Find a vendor
Three vetted Eastern European development partners for your brief, within two working days
Five hundred vendors look the same on paper. Our team has been inside 100+ of them, building their delivery, presale and account management. Send a brief and get three names that fit your stack, stage and AI readiness, with the real risks named.
Why evaluations fail
What a three-month vendor search runs into
- The selection black box: Hundreds of companies with similar ratings, case studies and English-speaking sales teams; no public signal separates delivery capability from marketing.
- The vendor controls the narrative: Every call is a sales call, the references are chosen, the case studies show the best outcomes. The asymmetry resolves after the contract is signed.
- AI readiness is invisible from outside: Every deck says AI-enabled. Whether a senior engineer's day has changed in the last 18 months, and what velocity moved, is visible only inside the company.
- Continuity is a company question: Where the team sits, the redundancy plan, client retention through 2022 to 2024: country reports do not answer it, the company does.
- The best vendors are invisible: The companies with full books, long clients and senior AI-fluent engineers run no outbound and sit on no ranking site.
What we offer
Four ways in, all complimentary
Engagement
What you get
Intelligence call
Twenty minutes before you start a vendor search: what to ask, what a strong answer looks like, who to skip.
Shortlist in two working days
Three names for a defined brief: stack, stage, team shape, timezone, AI expectations, with the risks named next to each.
Operational read on a vendor
An unfiltered view of a company you are already evaluating: team stability, client concentration, governance, real AI adoption.
Ongoing partnership
For a buyer managing several Eastern European vendor relationships: a second opinion whenever a brief or a renewal comes up.
Who pays, and the conflict policy
You pay nothing for a shortlist, an intelligence call or an operational read. Vendors pay nothing for a place on a shortlist. Where a vendor has been a Wiseboard client, we say so before the introduction, and you decide whether to proceed.
What we check inside a vendor
Six dimensions, from the work inside the companies
Dimension
What we look at
Delivery maturity
Project governance, escalation handling, documentation discipline, retrospectives, post-incident reviews.
AI readiness
The tools in daily use, their place in the pipeline, the measured velocity gain, upskilling, AI-augmented quality gates.
Team quality
Senior-to-junior ratio, tenure, retention of key engineers, hiring rigor, recent leadership hires.
Client concentration
Top-client and top-three revenue share, average engagement length, retention rate.
Continuity and risk
Geographic distribution, redundancy plan, client retention through 2022 to 2024, succession, reserves.
Cultural fit
Communication cadence, escalation culture, time-zone practice, how the team behaves when a project hits trouble.
How it works
From a brief to three names
1
You send the brief
Stack, team size, stage, timezone, what you expect from AI in delivery, and what went wrong with the last vendor, if anything.
2
We shortlist in two working days
Three companies that fit, each with a short operational read: what they are strong at, what to watch, what to ask on the first call.
3
We introduce you and step back
Warm introductions to the three; you run the conversations and the contract. We stay available for a second opinion.
Need a LATAM delivery hub instead?
For US-aligned delivery, our team designs, hires and runs a nearshore team in Latin America as a packaged offer.
Before the first call
What to ask a vendor
Eastern European Vendor Assessment Checklist
27 questions across six dimensions, five of them on AI readiness, to ask in a vendor discovery call.
Learn moreMarket Demand Report, April 2026
Inbound demand signals from the services market: who is buying, what and at which price.
Learn moreFAQ
What buyers ask first
You pay nothing and vendors pay nothing for a place on it. What we ask in return is one message after your first calls: which of the three fit and why, so the next shortlist is better. Where a vendor has been a Wiseboard client, we say so before the introduction.
Send your brief
Stack, team size, stage, timezone and what you expect from AI in delivery. Three names within two working days. Read by our team only; no vendor hears from us without your yes.
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