Team augmentation
that feels like hiring,
not outsourcing.
Most staff augmentation services are a CV list and a hope they work out. Ours is senior engineers and data specialists from the same pool that builds our own client projects, who join your stand-ups, your codebase and your tools — a dedicated software development team or a single specialist, proposed in as little as 1 week.
The problems that bring
teams to us to augment.
If any of these sound familiar, the fix isn't a bigger vendor contract — it's the right person, embedded properly. Here's how we approach it.
A hiring pipeline that takes longer than the deadline
Permanent hiring for a senior role can take three months you don't have, and the backlog isn't waiting.
An outsourced team you can't see inside
Work goes over a wall and comes back finished, but nobody on your side has visibility into how or why decisions got made.
Contractors who never quite feel like part of the team
They join the calls but not the culture, and every handover costs more context than it should.
A skills gap in one specific area, not a whole team
You don't need ten more engineers — you need one senior person who's done this exact kind of migration or integration before.
Augmentation that feels
like your own team.
Most staff augmentation services are a résumé and a hope. Ours is a senior engineer or data specialist who joins your team properly — same tools, same process, same bar — because that's the only version of augmentation that actually works.
The best augmentation is the kind nobody notices as separate.
Within a few weeks, a well-augmented engineer stops being "the contractor" and just becomes part of the team — same stand-ups, same code review bar, same accountability. That's the outcome every engagement is designed around, not a nice-to-have.
Joins your team, not a separate one
Augmented engineers work in your stand-ups, your codebase and your tools — reporting the way your organisation already reports, on your priorities.
Sized to the actual gap
One specialist plugging a skills gap, or a small dedicated pod — we size the engagement to the problem, not a fixed package.
Senior by default, not by request
The engineers who join your team are the same calibre who build our own client projects — there's no separate, cheaper bench reserved for augmentation.
Rolling contracts that scale with demand
Engagements are reviewed monthly, so you can add capacity for a busy quarter or step back down once specific work is done — not locked into a long fixed term.
A working method, not a deck of phases.
Discover
We get into the detail. Stakeholders, constraints, data, and the real problem you're trying to solve.
Strategise
We sketch the smallest version that proves the outcome. A clear plan, a tight scope, no fluff.
Build
Cross-functional pods of engineers, designers, and data folk. Working software every week.
Scale
We harden it, instrument it, and stick around. Roadmaps, reviews, and a team that knows your stack.
Not sure if you need one specialist or a whole team? Ask the engineer who’d join it.
Book a 30-minute working session with a senior engineer — a real conversation about your gap, not a sales call.
Built with clients
who measure outcomes.
AI HSE reporting, from a single photo.
Our own product: an AI-powered progressive web app that turns a single photo into a complete observation, incident or hazard report — with a desktop command centre for tracking, investigation and approvals. Works offline and syncs on reconnect.
Real-time carbon & compliance reporting for cold chain.
A data management platform built to manage ESG data and deliver ESG insights, analytics and reports to the business and its stakeholders.
Time-critical incident reporting, built for the field.
A realtime incident reporting application built to collect, escalate and report on incident data across the cold chain and construction business.
A brand-led website refresh, live in a week.
A brand-led, multi-page, responsive website refresh for Wakefield personal trainer Camilla Willows (Coach Cam) — designed and built in one week using Claude for speed.
An EPC risk calculator that quotes in minutes.
Our own product for commercial EPCs: an online EPC Risk Calculator that checks a building against the national register, shows its MEES risk instantly, and turns it into a fixed quote for a Level 3 or 4 assessment in under two hours.
A single source of truth for prospect intelligence.
A centralised platform to manage the acquisition, cleansing, matching and enrichment of prospect data at scale — replacing fragmented sources and manual scoring with one unified system.
“You can tell an augmented engineer is working within the first sprint — not because of what they say in stand-up, but because they've already found the thing in your codebase nobody warned them about.”
Sectors we've augmented teams in.
Different codebases, different domain knowledge to pick up, same standard of engineer — we've embedded people in teams across all of these sectors.
The skills we augment with.
Whatever the gap — a frontend specialist, a data engineer, a full dedicated pod — augmented from the same senior bench that staffs our own client work.
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Team augmentation services,
and how we staff them.
Support & scale
We stay with you after launch — evolving your product as your business grows.
Learn moreProduct management
Ongoing strategic and operational oversight of your product roadmap.
Learn more 02Team augmentation
Extend your team with experienced engineers and data specialists, on demand.
Learn moreQuestions, answered straight.
Have an outcome in mind?
We'll help you
ship it.
- You're building a data product and need a team that can deliver.
- You want to get AI-ready — pragmatically, not theoretically.
- Your reporting is a mess and you need a real platform underneath it.