Hire AI engineers
Some clients don’t want an agency. They want two senior engineers who’ve shipped agents before, working inside their team, on their board, under their process.
The short version: some clients don’t want an agency; they want two senior engineers who’ve shipped agents before, working inside their team. That’s this — and the deliverable is your team being able to do it without them.
What this is
Embedded senior engineers, placed with your team for a defined period. They work your sprints, attend your standups, and commit to your repository.
What they bring: agent architecture experience, evaluation infrastructure discipline, integration judgement, and the failure modes they’ve already hit so your team doesn’t have to.
What they don’t do: become a black box. The point is that your team ends up able to do this without them.
When this beats a build engagement
- You have engineering capacity but no agent experience
- The work is core to your product and you want the knowledge to stay in-house
- You need velocity now and hiring takes six months
- You have several workflows and want internal capability rather than a vendor relationship per workflow
When it doesn’t
- You want an outcome delivered rather than capability built — take the fixed-price build instead
- You need one workflow automated and nothing more
- You don’t have an engineering team for them to embed into
How it works
Named engineers, introduced before you commit. You interview them. If they’re not right, you don’t take them.
Knowledge transfer is the deliverable
Every engagement includes documented architecture decisions, an eval suite your team owns and can run, runbooks for the workflows built, and a handover session at wind-down.
If we leave and your team can’t maintain what was built, we’ve failed regardless of what shipped.
Frequently asked questions
Can we hire them permanently afterwards?
Yes, and we don’t charge a conversion fee. If someone wants to join you and you want them, that’s a good outcome for everyone including us.
Do they work our hours?
Within reason and stated up front. Overlap requirements are agreed before placement.
Can we start with a build and move to embedded later?
Frequently the best path. The build proves the approach; embedding scales it.
How is this different from a contractor from an agency pool?
You interview them first, they’re named before you commit, and the same people stay for the engagement. No substitution without your agreement.