Engagement model 02
Dedicated Remote Team
Dedicated team vs staff augmentation is a question of ownership. A cross functional pod works only on your roadmap, and the same people stay on the product across quarters.
01 What you get
A team, not a queue of tickets
You get the pod, its delivery lead, and the working agreements that keep them shipping without you chasing.
The pod
Yours alone
- Engineers matched to your stack, not to a bench
- A delivery lead who runs the sprint, not a project manager who reports on it
- QA built into the pod rather than bolted on
- Design capacity when the roadmap needs it
Ramp-up
Weeks 1 to 4
- Codebase and domain onboarding, run by us
- Access, environments and tooling sorted before day one
- A working agreement covering ceremonies and escalation
- First production merge inside the first month
Every sprint
Ongoing
- You set priorities; we run delivery
- Demo and written summary at the end of each sprint
- Shared backlog in your tracker, not ours
- Direct access to every engineer, no account layer
Continuity
Across quarters
- Named people who stay on the product
- Overlap and handover paid for by us when someone rotates
- Quarterly roadmap and capacity review
- Documentation kept current as a condition of done
Scaling the pod up or down is a conversation and a thirty-day notice, not a renegotiation.
02 Commercials
Predictable monthly cost
One rate per seat, one invoice, and a notice period short enough that staying is a decision rather than a default.
- Term
- Rolling, three-month minimum The minimum covers the ramp we absorb up front.
- Billing
- Monthly in advance, net 15 No timesheets to approve.
- Scaling
- Add or remove seats monthly Additions need four weeks; removals need thirty days.
- Who owns scope
- You do We advise on sequencing and flag risk. The call is yours.
- Ramp-up
- 3 to 4 weeks Billed at half rate until the first production merge.
- Exit
- 30 days' notice Handover and documentation are included in the notice period.
Rates exclude third-party licences and cloud spend, which stay in your own accounts.
03 Fit check
Right for you if…
A dedicated pod is the most expensive way to buy a small piece of work, and the cheapest way to buy a long one.
Pick this when
- The roadmap runs past the next quarter.
- Priorities move, and you want the team to move with them.
- You have a product owner who can set direction weekly.
- Context is expensive and you are tired of rebuilding it.
Pick something else when
- You need one defined thing built to a date.
- There is nobody inside to own the backlog.
- The work is under three months.
- You only need extra hands on an existing team.
Only need a defined build? See Fixed-Scope Delivery
04 Proof
Products we still run
Roadmaps carried by a dedicated pod across quarters.
AI Based Real Estate Property
AI-Driven Property Insights Platform
Landwise NWA transforms commercial real estate workflows by providing AI-powered insights and data integration for faster decisions.
IT Service Desk
Lean, Scalable, Always-On IT Support
AI service desk software that detects urgency, resolves L1 and L2 tickets, and integrates fully with the ServiceNow and Ivanti consoles agents already work in.
Legal & Estate Planning
Building a Secure, Multi-Portal Legal Platform
A digital estate planning platform running end to end across three portals, simplifying legal documentation and improving transparency for every party to a trust.
In their words
Support did not stop at launch.
Weekly demos during the build, documented decisions, and a support arrangement that has now run for two years past release.
Trustpilot
In their words
A genuine engineering partner.
They pushed back on scope that would have cost us later and shipped the version that actually moved our metrics.
In their words
The team's responsiveness and willingness to find practical solutions have been very valuable.
KoderTal built an AI-powered chatbot integrated into our holistic health education platform. Basic support inquiries have decreased by approximately 20%–30% and user engagement has noticeably improved.
Dominik Dietz
Holistic Health Teacher, Praxisinstitut Naturmedizin
Clutch 5.0
06 Compare
Dedicated Team vs Staff Augmentation
The other three models, on the same questions.
| Fixed-Scope Delivery Most Chosen | IT Staff Augmentation | AI Consulting & Audit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | A defined product with a launch date | An in-house team that needs more hands | Deciding where AI is worth it before you build |
| Term | 8 to 16 weeks, milestone-based | Rolling, one-month minimum | 3 to 6 weeks, fixed |
| Who owns scope | We do, fixed after discovery | You do, entirely | We do, agreed up front |
| Team | A full pod, staffed by us | Individual engineers, inside your process | Principal consultant plus an ML engineer |
| Billing | Fixed price per milestone | Weekly or monthly, per engineer | Fixed fee, two instalments |
| Ramp-up | 2 to 4 week discovery first | 2 weeks | Starts within 2 weeks |
| Exit | Documented handover at the final milestone | 2 weeks' notice | A costed roadmap, yours to keep |
| Read more | See the model : Fixed-Scope Delivery | See the model : IT Staff Augmentation | See the model : AI Consulting & Audit |
07 Questions
Before you decide
Notice, ownership, and moving between models.
Yes, and most long-running clients do. A fixed-scope build that turns into an ongoing product usually becomes a dedicated team at handover, same people, new commercial terms. We re-paper the engagement; you do not re-onboard anyone.
You do, in every model, from the first commit. The repository is yours, hosted in your organisation where you want it there, and the licence transfer is in the contract rather than an invoice at the end.
Discovery exists to find that out before the price is fixed, which is why it is billed separately. If something material surfaces mid-build we price the change against the remaining milestones and you decide, we do not absorb it quietly, and we do not stop work while you think about it.
An audit or a two-week discovery is the usual way in. It is a fixed fee, it produces something you keep whatever you do next, and nothing about it obliges you to carry on with us.
Notice is two weeks for staff augmentation, thirty days for a dedicated team, and none for fixed scope work, which simply ends when the scope is delivered. Offboarding includes a handover of code, documentation and access, so nothing you rely on depends on a particular person still being reachable.
08 Start
Talk about a team
Tell us what the roadmap looks like for the next two quarters and we will propose a pod to carry it.
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