Engineers who join your team, not a project you hand over

Rates depend on role and seniority — cloud architects and applied ML engineers sit well above general application developers, and a dedicated team with a technical lead and delivery management included is priced differently again from a single specialist. We quote against the specific roles and the commitment length rather than publishing a rate card that would be wrong for most of the people reading it. Ask and you will get a figure in the first conversation.

Direction and accountability. In augmentation, the engineer sits in your team, works your backlog and answers to your technical lead — you keep the architecture decisions and the delivery risk. In outsourced delivery, we take the outcome, the estimate and the risk, and you review against milestones. Augmentation suits teams that know what to build and lack capacity; outsourced delivery suits organisations without the internal leadership to direct engineers day to day.

Onboarding takes a matter of days from the moment you select someone. Getting to that point — requirements, shortlist, interviews — usually takes one to two weeks for common roles and up to three for specialised ones. So a realistic first day is two to three weeks after the initial conversation, which is still an order of magnitude faster than a direct hire for the same skills.

Individual placements carry a two-week trial. Tell us it is not working within that window and we replace them and absorb the cost of the changeover. After the trial, replacement is handled under notice with overlap for handover. We would rather swap somebody in week two than have you tolerate a poor fit for six months because raising it felt awkward.

You own everything the engineer produces, assigned contractually from the first commit — there is no shared-IP arrangement and no licence back to us. Engineers work on managed devices with least-privilege access into your systems, sign your NDA and security policy, and go through your vendor assessment if you have one. Access is provisioned individually and revoked on the last day of the engagement.

We staff against your core hours rather than ours, and we hold to a minimum four-hour daily overlap because that is what makes same-day answers possible. For teams in North America and Europe that generally means a shifted working day on our side. If your requirement genuinely needs full working-day overlap, say so at scoping — it narrows the candidate pool and affects the rate, and it is better known before the shortlist than after it.