TALENT SERVICE · PODS & FDE
A squad accountable for an outcome, or engineers inside your team.
Cross-functional pods with a named lead and someone managing delivery, or individual engineers working inside your systems, your workflow and your standards.
WHAT YOU GET
Two shapes, one standard.
A pod owns an outcome and reports on it. A forward-deployed engineer joins your team and works your way. Same people, same organisation — the difference is who is accountable for what.
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Cross-functional pods
Engineering, QA, data and design, sized to the outcome rather than to a headcount.
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Delivery management
A named lead who answers for velocity, quality and keeping you informed.
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Forward-deployed engineers
Individuals sitting in your teams, in your repos, at your standups.
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Onboarding and ramp
A defined ramp period, with what we expect by the end of it stated up front.
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Velocity reporting
Throughput, cycle time and quality signals, on whatever cadence you run.
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Continuity terms
Notice periods, replacement and knowledge transfer, all in the agreement.
HOW IT WORKS
Accountability has to sit somewhere.
A pod is only worth it if it owns something measurable. If the work cannot be framed that way, staff augmentation is the honest answer and we will say so.
01
Frame
The outcome, how it is measured, and what it depends on — written down with your product owner.
02
Assemble
We propose the pod and the lead against that outcome, with CVs, and you interview them.
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Ramp
A defined onboarding period, with explicit expectations and a checkpoint at the end of it.
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Deliver
Steady delivery, velocity reported, and the pod's make-up reviewed every quarter.
ENGAGEMENT MODELS
Outcome, capacity, or individual.
MODEL 01
Outcome-based pod
Priced against a defined outcome.
Named delivery lead
Velocity and quality reporting
MODEL 02
Capacity pod
A standing squad on your backlog.
Fixed monthly capacity
Your prioritisation
MODEL 03
Forward-deployed engineer
Individuals inside your teams.
Your process and tooling
Ramp checkpoint at 30 days
ASSURANCE
How we handle the hard parts.
In embedded work, continuity and access are the two questions that actually matter.
Continuity
Notice periods, how fast we replace someone, and the overlap for handover — all in the agreement.
Access
Least privilege into your systems, reviewed on a schedule, revoked when people rotate off.
IP and confidentiality
Who owns the work and what stays confidential, settled before anyone onboards.
Screening
Background and clearance matched to the environment the engineer is actually going into.
Name the outcome you cannot staff.
We will propose a shape and a named lead, and you interview them before anyone starts.