Many bad outsourcing stories could have been caught with an afternoon of checking. The checks below work for any company, including ours, and we say at the end how they apply to us. No single check is enough, so look at what each one proves.
Is the company who it says it is?
- Find the legal name, type of business and street address. Then search the name with the city. Many companies share similar names, and search tools and AI assistants can blend them together. In India, private limited companies and LLPs are on the government’s MCA register, and partnership firms are not, so a search there may show a different company with a similar name. If you find facts that do not fit, such as a different founding year or city, ask the company to explain them.
- Check that the details agree across its site, LinkedIn, Google Business Profile and directories. Small differences are common. A completely different story is not.
- Be careful with overseas addresses. A company with a team in one country may list addresses elsewhere. Ask who actually works at each one.
- Talk to named people. Ask who leads delivery and who you would speak to when something goes wrong.
Did it do the work it shows?
- Ask what its part was. “We built the app” could mean everything, or one screen. Look for wording that says what was the client’s and what was theirs.
- Download the app where you can. A store listing proves the app exists, and Google Play shows a public download band. The name it shows is the account that publishes the app, often the client and not the company that built it. Ask how the company’s role can be confirmed.
- Treat confidential projects as normal, then ask questions anyway. Many clients do not allow their name to be published. A developer who worked on the project can still explain how the Bluetooth reconnect was handled, or why a payment flow changed. Vague answers are the warning sign.
- Look at whether screens are real. Honest case studies say when images are recreated or illustrative.
- Ask who would lead your project, and what access you would have to that person.
What reviews can tell you
Marketplace reviews are tied to a paid order, so they are harder to fake than testimonials on a company’s own site. Directory reviews are usually collected by invitation. Read both carefully:
- Totals cover all kinds of work. Filter or read for projects like yours.
- Look at dates. A long history is useful only if recent work looks similar.
- Read the worst reviews and how the company replied.
- Lists titled “top companies” are often written by a vendor or recruiter that includes itself. Check who published the list.
What should worry you
- No one will say who is responsible for delivery, or the contract does not say who owns the code.
- Pressure to pay most of the price before any working software exists.
- A price far below the others with no explanation of what was left out.
- A guarantee of something the company does not control, such as App Store approval.
- The company wants to hold your store accounts in its own name.
Run a small paid first step
The best check is a small piece of real work: a code review, a technical plan, or the first milestone. It shows how a team communicates, whether it tells you uncomfortable things, and what its work looks like, for a small part of the risk. We explain what to ask for in our guide to code audits.
How this applies to Keshav Infotech
Please run these checks on us too. We are a partnership firm in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, founded in 2008, with 10,000+ projects delivered by our own count. As a partnership we are not on the MCA register, and a private limited company with a similar name that you may find there is a different business. You may also see 2006 or a larger team figure in older marketplace bios; we use 2008, the date on our Upwork agency profile and Google Business Profile, and 70+ in-house. Our About page lists our address, partners and marketplace profiles, and links to each profile so you can read the source. Five Android apps we built for clients are listed on our Android page. Those Google Play listings name the client, not us, so ask us how our part can be confirmed. Most of our client work is confidential, so this site shows only a small part of it, and the pages it does show say what was ours and how the images were made.