The Offshore Trap

“The Offshore Trap” is a groundbreaking exposé that rips open the trillion-dollar IT outsourcing industry, revealing a sophisticated system of deception that spans continents and costs businesses billions annually.

Written by industry veteran Shehryar T. Ali, who has uniquely operated on both sides of the outsourcing equation, this manuscript delivers an unfiltered insider’s perspective that will transform how readers view technology development.

The narrative unfolds across four parts, beginning with “The Seduction and Capture,” where Ali reveals how vendors use psychological manipulation, credential fraud, and kickback schemes to land contracts.

Readers follow real-world disasters, like the hospital network that paid $2.7 million for a patient management system so fundamentally broken it mixed up medication records—endangering lives.

In “Extraction and Concealment,” Ali meticulously documents the machinery of systematic billing fraud, deliberate knowledge withholding, and the “Agile Theater” that creates the illusion of progress while delivering nothing of value.

He dissects how a $125/hour “senior architect” often makes only $10–15/hour, with the rest disappearing into elaborate markup schemes.

“Captivity and Control” exposes how vendors engineer technical, contractual, and support traps specifically designed to make escape financially ruinous.

Ali reveals the deliberate creation of security backdoors as “client retention features,” and the elaborate shell company structures that prevent accountability.

The final section, “The Reckoning and Collapse,” examines why this exploitative system persists despite decades of spectacular failures—while forecasting how AI will ultimately dismantle the entire outsourcing empire by eliminating the information asymmetry and labor arbitrage that fueled its growth.

Throughout the manuscript, Ali weaves powerful human stories: the healthcare startup founder whose company was systematically bled dry; the CTO whose career was destroyed by a vendor relationship they inherited; and the internal whistleblowers who risked everything to expose the truth.

At approximately 50,000 words, this manuscript delivers a masterclass in industry exposé—combining investigative rigor with narrative drive and first-person authority.

“The Offshore Trap” will appeal to business leaders, technology professionals, and general readers fascinated by how sophisticated deception operates at enterprise scale in plain sight.