Custom software development for US businesses, from a senior team working out of Europe and the Gulf.

No. Azinove Group is two companies: Azinove W.L.L in Bahrain, where the group is headquartered, and Azinove SAS in Strasbourg, France. We work for US companies entirely remotely and do not offer on-site work in the US. We also have no named US clients to show you yet; our delivered projects are for clients in Bahrain, France, Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland. If a local presence is a hard requirement, we are not the right fit, and we would rather say so on the first call.

Central European time is six hours ahead of US Eastern time, so your morning overlaps with our afternoon. We use that window for live conversations: scoping sessions, demos that need discussion, and decisions. Everything else runs asynchronously, with written progress updates and recorded video demos you can watch when it suits you. Questions that need your input are written up in advance, so the next live call goes straight to the decision.

By geography it is offshore: our team is in Europe and the Gulf, not in Latin America. What US companies usually look for in a nearshore software development team is a shared working window and people who communicate clearly, and that is what we organize for, through the morning overlap and written, async updates. The other difference from a typical offshore provider is the model itself: a senior in-house team that stays on your project rather than a pool of rotating contractors.

A body shop sells hours and seats; you manage the developers and carry the delivery risk. We take responsibility for an agreed scope: framing, design, engineering, testing and deployment, with the same senior people from the first call to launch. Freelancers can be excellent; the difference is continuity. With us, documentation and access are part of the deliverable, so the product never depends on one person’s memory.

Yes, and we always start with an assessment. We review the code, dependencies, hosting, test coverage, documentation and, importantly, which credentials and accounts you actually control. You receive a written report: what can be stabilized, what should be rewritten, and in what order. From there we can act as your dedicated software development team, taking over maintenance and the roadmap, or help you plan a progressive replacement if that is the sounder option.

Ownership of the code, intellectual property terms, and access to repositories, servers and service accounts are set out in the contract before development starts. We prefer repositories and cloud accounts to sit under your organization from day one, so you never have to ask for your own product back. Third-party and open-source components keep their own licenses. We are happy to walk through the terms with your counsel.

We work from a different cost structure from a US agency, but we do not quote a price before we understand the scope. Cost depends on users and roles, business rules, integrations, data migration and how much risk sits in an existing system. A short written scoping phase produces a prioritized estimate, so you can start with the piece that pays back first and decide on the rest with real information rather than a guess.

It can help. Our team builds software for clients in France, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland, so GDPR is part of how we engineer by default: collecting only the data you need, role-based access, retention rules, audit logs and clearly identified subprocessors. If your EU customers expect their data to stay in Europe, we can design for European hosting. Compliance of your own processing remains your responsibility; we provide the technical groundwork and documentation.

Our 45+ delivered projects include LandLording, a property platform in Bahrain with iOS and Android apps live in both stores; an owners’ association platform for Sovereign Estate with an owner portal, mobile app and voting platform; Radiology Check, a medical second-opinion platform in Switzerland; Flyvbird, an on-demand aviation transport app in Germany; and internal process automation for EBMC Group in Luxembourg. None of these clients is in the US, and we say so plainly.