to first commit, contractual
live overlap, everyday
exit clause, no penalty
of US boutique rates
Our dedicated development team differs from all of them. Unified was built specifically because every CTO we talked to had been scarred by at least two of these.
Read these honestly. If even two of them sound like a quarter you'd experienced and want to forget, the rest of this page is definitely meant for you.
“We can do it for $18 an hour”
Headcount sits at a number that fits easily within your budget spreadsheet without needing a conversation with finance.
What you got:
Three juniors disguised as a senior IT team. Junior code review by another junior. A Definition of Done written only after the sprint.
What it cost you:
Two releases that had to be rolled back, one stale main branch, and the architecture decision that your CTO has to explain and justify at the next funding round.
“We'll send you resumes by Friday”
Talent supply. Bench-driven. Whoever is on bench is who you get to interview.
What you got:
Engineers who answered three Leetcode questions well and have never owned a sprint. Zero context dossier. No technical management. The pod is whoever Slack-replies fastest.
What it cost you:
Your in-house leads spent 40% of their week onboarding, reviewing, and translating. The roadmap moved sideways.
“Let's start with a six-week discovery”
Brand. Methodology binders. A pyramid where Senior Partner closes, Director kicks off, and an offshore dedicated tech team manager you've never met actually runs the work.
What you got:
A 90-page discovery deck. Beautiful slides. The pod that shipped your features is two grade-bands lower than the deck implied. Change requests billed at partner rates.
What it cost you:
$1.4M before the first feature flag went on. A roadmap that flexes around their staffing model, not yours.
“We're senior-only, NYC-based, $200/hr”
A vibe. Brooklyn office, Notion-native, beautiful case studies, founder-flavored decks. Real talent and a burn rate that eats two engineering hires for every one of theirs.
What you got:
Excellent senior individuals. No bench. No backfill. If one engineer takes a sabbatical, your sprint is two weeks of patch-quilting.
What it cost you:
Either velocity (one role you'd actually staff at three) or runway (the three roles your Series-B board didn't want to see).
Six recurring pains from the engineering leaders we talk to every week. For each one, we give you the specific clause, ritual, or instrument our full managed development team operates against. None of this is aspirational copy. It is how a Unified Dedicated Pod runs from day one.
A standard Unified Dedicated Pod is six humans, one Engineering Manager, and a Hybrid Intelligence stack that lives across the pod. Every dedicated engineering team seat ships product. Every seat carries an AI multiplier that compounds across the sprint.
12-18 years of experience. Named in the proposal. Resume and LinkedIn shared before signing. Remains on engagement through full life cycle. Your single point of technical accountability.
Production experience across React, Next.js, Node, Python, and cloud. Every PR reviewed by a senior architect. AI-augmented with Cursor and internal RAG over your codebase.
Production ML and LLM experience. RAG, agents, fine-tuning, eval harnesses, MLOps. Senior backstop on architecture decisions. Dedicated AI engineering specialists, not generalists pretending.
Design-fluent frontend professionals. Production accessibility, performance budgets, design system discipline. Hand-off-ready Figma-to-React workflows.
CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, observability. Dedicated DevOps team builds the platform your team ships on. AI-augmented runbooks, automated incident response, SLO discipline from Day 1.
AI-augmented test generation, regression coverage, release-gate discipline. Scrum lead runs sprint cadence, weekly demos, velocity dashboards. Both report through your structure.
Your single point of accountability outside the engineering extended team. Quarterly business reviews. Quality SLAs enforced. Senior leadership escalation when needed. Not a sales rep.
Every Unified dedicated developer ships with a stack of AI tools, an internal RAG over your codebase, AI code review on every pull request, and an AI velocity dashboard you can see. Not "we use ChatGPT sometimes." Productized, measured, and built into the contract. Average measured velocity is 2-3x developer baseline. Senior engineers associated with the dedicated product team approve every change.
Capability 01
Cursor or Claude Code as the daily driver. Inline completion, multi-file refactoring, agent mode for boilerplate. Productivity dashboards measure suggestion acceptance, code accuracy, and human override rate per product team developer per week.
CAPABILITY 02
Every remote dedicated team developer gets a private RAG endpoint over your codebase from Day 1 of Onboard. Ask "where is auth handled" or "show me how we paginate" and get a grounded answer with citations. Closes the onboarding gap from 6 weeks to 6 days.
