For enterprises
IT Consulting
Technology strategy, architecture review and delivery assurance from senior practitioners who still build systems.
Service detailConsulting & Talent
Workforce Solutions
Most staffing failures are screening failures: a résumé matched a keyword and nobody technical checked. Every candidate we present has been interviewed by an engineer who works in that discipline, and you receive that engineer’s written assessment alongside the CV.
Start a conversationFor enterprises
- Time to shortlist
- 5–8 business days
- Screening
- Engineer-led, written assessment
- Models
- Contract, contract-to-hire, direct
- Replacement period
- 30 days, no charge
What's included
What this engagement covers
Staff augmentation
Individual engineers embedded in your teams under your management, for capacity gaps or specialist skills you do not need permanently.
Managed delivery teams
A complete pod — engineers, QA and a delivery lead — accountable for an outcome rather than for hours. We manage performance; you manage priorities.
Contract-to-hire
Work with someone for three to six months before converting. Conversion fees are agreed at the outset and taper to zero, so the incentive to keep people on contract disappears.
Direct placement
Permanent hiring for roles where you want ownership from day one, with the same engineer-led screening applied.
Train-to-deploy cohorts
For volume needs in a specific stack, we train a dedicated cohort to your standards and environment, then deploy them as a unit. This is where our two businesses genuinely connect.
Payroll and compliance
Employer-of-record services, classification review, timekeeping and compliance administration for contingent workers.
Process
How placement works
Written down so you can hold us to it.
Requirement definition
A technical conversation, not a form. We establish what the person will actually do, which skills are genuinely required versus nice to have, and what "good" looks like in your environment.
Sourcing
We search our bench, alumni network and market simultaneously. Alumni are identified as such — you always know when a candidate trained with us.
Engineer-led screening
A practising engineer in the relevant discipline conducts a technical interview and writes an assessment covering strengths, gaps and suitability for your specific context.
Shortlist
Three to five candidates with the written assessments attached. We would rather present three strong candidates than ten filtered by keyword.
Onboarding and check-ins
We handle contracting and compliance, then check in at day 7, day 30 and quarterly. If a placement is not working, we say so before you have to.
Outcomes
How we are different
- Every candidate technically interviewed by an engineer in that discipline
- Written technical assessments provided with every submission
- Three to five candidates per shortlist, not volume submissions
- Rate transparency — you see the bill rate and the pay rate
- 30-day no-charge replacement on every placement
- Alumni candidates clearly identified, never disguised as independent sourcing
Detail
Roles we place
Engineering
- Backend (Java, .NET, Python, Go)
- Frontend (React, Angular, Vue)
- Full stack
- Mobile
- Embedded
Platform & operations
- DevOps
- Site reliability
- Cloud architects
- Network engineers
- Security engineers
Data
- Data engineers
- Analytics engineers
- ML engineers
- Data scientists
- BI developers
Delivery & quality
- QA automation
- Business analysts
- Scrum masters
- Technical project managers
- Product owners
Questions
What people ask about this service
Including the ones with answers you might not want.
Are you just placing your own training graduates?
No. Alumni are one source among several, and they are always flagged as alumni in the submission. For senior requirements the majority of placements come from the open market, because a sixteen-week programme does not produce a principal engineer and we will not pretend otherwise.
What are your rates?
Markup varies by role type and volume, and we disclose both bill rate and pay rate on every placement. Opaque markup is how the staffing industry earned its reputation; we would rather compete on screening quality.
What happens if a placement does not work out?
Within the first 30 days we replace the person at no charge. Beyond that we work the problem with you — sometimes the fix is coaching or a scope change rather than a replacement, and we will say so if that is what we think.
Can you support work authorisation?
We employ contractors on our own payroll including sponsored visa holders where the role permits it, and we handle the associated compliance. Requirements with citizenship or clearance constraints are screened for those constraints upfront.
Still unresolved? Ask us directly.
Related
Services that usually accompany this one
For individuals
IT Training
Instructor-led training in the engineering skills employers hire for, taught by engineers still building the systems it draws from.
Service detail
Next step
Describe the role you need to fill
Tell us what the person will actually be doing and we will come back with a shortlist in five to eight business days.