AI Pod
Rent a senior team. From $22K/mo · 3-month minimum.
When you have a roadmap but not the team. 1–4 senior engineers (12+ years) AI-paired for 3–5× throughput. Joins your Slack, your repo, your sprints. Cancel monthly after the 3-month minimum. No headcount, no onboarding ramp, no agency theatre.
SCOPE CONTRACT · AI POD
AI Pod is a defined-team, defined-window engagement against your backlog. It is not staff augmentation, and it is not exploratory work without a target.
- A senior engineering team (2–4 engineers + partner running quality) for a 3-month window
- A backlog YOU bring, scoped to fit the window before kickoff
- AI-paired delivery — same throughput multiplier as Build engagements
- Daily standups, weekly demos, monthly retrospectives
- All shipped work in your repo from day one
- Partner-led architecture + code reviews on every PR
- Optional extensions in 3-month blocks if the work continues
- Staff augmentation (we do not backfill a vacant role on your org chart)
- Hourly billing (the price is the price; the team is the team)
- Undefined exploratory work (use Strategy or Build Foundation to define the backlog first)
- Training programs or developer education engagements
- Bench-rental at fractional FTE (we ship in 0.6 FTE minimum blocks, not 0.1)
- Indefinite extensions — every 3-month block is a decision point, not an autopilot
CATALOG · 3 OPTIONS
One 12+ yr senior. AI-paired.
A single senior engineer embedded into your repo and Slack. Best for: shipping a specific feature track, modernizing a service, or covering for a senior on parental / sabbatical. Throughput equivalent to a hand-coded mid-+-senior pair.
- Headcount
- 1 senior (12+ yrs)
- Throughput
- ~ 1.5× pair · AI-paired
- Price
- $22K/month
Two seniors + partner oversight.
Two senior engineers (front + back, or full-stack pair) plus a partner running quality reviews. Best for: shipping a defined product roadmap, owning a service area end-to-end, or replacing a 4-engineer in-house team during a hiring gap.
- Headcount
- 2 senior + 1 partner
- Throughput
- ~ 4-engineer hand-coded
- Price
- $36K/month
Four seniors + partner.
Four senior engineers covering full-stack + mobile + DevOps + AI/agents, with a partner running architecture and quality. Best for: replacing an entire delivery org during a re-platforming, shipping multiple parallel product lines, or post-acquisition rapid integration work.
- Headcount
- 4 senior + 1 partner
- Throughput
- ~ 8-engineer hand-coded
- Price
- $52K/month
Where AI Pod engagements concentrate.
B2B SaaS · Financial Services · Healthcare · Education
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