A team that knows your codebase, because it never leaves it
A standing cross-functional squad that works only on your roadmap.
All Dedicated TeamsShared teams context-switch, and the cost lands on you: every sprint reopens decisions the last one closed. A pod that works on one product accumulates the domain knowledge that makes estimates trustworthy — and that knowledge is the thing you are actually buying, not the hours.
- Estimates that get more accurate over time instead of resetting each quarter
- A team that can be pointed at a problem rather than briefed on a ticket
- No quality-assurance overhead landing on your own engineers
What the work actually involves
Cross-functional by default
Backend, frontend, QA and a delivery lead in one unit, sized to the roadmap rather than to a headcount budget.
Named before you sign
You meet and approve every engineer. Nobody joins a pod on the strength of a redacted CV.
Our engineering standard, inside your process
Code review, test coverage and definition of done travel with the pod. You do not have to enforce a quality bar on people you did not hire.
Retention is our problem
Replacing an engineer who leaves — including the overlap period for handover — is on our cost and our clock.
One accountable lead
A Brihat delivery lead answers for what the pod ships, so escalation does not mean chasing five individuals.
Onboarding that is measured
A defined ramp with a first meaningful merge inside the first fortnight, because a pod that takes two months to become useful has spent its own value.
Reporting you can take to a board
Throughput, cycle time and escaped defects reported on a cadence — evidence of delivery rather than a status meeting.
What you are handed.
Yours to keep, and written so another team could pick them up.
A named team you approved
CVs, interviews, and your veto. Nobody joins on the strength of a redacted profile.
A delivery lead who answers for output
One escalation path, not five individuals to chase.
Our engineering standard, applied inside your process
Review, coverage and definition of done travel with the pod so you are not policing it.
Monthly reporting on throughput and quality
Velocity, escaped defects, review turnaround — the numbers that show whether the pod is working.
The engagement
We do not publish prices — scope drives them. Everything else, here.
- Starts with
- A brief, a shortlist, and interviews with the people you would actually get
- Typical duration
- Three-month minimum, most run years
- Who you get
- Four to eight cross-functional, plus a delivery lead
- Commercial model
- Monthly, thirty days' notice
What the answer depends on.
Two sets of conditions. Read both against your own situation — most organisations recognise themselves in one column within a sentence or two.
This is the right call when
- You have a roadmap and not enough people to work it.
- The domain takes months to learn and you cannot afford rotation.
- You want a team pointed at a problem, not briefed on tickets.
A different approach fits better when
- You need a fixed outcome on a fixed date — take a project engagement instead.
- Fewer than four people: augmentation is the cleaner structure.
- You want to manage each engineer directly and set their tasks daily.
Questions about dedicated development pods
Where this comes up most.
The regulatory context and the systems already in the building change the build. Each sector page says how.
If this is close to what you need but not quite it, that gap is usually the useful part of a first call — discuss this capability.