CAPABILITY 03
Every PR runs an AI review before human review. Security, performance, regression, accessibility, and style are flagged automatically. Senior engineer review is then focused on architecture and judgment, not surface-level catches.
CAPABILITY 04
For every new feature, AI generates the regression test suite that ports forward. Unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage produced alongside the code. Senior QA reviews and approves. Coverage gaps surfaced and closed before merge.
CAPABILITY 05
Module docs, API specs, architecture diagrams, and runbooks generated alongside the code and kept fresh on every merge. The dreaded "docs are stale" problem retired. New managed engineering team members onboard against living documentation.
CAPABILITY 06
One dashboard, weekly: tickets shipped, story points delivered, AI suggestion acceptance rate, human override rate, bug escape rate, PR cycle time. Visible to your engineering leadership. No vanity metrics. AI velocity proven, not promised.
Match and build a dedicated development team in Week 1-2.
Onboard in Week 3. Operate from Week 4 forward.
Every stage has named deliverables, fixed cadence, and a visible artifact you keep. The 21-day average is based on 40+ outsourced dedicated team engagements over the last 18 months. Faster is possible. Slower is rare.
STAGE 01 - WEEK 1 - 2
From discovery call to signed proposal. Cross-functional team composition matched to your roadmap, resumes shared, interviews scheduled.
What happens
ARTIFACT YOU KEEP
Named dedicated AI engineering team composition, ramp plan, cost band, MSA with 30-day exit.
STAGE 02 - WEEK 3
Discovery sprint, environment access, codebase walkthrough. Internal RAG indexed. AI tooling installed. Senior architect runs the kickoff.
What happens
ARTIFACT YOU KEEP
Discovery doc, sprint plan, RAG endpoint, AI tooling deployed.
STAGE 03 - WEEK 4+
First commit shipped, first PR reviewed, first weekly demo delivered. Sprint cadence locked. AI velocity dashboard live. Quarterly business review every 90 days.
What happens
ARTIFACT YOU KEEP
Sprint cadence, velocity dashboard, weekly demos, QBR deck.
The Unified Assurance Framework is what makes a dedicated extended development team engagement defensible to your CFO, your Legal, and your board. Ten clauses, written into every MSA, active from Day 1. No clause is optional. No clause is "best effort." Quality, accountability, and exit are contractually guaranteed.
Every extended software team engineer named in the proposal. Resume and LinkedIn URL provided. You verify experience independently. No "team profile" placeholders. Substitutions prohibited without your written approval.
12-18 years experience. Named in the SOW. Single point of technical accountability. Remains on engagement through full life cycle. Not reassigned to another client at month 7.
Default: 4-6 hours overlap with US Eastern. Configurable to your time zone. Stand-ups, demos, and architecture reviews scheduled in your working hours. Async by default, sync where needed.
Every Friday. Working software, not slides. Velocity dashboard reviewed. Miss two consecutive weekly demos, the third week is free. Skin in the game, written into the contract.
Give notice anytime. Receive code, documentation, runbooks, in-flight artifacts within 30 days. No claw-back, no termination penalties, no hostage clauses. Quality SLA breach triggers no-fault exit.
All IP, source code, models, datasets, prompts, eval suites, runbooks, and documentation produced by the dedicated generative AI team are yours from Day 1. Code escrow available. No retained background IP. No derivatives clause.
Less than 2 critical bugs per sprint. 95%+ on-time delivery on agreed scope. Sprint velocity within 10% of forecast. Breach triggers root-cause review and remediation plan. Two consecutive breaches, no-fault exit.
Every PR runs AI code review, security scan, regression check, and accessibility audit before human review. Senior engineer review focused on architecture and judgment. Coverage gaps surfaced and closed before merge.
Every 90 days. Engagement Director presents to your C-suite. Velocity, quality, ROI, risk, and roadmap reviewed. Quality SLAs audited. Senior leadership escalation available. Not a sales upsell meeting.
Free Team Composition Blueprint delivered within 48 hours of discovery call. Signed proposal within 10 days of blueprint approval. First commit within 21 days of MSA. Time is the scarcest resource. We treat it that way.
