01 · Underneath
Why a new hire takes months
A good developer who hasn't solved this kind of problem before can learn it, but they learn it on your project. Decisions about quality and architecture get made while they're still learning.
A small senior team of tech experts, led by Sachin Garg, CTO
We help you hire someone who already has the skill your team needs.
We start from the problem the new person will own, find people who have solved it before, and join the technical interviews ourselves.
Book a first call
90 minutes with Sachin Garg, CTO · $500 · Refundable in one click
Waiting on one skillOn your own team
2008 Founded
27+ Years building software
30+ Products delivered
21+ Years leading teams
Who to look for
The best person for a hard problem has already solved it.
Sometimes all that's needed is adding an expert with the missing skill set. That's who we help you look for, and whoever you hire joins your own team.
We don't rent you developers.
Same job: an audio ML feature
Just a great ML engineer
An ML engineer who has shipped audio before
A job post that says “great machine learning engineer” vs “a machine learning engineer who has worked on audio models, and plays a musical instrument” can turn a 3-month project into a 3-week sprint.
What we usually find
Months of learning, on your project.
We help you work out who you need, before anyone writes a job post.
02 · What we look at
The work the new person will do
The architecture, the stack, the team they'll join, and the stage the product is at. That tells us what experience to look for.
03 · Four very different roles
Hiring for the gaps
At a New York based VoIP company, we got stalled work moving again across several products at once, and part of that was hiring for the gaps: database, Go, QA, and AI roles.
Some of the work
Stalled work, moving again.
Open any result for the story. Clients stay unnamed; Sachin can walk you through any of them.
9 → 2 months
An AI project at a crawl, shipped once the right specialists joined
AI · VoIP, New York
13 → 4 people
Delivering twice as fast, with less overhead
Telehealth · Boston and Denmark
9 → 2 months · AI · VoIP, New York
A New York based VoIP company had spent nine months on an AI project that was moving at a crawl: self-hosting ASR models and LLMs for transcribing and summarizing calls, to keep costs down at scale. We brought in the right specialists, and it shipped in two months. We also drove the GPU batch-processing optimizations.
13 → 4 people · Telehealth · Boston and Denmark
On a client's telehealth platform, the development team was 13 people across three countries. Over three years we helped bring it down to a remote team of four, by simplifying the architecture and the tech stack, upskilling the team, improving the process, and automating what we could. Less overhead made delivery twice as fast.
How we work
From stuck to self-running.
Your team takes on a little more each month, until it runs without us.
01 Weeks 1–3
Get clear
Where things really stand, including what leadership doesn't hear.
02 Early on
Make it visible
Honest updates, and a working build you can try every week.
03 Along the way
Build it up
Simpler architecture, vendors held to their word, gaps filled.
04 When you're ready
Hand off
Nothing depends on one person, including us.
01 · Weeks 1–3 What we look at first
- What you're trying to achieve, and where things really stand.
- The quality of the work so far. It can go either way: sometimes it's worse than it looks, and sometimes it's much better than it feels, simply because it isn't finished yet.
- The skills the job needs against the skills on the team.
- Whether your timeline and budget estimates are realistic.
- The gap between what we hear from leadership and what we hear from the people doing the work. That gap usually tells us the most.
02 · Early on Progress everyone can see
Status updates that say what's really done, in enough detail to act on, and a working build you can try every week. A lot of the misunderstandings we see start with updates that skip the details.
03 · Along the way Stronger, step by step
A simpler architecture, vendors held to what they promised, and specialists added where the team has gaps. Your people take on a little more each month.
04 · When you're ready A team that doesn't need us
Knowledge moves to your team, and we help you hire anyone who's missing. By then, no part of your product should depend on one person, including us.
Ways to start
Everything starts with one call.
By the end of it, we'll both know whether there's more to do, and which of the other two options fits.
01 · Start here
A first call
$500
- 90 minutes with Sachin on your real problem
- Real answers and clear next steps on the calls themselves
- Up to two follow-ups, with you or your team
- Not worth it? One click, full refund
The right first step for nearly everyone.
Some teams take the solutions and run with them on their own. That's a perfectly good outcome.
02 · After the call
A fixed-scope review
$3.5–6K Fixed price, 2–3 weeks
A close look at the work, the team, and the skills that are missing, with solutions worked out alongside your team.
- The work ahead, and the skills it needs against the skills on your team
- The experience each missing role really needs
- Solutions to the problems we find, worked out together with you and your team
03 · After the call
Working together
$8–12K a month or a fixed-scope project
Sachin advises on each search and joins the technical interviews, and we stay through each new person's first weeks, until they've settled in.
- Sachin advises on each search and joins the technical interviews
- Help through each new person's first weeks, until they've settled in
- A planned hand-off to your own team
Book your first call.
Bring whoever on your team knows the work best.
Why is the first call paid?
Because it's working time on your problem, and you get real answers on the call itself. It also covers up to two follow-ups.
Is this staff augmentation?
No. We help you find the people you're missing and join the technical interviews, so you can see who can really do the work. They join your team, not ours. They're on your payroll and work under your direction. We don't rent you developers.
Can't we just use a recruiter?
If you already know exactly who you need, a recruiter is the cheaper option. We help when the hard part is working out who you need, and telling who can really do the work.
What if a hire doesn't work out?
We stay involved through their first weeks, so problems show up early and get dealt with before they grow.
90 minutes with Sachin Garg
$500 · paid at booking · How refunds work
- 90 minutes with Sachin on your real problem
- Real answers and clear next steps on the calls themselves
- Up to two follow-ups, with you or your team
- Not worth it? One click, full refund
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Need one senior person rather than a team? Sachin also works directly as a fractional CTO. Meet Sachin →