days to hire a senior engineer
Sourcing, screening, four interview rounds, an offer, then a notice period. By the time they badge in, the initiative that justified the headcount has already slipped two quarters.
Engineering capacity, live in 72 hours
Teams that ship as soon as possible.
ASAP Teams drops vetted developers, IT & DevOps engineers, automation specialists and production AI agents straight into the systems your company already runs. No job posts. No three-month ramp. Your board, your repo, your stack — staffed by Friday.
- 72h
- Average time to first commit
- +200
- Engineers on the active bench
- 4h+
- Guaranteed live time-zone overlap
- 94%
- Pods renewed past month three
Full-stack engineering◆AI agents in production◆DevOps & SRE◆
Workflow automation◆Cloud migration◆Data pipelines◆
Legacy modernisation◆Internal tooling◆24/7 on-call◆
01 — The gap
Hiring takes four months. Your roadmap needed people last quarter.
the salary, fully loaded
Recruiter fees, equity, benefits, equipment, payroll tax, management overhead and the severance risk if the roadmap turns. A permanent hire is a five-year bet on a twelve-month need.
of AI pilots never reach production
Demos are easy. Agents that touch a real CRM, a real ledger and real customers need evaluation, guardrails, permissions and monitoring — the parts nobody staffs for.
ASAP Teams exists for the space in between: a real team, on your systems, this week — with the option to keep them for a sprint, a quarter, or as long as the work lasts.
02 — What we staff
Four pods. Mix them however the work demands.
Every pod arrives with a tech lead, an agreed definition of done, and access hygiene handled on day one. Scale a pod up mid-sprint or hand it back with fourteen days' notice.
01
Developer Pods
Ship features, clear the backlog, rescue the deadline.
Senior full-stack, backend, frontend, mobile and data engineers who work inside your sprints, your repositories and your review process. They write tests, they document, they show up to standup — they behave like the team you'd have hired.
- TypeScript / React / Next.js
- Node · Python · Go · Java
- iOS · Android · React Native
- Postgres · Kafka · Snowflake
- Legacy modernisation
02
IT & Infrastructure Pods
Keep the lights on and the cloud bill honest.
DevOps, SRE, platform and IT operations engineers covering CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud migration, identity and access, endpoint management, observability and 24/7 on-call rotations — with runbooks you keep when the engagement ends.
- AWS · Azure · GCP
- Kubernetes · Terraform
- SOC 2 & ISO 27001 readiness
- Okta · Entra ID · Intune
- Follow-the-sun on-call
03
Automation Pods
Delete the manual work nobody wants to own.
We map the process, find where the hours actually go, then automate it — invoice handling, onboarding and offboarding, ticket triage, reporting, reconciliation, data entry between systems that were never meant to talk to each other.
- Workflow & RPA
- API & iPaaS integration
- ERP / CRM / finance ops
- Internal tools & dashboards
- ETL & reporting pipelines
04
AI Agent Pods
Agents that work inside the software you already own.
Not a chatbot bolted to the corner of your site. Agents with real tool access, retrieval over your own documents, human approval on the actions that matter, evaluation suites that catch regressions, and cost and latency you can see on a dashboard.
- Support & ticket deflection
- Sales research & CRM hygiene
- Document & claims processing
- Internal knowledge copilots
- Engineering & QA agents
03 — AI agents, in production
Your systems already hold the context.
We give them hands.
The value of an agent is not the model — it's the wiring. ASAP Teams specialises in the unglamorous half: permissions, tools, retrieval, evaluation, fallbacks and the audit trail your risk team will ask for in month two.
01 Connect
The agent gets scoped, least-privilege access to the systems that hold the truth — Salesforce, HubSpot, SAP, NetSuite, Zendesk, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, your internal APIs and the database nobody has touched since 2016.
02 Ground
Retrieval over your policies, contracts, runbooks and tickets, with citations back to the source document. Chunking, embeddings, freshness and access filtering are tuned per corpus — a support agent should never surface an HR file.
03 Act
Typed tools with validation, idempotency and rate limits. High-consequence actions — refunds, deletions, outbound email, anything touching money — route through a human approval step until the metrics justify loosening it.
04 Prove
Golden-set evaluations in CI, regression alerts on every prompt or model change, per-run traces, token and latency budgets, and a weekly report your CFO can actually read. If it doesn't beat the baseline, we say so.
04 — How it works
Four days from first call to first pull request.
- Day 0
Scoping call, 30 minutes
What are you trying to ship, what's in the way, and what does the stack look like. We tell you the pod shape and the number on the same call — no discovery invoice, no six-page questionnaire.
- Day 1
Profiles in your inbox
Two to four named engineers per seat, with real work history and the reasoning for the match. You interview whoever you want to. Most clients take one call and pick.
- Day 2
Paperwork and access
MSA, NDA and IP assignment signed before a single credential is issued. SSO, VPN, repo and ticket access provisioned under least privilege, on your identity provider.
- Day 3
In standup, in the codebase
The pod joins your ceremonies, reads the code, and lands its first scoped pull request. A tech lead owns quality; you own priority.
- Week 2
Fit check — free swap window
Not the right engineer? Say so and we replace them at no cost, with handover inside five working days. You are never billed twice for one seat.
- Ongoing
Flex, or hand back
Add seats mid-sprint, swap a developer for an AI engineer as the roadmap turns, or end with fourteen days' notice. Documentation, runbooks and IP stay with you.
05 — Outcomes
What the pods actually delivered.
