Add senior engineers to your team in days, not months.
Vetted engineers inside the team you already have — your tools, your standards, your sprint board. No recruiter fees, no notice periods, no permanent headcount.
- 24 hrs
- Average matching time
- Top 3%
- Of applicants reach our network
- 97%
- Client retention
- 2.3M hrs
- Delivered since 2020
Teams we've built with
Your team, extended. Not outsourced.
Outsourcing hands a problem to someone else and waits for the result. Augmentation does the opposite — engineers join your team and work the way your own engineers do, on the work you decide matters this sprint.
You keep the priorities
Your roadmap, your backlog, your definition of done. We don't take ownership of the work or put a layer of account management between you and the people building it.
They work inside your setup
Your repos, your CI, your standups and code review. No parallel process to maintain and no weekly status deck summarising what you could already see in the PR queue.
We carry the employment side
Sourcing, vetting, contracts, payroll, equipment and compliance sit with us. You get an engineer, not a hiring project and a new set of paperwork.
You size the team monthly
Add people when the roadmap demands it and scale back when it doesn't, without redundancy processes or the cost of carrying a role you no longer need.
Four situations this solves properly.
Augmentation isn't the answer to everything. These are the cases where it beats both hiring and outsourcing outright.
- 01
A role has been open for months
The search keeps restarting, the shortlist keeps falling through, and the work it was meant to cover keeps sliding to the next quarter.
- 02
You need a specialist for one phase
A migration, a mobile build, an ML model that has to reach production. Real expertise is needed for three months, not a permanent seat on the team.
- 03
Delivery is slipping and the team is maxed
The people you have are good and already at capacity. The gap is throughput, and it needs closing before the date moves again.
- 04
You're scaling ahead of certainty
Demand is climbing but not far enough ahead to justify permanent roles. You need capacity now and the option to change your mind later.
When we'll tell you it isn't
If the work is a self-contained project with a fixed scope and no appetite for day-to-day involvement from your side, you want a delivery team rather than augmentation — and we'll say so on the call rather than sell you the wrong model.
We carry the parts that make hiring slow.
The engineering work stays yours. Everything that normally turns a hire into a two-month administrative project sits with us.
Stays with you
- What gets built, and in what order
- Code review and technical standards
- Day-to-day direction and sprint planning
- Product decisions and architecture calls
Handled by us
- Sourcing and technical vetting
- Contracts, payroll and invoicing
- Employment compliance across regions
- Equipment and access provisioning
- Replacement if the fit is wrong
- Retention and ongoing engineer support
How it compares to hiring and outsourcing.
The honest version — including where the other two options are the better choice.
| Criteria | Staff augmentation | In-house hire | Project outsourcing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | Days | 2–4 months | Weeks |
| Upfront cost | None | Recruiter fee | Discovery and scoping phase |
| Who sets priorities | You | You | The vendor, against a signed scope |
| Commitment | Month to month | Permanent | Fixed to the contract |
| If the fit is wrong | We replace them | Performance process | Change request |
| Admin and compliance | Ours | Yours | Ours |
| Scaling down | Change the headcount | Redundancy process | End of contract |
| Best when | You need capacity inside your own team | The role is core and permanent | The work is self-contained with a fixed scope |
From first call to first pull request.
- 130 minutes
Scoping call
Stack, seniority, timeline and budget. We'll tell you on the call whether we have the right people or whether you'd be better served another way.
- 2Next day
Shortlist in 24 hours
Two or three engineers matched against your stack and the way your team actually works — not a stack of CVs to filter yourself.
- 3Your call
You interview and decide
Technical interview, pairing session, take-home — whatever your usual bar is. Nobody joins your team without your yes.
- 4Within the week
Onboarded and shipping
Contracts, equipment and access are handled in the background while your team gets on with onboarding them to the codebase.
One engineer, or a team that comes ready-formed.
The model follows the gap you're closing. All three run month to month.
Single specialist
One engineer inside your existing team
A specific skill gap, a stalled role, or extra throughput on a team that already works well.
- Dedicated full-time engineer
- Works in your tools and ceremonies
- Reports to your engineering lead
Squad
Most commonThree to five engineers with a senior lead
A workstream that needs its own capacity — a new surface, a platform migration, a parallel track to the core roadmap.
- Senior engineer leading the squad
- Mixed seniority sized to the work
- Plugs into your planning cycle
Dedicated pod
A full delivery team, standing
An area of the product you want owned end to end, with delivery management and QA included rather than borrowed from your team.
- Engineering, QA and delivery management
- Runs its own ceremonies against your roadmap
- Scales as the area grows
The roles we place most.
Every engineer clears the same bar regardless of stack. Browse the specialisms, or tell us what you need on the call.
What you're actually buying.
Anyone can send CVs. These are the things that decide whether an augmented engineer works out.
Top 3% only
Every engineer is assessed on real work before they reach our network. You interview people who can contribute from week one, not candidates we're hoping you'll train up.
Hours that overlap yours
We work across the UK, the US and the Middle East, and match engineers to your working day. Questions get answered inside the same sprint, not on the next one.
Wrong fit, we fix it
If someone isn't right, tell us and we move — no performance process, no awkward conversation to run yourself, no quarter lost to it.
Engineers who stay
97% client retention isn't a sales number, it's what happens when people are supported properly. Continuity is most of the value in augmentation.
Questions worth asking.
We shortlist within 24 hours of the scoping call. From there the pace is set by your interview process — most teams have someone working inside a week or two, including contracts and equipment.
The role you haven't filled is costing more than the engineer would.
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We'll tell you honestly whether augmentation is the right way to close the gap.
Book a scoping call