Smart Sourcing can be more cost-effective than hiring and retaining in-house employees. You can eliminate costs associated with recruitment, employee benefits, health insurance, training, 401K, office supplies, retentions and others. It is also more scalable, as you can easily increase or decrease your headcount up or down based on workload demands.

A Smart Sourcing approach also enables you to hire engineers in countries with lower costs of living which is often more cost-effective than hiring locally or in cities with a high cost of living such as the US and Canada. 

Both models can be of value and have their advantages and disadvantages, depending on your needs. In a Smart Sourcing model, you are responsible for managing any third-party staff. With a software outsourcing model, you are more hands-off as you assign day-to-day management and admin tasks to Talentus. 

Smart Sourcing is better when you want to boost your existing teams while still staying involved at a management level. Outsourcing is better when you want to remove yourself and fully delegate your projects to an external team such as Telentus.