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brainiac/studio

Digital Studio

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05 · team as a service / team augmentation

A whole squad, working like they’ve always been here.

Two to ten developers and designers, with a team lead included in the price. They join your meetings, follow your standards, and report to you — and the squad grows or shrinks month by month as the work does. From $18k a month.

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our point of view

Three separate contractors is not a team. It’s three separate problems.

Hiring people one at a time works fine until you need four of them at once. Then somebody has to run the daily meeting, set the standards, review everyone’s work and hold the delivery together — and that somebody is usually your best engineer, who promptly stops building anything at all.

We send a squad that already works together, with a lead included in the price. They arrive with shared habits — how they review code, how they release, how they estimate — and adopt yours wherever yours are better. You brief the lead once, instead of four people every morning.

2 weeksFrom brief to a full squad shipping work
2–10People per squad, adjusted monthly
1Team lead included in every squad, never billed extra
what we build

What comes with a squad.

01

A team lead in the price

Every squad includes somebody who runs the day-to-day: assigning work, reviewing code, unblocking people, and giving you one clear delivery update instead of four partial ones.

02

People who already work together

Same standards, same tools, same habits. You skip the three months a group of strangers normally needs before it starts behaving like a team.

03

The right mix for the job

Front-end, back-end, mobile, design, testing. We compose the squad around your roadmap, and change the mix when the roadmap changes — which it always does.

04

It fits into your process

Your sprints, your board, your definition of done, your release routine. We adapt to how you work; we don’t arrive with a methodology we’re trying to sell you.

05

Grow or shrink monthly

Add two people for a launch, drop back afterwards. Changes take effect from the next billing cycle, with no penalty and no renegotiation of anything.

06

One delivery report, weekly

What shipped, what slipped, what’s at risk, and what we need from you. Short enough to read on a phone, honest enough to be worth reading at all.

07

Your code, your accounts, always

Everything lives in your repositories and your cloud from day one. If you stop tomorrow, nothing needs handing back — it was never anywhere else.

use cases

When a squad beats individuals.

01

A second product line

The main team can’t be pulled off the core product. A squad takes the new thing end to end without slowing the roadmap you already promised the board.

02

A rebuild that can’t stop the business

Moving off an old system while it’s still serving customers. A squad runs the migration in parallel while your team keeps the lights on.

03

Sudden growth

Funding closed, or a large client signed. You need four to six people delivering this quarter — not a hiring plan for next year.

04

A fixed date with a moving scope

Ramadan campaigns, product launches, regulatory deadlines. Scale the squad up towards the date, then scale it back down afterwards.

approach

How it works.

01

Scope

A working session on the roadmap, the deadlines and how your team runs today. We propose a squad shape — and if we think you need fewer people than you asked for, we say so.

02

Compose

We assemble the squad from people who have worked together before, then send you profiles, work samples, and interviews with anyone you’d like to meet.

03

Onboard

One week: accounts, access, a codebase walkthrough, standards, and one small piece of work shipped end to end so everybody can see the machine turning.

04

Deliver

Your sprints, your board, your reviews. The lead runs the day-to-day, and you get a weekly delivery report plus a standing call in your calendar.

05

Adjust

Every month we look at the mix together. More front-end, fewer testers, a designer for six weeks — whatever the roadmap now actually needs.

06

Wind down or hand over

When you’re done, we document, hand over and stop billing. If you’d rather keep two of the squad on as individuals, that’s a simple switch and a smaller invoice.

tech stack

What our people work in.

pricing

Monthly rates.

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Small Squad

from $18k / mo

A lead plus two engineers. Enough to own a product line or a serious feature without ever touching your core team.

  • 3 people, lead included
  • Weekly delivery report
  • Change the mix monthly
  • One month’s notice
Most popular— 02

Standard Squad

from $32k / mo

A lead, four engineers and a designer. Our most common shape: enough to run a full roadmap in parallel with your own.

  • 6 people, lead and designer
  • Full delivery ownership
  • Change the mix monthly
  • 2-month minimum
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Scaled Squad

custom

Eight to ten people, or several squads with a delivery manager across them. For rebuilds and multi-team programs.

  • 8–10 people or several squads
  • Delivery manager included
  • Quarterly planning with your leadership
  • 3-month minimum
faq

Frequently asked.

5 questions answered. Still have one? Reach out.

You set the priorities; our lead runs the day-to-day. Most clients find that’s the right split: you decide what matters, we handle who does what and when. If you’d rather manage everyone directly, that works too — just tell us in the brief.

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