You sell. You manage the client.We build.
Your clients stay with you. We handle the development behind the scenes.
The short version
What an agency partnership with Blackbyrds Digital means
An agency partnership with Blackbyrds Digital is a white-label development arrangement: your agency wins the work, owns the client relationship, and directs the strategy and creative, while we build the software behind it. You hand over a brief, a set of Figma files, or an unfinished codebase you have inherited; you get back a written scope, a technical approach, a timeline, and a fixed quote you can mark up before it reaches your client. Development then runs in your repository or ours, with reviewable progress at every stage, and the finished work ships documented and deployed under your agency name. We do not contact your client, pitch them, or appear in the credits unless you ask us to. Blackbyrds Digital has been building web and software products from Silang, Cavite, Philippines since 2017 and works on PHT (UTC+8) — the arrangement exists so agencies can take on technical delivery without adding permanent headcount to do it.
Why agencies call us
The gap between winning the work and staffing it.
Most agencies do not lose projects because the pitch was weak. They lose them in the fortnight after the pitch was won — when the client has signed, the timeline is agreed, and the one developer who could realistically build the thing is booked until the next quarter. From there you either push the start date and spend the goodwill you just earned, or you say yes and go looking for hands under deadline pressure, which is the worst possible moment to be evaluating anybody.
Then there is the failure every agency that has subcontracted knows by heart: the developer who was responsive through scoping and goes quiet in week five. No handover, no documentation, a repository nobody else can run locally, and a client expecting a demo on Thursday. The real damage is rarely the rebuild — it is the client’s confidence in you, which you then spend the rest of the engagement buying back.
Hiring your way out of it only works if the work arrives evenly, and agency pipelines rarely do. A senior developer is a permanent commitment — salary, equipment, management attention, and the quiet months where the pipeline is retainers and small changes — set against demand that turns up in bursts of three builds at once. Agencies end up either carrying capacity they cannot bill or turning down the exact projects they most want on the site.
And the arrangement most agencies settle for — a freelancer dropped into the client’s Slack because it is faster than relaying every question — quietly puts the relationship you built at risk. Once somebody else is discussing scope and timelines directly with your client, you are no longer the agency; you are the middle of a conversation you cannot fully see. Every unqualified “that should be quick” or “that will take another three weeks” lands on your account without you in the room.
Division of labour
Who owns what.
Agreed before a line of code is written, so nobody has to work it out mid-project.
Your agency owns
- Sales and new business
- The client relationship
- Strategy and creative direction
- Branding and presentation
- Project management and scope decisions
Blackbyrds handles
- Technical architecture and estimates
- Front-end and back-end development
- QA, review, and bug fixing
- Deployment and environment setup
- Maintenance and ongoing technical support
How it works · 04 steps
From your brief to your client.
You bring the project
Send us the brief, the designs, or just the client conversation so far. We work from whatever you have — a Figma file, a scope doc, or a half-formed idea you are still selling.
We scope and plan
You get a written scope, a technical approach, a timeline, and a fixed quote you can mark up before it reaches your client. If something in the brief will not work, we say so before you commit, not after.
We build behind the scenes
Development runs in your repo or ours, with progress you can show a client. We can stay invisible in email and calls, or join them under your brand. Your call, agreed up front.
You deliver it to your client
Handover is documented, deployed, and yours. The work ships under your agency name — we do not contact your client, pitch them, or appear in the credits unless you ask us to.
What we deliver
The technical half of the engagement.
Everything below is work your agency can sell without hiring for it. We have been shipping products from the same studio since 2017 — 70+ of them to date.
Technical architecture
The decisions that are expensive to reverse: stack, data model, hosting, integration boundaries, and what the build should deliberately not do yet. Written down before development starts, in language you can put in front of a client.
Front-end development
Figma to production code — component libraries your team can extend, responsive behaviour that matches the design intent rather than approximating it, and accessibility and Core Web Vitals treated as part of the build.
Back-end development
APIs, databases, authentication, roles and permissions, payments, CMS wiring, and the third-party integrations that always turn out to be the hard part. Built to be maintained by somebody other than the person who wrote it.
QA and review
Cross-browser and device testing, code review, and a bug-fixing pass before anything reaches your client. We would rather find it ourselves than have your account manager forward a screenshot of it.
Deployment and environments
Staging and production set up properly, preview deployments per branch so you can show progress without a call, environment variables documented, domains and DNS handled, and analytics wired before launch rather than after.
Maintenance and technical support
Dependency and security updates, monitoring, and a technical contact for the months after launch — so a client email about a broken form does not become an emergency for your team.
Inherited-codebase takeover
Plenty of agency work arrives half-built. We take over existing repositories, document what we find, and give you an honest read on what is worth keeping and what will cost more to patch than to replace.
Estimates you can quote from
A scope broken into phases with a fixed price against each, structured so you can mark it up, stage it, or drop a phase without renegotiating the whole thing. If the brief will not work as written, we say so before you commit.
Who we partner with
The agencies we build for.
Different disciplines, the same handover: you have sold something that has to be built, and building it is not what your team does.
Marketing agencies
Campaign sites, landing pages, and the tracking, CRM, and automation wiring behind them — usually with a launch date that was agreed before anybody asked a developer.
Branding agencies
A finished brand system and a client who now wants the website that expresses it. You keep the art direction; we make the type, motion, and layout survive contact with a browser.
