Staff Augmentation vs. Outsourcing

With staff augmentation, engineers join your team and you direct the work. With outsourcing, a partner owns delivery and you review results against milestones. The deciding question is who will manage the work every day. We offer both, plus a managed team in between, so here is how we help clients choose.

1. 01Staff augmentation: you lead, we supply the engineers

   Our engineers join your standups, repo and tools full time. You keep product and technical leadership, and you decide what gets built and how.

   We send a shortlist within 2 days. Every engineer has passed a technical interview, a coding test, a review of past work and an English check, and you interview them yourself. They overlap at least 4 hours with a US working day. If someone isn’t the right fit, we replace them and handle the handover. Our hire developers page shows how it works.

2. 02Outsourcing: we own delivery

   You describe the result, and we plan and build it. A founder and a senior engineer join the discovery call. Within two business days you get a recommended team, a timeline and a delivery plan with clear milestones.

   After that, you see working software in a weekly demo, checked against the plan. This suits a new product, a migration or an internal system that can be built and handed over. Our custom software development page shows the projects behind it.

3. 03The middle option: a managed dedicated team

   Some clients want a team that stays with their product, without managing each engineer. A dedicated development team gives you engineers plus, when needed, a project manager, QA engineer, UI/UX designer and DevOps engineer. You set the priorities, and the project manager runs the sprints and the reporting.

4. 04How to choose

   1. Augment if you have engineering leadership and need capacity, such as a CTO adding a React or Swift engineer.

   2. Outsource if you need a result and nobody has time to direct engineers, which is common for non-technical founders and operations leaders.

   3. Take a managed dedicated team if the work is ongoing but you can’t manage the team yourself.

   4. If you can’t tell yet, book a discovery call. Choosing the model is part of what it covers.

5. 05What stays the same either way

   You own all the code and the intellectual property in it. There is no long-term contract to start, and the notice period is agreed in each contract. With staff augmentation, engineers work in your accounts and repositories. On a project we deliver, ask for the repository to sit in your account from day one.

   Whichever model you choose, expect named engineers, working software every week and access you can remove in minutes. Our checklist for vetting a remote developer covers the details.