Working with US clients from India

Web Development Company for USA Businesses

US-grade builds, without a US agency retainer. I am a full-stack developer in Udaipur, India, working directly with American businesses — 10+ years, 750+ projects, and no account manager between you and the person writing the code.

5+ hours daily overlap with US Eastern. Quoted and invoiced in USD.

Time overlap
5+ hours daily overlap with US Eastern
Currency
USD
Time zone
ET, CT, MT and PT (UTC-5 to UTC-8)
Based in
Udaipur, India
Working with USA

Web development and software for American businesses

Most American businesses that reach me have already been quoted by a domestic agency and found the number hard to justify — not because the work was not worth it, but because a five-page marketing site should not cost what a used car costs. The other half tried a marketplace freelancer, got something that technically launched, and now want someone who will own the outcome.

I sit between those two. I am a full-stack developer in Udaipur, India, with over a decade of work and 750+ projects behind me, and I work directly with US clients — no account manager, no offshore bench you never meet, no ticket queue. You talk to the person writing the code. That is the whole model, and it is why the same project costs a fraction of a US agency rate without the quality falling off a cliff.

The practical questions Americans ask first are always the same three: what hours do you work, who owns the code, and what happens if you disappear. The answers are that I keep evening IST hours to overlap with your morning, you own every line and every credential from day one, and everything lives in your repository and your hosting account rather than mine.

What the USA market actually rewards

The United States is the most design-literate market I work in. Buyers here have seen good websites, they can tell a template from a considered build within about four seconds, and they are unusually intolerant of slow pages — which is fair, because Core Web Vitals and mobile performance genuinely move both rankings and conversion in a market this crowded.

It is also the market where accessibility is a legal exposure rather than a nice-to-have. ADA-related web accessibility claims run into the thousands every year and land disproportionately on ecommerce, hospitality and healthcare sites. That is not a scare tactic, it is a line in your risk register — and it is inexpensive to design for at the start and genuinely expensive to retrofit after a demand letter arrives.

The upside of working with me is arithmetic. Your budget goes three to five times further, which is usually the difference between a brochure site and the site you actually described in the first meeting — with the booking flow, the integrations and the CMS included. The trade-off is that part of the day runs asynchronously, which most clients find they prefer once they watch work land overnight.

Why this works

What American clients get from working with me directly

Not a generic pitch — these are the six things that decide whether an offshore arrangement works for a business in the USA.

Real overlap, not a next-day reply

I work evenings IST specifically so there are five or more live hours with Eastern time. A 9 am call your time is routine, and work you approve at 5 pm Pacific is generally done before you open your laptop.

ADA and WCAG 2.1 AA built in

Semantic markup, keyboard operability, visible focus, colour contrast and labelled forms are part of the build rather than a plugin bolted on later. Accessibility overlay widgets do not protect you and I will not sell you one.

You own the code, the repo and the accounts

Everything is committed to your GitHub organisation and deployed to your AWS, Vercel or hosting account. No proprietary builder holds your site hostage and there is no licence to keep paying.

Fixed written scope in dollars, before work starts

You get a scope document with a fixed price and milestone dates. It does not move mid-project, and there is no discovery invoice before you know what you are buying.

One developer, not a rotating bench

The person on the kickoff call writes the code and answers your message eighteen months later. Nothing is lost in a handover because there is no handover.

A stack your next hire already knows

Laravel, React, Next.js, Node, WordPress and Shopify on AWS, Vercel or Cloudflare. A future in-house developer will recognise everything and be productive on day one.

Compliance

The rules a US site has to live inside

Built in from the start, because every one of these is far cheaper to design for than to retrofit after someone asks.

