Ongoing Product Engineering
A dedicated 3–6 person pod that owns part of your roadmap and works autonomously alongside your team.
A second engineering team for growth-stage CTOs
A senior team that owns a workstream and ships AI features without 6 months of hiring. Ongoing product engineering. Senior engineers, no junior pretenders.
Is this you?
A quick fit check before either side spends time on a call.
Who this is for
- CTOs / VP Engineering at funded companies (Series A+)
- Companies adding AI features to existing products
- Engineering teams of 10–100 people with more roadmap than engineers
- CTOs who've tried to hire AI engineers and hit the 6-month wall
- Companies needing AI velocity without permanent headcount
Who this isn’t for
- Pre-seed startups with no technical leadership; a different engagement pattern fits better
- Companies looking to outsource everything; we augment, we don’t replace
- Enterprises with strict on-site or location requirements; we’re remote-first
What we typically do for ctos
Choose how much ownership moves across the table. The handoff stays explicit from day one.
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Ongoing Product Engineering
Senior engineers integrated into your team: your repos, your standups, and your tech lead reviewing their work.
Ongoing Product Engineering
A velocity boost via internal AI tooling that helps your existing engineers ship AI features faster.
Project Rescue
Taking over a system that is stalled or inherited. Opens with a written review on your architecture before you scope a bigger engagement.
Project Build
Defined feature builds running in parallel to your roadmap, shipped to production on a fixed scope.
Teams we’ve embedded with
CheckyPro
A custom checkout and payment platform for Shopify merchants: gateway integration, Apple Pay and Google Pay, multi-store installs, disputes and settlement reporting.
9 stalled pull requests and a 3-week bug backlog cleared; 3 held features then shipped.
Draft Deputy
A Shopify app that inverts order entry for live sellers: scan the product, and the draft order builds itself.
30+ SKUs scanned into one Shopify draft order; the old version choked on large ones.
2250
A 60-second skin scan on a pharmacy shelf that resolves into one of more than a thousand personalised formulas, handed to the customer the same visit.
1,000+ skincare formulas resolved from a 60-second phone scan in 55+ San Pablo pharmacies, before the customer leaves the store.
Where most ctos start
Ongoing Product Engineering
For most CTOs the right starting point is Ongoing Product Engineering: a senior team running releases, fixes and QA on your roadmap, reporting the way your own engineers do. A Product Takeover is useful first when you want an independent read on an existing system before scoping the engagement.
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From the founder
I started Robust Devs in 2019 after watching too many good products die between agencies. The pattern was always the same: big promises in the sales call, silence by week six. We built this firm to be the opposite of that. A small senior team, honest scope, and the uncomfortable truth delivered early.
If you are building in marketing, healthtech, or fintech, tell me what you are working on. If we are not the right team for it, I will say so on the first call and point you somewhere better.
Tayyab Hanif
CEO, Robust Devs
Frequently asked questions
Slack, your repos, your standups, your ticket system. Senior engineers work as part of your team, with your tech lead reviewing their work.
You don't need more headcount. You need a team that owns the work.
Ongoing product engineering on your roadmap, not a parallel agenda. Senior engineers who report to your tech lead, in your repos, on your standups.
Need a second engineering team? Schedule a meeting.
No sales team, no SDR loop. Speak directly with engineers who have shipped AI products to production and embedded senior engineers into growing teams.