Support agent on Zendesk + SAP
A three-person AI pod shipped a triage and resolution agent reading order state directly from SAP. First response time fell from 6 hours to under 2 minutes; 63% of tier-1 tickets closed without a human. Live in 19 days.
Backlog rescue before an audit
Four senior engineers embedded into an existing squad six weeks before a compliance deadline. Ledger reconciliation, audit logging and access reviews shipped on time, with the in-house team retained through the crunch.
Invoice and PO automation
An automation pod replaced manual entry between a legacy ERP, email and a warehouse system. 11,000 documents a day now flow through with exception-only human review, and the finance team stopped working Saturdays.
Cloud migration and on-call
Two SRE engineers moved a monolith to containerised AWS with Terraform, added observability that actually pages the right person, and ran the rotation until the client's own hires were trained up.
Engagement details are anonymised at client request. Named references available under NDA during scoping.
06 — Fits your stack
We come to your tools. You don't migrate for us.
AWSAzureGoogle CloudKubernetesTerraformDocker
GitHubGitLabJiraLinearServiceNowZendesk
SalesforceHubSpotSAPNetSuiteDynamics 365Workday
SnowflakeDatabricksPostgresMongoDBKafkaAirflow
ClaudeOpenAIBedrockVertex AILangGraphPinecone
SlackMicrosoft 365Google WorkspaceOktaEntra IDTwilio
07 — Engagement models
Flat monthly rate. No recruiter fee. Cancel with 14 days.
Single Seat
One senior engineer embedded in your team.
from $6.4k/month
- Dedicated full-time engineer
- Works in your tools and ceremonies
- 4+ hours live overlap guaranteed
- Free replacement in the first 14 days
- Month-to-month after day 30
Most engagements
Pod
A balanced team with a tech lead who owns quality.
from $21k/month
- 3–6 engineers, mixed disciplines
- Tech lead and delivery cadence included
- Mix developers, DevOps, automation, AI
- Reshape the pod as the roadmap moves
- Weekly demo and written status
Managed Outcome
You define the result; we own the delivery.
Fixed/scope
- Delivery manager and tech lead
- Milestones, SLAs and acceptance criteria
- Ideal for migrations and agent rollouts
- 24/7 on-call available
- Full handover and runbooks at exit
Rates vary with seniority and time-zone overlap. Every quote is fully loaded — no equipment, payroll, benefit or severance line items land on your side.
08 — Questions
Everything procurement will ask.
How fast can ASAP Teams actually start?
Most engagements start within 72 hours: a scoping call inside 24 hours, matched engineer profiles inside 48, and the pod in your repositories, ticket tracker and standups by day three. There is no recruitment funnel or notice period to wait on — the engineers are already on our bench and between engagements.
What kinds of teams can I hire?
Four pod types: Developer pods (full-stack, backend, frontend, mobile, data), IT and Infrastructure pods (DevOps, SRE, cloud migration, identity, endpoint, helpdesk), Automation pods (workflow automation, RPA, integrations, internal tooling) and AI Agent pods (production LLM agents, RAG, evaluation, guardrails). They mix freely — a common shape is two developers, one DevOps engineer and one AI engineer under a single tech lead.
Do you put AI agents into existing systems, or only build new apps?
Existing systems are the specialty. We build agents that operate inside software you already run — Salesforce, HubSpot, SAP, NetSuite, Zendesk, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, internal APIs and legacy databases. That includes tool and function definitions, retrieval over your own documents, human-in-the-loop approval on consequential actions, evaluation suites, cost controls and monitoring. Greenfield AI products are welcome too, but most demand is retrofit.
How much does it cost compared to hiring?
A flat monthly rate per engineer with no recruitment fee, equipment cost, benefits administration or severance exposure. A standard four-person pod typically lands well below the fully loaded cost of the equivalent permanent hires — and it can be resized or ended in fourteen days, which a permanent hire cannot.
Is this staff augmentation or a managed team?
Either. In embedded mode the engineers work under your leadership, in your tools, on your board. In managed mode we supply a tech lead and delivery manager and own the outcome against agreed milestones. Many clients start embedded and shift to managed as scope grows.
Who owns the code, the models and the IP?
You do, from the first commit. IP assignment and NDAs are signed before any access is granted, and that covers source code, prompts, evaluation sets, fine-tunes and documentation. At exit you keep the repositories, runbooks and infrastructure definitions.
How do you handle security and compliance?
We work inside your SSO, your VPN and your cloud accounts under least-privilege, audited access. Engagements can be aligned to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR requirements, including EU or US data residency and restrictions on which model providers may process your data. Background-checked engineers and dedicated-device requirements are available where regulation demands it.
What if an engineer isn't the right fit?
Flag it in the first two weeks and we replace them at no cost, with the replacement onboarded and handed over within five working days. You are never billed twice for the same seat.
Which time zones and languages do you cover?
Pods are assembled to guarantee at least four hours of live overlap with your working day across US Eastern and Pacific, UK, EU, GCC and APAC. Follow-the-sun cover and 24/7 on-call rotations are available for infrastructure engagements. All engineers work in professional written and spoken English.
What's the minimum commitment?
Thirty days. After that it is month-to-month with fourteen days' notice, in either direction. We would rather earn month four than lock you into it.
Tell us what's stuck.
We'll have a team on it this week.
Thirty-minute scoping call. You leave with a pod shape, a number, and named profiles inside 48 hours — whether or not you sign anything.