Consulting & Support
Dedicated Teams
Embedded engineers and specialists
Sometimes what you need is not a project with a scope and an end date, but capacity: people who join your team, learn your product, and keep working on it. A dedicated team is that arrangement — specialists working as an extension of your organisation, in your tools, at your cadence, on a monthly basis.
It suits a different situation than project work. Project work is right when the outcome is definable in advance. A dedicated team is right when the work is ongoing, the priorities shift, and what you actually lack is skilled people who understand your product.
What's included
Roles we embed
Software engineers
front end, back end and full stack, at the seniority level the work genuinely requires.
Mobile developers
iOS, Android and cross-platform.
DevOps and cloud engineers
for teams whose infrastructure has outgrown a developer doing it on the side.
QA engineers
manual and automation, which is often the first specialism a growing product needs and the last one it hires.
Product and UI/UX designers.
Data engineers and analysts.
Marketing specialists
SEO, paid media, content and lifecycle, embedded the same way as the technical roles.
Technical leads and architects
part-time or full-time, for teams that need senior judgement without a senior headcount.
How the arrangement works
- You direct the work. Your priorities, your backlog, your sprint planning. We are not running a parallel project with its own agenda.
- Your tools and process. Our people work in your repository, your issue tracker and your communication channels, and attend your stand-ups. There is no separate reporting layer to maintain.
- Named individuals, not a pool. You know who is on your team, you interview them before they start, and they stay. Rotating anonymous resources through an account is what makes outsourcing fail, because the value is entirely in accumulated product knowledge.
- Monthly commercial terms with a defined notice period, so you can scale up or down without a renegotiation each time.
- A backstop behind them. An embedded engineer has our wider team available for review, for a second opinion, or for the specialism they do not have — which is the practical advantage over hiring a contractor directly.
- Continuity cover. Leave, illness and handover are our problem to manage, not a gap in your delivery.
When this is the right model, and when it is not
It fits when: you have ongoing development with shifting priorities; you need a specialism that is not worth a permanent hire; hiring locally for the role is slow or expensive; you have a fixed period of extra capacity coming; or you need to move now and a recruitment cycle would take months.
It does not fit when: the outcome is well defined and finite — take it as a fixed-price project instead, which transfers the estimation risk to us rather than to you. It also does not fit if you have nobody to direct the work: a dedicated team amplifies whatever product management you have, and if there is none, the capacity gets spent without producing much. We will tell you if that looks like the situation.
Compared with the alternatives
Against hiring permanently: faster to start, no recruitment cost, and reversible. Against that, a permanent employee is cheaper over several years and more deeply invested — so for a long-term core role, hiring is usually right and we will say so.
Against individual freelancers: you get vetting, continuity cover, a team behind the individual, and one contract. Against that, a freelancer you already trust is hard to beat on cost.
Against a body-shop outsourcer: the differences that matter are seniority, continuity and the fact that you interview and keep the same people. Ask any supplier whether the person you meet is the person who does the work, and how often accounts are rotated. The answers are the whole thing.
On working with Codigoo
We had been blaming regulation for two years. They spent a week watching recordings and showed us it was question order.
Questions we are usually asked
- Can we interview the people first?
Yes, and we would encourage it. You are the one working with them daily. If someone is not the right fit for your team, that is a legitimate reason to see someone else, and better resolved before they start than three months in.
- What is the minimum commitment?
We work in monthly blocks with a notice period, because the value in this model comes from continuity — a two-week engagement spends most of its time on onboarding. For genuinely short pieces of work, a fixed-price project is better value for you.
- Who owns the code and the intellectual property?
You do, in full, from the first commit. It is your repository and your product, and it is stated in the contract.
- How do you handle time zones and language?
We work to overlapping hours with your team so that questions are answered the same day rather than the next morning, and our engineers work in English and Arabic. Where you need coverage outside our normal hours, that is agreed explicitly up front rather than assumed.
If you have more work than people and hiring is not moving fast enough, a consultation is where to work out which roles would actually unblock you.
Talk to us about Dedicated Teams
Thirty minutes with an engineer and a strategist who do this work — not a sales team. You will get an honest answer about whether it is the right thing to buy, and what it would realistically cost.