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Engineering Pods · United States

Extend your engineering team. One pod or ten.

Dedicated engineering pods with a delivery lead, QA and DevOps built in, backed by a bench of hundreds of engineers across India. US contract. Start with a paid two-week pilot.

  • ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified
  • US contracting entity
  • Named engineers in your contract
  • Your repos, your cloud, your IP
Paid pilot$4,9002 engineers · 2 weeks · fixed price · credited to your first month if you continue
Dedicated engineersfrom $3,900per engineer per month · delivery lead, QA and DevOps support included in every pod

Contract with our US company in Colorado. Engineering delivery from India.

Request a pod proposal

Named engineers. A fixed pilot plan. Within one business day.

Work email required. No obligation until you approve the pilot.

Software engineers reviewing code together on a shared monitor
What a pod is

A managed team that ships, not a list of CVs.

Add engineering capacity without visa sponsorship or a six-month hiring cycle. Every pod is built from our bench of hundreds of engineers across India and comes with the roles that make delivery predictable.

Delivery lead running a sprint stand-up with engineers
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Delivery lead

One accountable owner for scope, velocity and reporting. Your single point of contact.

02

Engineers

Senior and mid-level engineers matched to your stack. Named in your contract.

03

QA

Testing is part of the pod, not an afterthought you pay for later.

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DevOps

CI/CD, environments and release support so the pod ships, not just codes.

Pod types

Pods matched to the work, including regulated domains.

Product Engineering Pod

Full-stack engineers who ship features against your roadmap, in your repos, through your review process.

AI & Agents Pod

LLM integration, retrieval, agent workflows and evaluation, built to run in production, not as demos.

Healthcare Pod

Engineers who already work with HIPAA, HL7 and FHIR integration, clinical workflows and audit trails.

Insurance & Fintech Pod

Policy, claims, payments and core-platform engineering with controls and evidence built into delivery.

Cloud & DevOps Pod

Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability and cost control across AWS, Azure and GCP.

QA & Automation Pod

Test automation, regression suites and release gates that let your team ship faster with fewer incidents.

Engineer on a video call with a client team while working in the codebase
How it starts

From first call to a working pod, with a paid pilot before any commitment.

Your pod joins your stand-ups, your tools and your review process from week one.

01

Scope call

A 30-minute call with an engineer, not a salesperson. We confirm stack, scope and the skills your pod needs.

02

Pod proposal

Named engineer profiles from our bench, a delivery lead, and a fixed pilot plan with clear success criteria.

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Two-week paid pilot

Two engineers work on real tickets in your repos. You judge the code, the communication and the pace.

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Scale pod by pod

Continue with the pod, add engineers, or add pods. The pilot fee is credited to your first month.

Your pod works a schedule with agreed overlap with your US team.

Built in, not bolted on

The questions your procurement team will ask, answered up front.

We hold ISO 27001 information security and ISO 9001 quality management certification. Your engineers work inside your systems, under your controls, under a contract with a company in your market.

Engineer monitoring production dashboards and a terminal
Questions

Engineering pods, answered.

How does the paid pilot work?

Two engineers work on real tickets in your environment for two weeks at a fixed price. If you continue, the full pilot fee is credited against your first month. If you do not, you keep the work and there is nothing further to pay.

What does a pod cost?

Dedicated engineers start at the "from" rate shown on this page per engineer per month. Senior, AI and domain-specialist engineers are priced higher. You get a written quote with named engineers before the pilot starts.

How large is a pod and how fast can it grow?

Most pods start with two to eight people including the delivery lead. Because we run a staffing bench of hundreds of engineers across India, adding engineers or adding pods does not mean starting a new recruitment cycle.

Who do we sign with?

With our US company (The Algorithm, Colorado) or our UK company (Design Thinking Technologies Ltd, London). Delivery is performed by our India engineering company under that contract.

How do you handle security and IP?

We are ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified. Engineers work in your repositories and cloud accounts with least-privilege access, every engineer is under NDA, and all IP is assigned to you.

What about time zones?

Every pod works an agreed schedule with overlap hours in your business day, so stand-ups, reviews and escalations happen live.

Is this staff augmentation or a managed team?

Both are available. A managed pod comes with a delivery lead who owns velocity and reporting. If you only need dedicated engineers who join your existing team, we can place them from the same bench.

Engineering team mapping a system architecture on a whiteboard
Next step

Start with two engineers for two weeks.

$4,900 fixed, credited to your first month if you continue. Scale to as many pods as your roadmap needs.

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