Engineers accountable inside your process.
Named people who join your standups, own a part of the system, and can be asked why they made a call. Not a team you have to manage from outside.
- 01What is missing
- 02Who joins
- 03Whose process
- 04Who answers
In productionThe same engineers who own our own platforms in production are the ones placed into client teams. Named, and answerable for the calls they make.
When this is the right answer
Sometimes you do not need another agency. Four situations where a dedicated team beats a project engagement.
You own the architecture
The decisions are yours and you need hands that will implement them rather than relitigate them.
One capability is missing
The team is strong and there is one thing nobody has done before. Hiring for it takes six months.
The roadmap outgrew the team
Everything on the list is worth doing and there is no version of the quarter where it all fits.
You need seniority, not headcount
The problem is one or two hard calls, not a volume of tickets.
How it works in practice
The differences between this and outsourcing are all in this list.
Your process, not ours
Your review process, your ceremonies, your definition of done. We do not run a parallel process and report into yours.
Named people
You know who is on the work, you interview them, and they do not get swapped out without a conversation.
Owned scope
A defined part of the system rather than a queue of tickets. Ownership is what makes somebody answerable.
Overlap where it is needed
Working hours arranged around the parts of the work that need to be synchronous, rather than a blanket promise about time zones.
Engineering management
A lead on our side who is accountable for delivery and for the quality of the people, so managing them is not added to your day.
Scaling both ways
Up when the roadmap needs it, down when it does not, with notice that is written down before it is needed.
Roles we place
Named individuals with a track record you can ask about, not a bench.
Senior backend engineers
Data modelling, API design, and the systems that have to stay correct under load.
Senior frontend engineers
Operational interfaces and design systems, not landing pages.
AI and ML engineers
Model integration, evaluation and the production path, with the boundary drawn.
DevOps and platform engineers
Pipelines, infrastructure as code and observability inside your environment.
Engineering leads
Somebody who owns a part of the system and answers for it, including to your team.
Fractional CTO
Architecture, hiring and technical strategy at the days per month the stage actually needs.
What we build it on.
Grouped by what it does rather than shown as a wall of marks, and short enough that your own team can judge whether they could take it over.
- Backend
- PythonDjangoFastAPINode.js
- Frontend
- ReactTypeScriptNext.jsDesign systems
- Cloud
- AWSDockerCI/CDInfrastructure as code
- AI
- LLMsRetrieval augmented generationComputer visionMachine learning
Questions we get asked.
The objections specific to this line, answered here rather than in a first call.
Who manages the engineers day to day?
You do, on the work. We manage the people (performance, growth, cover and replacement) so you are not absorbing an HR function to get engineering capacity.
What is the minimum engagement?
Long enough for someone to become useful, which is measured in months rather than weeks on any system worth extending a team for. We will tell you when a project engagement would serve you better than a dedicated one.
Can we hire them?
Yes, and it is negotiated up front rather than resisted afterwards. An arrangement that punishes you for wanting to keep somebody is one that quietly encourages us to place people you would not want to keep.
Where to go next
You do not need to arrive with a perfect technical specification.
Start with the problem. Tell us what is slowing the business down, what you want to build, or where the current system is failing. We will tell you the shortest path forward, including when that path is not us.
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