Hi Sunir. Great questions. Hope to get more people answering this.

Please also take a look at a parallel discussion in proggit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1zqbx1/10_ways_...

From my experience in Codacy, some of our users use it to grade and quickly send out comments from the tool to the outsourced team. They like being able to review the code as it's being done (since it's per commit) with the help of our linting code patterns.

We also give out grades which is an overall vision of the project without having to go into much technical detail. "Why is this a C?" is a great question to ask :) I'd love to hear more about your experience and your pains and check if we can be of assistance. Here's my email: jaime at codacy dot com.