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They join your team, and report to your managers.

The distinction that defines this service: augmented specialists extend your own team and report to your managers, rather than working at arm's length on a statement of work. You keep the direction; we carry the employment.

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5
steps to a working team

Share the requirement, get a shortlist, interview, onboard in days, then scale up or down.

India
the talent pool

Sourced from India's national talent pool and employed through our Indian employer-of-record entity.

0
severance commitment

Capacity is added or released with short notice — no long-term salary obligation and no entity overhead.

Yours
the reporting line

Augmented specialists report to your managers and work in your process, not at arm's length.

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What Staff augmentation is

Staff augmentation expands your operation in India without you setting up a local entity. Screened professionals from India's talent pool join your team, work in your tools, repositories and sprint process, and report to your managers — and the employment relationship, payroll, HR, compliance and onboarding sit with us as employer of record.

The reporting line is what separates this from contract staffing. A contractor works at arm's length; an augmented engineer sits in your standups, owns tickets in your board, and is managed by your engineering manager. That makes it the right model when the work is continuous and integrated, and the wrong model when it is a discrete deliverable with a defined scope.

The commercial shape follows from that: no long-term salary or severance commitment, capacity added or released with short notice, and no entity overhead. Pricing is per specialist as an hourly or monthly rate bundling pay, margin and employment costs — no rate card is published, and the vendor's own claims are qualitative rather than numeric: lower hiring cost, higher retention, faster hiring than building the same team yourself.

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What it does

What is supplied, and what is carried on your behalf.

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Screened specialists, matched to the stack

A shortlist from the pre-vetted India talent pool, screened for the exact skills and seniority, with profiles, assessments and availability — usually within days of the brief.

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Employment carried for you

Employer-of-record and contractor management: payroll, HR, tax and compliance obligations handled on your behalf, so the engineers are properly employed rather than informally engaged.

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Onboarding into your process

Into your tools, repositories and sprint process — not into a parallel delivery structure. Time-zone overlap, communication cadence and the outcomes they own are agreed before day one.

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HR operations behind the team

Retention strategy and risk assessment, performance appraisals, periodic surveys, expense reimbursement, equipment oversight and one-to-one meetings — the administration a distributed team still needs.

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Dedicated teams where one person is not enough

An operations centre stood up without you investing in infrastructure, technology and HR — the same model at team scale rather than individual scale.

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Scale in both directions

Add or release capacity on short notice with no severance risk. The ability to scale down is the half of flexibility most suppliers are quieter about.

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How it runs

Five published steps, and you hold the decision at step three.

  1. Share the requirement

    Roles, tech stack, seniority and team culture, plus the time-zone overlap, the communication cadence and the outcomes the augmented engineers will own.

  2. Get a matched shortlist

    From the pre-vetted India talent pool, screened for the exact skills and level, usually within days, with profiles, assessments and availability attached.

  3. Interview and select

    You interview technically and culturally using structured scorecards. You stay in control of every hiring decision — this is not a resource being allocated to you.

  4. Onboard in days

    The selected engineers are employed through our employer of record and onboarded into your tools, repositories and sprint process, typically starting within weeks.

  5. Scale up or down

    Add or release capacity with short notice as the roadmap changes — no severance risk, no entity overhead, and no renegotiation to reduce a team.

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Who it is for

Teams whose constraint is engineering capacity inside their own process.

Engineering leaders short of capacity

Where the roadmap needs more hands in the existing team rather than a separate vendor delivering a separate thing, and where onboarding into your process is the requirement.

Founders building an offshore team

Companies who want an India team working in their sprint cadence without incorporating, hiring locally or building an HR function to support it.

CTOs testing before committing

Where you want to know whether a distributed team works for your codebase and your rituals before making permanent hiring commitments you cannot reverse.

Teams with variable demand

Roadmaps that expand and contract, where the ability to release capacity without severance is worth more than a marginally lower rate.

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What it does not do

Four limits, and the first one corrects something that has appeared on this site.

  • The talent is Indian and the employment is Indian. We do not operate offices, employ locals or run an employer-of-record entity in your country, so this is not a way to build a local team in another market.
  • No rate card is published. Pricing is per specialist as an hourly or monthly rate bundling pay, margin and employment costs, and it varies widely by skill and seniority — quoted against your actual brief.
  • Arm's-length project work with a defined deliverable is contract staffing rather than augmentation, and the difference is the reporting line. Contract staffing →
  • Where you need the legal employment relationship without the sourcing — because you already know who you want — that is the employer-of-record service on its own. Cross-border expansion →
  • It does not manage your engineers for you. They report to your managers, which is the point, and a team that needs managing end to end is a different engagement entirely.
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Answers

How is this different from contract staffing?

The reporting line. Augmented specialists extend your own team and report to your managers, working in your tools and rituals. Contract staffing supplies people who work at arm's length on defined project work.

Who employs the engineers?

We do, through our Indian employer-of-record entity — payroll, HR, tax and statutory compliance are carried on your behalf, while you direct the work day to day.

How quickly can someone start?

A matched shortlist usually arrives within days, and selected engineers are typically onboarded within weeks once you have interviewed and chosen. The interview stage is yours and it sets the pace.

What does it cost?

Per specialist, as an hourly or monthly rate bundling the person's pay, our margin and the employment costs. Rates vary widely by skill and seniority; talent in India typically costs less in total than the US or Western Europe, and there is no salary or severance commitment.

Can we reduce the team if the roadmap changes?

Yes — capacity is added or released on short notice, with no severance risk and no entity overhead. Being able to scale down is the part of flexibility that actually gets used.

Do we control the hiring decision?

Yes. You interview technically and culturally using structured scorecards and you decide. Nobody is allocated to your team without you choosing them.