ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Dedicated engineering team

A senior engineering team that operates as an extension of yours — reporting to your leadership, using your tools, and delivering to your roadmap.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

What comes with a dedicated team

A team that acts like yours — same tools, same rituals, same accountability — for months or years.

Senior engineers only

Every seat on the team is a senior engineer with production experience — no juniors on the invoice as seniors.

Full-time dedication

Engineers work only on your product during their contracted hours — not shared across three other clients.

Reports to your PM

Team reports into your product manager or engineering lead, not a vendor-side account manager or delivery director.

Uses your tools & repos

Your Slack, your Jira or Linear, your GitHub or GitLab, your Figma. No parallel tooling universe for us to sync with.

Your quarterly planning

The team joins your OKR and roadmap planning cycles — the same standups, retros, and reviews as any internal squad.

Your on-call rotation (optional)

Where it fits, engineers join your on-call rotation for services they own — with real runbook handoffs and pager pay.

HOW IT WORKS

From scoping to steady delivery

A four-phase engagement that gets a team in place and delivering to your roadmap within weeks.

01

Team scoping

A working session on the roadmap, current gaps, and required skills — we come back with a proposed team composition.

02

Engineer selection

You interview the specific engineers, veto anyone who is not a fit, and confirm the final team before it locks.

03

Kickoff & onboarding

A one- or two-week onboarding — access, documentation, pairing, first low-risk PRs — with your team leading the intro.

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Ongoing delivery

The team joins your rituals and delivers against your roadmap. Monthly business reviews keep scope and cadence honest.

WHEN TO USE THIS

Where a dedicated team is the right fit

A dedicated team is the right model when the work is ongoing, the context is deep, and continuity matters as much as velocity.

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Product platform builds

Long-horizon platform work where the team accumulates context that would be expensive to lose to turnover.

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Long-running platform work

Multi-quarter internal platform, infrastructure, or data-platform builds where sustained team ownership pays off.

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Feature velocity acceleration

When product is behind on the roadmap and the answer is more senior capacity plugged into the current process.

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Complex integration programs

Multi-partner or multi-system integration work where switching engineers mid-flight would cost weeks of rediscovery.

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Design-system & tooling teams

Internal-facing teams that build for the rest of engineering — where consistency and trust take time to build.

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AI product engineering

AI features that need iteration on evals, prompts, and models — with the same engineers seeing the trend line over months.

TYPICAL TECH

The stack our teams commonly work in

Any modern stack — these are the ones we place most often, and match to whatever you already run.

TypeScript React Node.js Python PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS GCP GitHub Linear Notion Slack Datadog Sentry
WHY THIS MODEL

What you get from a dedicated team

The advantages of a stable, dedicated team over rotating contractors or ad-hoc staff aug.

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Team continuity across quarters

The same engineers stay on the work for months or years — so context, relationships, and codebase memory compound.

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No context loss

Deep familiarity with your product, users, and history means fewer regressions and faster judgment calls.

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Predictable monthly cost

A steady, transparent monthly rate — no surprise change orders, no billing-hour arguments.

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Deep domain expertise

The team learns your business as thoroughly as an in-house team — because that's effectively what they are.

FEATURED WORK

A product built by a dedicated team

An AI product delivered end-to-end by a dedicated Zikosoft engineering team.

NeuraDesk case study AI • RAG

NeuraDesk

A retrieval-augmented support copilot that grounds answers in a company's own knowledge base.

LangChain • RAG Pipeline • Vector Search • Evaluation

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WHY ZIKOSOFT

Why teams pick us for dedicated engagements

A senior bench, low turnover, and the discipline to work inside your existing organization.

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Senior-only engineers, low turnover

The same engineers stay on the account across quarters — not a revolving door of resources swapped without warning.

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We work in your process

Your tools, your rituals, your standards. We adapt to how you already work rather than importing a proprietary methodology.

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Transparent monthly commercials

A clear per-engineer rate, no ambiguity on ramp-up, and honest conversations if a role isn't working out.

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You keep the codebase and the team knowledge

Code, docs, and runbooks live with you. Ending the engagement doesn't leave you stranded on a proprietary black box.

FAQ

Common questions about dedicated teams

Practical answers on team composition, commercials, and how a dedicated team plugs into your organization.

How large is a typical dedicated team?
Most start at three to six engineers, sometimes with a tech lead. We can go up to double-digit teams for larger programs. The right size depends on the work — not on what fills a slide.
Can I swap engineers if a role isn't working?
Yes. If an engineer is not the right fit, we replace them within two weeks at our cost. Fit issues are addressed by us, not passed back to you as risk.
What's the minimum commitment?
Three months to get past ramp-up, then month-to-month with 30 days notice. We don't sell multi-year lock-ins.
Do engineers work in my time zone?
Yes. We match to your primary time zone with at least four hours of overlap for standups, reviews, and pairing.
Who manages the team day-to-day?
Your product manager or engineering lead. If you want a Zikosoft tech lead in the mix, we can include one who reports into your leadership.
Who owns the code and IP?
You do. All work-for-hire clauses assign IP to you on delivery. Code lives in your repositories from day one.

Ready to stand up a dedicated team?

Tell us about the roadmap and the gap. We'll come back with a proposed team, timeline, and monthly cost.

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