Offshore developers don't lose days to time zones. They lose them to unclear stories.
When your developers are in Manila and your product owner is in Chicago, a single ambiguous acceptance criterion is a 24-hour delay — minimum. And when the developer guesses instead of asking, the rework crosses the ocean twice. Vindex gives onshore and offshore one objective read on whether a story is ready, before the handoff.
Real scores in 30 seconds. No signup, nothing to install. Your data is deleted after 24 hours.
Nobody here did anything wrong. The story was the problem — and it was checkable before the handoff.
One question, one day
A question asked at the offshore end of day waits for the onshore morning. Two questions on one story is most of a week. The miscommunication isn't anyone's fault — but somebody pays for it in days.
The vendor can't push back
Contract developers hesitate to challenge a client's requirements — it reads as difficult. So they build their best interpretation of a vague story, and everyone discovers the gap at the demo.
Rework crosses the ocean twice
Wrong guess, sprint review, redo. Each cycle burns a week of calendar time on work that a clear acceptance criterion would have prevented.
What changes when both shores read the same score.
Days back in every sprint
The clarification loop happens at write time, on one side of the ocean, instead of across it. The handoff carries answers, not open questions.
The quality gate does the pushing back
Vendors don't have to choose between challenging a client and building a guess. The score flags the gap neutrally — no one has to be difficult.
One standard across every vendor
Three vendors, five time zones, one definition of ready. Every story is held to the same bar before it reaches any team, anywhere.
Score a sprint's worth of stories before the next handoff.
Drop a CSV or paste one story — real scores in 30 seconds, no signup.