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How we work

Fast, and still there in a year

Two ways to engage us — embedded in your team, or accountable end to end — and the commitments that hold on both sides.

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Deployed with teams across four continents

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Two ways to engage

Embedded in your team, or accountable end to end

The same senior engineers and the same standard. The only question is who directs the work.

You direct the work

Embedded

A senior engineer inside your team.

A forward deployed engineer joins your team — your repository, your tracker, your stand-up — and works to your lead’s priorities. They take direction and bring judgement: they will tell you when a ticket is wrong, and find the thing nobody filed.

Right for you if you have an engineering lead and a clear direction, and need senior capacity that does not need managing.

  • Full-time, dedicated to your team
  • Month to month, on weeks of notice
  • Arrives with our tooling and review practice
  • Scale by adding engineers, not by re-scoping
Embed an engineer

We direct the work

End to end

Accountable for all of it.

Give us the problem and we own it from scope to production — architecture, build, release and operations — then run it until your team is ready to take it back. A named lead is accountable for the outcome, not just the code.

Right for you if you would rather hand over the problem, or nobody on your side has the time to direct the work.

  • A named lead, accountable for the outcome
  • Scoped in phases, each with a written plan
  • A working demo every week, in your environment
  • Handed back with runbooks and decision records
Scope an engagement

Either way: senior engineers only, everything in your accounts from the first week, and a named engineer on every merge. We keep the number of engagements deliberately small.

What we commit to

Six things that do not change

Whatever the deployment, these hold. They are the parts clients tell us made the difference, and not one of them is about technology.

  • No hand-off, at any point

    The engineer who scopes the work is the engineer who writes it and the engineer who is still there in month six. There is no delivery team behind us, no cheaper bench the contract quietly moves to, and no junior billed at a senior rate.

  • You get a name, not an account

    One embedded engineer or a whole end-to-end engagement, you always know exactly who is doing the work — by name, not through an account manager. You always know whose decision something was, which is most of the difference between a colleague and a supplier.

  • You stay in control of direction

    Embedded engineers work to your lead’s priorities, reset weekly. End to end, we agree the priorities with you every week. Either way, changing course costs a conversation rather than a change request — and nothing changes without you hearing it said out loud.

  • Your infrastructure, your access

    We work in your repository, your cloud and your issue tracker, on credentials you grant and can revoke in an afternoon. Nothing that matters ends up in an account only we can reach.

  • Decisions in writing

    Architecture choices are recorded with their alternatives and their trade-off, in your repository. In eighteen months the question will not be what we built but why — and by then nobody remembers the call.

  • We will say no

    If the work does not need us, or the plan will not survive contact with your constraints, we say so — in week one, while it is still cheap to hear. An engineer who is easy to keep and hard to justify is a bad deal for both of us.

The kit

What one engineer arrives with

The honest question about sending one person is whether one person is enough. This is the machinery that makes it so — and the limits we hold it to.

  • No model trains on your code
  • Secrets never enter a prompt
  • A named engineer owns every merge
  • No auto-merge path, on any deployment

  • MCP

    Model Context Protocol

    Agents read your real repo, logs and schema over a standard protocol — inside your perimeter, read-only by default.

  • Agent skills

    Versioned procedures

    Playbooks and review checklists committed to your repository, so the work runs the same way whoever is deployed on it — including your own team afterwards.

  • Evaluation harnesses

    Scored, not vibed

    Model output scored against your own traffic and gated in CI, rather than judged by how the demo went.

  • Sub-agent fan-out

    Parallel, then reconciled

    Audits and migrations run many agents at once, then reconcile into a single reviewed change — which is how one engineer covers a codebase a pod would divide up.

  • Context engineering

    Retrieval over guessing

    The limit is rarely the model — it is what was put in front of it. That selection is the engineering.

  • Deterministic guardrails

    The bar a model cannot talk past

    Types, tests and CI sit outside the model. Generated code clears exactly the same bar as hand-written.

How we work

Fast is a process, not a promise

The habits every deployment runs on. They are what makes an embedded engineer repeatable rather than a lucky hire.

Human judgement. Machine speed. One engineer equipped like a team.

The deployment

Deployed in week one. Shipping in week two.

No discovery phase and no onboarding quarter. What follows is a loop rather than a plan, because the point of embedding someone is that you can change your mind.

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  1. Deploy

    Credentials, codebase, tracker, stand-up. We read the system properly and put one small change into production — because the first thing worth knowing is whether the path from your problem to your users actually works.

  2. Take real work

    The engineer picks up something that matters and ships it end to end. Not a starter task chosen because it is safe — the point of week two is that you can already tell what having us here is worth.

  3. In your loop

    Priorities are set weekly — by your lead if embedded, with us if end to end — and you can change them. A working demo runs against your own environment, and a named engineer owns every merge.

  4. The kit learns your codebase

    Review checklists, agent skills and evaluation sets get tuned to your repository and committed there. The engineer gets faster in your system specifically — and that part stays behind when we go.

  5. Hand back

    Runbooks and decision records are written as the decisions are made, not assembled at the end. Handover is a state the work is kept in, which is what lets you end a deployment as a decision rather than a project.

Working together

Across time zones, in your systems

The mechanics, stated plainly — including the obvious objection. “Great communication” is what a supplier writes when it has no process to describe.

Where the work happens

Your repository, your cloud account, your issue tracker, your stand-up. We bring the engineer and the toolkit, not a parallel system you cannot see into and a status report describing it.

Remote, by design

Deployed into your systems and your working week, not into your office. Four or more hours of live overlap with US East, UK and Australia, in your channels the whole time. Distance is not what breaks software projects — translation layers are, and there is not one here.

Cadence

Async by default, with a working demo every week against your own environment. Not a slide deck — the thing itself, running. Priorities are reset in the same conversation.

When something breaks

A named engineer, a runbook that already exists, and a written post-incident note. Whoever picks it up is someone you have spoken to that week.

Starting and stopping

Embedded engineers run month to month, and you can add or release one on notice measured in weeks rather than quarters. End-to-end work runs in scoped phases, each with a written plan before it starts. Either way we would rather be renewed than locked in — the first keeps us useful and the second only keeps us paid.

What you hold throughout

The repository, the pipeline, the infrastructure code, the decision records and the runbooks — all of it in your accounts from week one. There is no final handover package, because there was never a point at which you did not already have everything.

Questions

The questions we actually get asked

Ask us directly

Let’s talk

Start with a conversation

Tell us which way you want to work — or just the problem, and we will tell you which fits. Everything we produce is in your accounts either way.

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