How we work

Engineers inside your team

Every engagement embeds a squad of forward deployed engineers — in your Slack, your repo, your standups, and on-site when it matters. Not a vendor taking requirements over a call. Part of the flat monthly rate, not a line item.

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HCA
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The alternative

What arm's length costs you

Most firms learn your business through a document. Every one of these is a way that goes wrong, and all of them get billed to you as hours.

01

Requirements are a game of telephone

The spec gets written by someone who sat through a demo and read by someone who has never opened your system. Everything lost in that gap shows up later as rework.

02

The edge cases never make the document

The exception that happens twice a month is the one that breaks the agent. Nobody writes it down, because everyone who deals with it thinks it is obvious.

03

Handoffs lose the reasoning

Strategy team to build team to ops team. Each handoff carries the decision but not the reason behind it, so the next team relitigates it or quietly reverses it.

04

You see it when it is already built

A month of work in a direction you would have corrected on day two, if anyone had been close enough to the work to ask you.

How it runs

True of every engagement

Not a pilot, not an add-on, and not something you negotiate for. Three things that hold on every engagement we take.

In your tools

Your Slack, your repo, your standups

The engineers work remotely but live where your work happens — the same channels, the same pull requests, the same daily calls. They see the work as it happens rather than as it was described to them.

On-site

In the room when it changes the answer

Discovery, workshops, and cutover. Not permanently on-site, but physically there for the moments where watching someone do the job tells you more than any amount of asking about it.

Commercials

Part of the flat rate, not a line item

No day rate, no separate invoice, no clock to watch. The flat monthly rate covers the whole embedded squad, which is the only arrangement where we have no reason to make the embedding shorter or smaller.

What it buys

Proximity is the whole point

These are consequences of sitting close to the work, not measured averages across engagements.

Sitting in the queue with your team finds the exceptions a discovery document would have missed entirely

Week one

edge cases surface

Questions get answered in the channel where the work is, not in next week’s status call

Same day

decisions

The people who watched the work are the people who build the agent

Zero

requirements handoffs

This is not staff augmentation

A contractor takes your tickets and works to your spec. We embed a squad — the same engineers who prove the workflow, wire the agents into your systems, ground them in your context, and run them in production. Not one person relaying requirements to a team elsewhere: the people in your standup are the people building it, on one flat rate.

It is also why we do not sell hours. Embedded engineers who find a faster path cost a time-and-materials firm revenue. They cost us nothing, which is the only way the arrangement stays honest.

Start here

Put us in the room

Bring the workflow you would struggle to write a spec for. That is the one where having engineers sitting next to your team is worth the most, and it is a 45-minute conversation to find out.