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An engineering team you did not have to hire.

A dedicated pod of senior engineers, QA and a tech lead, embedded in your standups and your repository, working only on your roadmap, month to month, with thirty days notice either way.

Hiring one senior engineer takes four months. A pod starts on your board in two weeks.

  • 1–2 wks

    To a working engineer

  • 2 wks

    Paid trial, then decide

  • 30 days

    Notice to stop

  • 0

    Subcontractors

Get your free estimate

Three quick questions: scope, approach and a price range back within 48 hours. No sales call required first.

What do you need built?
When do you want to start?
Where should we send the estimate?

Answer all three questions above, then send.

NDA-friendly · IP yours from day one
You interview everyone. Two-week paid trial. 30 days notice either way. Full-time on your roadmap. IP yours from day one

Team shapes

Three pod shapes. Pick the one that matches your roadmap.

Every pod is full-time on your product. The difference is how many workstreams you need moving at once, and whether you need a lead running them. A pod bills monthly; where the work is a defined build instead, fixed-scope and monthly pricing sets both ways to pay out side by side.

  • Starter pod

    $6,400 / month

    One senior, one mid. Enough to hold a small product and ship steadily without a lead overhead.

    • 1 senior engineer
    • 1 mid-level engineer
    • Shared QA time
    • Fortnightly demos

  • Product pod

    $14,800 / month

    The most common shape. A lead, two engineers and dedicated QA: a complete delivery team you do not have to manage.

    • 1 tech lead
    • 2 engineers (mix to suit)
    • 1 QA engineer
    • Sprint reporting and burn-down

  • Scale pod

    From $22,000 / month

    For a roadmap with parallel workstreams: backend, frontend and mobile moving at once under one lead.

    • 1 tech lead
    • 4+ engineers across stacks
    • 1 QA engineer
    • Product designer on call

How it protects you

Four things that make a dedicated team low-risk.

The usual objection to an offshore pod is that you cannot judge who you are getting until it is too late. Each of these exists to remove that.

  • You interview everyone

    Two or three real profiles per role with project history. Nobody joins your team without your sign-off, and no substitutions afterwards.

    Your call

  • They work your hours

    Your standups, your board, your repository. Several live hours of overlap every working day, with written handover covering the rest.

    Real overlap

  • Two-week paid trial

    The engineer works a real ticket in your repo. Wrong fit, you stop there and pay only for that sprint, replacement at no extra cost.

    No risk

  • Scale without renegotiating

    Add a role as the roadmap grows, release one when it does not. Thirty days notice, no annual commitment, no exit fee.

    30 days notice

Versus hiring in-house

The honest comparison.

In-house is the right answer for a permanent core team. A pod is the right answer when you need capacity now, or are not certain the role is permanent yet. If what you need is one or two engineers inside the team you already have, staff augmentation is the closer fit.

  • Time to a working engineer

    Usual: 3–6 months to hire in-house. With QalbIT: 1–2 weeks with a QalbIT pod.

  • If it is not working

    Usual: A hiring mistake takes months to undo. With QalbIT: Replaced free, or stop with 30 days notice.

  • Cost of a senior engineer

    Usual: Salary, equity, benefits, recruiter fee. With QalbIT: One monthly rate, nothing else.

  • When the roadmap slows

    Usual: You carry the headcount. With QalbIT: Release the role, keep the code.

  • Who owns the code

    Usual: You do. With QalbIT: You do: repos and IP in your name from day one.

  • Institutional knowledge

    Usual: Walks out when someone resigns. With QalbIT: Written architecture docs and handover notes.

How it starts

From first call to working engineer in two weeks.

No lengthy onboarding programme and no discovery phase you pay for. The first ticket is real work in your repository.

  1. Role and codebase call

    Thirty minutes on your product, stack, timelines and the seniority you are actually missing.

    Day 1

  2. Profiles within 48 hours

    Two or three engineers per role, with the work they have shipped and the systems they have held.

    48 hours

  3. You interview them

    Technical conversation on your terms. We do not sit in unless you want us to.

    Week 1

  4. Paid trial sprint

    Real ticket, real repo, real code review. You judge the output rather than the CV.

    Weeks 2–3

  5. Standing team

    They stay as long as the roadmap does. Same people, no rotation, no bench sharing.

    Ongoing

Start here

Tell us the roles you are missing.

Send your stack, your roadmap and the seniority gap. You get real profiles, a monthly rate and a start date within 48 hours.

  • Start here

    Tell us the roles you are missing.

    Send your stack, your roadmap and the seniority gap. You get real profiles, a monthly rate and a start date within 48 hours.

    • Real profiles with project history, not generic CVs
    • You interview everyone before they join
    • A paid two-week trial on a real ticket
    • IP and repositories yours from day one

FAQs · dedicated teams

Dedicated development teams: frequently asked questions

Team shapes, management overhead, swapping skills mid-project and what happens if someone leaves.

Ask us directly →
Augmentation gives you a body against a ticket queue. A pod gives you a lead who owns delivery, engineers who push back on scope, and a QA process that comes with them.
Yes, though two is where it starts working properly: one person has nobody to review their code. We will say so rather than take the smaller invoice quietly.
Swap a role with two weeks notice. Mixing stacks inside one pod is normal: a Laravel engineer and a Flutter engineer under the same lead is a common shape.
Yes. Dedicated means dedicated: full-time on your roadmap, not split across three clients and rotated when someone else escalates.
You do not have to. The tech lead runs planning, reporting and quality. You bring priorities; they bring the plan and the demo.
We overlap the replacement with the outgoing engineer and hand over in writing. You are not charged for the ramp-up period.
One month. After that it is month to month with 30 days notice. No annual contracts and no exit fees.

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Next step

Meet the engineers first.

Send the roles you need and we will come back with real profiles, a monthly rate and a start date within 48 hours.

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