How we work
Structured like top talent partners— without the noise.
The process borrows the clarity of elite hiring marketplaces and global engineering brands: fast alignment, credible vetting, and accountable delivery. You should know what you are getting before day one.
- Fast alignment
- Discovery within days, not weeks.
- Credible vetting
- Real production scenarios, not trivia.
- Accountable delivery
- Engineers stay until the work is shipped.
Engagement models
Three shapes that map to real roadmap reality.
Most engagements start in one model and shift into another as the work clarifies. Pricing and terms are tuned to the model—nothing is locked behind a fixed package.
- Embed
Senior engineer in your team.
A dedicated engineer joins your stack, rituals, and roadmap—standups, PRs, on-call where needed. Best for sustained AI/ML or full-stack workstreams over a quarter or longer.
- Dedicated, full-time or part-time
- Reports into your engineering lead
- Single MSA, monthly billing
- Augment
Capacity for a sprint or launch window.
We add senior capacity to your existing team for a defined surge—pre-launch, ML migration, evaluation harness, RAG redesign. Tight scope, clear exit criteria.
- 1–3 month engagements
- Specific outcome or workstream
- Easy to extend if value is clear
- Project
Scoped delivery, we own the outcome.
We take a defined problem—an LLM-backed feature, an AI evaluation framework, a production retrieval system—and deliver with milestones, accountability, and senior ownership.
- Fixed scope and milestones
- Senior tech lead + delivery owner
- Handover and documentation included
The process
From inquiry to senior engineers shipping in your stack.
Four phases, designed to be short. Most teams move from first email to engineers in your repo in three to five weeks—dictated mostly by your interview pace.
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Discovery & scope
We align on outcomes, constraints, stack, compliance, and team interfaces—so the engagement targets the work that actually moves the roadmap.
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Match & validate
You meet senior engineers with relevant production experience. Depth is verified against your real scenarios—not trivia—so interviews are short and signal-rich.
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Embed & deliver
Engineers integrate with your rituals: standups, PRs, on-call where needed. We optimise for ownership, communication, and steady shipping velocity.
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Scale or adjust
Extend engagements, add complementary profiles (e.g. MLOps + backend), tighten scope, or close cleanly. We meet the roadmap where it actually goes.
How we vet talent
Vetting calibrated to the work, not to the résumé.
Every senior we send through is screened against the same four checks. We optimise for signal—what someone actually shipped at scale—over credentials and tenure.
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Track record
Production AI/ML or full-stack systems with measurable impact—what shipped, what scale, what trade-offs. We verify, not just read résumés.
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Real-world technical screen
Problems modelled on actual client domains—RAG pipelines, model evaluation, latency tuning, system design. No LeetCode theatre.
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Architecture conversation
A calibrated system-design discussion: trade-offs, failure modes, observability, evaluation. Calibrated to the seniority required by your roadmap.
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References
Direct references from senior engineers and engineering managers who shipped alongside the candidate—not just former HR contacts.
Trust & operations
The operating posture serious teams expect.
Compliance, security, and reporting handled the way you would handle them in-house—not retro-fitted after a procurement question.
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Mutual NDA & DPA
Mutual NDAs are standard before any candidate-specific or roadmap detail is shared. GDPR-aligned DPAs where personal data is involved.
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Clean IP & code ownership
Clients own all work product produced under the engagement. IP, security, and compliance arrangements are detailed in the MSA or SOW.
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Secure development practice
Engineers operate under your security policies. SOC 2-aligned controls (access, key management, code review) available on request.
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Transparent reporting
Weekly progress notes, accurate timesheets, and a monthly outcomes review with engineering and executive sponsors. No black boxes.
What we won't do
The boundaries that make the rest credible.
A staffing partner that says yes to everything is a staffing partner you cannot trust on the things that matter. Here is where we draw the line.
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Match unvetted profiles to hit a deadline
If we cannot stand behind a candidate, we say so. Hiring under deadline pressure is how teams end up replacing senior hires six weeks later.
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Sign multi-year lock-ins or minimum hours
Engagements run as long as they create value. We trade flexibility for accountability—not the other way around.
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Take engagements where we are not the right fit
If your problem is better served by a Big-4 consultancy, an in-house hire, or a different specialist, we will say so on the discovery call.
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Hide engineers behind account managers
You work directly with senior engineers. Coordination is light, with a single point of contact for commercial and operational matters.
Have a brief in mind? Tell us the shape of the work and the timeline—we will respond with a pragmatic recommendation, even if the best answer is not us.
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