ADA and WCAG 2.1 AA
Web accessibility is enforced through the ADA in practice, and demand letters are common in retail, hospitality and healthcare. Builds target WCAG 2.1 AA: semantic structure, keyboard navigation, visible focus, AA contrast, alt text and properly labelled forms.
CCPA and CPRA
If you handle California residents' data at any scale you need a working privacy notice, a genuine opt-out path for sale or sharing of data, and a request mechanism that reaches a human. I build the plumbing; your counsel writes the policy.
HIPAA-adjacent work
For medical practices I keep protected health information out of the marketing stack entirely — intake forms route to a compliant system rather than an email inbox, and analytics never sees patient data.
SOC 2 and enterprise review
For SaaS clients selling upmarket I build with the controls their auditors ask about: least-privilege access, audit logging, encrypted secrets and a documented deploy process.

I build the technical side to these standards. Legal wording — your privacy notice, terms and any regulated disclosures — should still be reviewed by someone qualified in the USA.

Sectors

Where the USA work comes from

Not an exhaustive list — these are simply the sectors that make up most of the enquiries from the USA.

SaaS and venture-backed startups
Professional services — law, accounting, consulting
Healthcare practices and medical groups
Real estate brokerages and property management
Home services, HVAC, roofing and contracting
DTC ecommerce and Shopify brands
Restaurants, hospitality and multi-location retail
Non-profits and membership organisations

Ready systems, customised rather than sold as-is

Locations

10 cities across the USA

Each has its own page covering the sectors, the local constraints and what businesses there usually need built.

The honest bit

The question every US client asks

Is a twelve-hour time difference a problem?

It is the objection I hear most and the one that survives contact with reality worst. Evening IST hours give a genuine five-hour live window with the East Coast and a workable one with Central and Mountain. Beyond that the gap works for you: brief at the end of your day, review finished work at the start of the next. Pacific coast clients usually take a standing 9 am call and find that is all they need.

Working hours in USA time

6:30 pm to 11:30 pm IST covers 8:00 am to 1:00 pm Eastern, so your morning is my evening and nothing waits a full day.


Your time zoneET, CT, MT and PT (UTC-5 to UTC-8)
My baseUdaipur, India (IST)
Reply targetSame working day
FAQ

Working with a US client — common questions

The things businesses in the USA ask before starting.

Can you work with a US company from India?
Yes, and a large share of my work already is. Contracts are straightforward, invoicing is in USD, and everything runs on tools your team already uses: Slack or email, GitHub, a shared Figma file and a staging URL you can open at any time. The only real adjustment is scheduling calls in your morning, which is my evening.
What are your working hours in US time?
I keep deliberate evening hours in India so there is real overlap with the United States — roughly 8:00 am to 1:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 am to 10:00 am Pacific. Calls outside that window can be arranged with notice, and messages sent during your afternoon are answered before you start the next day.
Do I own the source code?
Completely, and from the first commit rather than the final payment. Code goes into your GitHub organisation, deploys to your hosting account, and every credential is yours. There is no proprietary page builder, no licence fee, and nothing preventing another developer from picking the project up if you ever want them to.
Will the site meet ADA accessibility requirements?
Sites are built to WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard US courts and settlements have converged on. That covers semantic headings, keyboard operability, visible focus indicators, contrast ratios, alt text and labelled form fields. I will not sell you an accessibility overlay widget — they do not stop claims and they frequently make the screen reader experience worse.
How do payments and contracts work across borders?
You get a plain-English agreement covering scope, milestones, IP assignment and confidentiality. Payment is by wire, Wise or Payoneer in USD, split across milestones so you are never far ahead of delivered work. I supply a W-8BEN if your finance team needs one for their records.
How does your pricing compare with a US agency?
For like-for-like scope, typically a third to a fifth of a US agency quote — not because corners are cut but because there is no office, no account layer and no sales commission inside the number. In practice the budget that would have bought a brochure site domestically buys the integrations, the CMS and the custom flows you actually wanted.
750+
Projects delivered
10+
Years of experience
100%
Source code you own
18
Countries served

Start your US project

Tell me what you need built. You get a written scope and a fixed price in USD within one working day — and an honest answer if a website or a custom system is not the right spend for your business.

Reply within one working day   Fixed written quote   You own the code