SEO agencies
The half of your audit that needs a developer: site speed, rendering, structured data, information architecture, and replatforming with redirects mapped so rankings survive the move.
Advertising agencies
Microsites, competition and entry mechanics, interactive campaign work, and short-lived builds that still have to hold up under a media spend and a launch date that cannot move.
Creative studios
Concepts with scroll behaviour, motion, and interaction in them. We build the front end that delivers the idea without the page becoming unusable on a mid-range phone.
Social media agencies
Landing pages behind campaigns, entry and voting mechanics, UGC galleries, and the integrations that connect a campaign to the client’s email platform or CRM.
PR and communications agencies
Newsrooms, launch and announcement sites, investor and media pages, and embargo-sensitive builds that have to go live at a specific hour without anybody improvising.
Design and UX studios
Figma to production, component by component. You own the design system; we implement it faithfully and tell you where a spec will not hold up across breakpoints and states.
Software agencies
Overflow capacity on projects you have already sold. We take a scoped slice — a set of templates, an integration, a migration, a launch — without needing to own the whole engagement.
Independent consultants
One person who has sold more than one person can build. You stay the strategist and the client’s point of contact; we become the delivery team behind your name.
Working with us
How the partnership runs.
Confidentiality is the default
We work under NDA as standard practice — send yours and we will sign it before scoping, or we will work to a mutual confidentiality agreement if you do not have one. We do not name partners, publish work, or use a project in a case study without written permission, and client materials stay inside the project.
We stay off the client thread
By default we communicate only with your team, through whatever you already use — Slack, email, Notion, Jira, or your own project tool. Progress stays reviewable through preview links you can forward or screenshot into your reporting, so invisible to the client never means invisible to you.
A scoped slice or the whole project
Some partners hand us one integration or one set of templates on a project their own developers are leading. Others hand over everything technical, from architecture through launch and maintenance. Both are normal, and a first engagement does not have to be the big one.
Scoped in writing, quoted fixed
Every engagement starts with a written scope, a technical approach, and a fixed quote per phase — nothing hourly to reconcile in front of your client, and no retainer lock-in. Changes are re-quoted in writing before they are built, so the number you marked up is the number that holds.
Related
Keep reading.
White-label web development
The service in detail — what we build for agency partners, the stacks we work in, and how the white-label arrangement runs day to day.
Dedicated development team
When one project becomes a standing arrangement: developers working to your roadmap and your process, month after month.
Technical consulting
Architecture reviews, codebase audits, and a second opinion on a brief before you put a number against it.
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Everbrew Coffee Roaster B2B Portal
A wholesale ordering portal redesigned and rebuilt around the cafes that use it every week.
Partnership FAQ
Questions agencies ask first.
Not answered here? Email us — we reply within one business day.
Can we keep the client relationship?
Yes — that is the whole arrangement, not a concession. You own sales, the client relationship, strategy, creative direction, and every scope decision; we own the technical delivery behind it. We have no interest in inheriting your clients, and the partnership only works if you never have to wonder about that.
Will you contact our client?
No. By default we communicate only with your team and never email, call, or message your client directly. If you want us on a thread or a call, that is a decision you make per project and tell us about — never something we assume. We also do not publish work that identifies a client, or name a partner agency, without written permission.
Can you work under our brand?
Yes. The work ships under your agency name, and if we join a call or a written thread at your request we do it as part of your team, introduced however you choose to introduce us. We can work inside your GitHub organisation, your project tooling, and your documentation templates, so the trail your client sees is consistently yours.
Can you take over an existing project?
Yes, and it is a large share of what we do — half-finished builds, a developer who has stopped replying, or an aging codebase a client arrived with. The first deliverable on an inherited project is always a written read on what we found: what is solid, what is risky, and what will cost more to patch than to rebuild. You then set the scope with real information instead of a guess.
How do you handle NDAs?
Working under NDA is standard practice for us. Send yours and we will review and sign it before scoping begins; if you do not have one, we can work to a mutual confidentiality agreement instead. Client materials, credentials, and commercial details stay inside the project, and nothing about the engagement is published or referenced without your written approval.
What time zone do you work in?
We work from Silang, Cavite in the Philippines on PHT (UTC+8). That puts us inside the same working day as partners in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia, and gives a dependable overlap with the Gulf, the UK, and Europe — our afternoon is your morning. North American partners get overlap only at the edges of the day, so we run those engagements asynchronously by default: written updates and preview links waiting before your day starts, with live calls scheduled rather than assumed.
How do you price partnership work?
Per project, as a fixed quote against a written scope, broken into phases you can stage or drop. There is nothing hourly to reconcile and no retainer lock-in, so the figure you mark up is settled before the work starts. Changes are re-quoted in writing before they are built, and the commercial terms of a longer-running partnership are agreed between us rather than published on a page.
Can you join a client call as part of our team?
Yes, when you want us there. Some partners keep us entirely behind the scenes and relay technical questions themselves; others bring us into discovery, architecture, or launch calls under their brand because a direct answer beats a game of telephone. Either arrangement works — we follow the one you set at the start of the project, and we do not change it mid-engagement without asking.
Let’s talk about a partnership.
We reply within one business day. Everything below the basics is optional — tell us as much or as little as you want at this stage.
Start a partnership
Got work you cannot staff?
Tell us what you have sold, or what you are about to. We reply within one business day with a technical read, a written scope, and a fixed quote you can put your margin on.
Building since 2017 · Silang, Cavite, Philippines · PHT (UTC+8)