We place experienced development teams directly into your organisation, working as a seamless extension of your in-house capability. Our engineers integrate with your processes, tools and culture—giving you the consistent bandwidth to execute on your product roadmap.
Through rigorous team matching and hands-on onboarding, we deliver dedicated teams that contribute from day one—without the overhead of building and retaining permanent headcount during periods of sustained growth.
Most team augmentation fails because the engineers feel like contractors—they're separate from your culture, they don't understand your business context, and they leave as soon as a project finishes. We build teams that actually integrate into your organisation—working in your processes, attending your standups, understanding your product deeply.
Our approach begins with detailed discovery of your team structure, product roadmap, and working culture. We match engineers with specific expertise for your needs, onboard them directly into your team structure, and they report to your engineering leadership. We also invest heavily in the first weeks—ensuring they understand your codebase, your architecture decisions, and your product roadmap. When a dedicated team is working well, your team should not notice they were external.
The dedicated team provides end-to-end development capability—front-end, back-end, database, infrastructure—allowing your product team to build and ship features independently. Team integrates into your sprint cycle and reports to your engineering leadership.
The dedicated team provides deep expertise in a specific area—machine learning, mobile development, infrastructure—augmenting your in-house capability for initiatives that require specialist knowledge.
The dedicated team works with you to build a new product or business unit from the ground up, including architecture decisions, technology selection, and initial team scaling. Team transitions to your permanent structure as the product matures.
The dedicated team owns ongoing product maintenance, minor feature development, and technical debt reduction—freeing your core product team to focus on major initiatives.
The dedicated team builds internal tools, developer platforms, and infrastructure that allow your product teams to move faster—implementing CI/CD, testing frameworks, monitoring, and deployment tooling.
Asset Management & Investment Funds
Personal Finances
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Banking & Financial Services
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Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Law firms
Insurance & Reinsurance
Real Estate & Brokerage Firms
Internal Workflows
We embedded a dedicated team of four engineers into their product organisation, building a new portfolio analytics platform. The team worked within their sprint process, attended their standups, and contributed architectural decisions for a system handling trillions in AUM analysis.
We placed a dedicated team to build their audit workflow platform, including a senior engineer who became their technical lead for the initiative. The team handled full-stack development from front end through cloud infrastructure, shipping features every sprint.
We provided a dedicated team to build their merchant dashboard platform, integrating into their existing development process. The team shipped fifteen features in their first six months and became the de facto product team for that initiative.
We embedded a mobile development team that built their iOS and Android apps for merchant partners. The team integrated into their development process, shipped regular updates, and mentored their in-house mobile engineers.
Every organisation's growth looks different. Your product roadmap, team structure, and culture don't match anyone else's. Building dedicated teams that actually fit requires understanding your specific context—not just providing generic engineers or assuming that more headcount always means faster delivery.
What we bring is experience building and scaling teams across different organisations and products, discipline around team composition and onboarding, and the honesty to recommend against dedicated models when individual augmentation would better serve your needs.
We begin by understanding your product roadmap, team structure, engineering culture, and the specific capability you need the dedicated team to provide. This includes reviewing your existing codebase and architecture, understanding how your current team works, and defining the team composition—seniority mix, specialist skills, and the leadership structure within the dedicated team.
Team composition decisions made at this stage have lasting consequences. A team that's too junior requires more oversight than your engineering leadership can provide. A team without the right specialist skills creates bottlenecks. We design team composition deliberately based on your specific requirements, and we are transparent about the trade-offs in different configurations.
Outcome: Team composition design, skill requirements, seniority mix, leadership structure, integration plan
We source and screen candidates against the requirements defined in discovery—technical skills, domain experience, communication style, and cultural fit with your organisation. Each candidate goes through structured technical assessment and an interview with your engineering leadership before placement is confirmed.
Dedicated team placements carry higher stakes than individual augmentation—a wrong placement in a team leadership role affects every member of the team. We invest proportionally in screening and give your engineering leadership meaningful input into every placement. We do not fill roles by availability; we fill them by fit.
Outcome: Screened candidates, technical assessments, leadership interviews, confirmed placements
We structure a deliberate onboarding programme for the dedicated team—codebase orientation, architecture reviews, introductions to product context and business objectives, and structured ramp-up milestones. The team works alongside your existing engineers during onboarding, building context before taking on independent delivery responsibility.
Dedicated team onboarding is more complex than individual onboarding—the team needs to develop internal cohesion alongside product context, and the relationship with your existing team needs to be established clearly. We manage both dimensions and track progress against onboarding milestones, adjusting the approach if the ramp-up is faster or slower than planned.
Outcome: Onboarding programme, integration milestones, team cohesion plan, early delivery checkpoints
Once integrated, the dedicated team operates within your engineering structure—participating in your processes, reporting to your engineering leadership, and scaling up or down as your roadmap requires. We provide ongoing support for team management, including performance reviews, capability development, and composition changes as your needs evolve.
Team management support means your engineering leadership focuses on product and architecture decisions rather than HR and operational logistics. We handle the complexity of managing a team across organisational boundaries—communication, performance, and development—while keeping your leadership informed and in control of direction.
Outcome: Integrated team operations, performance management, scaling flexibility, leadership reporting
We document team knowledge continuously throughout the engagement—architecture decisions, codebase rationale, product context, and institutional knowledge that would otherwise reside only in individuals. Documentation is a living deliverable, not a final output, and it ensures that team composition changes and eventual transitions don't result in knowledge loss.
When an engagement ends or the team transitions to a different structure, we plan the handoff explicitly—timing it to minimise disruption to your roadmap, ensuring knowledge is accessible to the teams taking over, and supporting your engineering leadership through the transition period. A well-executed transition is a measure of good engagement management.
Outcome: Living knowledge documentation, architecture decision records, transition plan, handover support
We track team performance against the outcomes the engagement was scoped to deliver—feature velocity, code quality, integration depth, and engineering leadership satisfaction. We surface issues early and address them systematically, rather than waiting for problems to become visible in the product or in team dynamics.
Performance monitoring for dedicated teams requires attention to both individual contribution and team-level output. A team that's technically capable but poorly integrated will underperform its individual potential. We monitor both dimensions and treat integration quality as a performance metric, not just a soft consideration.
Outcome: Velocity and quality metrics, integration health tracking, stakeholder satisfaction reviews, course correction process
We offer flexible engagement options to match your team needs, timeline, and scaling strategy. Choose the model that fits—or combine them as your organisation grows.
The primary engagement model for dedicated teams. Provides committed team capacity on an ongoing basis, with predictable budgeting and flexible scaling. Works best for sustained product development, multi-quarter initiatives, or when you need consistent capacity for your roadmap.
Available for specific durations—typically 6–12 months—to support particular product initiatives or growth phases. Provides cost certainty and clear timelines. Works well for launching new products, significant feature initiatives, or temporary scaling during peak development periods.
Available for variable-scope work where you need flexible team capacity that can scale up or down based on project needs. Billing is based on actual hours worked with complete transparency into team composition and time allocation.
Full team placement with direct reporting to your engineering leadership, operating as part of your permanent organisation structure. Team is committed long-term and fully integrated into your processes, culture, and strategic planning.
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