Staff Augmentation
Ship features next sprint. Not next planning cycle.
A full-stack pod, product, design, engineering, and QA, embedded in your team. Your PM prioritizes. Our pod executes. Your team reviews every PR. First PR merged within two weeks, without a procurement fight or a new tool for your engineers to defend.
$25K – $75K / mo · month-to-month after first quarter
Pod configurations
Three sizes. Or build your own.
Standard Pod
$45K – $60K / mo
1 PM · 1 Designer · 2 Engineers · 1 QA
Teams shipping meaningful new surface area every sprint.
Lean Pod
$25K – $35K / mo
1 Designer · 2 Engineers
Focused feature work when you already have PM and QA in-house.
Custom Pod
$50K – $75K / mo
Composition tailored to your roadmap and seniority mix
Complex domains, specialized stacks, or scale-up needs.
How it works
Scope to first PR in two weeks.
Scope
One-week discovery: your roadmap, stack, review process, definition of done. We propose a pod composition.
Assemble
Pod is staffed and onboarded within two weeks. Every member has worked together before, no team-formation tax.
Embed
Pod joins your Slack, standups, sprint ceremonies, and repo. Your PM prioritizes. Our pod executes.
Ship
PRs flow through your normal review process. Weekly demos to stakeholders. Same DoD as your in-house team.
Compare
Pod vs. contractors vs. FTEs.
| Merven Pod | Staffing agency | Hiring FTEs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first PR | 2 weeks | 3–6 months | 6+ months |
| Composition | Full pod (PM + design + dev + QA) | Individual contractors | Individual FTEs |
| Coordination overhead | One team, one point of contact | You coordinate | You coordinate |
| Ramp-down | 30 days' notice | Contract-dependent | Layoff-dependent |
| Cost predictability | Fixed monthly retainer | Hourly, variable | Salary + benefits + overhead |
| Roadmap ownership | Yours | Yours | Yours |
Vs. a coding-agent SaaS
A team, not a tool.
AI coding platforms sell software your CTO has to buy, staff, and defend internally. We sell the outcome, merged PRs, on your repo, under a fixed engagement.
| Merven Pod | Coding-agent SaaS | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Our PM, design, dev, and QA | Your existing team, with a new agent |
| Who owns the output | You, from the first commit | You, but the agent context leaves with the vendor |
| How you pay | Fixed monthly retainer | Per-seat or per-task, plus internal ops cost |
| What your CTO has to approve | A statement of work | A platform, seats, security review, and org change |
| Time to first merged PR | Two weeks | After procurement, rollout, and training |
FAQ
Staff Aug, in detail.
See your rewrite, costed and scheduled, before you commit to anything.
Free Audit. One week. You walk away with a Digital Twin of your product, a feature-triage proposal, a target architecture, and a real timeline with a real number. Whether you build with us, build internally, or don't build at all, the audit is yours to keep.