An engineering team you direct, without the hiring cycle
Hiring an engineer takes months, and the cost of a wrong hire lands long after the roadmap has slipped. A dedicated team is the same capability without that lead time — engineers who work to your backlog, in your process, reporting to you.
What this is, and what it is not
A dedicated team is an extension of your engineering function. You set priorities, you run the backlog, and the team works inside your cadence rather than reporting progress from behind a contract boundary.
It is not a fixed-scope project. Nobody agrees a feature list up front and disappears until delivery — the point of the model is that priorities can change without renegotiating an agreement each time. It is also not staffing by headcount alone: a team that cannot make architectural decisions is a cost centre, not an engineering function.
How a team is composed
Composition follows the work rather than a template. A product with a heavy interface and a thin backend is weighted toward frontend engineers; a data-heavy platform inverts that. Most teams pair engineers with design and QA input rather than treating either as a separate hand-off.
Across our own portfolio the most common shape is a Node.js service layer with a React or Next.js interface, and native or React Native clients where mobile matters — because that is what our projects have actually needed.
How it runs day to day
Sprint cadence, stand-ups and the rest of the process are the ones described on How We Work. Daily stand-ups exist to surface a problem within a day rather than a fortnight, which is the only thing that makes a distributed team behave like a colocated one.
We work across offices in India and Canada. Time-zone coordination is the honest cost of that: an overlap window has to be agreed at the start and defended, or a team drifts into asynchronous hand-offs and a decision takes three days instead of an hour.
A roadmap larger than the team you can hire against in the next two quarters
Work that is ongoing rather than a defined project with an end state
Teams that already have a product direction and need engineering capacity to execute it
Organisations that want the code, the decisions and the documentation to stay theirs
A single, tightly-scoped deliverable — a fixed project engagement costs less and carries less overhead
Work with no internal owner. A dedicated team needs someone on your side setting priorities; without that it stalls, and no process fixes it
A first release where the scope is still a question rather than a plan — start with discovery instead
We do not publish rates, because scope decides them
A figure quoted before scope is understood is not a commitment either side can rely on. These are the things that actually move it.
Team size and shape
The number of engineers and the split between frontend, backend, mobile and QA.
Seniority mix
A team that must make architectural decisions independently is weighted differently from one executing an agreed design.
Engagement length
Ramp-up is a real cost paid once; longer engagements amortise it, short ones do not.
Overlap requirements
How many hours per day the team must be online with yours.
NDA first, contract on frozen scope
We sign a mutual NDA before the first detailed conversation, not after — you should be able to describe what you are building without qualifying it.
The contract follows requirement freeze rather than preceding it. Once scope is agreed and written down, it is what the agreement is drawn against, which is what makes a fixed commitment meaningful in the first place.
What buyers usually ask
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Who manages the team day to day?
You set priorities and own the backlog. We handle engineering practice — code review, architecture, and the mechanics of delivery — so you are directing work rather than supervising it.02
Can the team scale up or down?
Yes. Composition is reviewed as the roadmap changes; adding an engineer takes a ramp-up period rather than a hiring cycle.03
Who owns the code?
You do. The repository, the documentation and the deployment configuration are yours throughout, not handed over at the end.04
What happens when the engagement ends?
Handover is a planned phase rather than an event: documentation, a walkthrough of the architecture and its decisions, and a period where your team runs the system with ours available.05
Do you sign an NDA?
Before the first detailed conversation, not after. The contract follows once requirements are frozen and written down.06
How do you handle time zones?
We agree a daily overlap window at the start. It is the single thing that most determines whether a distributed team works, so we would rather negotiate it early than discover it later.
Tell us what you need to staff
Describe the roadmap and where your team runs out of capacity. We will come back with a proposed team shape and a realistic ramp-up.
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