Build-Operate-Transfer: We Build Both Levers. You Take Them On Transfer Day.
We build the team and the Virtual Employee stack inside our entity, operate both until they are mature, and transfer full ownership to you when they are ready. You get a running operation, with humans and Virtual Employees already working together, without the startup risk.
Pre-agreed transfer terms. Trust clause built into the operating agreement from day one. Diligence-room defensible from the first hire.
The BOT Process
A proven five-step process that takes you from zero to a fully operational India center, then transfers everything to you.
Discovery & Planning
We assess your requirements, define the team structure, choose the right city, and create a detailed implementation roadmap. This takes one to two weeks.
Entity Setup & Infrastructure
Reliable incorporates the Indian entity, sets up the office, procures IT infrastructure, and handles all regulatory registrations. Six to eight weeks.
Talent Acquisition & Onboarding
We recruit your team using your specifications, conduct interviews on your behalf, and onboard new hires into your processes and culture. Weeks 6-10 for initial cohort. Ongoing for scaling.
Operate & Stabilize
Reliable manages day-to-day operations including HR, payroll, compliance, facilities, and vendor management. Your team focuses entirely on delivery.
Transfer Ownership
At the agreed milestone (typically 18-36 months), we transfer the entity, employment contracts, and full operational control to your organization.
Discovery & Planning
We assess your requirements, define the team structure, choose the right city, and create a detailed implementation roadmap. This takes one to two weeks.
Entity Setup & Infrastructure
Reliable incorporates the Indian entity, sets up the office, procures IT infrastructure, and handles all regulatory registrations. Six to eight weeks.
Talent Acquisition & Onboarding
We recruit your team using your specifications, conduct interviews on your behalf, and onboard new hires into your processes and culture. Weeks 6-10 for initial cohort. Ongoing for scaling.
Operate & Stabilize
Reliable manages day-to-day operations including HR, payroll, compliance, facilities, and vendor management. Your team focuses entirely on delivery.
Transfer Ownership
At the agreed milestone (typically 18-36 months), we transfer the entity, employment contracts, and full operational control to your organization.
Note: Steps 1-3 run concurrently. Entity registration and talent sourcing begin simultaneously, which is how we deliver an operational center in 90 days.
What Actually Transfers, and How
The transfer is the moment that defines whether a BOT engagement succeeded. We have done this enough times to know what makes it clean and what makes it messy. Here is exactly what transfers and how we prepare for it from day one.
Legal Entity
The Indian subsidiary, including all MCA registrations, PAN, TAN, GST, and bank accounts. We register the entity in a way that makes transfer straightforward, not in a way that creates lock-in.
Employment Contracts
Every employee transfers to your entity. Because we hired to your specifications and onboarded into your culture, this is a lateral move on paper, not a disruption. Employees already identify with your company.
Operational Processes
Documented SOPs for HR, payroll, compliance, facilities, and vendor management. We do not hand you a running center and wish you luck. We hand you the manual.
Institutional Knowledge
The hardest part. We build documentation habits from month one specifically so that institutional knowledge is captured in systems, not trapped in people's heads. By transfer day, your team's operational context is yours to keep.
Vendor Relationships
Office leases, IT contracts, cafeteria vendors, security providers. All contracts are structured for clean assignment to your entity at transfer.
Compliance History
Full audit trail of every PF filing, ESI payment, tax return, and statutory registration from the day the entity was established. Your compliance record is clean because we maintained it that way.
Virtual Employees
Every Virtual Employee built during the operate phase transfers with the team. You own the models, the persistent memory layer, the governance routing, the cost-per-action budgets, and the human-owner assignments. The intelligence your operation generated during our operate phase is yours at transfer. No co-ownership claim, no API-level lock-in, no vendor model training carry-over.
The goal is a transfer that feels like a formality, not a migration. If we have done our job, your team barely notices the change.
Why BOT Works
Zero Setup Risk
We handle all the complexity of establishing operations in India. You get a running center, not a project plan.
Fast Time to Operation
90 days from engagement to your first team members sitting in a fully operational office.
Full Team Ownership
Every person we hire works for you. They learn your business, build your institutional knowledge, and transfer with the entity.
Virtual Employees Transfer Too
The hardest part of a clean transfer is not the entity. It is the operating model. We design every Virtual Employee to be owned by your entity at transfer: persistent memory on your data, governance mapped to your named humans, cost budgets tuned to your cost structure. On transfer day your team takes the stack, not a re-architecture project.
Defined Exit Path
The transfer date and conditions are agreed upfront. There are no surprises and no lock-in.
BOT in Practice
A US-based technology services company needed to build an engineering team in India but had no local entity, no India experience, and a board that wanted results within two quarters. Reliable set up the entity, built a 25-person engineering team in Hyderabad, and ran operations for 24 months. During that period, the team shipped production code into the client's core platform, built domain expertise in the client's technology stack, and developed two India-based team leads.
At month 24, the full entity, all employment contracts, office lease, and operational processes transferred to the client. The client now runs the center independently with 40 people and is expanding to a second city.
See more case studies →BOT Is Best For
Sponsors who need a turnkey operating capability that transfers cleanly to the buyer at exit. Build-Operate-Transfer is the structural answer to "what happens to the India operation after we sell?" The transfer is pre-agreed, not negotiated under diligence pressure.
Companies that want a functioning GCC without managing the setup themselves
Organizations with no India entity and no local operational experience
Companies where speed to operation matters more than day-one entity ownership
Organizations whose legal or procurement teams prefer a defined transfer event with contractual milestones over an open-ended services agreement
Companies that want to evaluate the partner's operational capability before committing to long-term ownership
Mid-market companies (50-500 employees) building their first international operation
Organizations where the India center is a board-level initiative and the CEO needs a partner who owns the delivery risk during ramp
Why BOT Maps to Hold-Period Math
A sponsor with a 5-year hold and an 18-month exit window does not have time to scope an entity transfer under diligence pressure. BOT is the structure that pre-resolves it. Operating agreement on day one carries the transfer terms. The buyer sees a transferable operating capability, not a vendor unwind. Multiple expansion compounds against a clean transfer narrative; multiple compression compounds against a contested one.
Both levers, transferred clean. Start with the Blueprint.
Three to five weeks. The Blueprint scopes the BOT structure alongside the AI-native org chart, the Virtual Employee roster, and the joint unit economics. Outcome: a transfer-ready plan that removes guesswork from day one.