Introduction
For tech executives, expanding internationally is no longer a long-term ambition. It is a strategic necessity to stay competitive, meet delivery timelines, and access the talent needed to scale. Yet many companies struggle to meet their growth targets because they cannot hire fast enough or find the right people in markets where they have no presence.
The challenges are familiar. Recruiting in unfamiliar regions is complex and costly. Delivery suffers when teams are understaffed or misaligned. Compliance across jurisdictions is difficult to manage. Cultural integration is often overlooked, and retention becomes a risk. These issues compound quickly, leading to missed deadlines, inflated cash burns, and delayed time to market.
The real challenge lies in building high-performance teams in markets where the company has no infrastructure, no cultural insight, and no recruitment network.
This is where the Tech Hub model is proving to be a more strategic and scalable alternative to traditional Employer of Record (EOR) services.
Understanding the EOR Model: Benefits and Limitations
Understanding the EOR Model: Benefits and Limitations
The Employer of Record model has gained traction in recent years as a way to simplify international hiring. An EOR acts as the legal employer of record in the country of hire, managing contracts, payroll, taxes, and compliance. The client company retains operational control over the employee’s work.
For companies looking to test a market or hire a few individuals quickly, EORs offer a fast and compliant solution. However, for tech organisations building long-term delivery capacity, the model presents limitations.
- Limited control over employment terms
- Minimal support in sourcing and vetting talent
- Lack of cultural integration and team cohesion
- No pathway to ownership or internalisation of the team
In short, EORs solve the legal problem, but not the talent problem.
Introducing the Tech Hub Model
A Tech Hub is a strategic delivery service that enables companies to build and manage dedicated teams in international locations. It is designed for tech leaders who need to scale quickly, maintain control, and ensure long-term performance without the administrative burden of establishing local entities.
At Inscale, our Tech Hub model is built around your business goals. We find, vet, and align top tech talent with your specific needs. These teams are embedded in fully managed delivery centres in Portugal, Malaysia, or North Macedonia. They work under your leadership, in modern workspaces, supported by our local HR, infrastructure, and compliance experts.
This is not outsourcing. It is your team, built inside our delivery centres, fully integrated into your workflows and culture.
Strategic Delivery Services Built to Evolve With You
Inscale offers three delivery services, each built around your control, culture, and goals.
Tech Hubs
Your dedicated team is built inside our delivery centres in Portugal, Malaysia, or North Macedonia.
- Full team integration under your leadership
- Daily collaboration in modern, managed workspaces
- Local support with HR, infrastructure, and compliance
- Strong retention with cultural alignment and a long-term mindset
This model supports global hiring solutions by giving you access to vetted talent in high-potential markets, without the need for local setup.
Remote Teams
Global flexibility without compromising performance.
- Structured remote teams embedded into your workflows
- Same governance and delivery standards as our Tech Hubs
- Access to talent across Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and beyond
- No location dependency and full time zone alignment
Remote teams are ideal for companies looking to hire employees abroad while maintaining delivery standards and team cohesion.
Tech Recruitment
When you want full ownership from day one.
- Strategic tech talent recruitment globally, with a focus across the United Kingdom, Nordics, and Benelux
- Deep talent mapping and employer brand alignment
- Candidate screening, onboarding, and retention consultation
- Direct hire or contract-to-hire flexibility
This service ensures that your recruitment strategy is aligned with your brand and business goals, supporting long-term retention and performance.
Build-Operate-Transfer: Designed for Long-Term Scalability
Every Tech Hub we build is designed with the end state in mind. Through our Build-Operate-Transfer model, you have the option to fully take over the team once it reaches a level of maturity and performance that aligns with your long-term goals.
This model is available across all INSCALE services.
- With Tech Hubs, you can expand into new markets and take over your local delivery centre when ready.
- With Remote Teams, you can start remote and scale into direct ownership when the time is right.
- With Tech Recruitment, you can convert contract-to-hire or team builds into permanent teams under your brand.
We design your team with a clear transition path. When you are ready, the move to full ownership is smooth, strategic, and success driven.
How Inscale Delivers Strategic Value
Our delivery model is built around one core principle: people first.
We do not push generic profiles. We build teams from the ground up, designed around your technology stack, delivery timelines, and company culture.
Here is how we do it:
- We begin with talent mapping to identify the right markets and roles based on your needs.
- Our local recruitment teams source, screen, and assess candidates for both technical capability and cultural fit.
- We embed your team into our delivery centres with full infrastructure, HR, and compliance support.
- We manage the team locally to ensure satisfaction, performance, and long-term alignment.
Whether you are scaling a product team, building a new delivery centre, or expanding into a new region, our Tech Hub model is built to evolve with you.
This approach supports international workforce management by aligning global hiring with your business strategy. It also ensures global compliance, so you can operate confidently across borders.
Strategic Benefits of the Tech Hub Model
For tech executives, the Tech Hub model offers clear and measurable advantages.
- Rapid market entry with operations launched in weeks
- Cost efficiency by avoiding the overhead of legal entities and local advisors
- Access to global talent pools with local expertise and cultural alignment
- Full compliance with local labour regulations and tax codes
- Scalable team structures designed to grow with your business
- High retention through cultural fit and long-term engagement
It also simplifies remote team onboarding, ensuring that new hires are productive and aligned from day one. Our teams are supported by international payroll services, managed locally to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Real Life Example: ProOffice – Building a Scalable Development Team with Inscale
ProOffice Gruppen, is a Danish company focused on digital learning and administrative solutions, including Microsoft Office training and custom software development. In partnership with INSCALE, they’ve scaled their tech team to support growth and innovation across Plan2learn. Plan2learn is a Danish Learning Management System (LMS) that helps organisations streamline training, onboarding, and compliance. Their all-in-one platform supports course management, e-learning, and competency tracking across public and private sectors. Recruiting locally was proving slow and costly, and the company wanted a solution that offered speed, control, and cultural alignment.
Challenge:
- Limited access to specialised tech talent
- High recruitment costs and slow time-to-hire
- Need for a scalable team structure without setting up a local entity
Solution:
ProOffice partnered with Inscale to establish a dedicated development team in North Macedonia through the Tech Hub model. Inscale managed recruitment, onboarding, HR, and compliance, embedding the team into ProOffice’s delivery workflows.
Results:
- Rapid team setup and integration
- Lower operational and recruitment costs
- Strong retention through cultural fit and local support
- Full delivery control with long-term scalability
The team in Skopje now plays a key role in ProOffice’s product development, demonstrating how Inscale’s Tech Hub model enables companies to scale efficiently in new markets.
Final Thoughts
Global expansion is not just about hiring abroad. It is about building the right team in the right place with the right support.
The Employer of Record model may offer a quick fix, but it does not solve the deeper challenges of talent acquisition, team integration, and long-term scalability. For tech leaders who need more than compliance, the Tech Hub model offers a strategic path forward.
At Inscale, we make team expansion deliberate and aligned with your business goals. Whether you need to scale without setting up a local entity, expand team capacity quickly, or hire directly into your organisation, our delivery services are built to evolve with you.
Three delivery services. One partner. Built to evolve with you.
Explore how our Tech Hub model can help you scale with confidence:
Together we become more.
