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Dedicated technical teams

"We need a 4–8 person engineering squad aligned to our delivery cadence for 6+ months."

What you get

  • Full team assembled and onboarded within 60 days
  • Staffed around your sprint cycle, tools, and culture
  • You interview and approve every team member
  • Team continuity managed — backfill at no extra cost
  • W2 payroll, HR, and workers' comp fully covered
  • Monthly performance reviews with your stakeholders

Engagement

SLATeam live in 60 days
ModelMonthly billing · 6-month minimum
StructureEmbedded squads · Long-running programs
Next step

Design your team

Start with a 90-minute team design workshop. We'll map your roadmap to a team structure and have candidates within 5 days.

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Team structures

Four embedded team models.

Full-stack product squad
Frontend, backend, QA, and a PM/BA — aligned to one product area. Typical size: 4–8 engineers.
Best for: Product companies running parallel feature streams that need a dedicated pod.
Data & platform team
Data engineers, architects, and platform DevOps embedded in your data practice. Handles pipelines, infra, and governance.
Best for: Organizations modernizing their data stack or building out a lakehouse architecture.
Integration & automation pod
Middleware engineers, iPaaS specialists, and RPA developers embedded in your IT operations.
Best for: Enterprises consolidating systems or running large-scale automation programs.
QA & release team
SDET engineers, manual QA, and a release lead. Embeds inside your CI/CD pipeline and owns test coverage end-to-end.
Best for: Teams that need to increase release confidence without slowing down development.

60-day ramp

Designed, selected, and delivering in 60 days.

60 days
To full squad productivity
15 days
Backfill SLA
500+
Engineers deployed
01
Team design workshop
We map your roadmap to a team structure — roles, seniority blend, and time zones — in a single 90-minute session.
Day 1–2
02
Candidate selection
You interview and approve every team member. No one joins without your sign-off.
Days 3–21
03
Tool & process alignment
The team is onboarded to your Jira, Slack, GitHub, and CI/CD environment before day one.
Days 22–30
04
Sprint one kick-off
Structured 2-week ramp: shadowing, architecture review, and first sprint delivery by day 14.
Days 30–45
05
Ongoing performance reviews
Monthly retros with your stakeholders. We swap team members proactively if performance or fit changes.
Monthly

What's included

Everything except managing the work — that's yours.

Team design
Role mix, seniority blend, and time zone coverage designed around your roadmap before we recruit.
Included
Candidate approval
You interview and approve every team member. Final roster is 100% your decision.
Included
W2 payroll & HR
All team members on direct W2 payroll. Benefits, tax withholding, and compliance fully managed.
Enterprise requirement
Workers' comp & insurance
Full coverage across all 50 states. Certificates issued same-day for enterprise procurement.
Enterprise requirement
Tool onboarding
We provision every team member in your Jira, GitHub, Slack, and CI/CD environment on day one.
Included
Monthly performance reviews
Structured retros with your stakeholders. Proactive swaps if performance or fit changes.
Included

Client outcomes

What delivery looks like.

Healthcare Technology

The dedicated squad has been embedded with us for 14 months. Same engineers, same quality. They feel like full-time employees, not contractors.

CTO
Digital Health Platform, Austin TX
Insurance

We ran a competing agency's team in parallel for one quarter. Evolve Blue's pod delivered 40% more story points at the same cost. Decision was easy.

VP of Product Engineering
National Insurer, Hartford CT
SaaS

They designed the team structure before we even signed. The 90-minute workshop alone was worth the call — we hadn't thought about the BA/PM ratio.

Head of Engineering
B2B SaaS Platform, Denver CO
Start your engagement

Ready to design your team?

Start with a 90-minute team design workshop. We'll map your roadmap to a team structure and have candidate profiles within 5 days.

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