Somewhere in Chicago right now, an agency is walking a client through a brand-new website. The pages load fast. The campaign behind it is already bringing in leads. The client is happy, the agency gets the credit, and that is exactly how it should be.
What the client doesn’t know is that a team at Stellites built most of it while they were asleep.
That’s the job we signed up for. We work behind digital agencies, quietly, under their brand. So it felt a little strange, and honestly pretty great, to step into the spotlight for a moment this year.
Stellites has been named a finalist in the Service Exports: SaaS and B2B Solutions category at the Payoneer India Cross-Border Excellence Awards 2026, presented in association with The Economic Times.
Our category had strong company: Increff, Xoxoday and Enreap. Xoxoday took the top spot, and Increff was named Runner-Up. Congratulations to both. They’ve built products that businesses around the world rely on every day, and they earned it.
The winners were announced at a gala in New Delhi on September 25, alongside a summit on market access, new growth corridors and the rules that come with taking a business global.
There is no shortage of business awards. This one caught our attention because of how it’s built. Instead of putting every exporter into one big “services” bucket, it splits India’s cross-border economy into sixteen separate categories, and an independent jury judges each one on its own terms.
The scoring says a lot too. Growth and scale carried 40% of the weight, and market reach carried another 30%. In plain words, the jury wanted businesses that are actually growing across borders, not just pitching well.
The bigger picture is hard to ignore. India’s services exports hit a record $421.3 billion in FY26, close to half of everything the country sells to the world. A big part of that value is created by teams whose names never show up on the final product. We’re one of them, and we’re proud of it.
Stellites is a white-label partner for digital agencies. We work with agencies across the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and Canada that have more client demand than their in-house team can handle.
Here’s what that looks like day-to-day:
Agencies can bring us in as a dedicated team or on a pay-as-you-go basis. Every partner gets a delivery manager, people who work in their time zone, and no long contracts. If someone isn’t the right fit, we replace them, and the handover is on us.
The agency keeps the client and the credit. We carry the operational load.
After more than a decade of doing this, a few things have become very clear.
Agencies don’t need cheaper hands. They need capacity they can trust. The real cost of outsourcing isn’t the invoice. It’s the late-night message when a launch breaks and nobody replies. Reliability is the real product.
White-label isn’t about hiding. It’s about letting the agency stay the hero. Clients hire an agency for its thinking and its relationship with them. Our job is to make sure delivery never gets in the way of either.
AI is changing what agencies sell. Clients now expect AI-powered workflows, chatbots and smarter campaigns. The agencies that win will have a partner who can actually build those things, not just mention them in a pitch deck.
This recognition belongs to our team, the people who show up every day and do great work that someone else gets to present. It also belongs to our agency partners, who trust us to be the unsaid partner behind their growth.
If you run an agency and you’ve been turning down work you’d love to take on, let’s talk. We’d be glad to be the team behind yours.
The full list of finalists and winners, along with The Economic Times’ coverage of the awards, is available on the ET Spotlight page.
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