Service · Staff Augmentation
Senior engineers on your team in days, not months.
Vetted senior engineers. Contracts and IP transfer already solved. Real overlap with US business hours. We put a 6-person React pod into production for an enterprise AI/SaaS platform in 11 days — and they arrive able to prove the work, not just produce it.
Who it's for
Engineering scalers post-funding, not first-time founders.
- VP Engineering teams missing senior capacity at $5M+ ARR with 10+ in-house engineers.
- Series A through C+ AI/SaaS companies, $25-100k/mo capacity, USA-based.
- PE-backed firms standardizing engineering across portfolio companies.
- Returning customers expanding scope mid-engagement (the most common shape).
What's included
Capabilities that ship, not capabilities that talk.
SR
Senior engineers (5+ years)
No juniors on the bench. The vet bar is would I let this person commit unsupervised on day one.
Capability →
TZ
US time-zone overlap
5+ hours of working overlap with US Central. Stand-ups in your meeting hours.
Capability →
REPO
On your tools
Your repo, your CI, your standards. We integrate; we don't import a parallel process.
Capability →
DOC
Contracts already solved
W-9 ready. DPA available. NDA standard. IP transfer on commit. The boring stuff already solved.
Capability →
PRF
The verification discipline travels with them
Engineers ship with AI tooling by default — everyone does now. What arrives with ours is the gate discipline: verified against your spec, and nobody signing off on their own work.
The method →
EHR
Healthcare-aware option
PHI-aware engineers from the same team, under BAA, with the healthcare data rules already worked out.
Healthcare vertical →
How we work
Discovery in a call. Match in a week. Ship in two.
01 · Day 0
Discovery call
30 minutes. Role, stack, team shape, timeline. We tell you on the call if we can match.
02 · Day 5
Vetted shortlist
2-3 candidates with sample work, reference availability, and direct interview slots in your calendar.
03 · Day 11
First commit
Onboarded engineers shipping inside your repo, on your standards, in your stand-ups.
Pricing
Honest ranges, not 'starting at' hand-waving.
Three capacity bands. The same playbook across all three; the band changes the cadence and the shape of onboarding, not the quality of the engineer.
Small pod
$25k–50k/mo
$300-600k annual · 1-3 engineers · T&M + retainer
- One to three senior engineers
- Lighter onboarding, quicker start
- Scales up without a new contract
Standard podmost common
$50k–100k/mo
$600k-1.2M annual · 3-10 engineers · T&M + retainer
- A working pod, not scattered contractors
- Scoped proposal against your roadmap
- The shape most SaaS teams take
Large pod
$100k+/mo
$1.2M+ annual · 10-25 engineers · T&M + retainer
- Multiple squads under one standard
- Named owner in your time zone
- Reference calls with current clients
Featured engagement
Enterprise AI/SaaS platform — 6-person React pod in 11 days.
SaaS · California, USA
Enterprise AI/SaaS platform — 6-person React pod in 11 days.
Enterprise AI/SaaS platform · California, USA · T&M + retainer · 2024 → present
Read the SaaS case →
11 days · first commit
6 → 25 engineers
Returning customer
Still expanding, 2 yrs on
FAQ — staff augmentation
The questions every VP Eng asks.
Where are the engineers based?
Distributed across regions selected for time-zone overlap with US business hours. Specific locations covered under NDA in the discovery call. We don't reveal the bench geography on the open web.
Do you offer direct-hire conversion?
Yes, with a conversion fee scaled to engagement length. Most clients keep the staff-aug shape; the conversion option exists for the cases where it makes sense.
What's the minimum engagement?
3 months for a single engineer. 6 months for a pod. Below that, the onboarding overhead doesn't pay back for either side.
Everyone has AI tooling now. What am I actually paying you for?
Judgement at the two ends. Generating a plausible draft is cheap and your team can already do it; deciding precisely what to build and proving the result is right did not get cheap. Our engineers arrive with that discipline — spec-derived acceptance criteria, an independence rule, and a conformance check against what was approved. See the method page.
Are you a Toptal alternative?
We solve the same buyer problem differently. Marketplaces give you a hiring funnel; we give you a bench plus contract surface. Most clients we win from marketplaces wanted the second thing and didn't realize it.
How do contracts and IP transfer work?
You contract with DevBatch LLC. Standard W-9, NDA, DPA, and IP transfer terms on commit. Procurement boxes get checked on the first call.
Related services
What else this team takes on.
AI
AI Engineering
Production-ready AI features, not demos.
Service →
WEB
Web Development
Modern stacks, full-stack delivery teams.
Service →
APP
Mobile App
iOS and Android that ship and scale.
Service →
EHR
Healthcare vertical
3 years on a Saudi hospital group. Patient platforms, ambient AI, MCP integrations from eCW / ModMed / Greenway. Fixed cost + AMC.
Vertical →
Ready to talk about staff augmentation?
30-minute discovery call, no deck. We'll tell you on the call if we can match — and your topic is already on the form.