Featuring: David Wain-Heapy, ProdigiIn episode 149, I sit down with David Wain-Heapy, founder of Prodigy, a company that helps agencies and digital businesses build flexible, scalable remote teams through global talent sourcing.David spent 14 years building and running a Magento-focused e-commerce agency out of central London before selling it to Brave Bison PLC. We talk through what that exit process actually looked like, why the right acquirer matters as much as the right offer, and how building systems independent of the founders made the transition possible.From there, we get into the real substance of what David does now: helping agencies shift from an outsourcing mindset to an offshore hiring mindset. There's a difference, and it matters. Agency owners will come away with a clearer framework for when and how to integrate global talent, how to think about time zones, which roles translate well offshore, and what AI is actually doing — and not yet doing — to development teams in agencies right now.Key Bytes• Outsourcing and offshore hiring are not the same thing — one is a handoff, the other is a hire.• The fix for a failed first attempt wasn't better talent, it was better integration — sprints, tools, and cadence.• Building a business that runs independently of you isn't just good leadership, it's what makes you acquirable.• The right acquirer matters as much as the right offer — alignment on team and culture is what made a six-month handoff possible.• East Coast agencies fit well with Eastern European talent; West Coast agencies are better served by South and Central America.• AI handles contained tasks well, but it still can't hold the context of an enterprise-scale project.• The people who will thrive in an AI-augmented world are the ones who bring real creativity — the architects and problem-solvers, not just the executors.ChaptersDavid Wain-Heapy is an experienced founder currently focused on building remote teams for digital businesses with Prodigi.Having sold my digital agency to Brave Bison PLC, I am now working to provide a flexible and scalable solution that enables companies to take control of hiring by looking at a global talent pool.I have many years experience building globally distributed teams of digital professionals and leading them to help great businesses win in the race for attention and accelerate their digital growth.Contact David on LinkedIn or the Prodigi website.