Enabled the digital transformation of a translation company, fuelling business growth
Built an app from scratch to enable crypto to cash payments
Modernized a legacy website for a leading real-estate tech provider
Designed and optimized a new intuitive website for an edtech client
Developed a bespoke multilingual app to collect and analyze customer feedback
Increase in subscriptions
Increase in revenue
Growth in new customer acquisition
Increase in backoffice efficiency
Million+ seed funding
Fortune 500 customers
If you recognize the situation on this list, a dedicated team is likely your right answer for software development over staff augmentation (too transactional) or project-based (too rigid). Each use case is calibrated to a real engagement we have delivered in the last 18 months. Tell us your variant; we will send the closest precedent.
Need 8 senior engineers in 4 weeks. In-house hiring would take 9 months. Dedicated remote development team ramps in 21 days.
Production ML expertise (RAG, agents, MLOps, evals) is the scarcest skill set. Dedicated AI development team ramps fast, ships in production.
Building B2B alongside D2C, or a net-new vertical. Core team can't be pulled off. Dedicated software engineering team for enterprise owns the new line end-to-end.
Current contractor is rotating juniors onto your team every 6 months. Swap quietly with a senior AI-powered remote software team. Velocity recovers in a sprint.
Strangler-fig migration runs 9-18 months. Project-based wears out. Dedicated web development team commits long-term, learns your domain, ships consistently.
US nearshore development team logs off; Unified team picks up. Tickets close overnight. Issues resolved before US morning. Velocity doubles without overtime.
Q2 roadmap is twice Q1. Hiring temporarily makes no sense. 6-month dedicated agile development team handles the surge, then ramps down or extends.
iOS + Android specialists, designer, QA. Self-contained mobile app development team that ships to the App Store and Play Store alongside the web team.
Data pipelines, lakehouse, governance, BI. Specialist data science team paired with senior architect. Builds the AI-ready foundation underneath.
DevOps, SRE, infra-as-code, observability, security. The platform layer your product team ships on. Senior DevOps lead, MLOps-capable.
Senior designers, researchers, design systems engineer. Builds your dedicated design system, runs research cadence, ships Figma-to-code workflows.
Cross-functional development team: PM, designer, full-stack devs, QA, DevOps. Owns a complete product vertical end-to-end. Ships independently.
We are a stack-agnostic dedicated development team company. We match your tech, your cloud, your tooling. Below is the typical baseline a Unified dedicated team brings on Day 1, plus the AI tooling installed for every engineer in Week 3. Your stack stays your stack. We bring the velocity multiplier.
Redefine your website frontend with tech stacks that help build smooth user interfaces for seamless user experiences.
Choose the best server-facing tech stacks to improve performance and create exceptional business functionalities.
Rationalize your data migration by selecting a database that offers you the most in functionality and convenience.
Choose wisely from our cloud tech stack to drive the success, scalability, security, and overall impact of your digital product.
DevOps is more than a mindset. It involves a precisely coordinated play of tools and technologies that maximize your digital ROI.
Leverage the given tools and technologies to develop, train, and deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning models effectively.
Outsourced engineering is the most-debated line item on a CTO's budget. Below are the six offshore development center(ODC) fears your CFO and your Legal team will surface in the contract review. Each one is answered with a clause that is contractually active from Day 1, not aspirationally promised.
Mitigation: Resumes and LinkedIn shared before signing. You interview every candidate. The cross-functional development team named in the SOW is the team that ships. Substitutions prohibited without written approval. Bait-and-switch clause invalid.
Mitigation: Senior architect contractually locked on engagement. Substitutions require your written approval and a 60-day overlap with the incoming architect. Average team tenure on Unified engagements: 24+ months.
Mitigation: Quality SLAs on velocity, bugs, and on-time delivery written into the MSA. AI velocity dashboard visible to you weekly. Breach triggers root-cause review. Two consecutive breaches: no-fault exit with no penalty.
Mitigation: 30-day exit clause active from kickoff. No claw-back, no termination penalties, no minimum commitment beyond the current sprint. Quality SLA breach triggers no-fault exit. Legal team has reviewed and approved.
Mitigation: IP is yours from Day 1, written into the MSA. Code escrow available. ISO 27001 certified. SOC 2 in progress. Segregated repo access, NDA per engineer, GDPR / HIPAA-aligned data handling. No retained background IP.
Mitigation: Every developer is AI-augmented. AI tooling refreshed quarterly. Velocity dashboard visible to you weekly. AI capabilities productized through the Unified Assurance Framework, not bolted on. We are an AI-native engineering firm, not a traditional shop that mentions AI in slide 12.
