Team Augmentation
Founder-level engineers who embed with your team when you need extra capacity. Without a staffing layer in between.
Sometimes you need more hands, not more vendors. We embed directly into your team. Attending standups, contributing to your codebase, and mentoring junior developers. Capacity is limited and founder-led, so every engagement stays close to the people doing the work.
Why it matters
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Start with senior, hands-on support instead of a long hiring cycle
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Flexible engagement. Expand or wind down as the work changes
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Direct access to the people shaping architecture and delivery
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Knowledge transfer that makes your existing team stronger
What you get
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Embedded senior engineering support (full-stack, backend, infra)
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Fractional CTO / technical leadership for early-stage teams
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Technical mentorship and code review
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Team process improvement and engineering culture development
How to judge fit
This lane works best when the roadmap exists and the team needs more senior capacity.
Embedded support is strongest when the work is already moving and the value comes from adding senior execution, architecture judgment, and delivery stability.
- The team already has a roadmap or backlog
- The bottleneck is bandwidth, review quality, or senior judgment
- You need help inside the delivery loop, not just outside advice
Usually not the first buy if you need product direction more than execution capacity.
How we deliver
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Scope
Understand your team structure, tech stack, and what kind of support you need
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Match
Confirm fit, availability, and the right shape of support for your project
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Embed
We join your tools and rituals and start contributing from week one
Proof, not promises
See it in action
Legal services · Managed AI Employee engagement
12-person mid-size law firm
A 12-person mid-size law firm was losing associate and paralegal hours to first-pass intake: opening every new enquiry, reading the attached documents, running conflict checks, and triaging urgency.
Why this proof matters here: Best for teams that already know what needs to be done and need experienced hands inside the loop quickly.
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-70%. Intake processing time
Time from new enquiry to triaged matter file dropped by 70% on the firm's highest-volume practice area. Measured against the firm's own baseline, not an industry average.
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1 week. Time to first workflow
First intake workflow was live inside the first week of the engagement, on a private workspace integrated with the case management and email tools the team already uses.
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6 weeks. Time to full system
Full intake pipeline in production within 6 weeks of kickoff, with the watchdog running and the customer-facing kanban live.
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11 weeks. Payback
Engagement paid for itself inside 11 weeks, measured against the team's prior intake cost. The number is conservative: the firm has not yet counted the cost of the next hire it was able to make.
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1 new associate. Capacity added
Firm hired a new associate within two quarters of go-live, funded by the freed paralegal and associate hours. The AI employee did not replace anyone. It made the next hire possible.
About the model
Learn how the founder-led setup works
If you need embedded engineering help, the about page explains the structure more honestly than generic staffing language ever could.
Tools we use
We choose tools for maintainability, delivery speed, and team handoff, not for stack theater.
React · Node.js · Python · Go · AWS · Kubernetes
Common questions
How quickly can someone start?
When capacity is open, most engagements can start within 1-2 weeks. We keep the practice small on purpose, so we will be honest if timing does not fit.
What's the minimum engagement length?
We recommend a minimum of 3 months for meaningful impact, but we're flexible. Some clients start with a 1-month trial to validate the fit.
How is this different from a staffing agency?
You work with the founders and senior engineers doing the delivery. Not a rotating contractor pool. The same people shaping the plan stay close to the implementation and handoff.