What South Asian tech can offer that no one is talking about
Beyond price arbitrage — the real shift in capability that's reshaping the offshore conversation.
The offshore conversation is still framed around rate cards, which is roughly a decade out of date.
What has actually changed is depth. Product engineering teams in South Asia now own roadmaps, not tickets; run regulated fintech and payments platforms end to end; and increasingly employ the people who built those platforms at scale elsewhere and came home.
The practical implication for a Western mid-market buyer is that the sourcing question changes from "can they execute my specification" to "can they own this outcome". Those are different contracts, different governance and different economics.
Price is still favourable. It is simply no longer the interesting part of the argument.