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We've worked with an assembly house that does manual assembly for small-quantity (10-20) batches. Usually they ask for extras due to attrition, but so far we've not lost any.

I usually check the quality of their assembly under a 20x microscope. I've only found 1 board that had a bit of stray solder between 2 pins which was easy to clean. So, yes, manual assembly seems to work, but that may depend on the assembler proficiency.