Unified does not publish fixed dedicated team hourly rates because team composition, seniority mix, specialist roles, and engagement length all vary. The free Team Composition Blueprint produces a precise cost band before you commit. Below are the structural parameters every engagement scopes against.
TEAM SIZE
3 — 15 engineers
Typical: 6-8. Smallest dedicated team is 3 (architect + 2 seniors). Largest single team is 15. Above 15, we structure as multiple coordinated pods sharing one Engagement Director.
ENGAGEMENT LENGTH
3 months — 3+ years
Minimum 3 months (below this, Staff Augmentation is the better model). Typical: 12-24 months. Longest active engagement: 7+ years. 30-day exit clause active throughout.
SENIORITY MIX
70% senior+
70% of every team is senior or above (8+ years). 20% mid-level (4-8 years). 10% promising junior on supervised tracks (under 4 years). Industry typical body shop: 30% senior or below.
COST BAND
~50% of US boutique
Senior-led, AI-augmented teams at approximately 50% of comparable US premium boutique rates. Lower than US in-house total comp. Higher than offshore body shops. The economics that actually close.
A dedicated development team is a long-term engagement model where you hire a full engineering team (developers, architects, QA, DevOps, designers) that works exclusively on your roadmap. The team integrates with your existing engineering organization, reports through your structure, and follows your sprint cadence. Unified delivers dedicated teams of senior engineers averaging 8+ years of experience, every developer AI-augmented with Cursor, Claude, and Copilot. Named team with resumes shared before you sign.
Unified ramps dedicated teams to first commit in 21 days on average. Week 1-2 is the Match phase: team composition blueprint, resume sharing, interview rounds. Week 3 is Onboard: discovery sprint with your senior architect, environment access, codebase walkthrough. Week 4 is Operate: first commit, first PR, first weekly demo. Hiring senior engineers in-house typically takes 4-9 months per role.
Every Unified developer is equipped with AI tooling that compounds output: Cursor or Claude Code as the IDE, AI code review on every pull request, AI-generated test suites, AI documentation generation, internal RAG over the codebase for instant context, and AI-augmented spec analysis. Measured productivity is 2-3x baseline, validated through weekly velocity dashboards visible to the customer. AI accelerates the work; senior engineers approve every change.
Body shops rotate engineers off your team after 6-12 months and replace them with juniors from the bench. Unified does not. Your team is your team. We share resumes and LinkedIn profiles before signing, name a senior architect on every engagement, and contractually prohibit unilateral substitutions. Average tenure on a Unified dedicated team is 24+ months. 70% of every team is senior or above. Pricing is approximately 50% of premium US boutique rates.
Yes. Every Unified dedicated team engagement has a 30-day exit clause active from kickoff. You give notice, we hand over code, documentation, runbooks, and any in-flight artifacts within 30 days. No claw-back, no termination penalties, no hostage clauses. IP is yours from Day 1. Code escrow available on request. Quality SLA breach triggers no-fault exit with no penalty.
You. All IP, source code, models, datasets, prompts, evaluation suites, runbooks, and documentation produced by the team are yours from Day 1. This is contractually written into the master services agreement, not deferred to end-of-engagement. Code escrow is available on request. Unified does not retain rights, derivatives, or background IP from your engagement.
Unified does not publish fixed rates because team composition (seniority mix, specialist roles, location preference) varies per engagement. Senior-led AI-powered dedicated teams are delivered at approximately 50% of premium US boutique rates. The free Team Composition Blueprint produces a named team with seniority mix, ramp timeline, and a precise cost band before you commit. Proposal sent within 48 hours.
The Unified Assurance Framework is a productized set of 10 contractual clauses written into every dedicated team engagement: resume and LinkedIn shared before signing, named senior architect, 4-6 hour US time zone overlap, weekly demos with measurable progress, 30-day exit clause, IP yours from Day 1, quality SLAs on bugs and on-time delivery, AI-augmented quality assurance on every PR, quarterly business review with C-suite, and a 10-day deliverable promise on every proposal. Each clause is contractually active from Day 1.
Years building AI-powered teams
Senior AI-augmented engineers
Global clients shipped
Clutch rating, Deloitte-recognized
Tell us about your software development roadmap and the team gap hiring cannot close in time. The Engagement Director, the same person who will own your engagement, sends back a Free Team Composition Blueprint with named seniority, ramp timeline, and a precise cost band. Typically within 48 hours.
NDA on request. The Team Composition Blueprint is yours to keep, with or without engagement. No follow-up sales call required.
