Dedicated Developers & Team Augmentation
Engineers working in your repository, your sprints and your tooling on a continuing monthly commitment, rather than against a fixed scope.
A dedicated engagement is a commitment of time, not a commitment to a specification. You get engineers who work inside your repository, attend your stand-ups and use your issue tracker, and who stay long enough to learn the system properly. It is the right shape when the work is continuous and the priorities move — which is most product work.
Who this is for
Product teams with a backlog that outruns their hiring. Companies that need a specific skill — Laravel, Flutter, React, an AI integration — for months rather than permanently. Founders carrying a codebase with no in-house engineer. Agencies with committed delivery dates and no spare capacity.
When this is the wrong shape
Worth saying plainly, because the alternative is often cheaper. A single well-defined deliverable with a clear finish line is better run as a fixed-scope project: you get a price and a date, and nobody is paying for time between decisions. Dedicated engagements earn their keep when the work is ongoing and the requirements are still moving.
How the engagement runs
- Work is tracked in your issue tracker, against your priorities, in your repository
- Engineers join your existing ceremonies rather than reporting progress separately
- Code goes through your review process and your CI; if neither exists yet, setting them up is usually the first task
- You set the priorities; we handle the engineering management
- Work is visible as commits and pull requests, so progress is inspectable rather than reported
What we cover
The same ground as our project work: Laravel and PHP backends, Next.js and React front ends, Flutter and native mobile, API and third-party integrations, AI features including LLM integration, RAG and agent workflows, n8n automation, and cloud deployment and maintenance. A dedicated engagement draws on whichever of those the work needs rather than fixing a role title in advance.
How we work
We treat your conventions as the conventions. A dedicated engineer writing in a house style that nobody else on your team recognises creates work rather than removing it, so we match the existing code and the existing review standards. Where a practice is missing — no tests on a critical path, no deployment pipeline, no error reporting — we raise it as a tradeoff for you to decide on rather than quietly re-architecting.
Handover is assumed from the start. Documentation and tests are written as the work happens, so that the engagement ending does not leave you with code only we understand.
Business benefits
- Capacity that starts in weeks rather than a hiring cycle
- A specific skill for as long as the work needs it, without a permanent role
- Continuity — the same engineers keep the context instead of re-learning the system each project
- Scope that can change without renegotiating a contract
Common questions
How is this different from a fixed-price project?
A project buys a defined deliverable for an agreed price. A dedicated engagement buys continuing capacity you direct week to week. If you can write the specification down and it will not change, the project is the better deal.
Who manages the work?
You set priorities; we manage delivery. In practice our engineers work to your backlog and your definition of done, and we handle the engineering oversight so you are not line-managing an external team.
Do they work only on our project?
Yes — that is what dedicated means. The commitment is to your work for the agreed period, not shared across several clients.
What happens to the code and the knowledge afterwards?
The code is yours throughout and lives in your repository from the first commit. Tests and documentation are written as part of the work rather than assembled at the end, so an engagement can end without stranding you.
Can we start small?
Yes, and it is usually the sensible way in — one engineer on a contained part of the backlog, so you can judge how the arrangement works before committing more.
Have more backlog than team? Tell us what is stuck and we will say whether a dedicated engagement or a scoped project fits it better.