Seasoned domain experts, ready when you need them
On demand capacity without the hiring overhead
What if we scaled engineering teams the way we scale infrastructure?
Infrastructure solved this years ago.
Now your team can too.
You need extra engineering capacity. Not for a year, maybe not even for a quarter. Just enough to get through the next few weeks.
So what do you do if your gap is only 5 weeks? The traditional approach is to bring in a contractor, but you might not find a contractor willing to take less than 3 months, if you can even find one at all in the time required.
If you do? The first month is lost to HR onboarding, requesting access each time they encounter another system they need to use, and learning your architecture and practices.
You're paying premium rates for someone who isn't yet solving your problems and won't even be up to full speed before the window which you need help in has almost passed. Amortise that across a 3 month engagement and your return on investment just dropped by a third.
The worst part? Your actual problem still didn't get solved.
A costly 3 month solution to a 5 week problem.
You have infrastructure, platform, or operational work that needs doing. Not enough to justify a full time hire, but enough that it keeps pulling your product engineers away from what they do best.
They're capable, but it's not their domain. Decisions get made without the depth of experience to see where they lead. Technical debt accumulates quietly, surfacing at the worst possible time.
A few days a month of specialist attention would solve it, but the market doesn't offer that. The choice becomes: hire someone you can't fully utilise, or keep pulling your product engineers off the work that moves the business forward.
Product development velocity bleeds away, one infrastructure ticket at a time.
Engineering capacity is hard to forecast. Budgets diverge from reality. Scopes change, people take leave, key team members move on.
Contractors are a proven solution when the need is sustained and the timeline is long enough to absorb the ramp up, but for shorter gaps or lower volume ongoing work, the overhead in cost and time can make the solution as expensive as the problem.
Flexibility
- Prepaid blocks for burst capacity, or subscriptions for ongoing availability
- Use what you need, when you need it
- Scale up for busy quarters, scale back when the pressure eases
Quality
- Direct access to engineers, not account managers
- Ownership of outcomes, not just deliverables
- One relationship covers platform, backend, observability, security, cost optimisation
Practicality
- Zero ramp up - productive work starts immediately
- Operational budget, not headcount
- European timezone alignment, documentation that stays when we step back
Discovery Document
The Discovery Document is the output of the Discovery Week: a versioned reference signed by both parties that captures everything we need to hit the ground running.
It covers your systems, architecture, working practices, and access requirements so there's zero ramp up when you schedule capacity.
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