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Embedded Squad
Embedded Squad
A senior product engineering team that plugs into your roadmap, works alongside your engineers, and owns delivery for 3–12 months. The same people, one accountable lead, and production releases every sprint.
Partnerships and reviews
Certified partnerships
Rated by clients and team
- Clutch
What you get
01
A dedicated 3–6 person pod
The same senior engineers, sprint after sprint. No rotation, no handoffs, and no ramp-up tax every quarter.
Discuss your roadmap02
A senior delivery lead
One accountable lead reports directly to your CTO or CPO, owns delivery, and removes the need to manage every engineer individually.
Discuss your roadmap03
Full tooling integration
The squad works in your repos, Slack, Linear or Jira, CI/CD, and engineering rituals. One team, not a vendor operating next door.
Discuss your roadmap04
Predictable sprint cadence
Two-week planning, daily async updates, working-software demos, and a delivery forecast your stakeholders can rely on.
Discuss your roadmap05
Capacity that can flex
Scale the squad up or down with 30 days' notice as roadmap pressure changes, without another hiring cycle.
Discuss your roadmap06
Production ownership
The squad owns features through architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and the fixes after release.
Discuss your roadmapSquad shape
Start with the team the roadmap needs
We do not sell a fixed staffing bundle. We compose around the work, then adjust as the roadmap changes.
3 people
Focused squad
Tech lead plus two engineers. Best for one well-bounded product stream or adding concentrated capacity to an established team.
4–5 people
Product squad
Tech lead, engineers, and product or QA support. Our most common setup for owning a meaningful roadmap end to end.
6+ people
Scale squad
A cross-functional unit for parallel workstreams, fast growth, or a substantial platform initiative with several moving parts.
Your tools, your rituals, our engineers: one operating model
Delivery
How the engagement runs
- Weeks 1–2
Onboard into your product
Repo and environment access, architecture walkthroughs, roadmap alignment, tooling setup, and clear ownership boundaries with your existing team.
- Week 2
Take ownership of a workstream
We start with a contained slice of the roadmap, establish delivery velocity, and remove unknowns before taking on more surface area.
- Months 1–3
Ship on a two-week cadence
Planning, build, review, QA, and production release. Your squad lead handles the operating detail and reports progress in your existing rituals.
- Months 3–12
Scale with the roadmap
Add or remove roles with 30 days' notice, move the squad between priorities, and transfer ownership cleanly when the engagement ends.
Fit
Is an Embedded Squad right for you?
Best for
- Growth-stage companies with an evolving roadmap and more work than their team can absorb
- CTOs who need a complete delivery unit, not isolated contractors to manage
- Funded startups building several connected product workstreams over multiple quarters
- Internal engineering teams that need senior AI, web, mobile, or platform capacity quickly
Not for
- A single defined project with a locked scope and deadline: see Project Build
- One drop-in engineer reporting directly to your lead: see Staff Augmentation
- Maintenance-only work with no active roadmap: see Retainer
- Pre-product companies without a prioritised roadmap: start with a Discovery Sprint
Why teams choose us
The same people, sprint after sprint
No rotation tax, no handoff debt, no engineers learning your domain from scratch every quarter. Your squad lead reports to your CTO; your engineers work in your repos and Slack. When the roadmap changes, the squad flexes, not the other way around.
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Other ways to work together
Choose by ownership model
Project Build
Choose this when the scope is fixed, the timeline is 6–14 weeks, and you want one production release rather than ongoing capacity.
Compare service →Staff Augmentation
Choose this when you need individual senior engineers inside your management structure, rather than an autonomous pod.
Compare service →Discovery Sprint
Choose this first when the roadmap is still unclear and you need scope, architecture, and a fixed build quote.
Compare service →Testimonials
What founders say after the build
Verbatim quotes from teams we shipped to production. We publish testimonials with written sign-off on file.
4.6/5across 58 verified client reviews.Read them all at source
Embedded Squad questions
What changes, what stays yours, and how the team operates inside your company.
By squad composition and duration, billed monthly. The rate is fixed before onboarding starts and covers the full team, delivery lead, and operating overhead. There are no separate project-management fees.
Need a senior team on your roadmap?
Tell us what your team needs to ship over the next quarter. We will recommend the smallest squad that can own it properly.