Do you run an India team without telling your US clients

Genuine question for the community. How many of you are running India delivery teams without ever telling your US clients?

My sense is that it is way more common than people admit publicly. Every agency owner I know privately has some version of this setup. But almost no one talks about it openly because they are worried it will come across wrong.

The reasons I have heard:

• Client will assume lower quality
• The client will ask for a rate reduction
• Client will worry about IP
• Client will insist on US-only devs
• Easier to just not mention it

We do keep ours white label by default. If a client asks directly, we are honest. If they do not ask, we do not volunteer. Devs are properly employed through Wisemonk, so if it ever comes up, we have the documentation.

Is there a consensus view on this? Is a silent white label the industry norm, or am I working with a selection-bias crowd?