A senior team, embedded in your roadmap.
Skip the 6-month hiring cycle. Plug in senior engineers, designers, and a fractional CTO who already know how to ship — and stay for the long haul.
Your squad
#proj-yourcompany
Tech lead
Embedded · sprint-aligned
Sr engineer
Embedded · sprint-aligned
Designer
Embedded · sprint-aligned
AI engineer
Embedded · sprint-aligned
Fractional CTO
2 days / wk
Sprint
14
2 wk
To onboard a squad
6–18 mo
Average engagement
1 Slack
One team, one channel
$50K+
Monthly retainer floor
Roles you can embed
Hire the team you wish you could find.
Pick the roles, scale the squad, swap composition every quarter as the roadmap evolves.
Senior full-stack engineers
TypeScript end-to-end, modern frontend, Postgres-first backend, edge runtimes.
Senior mobile engineers
Native iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), or React Native — whichever serves your product.
AI / ML engineers
LLM features, RAG, agents, evals. Production AI, not demos.
Product designers
End-to-end flows, design systems, prototypes — embedded in your sprint cadence.
Fractional CTO
Architecture, hiring loops, vendor calls, board updates. Senior leadership without the cap-table dilution.
Tech lead
Day-to-day technical ownership, code reviews, sprint planning, engineering rituals.
Squad shapes
Three ways to embed.
Start small, scale as the roadmap demands. Re-plan every quarter.
Solo embed
1 senior engineer
A senior generalist plugged into your existing team. Perfect when you need to extend velocity without extending org overhead.
- Sprint-aligned cadence
- PR reviews + pairing
- On-call optional
From $20K / mo
Squad
2–4 engineers + designer
A focused squad shipping a mandate end-to-end. Tech lead, engineers, designer — the unit you'd hire if you could find them.
- Owns a product surface
- Weekly demos to your team
- Embedded design + eng
From $60K / mo
Squad + fractional CTO
Squad + senior leadership
A senior squad plus a fractional CTO who runs architecture, hiring, vendor decisions, and board-level technical communication.
- Board-ready technical voice
- Hiring loops + screens
- Architecture & vendor strategy
From $90K / mo
How we work
One team. One Slack. One quality bar.
Sprint-aligned
We adopt your cadence — 1- or 2-week sprints, your planning rituals, your standups, your tools.
Async-first
Linear, Slack, Loom, Notion. Sync only when it earns the room. Your timezone, our overlap.
One team, one Slack
Embedded in your channels with your team's voice — not a vendor portal or weekly status PDF.
Owned outcomes
Squads own a product surface or a metric, not a ticket queue. We measure velocity by shipped value.
Built for
Who this is for
- Funded startups (Pre-Seed → Series B) without a full in-house team yet
- Scaleups needing senior capacity, fast — without a 6-month hiring loop
- Corporate innovation teams that need startup velocity inside an enterprise
- Founders who want a long-term technical partner, not a project vendor
- Teams that need a fractional CTO to lead architecture, hiring, and vendor strategy
Honest disclosure
Who this isn't for
- Teams looking for the cheapest hourly body shop
- Engagements under 3 months or under $50K
- Projects that want senior names on the sales call and juniors on the build
- Roadmaps with zero clarity on the bet — start with MVP & Product instead
We turn down ~60% of inbound. Honesty up front saves both teams a quarter.
Investment
From $50K / mo
Monthly retainer. Squad composition + tier sets the rate. No setup fees.
Commitment
3-mo minimum
Monthly thereafter. 30-day notice to scale or end. Most engagements run 6–18 months.
Hand-off
By design
We help you hire and transition to in-house when the time comes. That's a feature.
FAQ
Common questions
How is this different from hiring contractors?+
Contractors are individuals you manage. We embed a coherent team that already works together — same engineering rituals, same review culture, same quality bar — and a single point of accountability across the squad.
Minimum commitment?+
3-month initial term, monthly retainer thereafter. Most engagements run 6–18 months as your roadmap evolves. We're explicit at month 2 about whether we should continue, scale, or hand off.
Can we ramp the squad up or down?+
Yes, with 30 days notice in either direction. Squads scale from a single embedded engineer to a multi-engineer team plus design and a fractional CTO. We re-plan every quarter.
Will it really be senior people?+
Yes. The same senior team that funds, builds, and exits startups in our incubator is the team you embed. You meet every person before they join your squad — no bait-and-switch after signature.
How does the fractional CTO work?+
0.5–2 days per week depending on stage. Architecture decisions, vendor evaluations, hiring loops, technical screens, board memos. Available on-call for high-stakes decisions and incident response.
Will you help us hire our in-house team and hand off?+
That's a feature, not a bug. We've structured engagements specifically to bridge to an in-house CTO and engineering team. We run loops, screen candidates, write the technical narrative, and structure a clean transition.
Where is the team based?+
London HQ with senior engineers across Europe. We work asynchronously and overlap with North American business hours daily. Most teams find the overlap better than a fully co-located team.
Dedicated teams
A senior squad, embedded in your roadmap.
Engineers, designers, and a fractional CTO that scale with you over months and quarters — not a project handover.