A standing team, with one architect accountable for what it ships.
Not a stream of contractors, and not a black box offshore. A dedicated pod that stays together, learns your domain, works inside your process, and has one senior architect in Ireland answerable for the quality of what comes out.
Staff augmentation gives you hands. It does not give you outcomes.
The usual model supplies capable individuals into your backlog and moves them on when a bigger contract appears. Domain knowledge leaves with them, quality varies by whoever is on the bench, and there is no single person whose reputation depends on the result.
Knowledge that keeps leaving
Six months to learn a non-trivial domain, and rotation that resets the clock just as it starts to pay back.
Nobody owns the whole
Every ticket is completed and the system still does not hang together, because no one is accountable for the shape of it.
Quality that varies by person
No shared standard for testing, review or documentation, so the codebase records who wrote which part.
Small, stable, and led from Ireland.
One accountable architect
A senior architect who knows your system, attends your planning, makes the design calls and answers for the outcome. Based in Ireland, in your time zone, reachable by name.
A stable engineering team
Typically three to seven engineers who stay with your work. Changes to the team are discussed with you and handed over properly, not announced after the fact.
Your process, your tools
Your repositories, your board, your definition of done, your ceremonies. We adapt to how you work rather than importing a methodology you did not ask for.
A quality bar in writing
Test expectations, review rules, documentation standards and what “done” means, agreed at the start so quality is a standard rather than an opinion.
A global engineering network
Specialists drawn in for a specific need — a particular platform, a surge, an unusual stack — without changing the core team or the line of accountability.
Visible progress
Working software on a regular cadence, a demo you can attend, and a report written for whoever is paying rather than for the delivery team.
Small, then only larger if it is working.
Scope
A free hour, then a short scoping session: what the pod would own, what good looks like in ninety days, and what would tell us this is the wrong model for you.
Assemble
The architect first, then the engineers, matched to the domain and the stack. You meet them before they start.
Prove
The first six to eight weeks are deliberately a trial with a real outcome attached, so the decision to continue rests on delivered work.
Run
A monthly rhythm with a quarterly review of value, cost and whether the pod is still the right shape. Scaling down is as normal a conversation as scaling up.
Predictable, and easy to stop.
- A monthly rate per pod, agreed in advance, with no per-ticket charging and no change-request theatre for ordinary work.
- Notice period agreed at the start. We would rather you stayed because it is working than because leaving is difficult.
- All code, infrastructure definitions and documentation in your repositories from day one.
- A written handover at any point you ask for one, including if you are taking the work in-house.
- The architect is named in the agreement, not described as a role to be filled later.
If what you need is a fixed-scope project rather than a standing team, say so — that is a different shape of engagement and we will quote it as one.
Questions we get asked
Where are the engineers based?▼
The accountable architect and the client-facing leadership are in Ireland. The wider engineering team is drawn from our own network across several countries, which is what keeps the rate competitive. You always know who is on your pod and where they are.
What size does a pod start at?▼
Usually an architect plus two or three engineers. We would rather start smaller than you expect and grow on evidence than staff up front and spend the first quarter justifying the headcount.
Can the pod work on our existing legacy system?▼
Yes, and much of our work is exactly that. The first few weeks are typically spent reading, documenting and adding tests around what already exists, which is unglamorous and is what makes everything afterwards safe.
What if a particular engineer is not working out?▼
Tell the architect and we replace them, with a proper handover. It is our responsibility to get the team right, and we would rather hear it in week three than at a quarterly review.
How is this different from hiring directly?▼
It is faster to start, easier to stop, and it comes with an architect whose experience you would struggle to hire for one role. If the right long-term answer is your own permanent team, we will say so — and helping you get there, including handing over to your hires, is a reasonable outcome for a pod.
One free hour. No pitch, no obligation.
Bring the problem you are stuck on — an integration that keeps breaking, a cloud bill nobody can explain, an AI project that is all demo and no product, or a platform you are about to invest in. You will leave with a straight answer and a written summary, whether or not you ever work with us.
- Architecture and integration review
- AI feasibility — what will actually work, and what will not
- AWS, Azure and Google Cloud cost and design
- Business process audit and ISO readiness
- Technical due diligence before you invest or acquire