Dedicated teams

Hire a dedicated development team that works inside your process

Developers, QA, design and project management from one company with 50+ developers on staff. We assemble the team around your stack and roadmap, and it runs on your board, your repository and your priorities.

  • 50+ developers in house
  • QA, design and PM included
  • No subcontracting
What your developer brings
  • Back-end developers
  • Front-end and WordPress developers
  • Mobile developers
  • QA engineers
  • UI and UX designer
  • Project manager
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Why hire

When a team beats a single developer

One good developer can do a lot. They cannot build a web app, a mobile app and an admin panel at once, test their own work with fresh eyes, design the screens and keep stakeholders informed. When the work needs several of those at the same time, hiring individuals one by one gives you a group of strangers and a management job.

A dedicated team is the alternative. We put together developers for your stack, a QA engineer, a designer for the hours you need and a project manager, all employed by us and already used to working with each other. They take direction from your product owner and stay with your product for months or years. It suits companies with a funded roadmap and no wish to build an engineering department, and agencies that need delivery capacity under their own name. For a one-off build with a fixed scope, custom software development as a project may suit you better.

  • The roadmap needs parallel work

    Web, mobile and integrations have to move at once to hit the plan. A single developer does them in sequence, and the date slides by a quarter.

  • Building a department takes a year

    Recruiting four or five people, finding a manager for them, setting up process and tooling. Most companies whose product is not software would rather not become an employer of engineers.

  • A group of freelancers is not a team

    Individually hired contractors have different habits, no shared standards and nobody responsible for the whole. You become the project manager, the tester and the referee.

  • Quality slips without independent testing

    Developers test what they expect to work. Without a QA engineer, bugs reach customers, and without a designer, each screen looks like a different product.

Skills

Who is on a dedicated team

The shape of the team follows the work. These are the roles we draw on, all from our own staff.

Back-end developers

PHP, Laravel and CodeIgniter engineers who own the data model, business logic, APIs, queues and integrations with payment, CRM and ERP systems.

Front-end and WordPress developers

React and Vue interfaces, WordPress themes, plugins and LMS work, built to the design system and tested across browsers and screen sizes.

Mobile developers

Flutter, native Android and iOS, and React Native, covering app builds, push notifications, store submissions and the API contract with the back end.

QA engineers

Test plans written from acceptance criteria, manual and exploratory testing each sprint, regression passes before releases and clear bug reports with steps to reproduce.

UI and UX designer

Wireframes, interface designs and a component library in Figma, prepared a sprint ahead of development so engineers are never waiting for a screen.

Project manager

One accountable contact who runs planning, tracks progress, removes blockers, manages hours and reporting, and makes sure the team follows your process.

Hand over

What companies give a dedicated team

01

A product with web and mobile sides

A Laravel platform, a React dashboard and Flutter apps developed together, with one backlog and one release plan instead of three vendors pointing at each other.

02

An agency's delivery arm

Agencies sell and manage the client relationship. Our team builds under NDA, in the agency's tools and under its brand, and the same people stay on the account.

03

Replacing a legacy system

The old application keeps running while the team rebuilds it module by module, migrates data in rehearsed steps and hands each part to your staff as it goes live.

04

Continuous development of a live platform

Features, maintenance, performance work and support tickets handled by a stable group that knows the codebase, with a predictable release rhythm.

In depth

How the team plugs into your company

A team pays off when work runs in parallel

The honest test is whether tasks can proceed side by side. If your backlog is a long line of features in one codebase, a single developer, or two, will serve you well and a team would be idle half the time. A team earns its place when there are separate tracks (back end, front end, mobile), when releases need independent testing, or when design decisions are holding up engineers. We will tell you on the first call if we think you are asking for more people than the work can absorb.

Your process, with ours as the fallback

If you run Scrum or Kanban already, the team joins it: your board, your definition of done, your repository and branching rules, your release calendar. Our project manager attends planning and reviews and becomes the single contact for anything about capacity or delivery. If you have no process, we bring a simple one: a prioritized backlog, two-week sprints, a demo at the end of each and a written summary of what shipped and what is next. You keep product decisions. We handle how the work gets done.

