The premise of a BPO is that operational work is fungible. That a roster is a roster, an invoice is an invoice, a customer ticket is a customer ticket. We don't believe that.
The work that actually runs your business is the work that requires judgement — knowing which casual to call at 6am on a Saturday, knowing which supplier query is actually a relationship signal, knowing when an award interpretation is a grey area worth flagging. That work doesn't survive being chunked into tickets.
LIBA is built on the opposite premise: that operational work is a craft, that it's worth treating offshore people like operators, and that the right unit of sale is an embedded pod with a named lead, not a seat on a floor.
If a provider can't tell you the name of the person doing your work next Wednesday, you're buying a seat — not a service.