Consulting
Team Augmentation
Sometimes you need more hands. Sometimes you need a specific skill your team does not have. Sometimes you need senior technical leadership for a project that warrants it but not a full-time hire. We provide experienced engineers, designers and technical leads who slot into your team and get productive quickly, without the overhead of a permanent recruitment process.
The people we provide are professionals who have worked across a range of projects and organisations. They bring perspective as well as skills, and they are honest about what they know and what they do not. Engagements are flexible: short-term to hit a deadline, longer-term to cover a gap, or ongoing to extend your capability sustainably.
What's included
- Skilled developer placement across front-end, back-end and full-stack disciplines with genuine vetting rather than CV matching
- Technical leadership for projects that need architecture decisions made well, not just made
- Access to specialised skills in areas like security, data engineering, AI or cloud infrastructure on a project basis
- Flexible engagement models from short sprints through to longer-term arrangements that suit your planning cycle
- Knowledge transfer built into every engagement so capability stays with your team when the engagement ends
- Mentoring and coaching for junior members of your team who benefit from working alongside more experienced practitioners
Key Benefits
- Capacity where you need it, when you need it, without a six-month hiring process
- Specialist skills available on demand rather than carrying the overhead of a permanent specialist hire
- People who integrate into your team and your way of working rather than creating a parallel track
- Genuine knowledge transfer so your team is stronger at the end of the engagement than the beginning
- Flexibility to scale up or down as your project and your priorities evolve
FAQs
Faster than a permanent hire. Once we understand what you need, we can typically introduce suitable people within a week or two. We do not just match CVs to job descriptions — we think about what the person needs to be able to do in context and find someone with the right mix of technical skills and communication style to integrate well with your team.
We do not rely on CVs and certificates alone. The people we place have worked with us on previous projects or have been through a genuine technical vetting process that we run ourselves. We can tell you what they are good at and, importantly, what they are less experienced in so there are no surprises two weeks in. If someone is not working out, we address it directly rather than hoping the situation resolves itself.
We stake our reputation on our team, and we trust them to do us proud.
We match for working style as well as technical fit. Before anyone starts, we take time to understand how your team works: your rituals, your communication norms, your tools. We make sure that the person joining your team is the right personality and culture fit. Good augmentation should feel like a natural extension of the team, not a contractor working in a separate lane. We also check in regularly during the engagement rather than leaving it to run on autopilot.
Knowledge transfer is built into every engagement, not something we scramble to do in the last two weeks. That means documentation written as we go, code reviews that explain decisions rather than just approving or rejecting, and pairing with your permanent team members so the understanding transfers in practice as well as on paper. The goal is that your team is stronger at the end of the engagement than at the start.
Yes. We can provide engineers at all levels, including senior technical leads and architects who can take ownership of complex decisions, structure the work for a broader team, and provide the kind of experienced oversight that prevents expensive mistakes further down the line. If you need a fractional CTO-style engagement rather than a full-time individual, we can discuss that too.
We work on time-and-materials or fixed-scope arrangements depending on what makes sense for the engagement. For early-stage discovery and exploratory work, time-and-materials gives you the flexibility to change direction as you learn. For well-defined deliverables where the scope is clear, a fixed-price statement of work gives you budget certainty. We will recommend the model that protects your interests, not just the one that is easier for us.
Yes. While we are based in Manchester and work closely with businesses across the North West, we work with clients across the UK and further afield. Most of our work is delivered remotely, with on-site visits for the sessions where being in the room actually matters — typically discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews and key decision points.
Security is not a phase at the end of a project — it is part of how we work throughout. We hold Cyber Essentials accreditation and our team has a background in defence and high-security environments, so secure-by-default thinking is genuinely embedded in how we approach architecture, code and data handling. For clients with specific compliance requirements, we can align our delivery to ISO 27001, GDPR, JOSCAR or other relevant frameworks.
We start with a free consultation to understand your situation and work out whether we are a good fit for each other. If we move forward, the first formal phase is discovery: structured workshops and conversations to understand your goals, constraints, existing systems and the people involved. At the end of discovery you get a clear picture of what we are recommending and why. We'll provide you with enough information to make an informed decision about next steps, with no obligation to continue if it is not the right time.
That being said, we know that no two projects are the same, so we'll always work with you to work out what fits best!