The first two weeks

After the kick-off call, the team gets access to code, environments and designs. Developers set up the project and ship small changes to learn the pipeline. QA writes a first regression checklist by exploring the product as a new user would, which nearly always surfaces existing bugs. The designer reviews upcoming work for missing states. The project manager agrees with you how priorities are set and who can change them. By the end of the fortnight there should be a sprint plan everyone believes in.

Quality inside the sprint

Every story has acceptance criteria before it is started. Developers review each other's pull requests, and a story is not done until QA has tested it on staging. Bugs found there go back into the same sprint. Before a release, QA runs the regression checklist, and the project manager sends you release notes in plain language. Because testers and developers sit in one company, a failed test is a conversation, not a ticket bounced between vendors.

Continuity and how to judge the team

The people you interview are the people who do the work, and we do not subcontract. If someone is not working out, we replace them and the rest of the team carries the context across. Judge the arrangement after two or three sprints. Are demos showing finished, tested work? Is the plan roughly holding? Do you hear about problems before they cost you? If you would rather start smaller, begin with a full-stack developer and grow from there.

Engagement models

Three ways to work with your developer

Engagement models for hiring a developer
Part timeFull time Most chosenHourly
Effort4 hours a day8 hours a day8 hours a day
AllocationSharedDedicatedDedicated
Minimum term40 hours a month120 hours a month160 hours a month
BillingWeekly, in advanceMonthly, in advanceMonthly, in advance
ReportingOn completionWeeklyDaily
SupportChat, emailChat, emailChat, email, calls

Five working days a week. Rates depend on the role and seniority, and are quoted after a free consultation.

Process

From first call to a working team

  1. 1

    Requirements call

    We discuss the product, the stack, the roadmap and how your company likes to work, then propose a team shape with roles and hours.

  2. 2

    Shortlist and interviews

    You receive resumes for each role and interview the people proposed. Ask for other candidates if someone does not fit.

  3. 3

    Contract and access

    The contract and an NDA, if you want one, are signed, and the team is given repositories, environments, designs and your tools.

  4. 4

    Kick-off and first sprint

    A kick-off call with the whole team and your product owner sets priorities, working agreements and the first two weeks of work.

  5. 5

    Review the team shape

    After the opening sprints we review pace with you and discuss whether the mix of roles still matches the work.

What you get

What a dedicated team gives you

  • One contract instead of several hires
  • Developers, QA and design that already work together
  • A project manager accountable for delivery
  • Tested releases with plain-language notes
  • Ownership of the source code the team writes
FAQ

Team size, control and contracts

How is a dedicated team different from outsourcing a project?
In a fixed project we agree a scope and deliver it. With a dedicated team you direct the work sprint by sprint and can change priorities whenever you need to. The team is an extension of your company for the length of the contract, not a vendor building to a specification.
Who manages the team day to day?
Your product owner sets priorities and accepts work. Our project manager organizes the team, tracks progress and reports to you. You also have direct access to every developer, designer and tester, so questions do not have to pass through a go-between.
How big does the team need to be?
As small as the work allows. A sensible starting point is often two developers, shared QA and a project manager, with roles added as the roadmap firms up. We size the team from your backlog after the first call, and we would rather propose too few people than too many.
Can we choose the people on the team?
Yes. We send resumes for each role, you interview them, and you can ask to see more candidates. Nobody joins your team without your approval, and the people you approve are the ones who do the work.
What if we already have developers of our own?
Then the team fills the gaps. We can supply the roles a company lacks, such as QA, front end or mobile through our Flutter developers, and our people follow your technical lead and code review rules. Mixed teams work well as long as one person owns priorities.
How do contracts, billing and confidentiality work?
There is a contract for the engagement, billing is in advance at an interval set by the model you choose, and we sign an NDA on request. The contract covers replacement of anyone who underperforms and carries a money-back clause. You own the source code the team produces.
Can the team take over from our current vendor?
Yes. We ask for the repositories, environments, credentials and any documentation, then run a short takeover phase: getting everything building, reviewing the code and writing down what is undocumented. A handover call with the outgoing vendor helps but is not required.
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