Formos

Founded in 2003, Formos is a software development company headquartered in Vancouver, Washington. Its Vietnamese and Ecuadorian teams are part of a global engineering group that works around the clock. It offers product discovery and prototyping, minimum viable product and full product development, web and mobile apps, custom business solutions and development team augmentation. A US group of solutions architects and project managers is the point of contact, coordinating the engineers across the globe. A client's US contact stays involved from the first conversation through delivery, which the firm presents as continuity across the project.

Full-time teams under unified process controls

Formos says every member of its global team is a full-time employee working under the same process controls. The firm argues this is what keeps quality and schedule on target, and that it avoids the usual outsourcing problems of layered subcontractors and offshore programming. It keeps clients informed of status and progress throughout, and it sets itself apart from programming body shops by working on the whole product rather than only supplying programmers.

Projects across industries and regions

Clients range from startups seeking to launch an MVP and raise funds to established enterprises streamlining internal processes. Work has ranged from augmented reality and construction to environmental restoration and blockchain, and customers are served across the Americas, Asia and Europe. The firm's stated aim is to help clients meet their goals quickly and cost-effectively. Formos also offers team augmentation alongside product development, so a client can add engineers to its own team or hand over a whole product.