In practice it's the same working day with no meaningful time gap.

Is Croatia nearshore for a US company?

Geographically, no — we're offshore from the US, and we'd rather say so than sell you a label. Operationally we behave like a nearshore team: we work a schedule with full-time overlap with the US East Coast day (8:00–16:00 ET), so you get the time-zone benefit of nearshore at European rates.

How is this different from cheaper offshore outsourcing?

Three things. Your working day is covered in real time rather than by overnight handover. You talk directly to the engineer writing the code, not an account manager. And your data stays under EU law with GDPR-grade handling. If price is the only thing that matters to you, offshore will win — we'd tell you that on the first call.

What does it cost compared to hiring locally?

Senior European engineering typically costs a fraction of an equivalent US agency, and sits well below a comparable London day rate. You get a fixed quote in USD, GBP or EUR within 48 hours of the scoping call.

Who owns the code and the IP?

You do, from the first commit. We sign your NDA before the first call, and all IP transfers to you as part of the standard contract. As an EU company we're bound by GDPR for anything touching personal data.

Can you work inside our existing team and tools?

Yes — that's the most common arrangement. Your repo, your board, your Slack, your sprint cadence. We join standups in your hours and review code alongside your engineers.

Need senior engineers who are awake when you are?

Tell us what you're building. You'll get a reply from the engineer who'd do the work — within one business day, in your time zone.

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