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Autopilot vs. offshore development
Offshore wins on hourly rate and loses on everything around it — timezone lag, rework, and a codebase nobody stays to own. Autopilot is US-based senior review on an autonomous engine, at a flat fee, with the operation included.
Side by side
Honestly, side by side.
| offshore development | Autopilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Rate vs. total cost | Low hourly rate, high rework and management tax. | Flat monthly fee. 90% defect reduction means less rework. |
| Timezone & comms | A 12-hour lag; slow, round-the-clock feedback loops. | US-based pilots; the queue moves continuously. |
| Quality | Variable. QA is quietly your problem. | 80–85% AI-written, 100% reviewed by a senior pilot. |
| Management | You (or a PM you hire) ride herd every day. | You submit requests. We run the build. |
| Security & data | Data residency and access controls are often murky. | Security baseline from day one; SOC 2 / HIPAA via Engagements. |
| After launch | Handoff, then it’s yours to keep alive. | We build AND run it, under an SLA. |
The difference
Cheap by the hour is expensive by the year.
The offshore rate rarely survives contact with rework, coordination overhead, and the cost of keeping an orphaned codebase running. A flat fee for senior-reviewed delivery plus operation is the number that actually holds.
Priced in the open
The price is the price.
- No hourly billing.
- No surprise invoices.
- No change-order games.
Flat monthly numbers, published on this page. What you see is the whole deal.
The numbers
Questions
Straight answers.
On the hourly rate, yes. On total cost of ownership — rework, management time, QA, and long-term maintenance of a codebase nobody owns — the gap narrows or reverses. Autopilot’s 90% defect reduction is the part that saves you money.
Disruptica is an American AI Systems Lab. Your senior pilot reviews and ships every deploy on US business hours, so feedback loops are same-day, not next-day.
A security baseline ships on day one. Regulated workloads — HIPAA, SOC 2, federal, CUI — run through Custom Engagements, built compliant from the start.