Add engineers without hiring them

A dedicated CTO, developers or AI engineers embedded in your team — ready in days, not months, and never locked into a long-term contract.

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ENGINEERING

Frontend · Backend · DevOps

LLM · Agents · Automation

PRODUCT

Roadmap · Delivery · QA

DESIGN

UX · UI · Prototype

How it works

How the CTO plugs into your team

1
Discovery
We learn your goals, stack and current team.
2
Match
A CTO / Programmer / AI Engineer that fits the work.
3
Onboard in 2–3 days
Into your existing workflow — Slack, standup, sprints from week one.
4
Deliver
Real work inside your process, shipped continuously.
5
Flex
Scale up or down as needed — no lock-in contract.

Pick your team

Browse the team by department

Your ready-to-join team — pick a department to see the roles.

Frontend Engineer

Senior

Backend Engineer

Senior

DevOps Engineer

Mid

Full-stack Engineer

Lead

How it compares

In-house, a monthly team, or a one-off build

Three ways to add engineering capacity — and where a monthly IRC team sits between them.

In-house hire

Time to start: 8–12 weeks of recruiting
Commitment: Salary and benefits, indefinite
Best for: Core, long-term headcount
Scaling up or down: Slow — another hiring cycle
Lock-in: None, but hard to reverse

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IRC Team

Time to start: Start within days
Commitment: Month to month, cancel anytime
Best for: Ongoing work without a full-time hire
Scaling up or down: Add or drop capacity month to month
Lock-in: None — leave whenever it's no longer useful

One-off project

Time to start: Start within days
Commitment: Fixed scope, one-time
Best for: A defined deliverable with an end date
Scaling up or down: Requires a new scope and quote
Lock-in: None — ends when the project ships

No lock-in

There's no minimum term and no contract to break — stay for as long as the team is useful to you, and step away whenever you're done.

Start with a fractional CTO

The senior end of the same model: technical leadership and architecture on a monthly basis, with the same freedom to step away whenever it stops being useful.

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