Short of people or skills?Add a pod.

It costs the same as outsourcing a single developer, and you only pay for the time you use. You choose the hours each month, not the number of people, and you can change them from one month to the next. We'll walk you through how it's charged in the first conversation, and a Discovery week is credited against your first month.

Eleven people: a team lead and architect, a business analyst, a project manager (your one point of contact), a UX designer, a QA engineer, a DevOps engineer and five developers. Between them they cover back-end, front-end, mobile, business analysis, quality assurance, UX/UI design, DevOps and delivery management. Test automation and cloud setup come with every pod. You only use the time you need from them.

Yes. Many teams have the developers and need one piece of experience they haven't built in-house yet. Your pod's hours go to that skill only, alongside your team. 100 hours a month usually suits this. The skills a pod can bring: mobile apps, web applications, AI and automation, systems integration, data and dashboards, and platforms and SaaS.

A contractor is one person with one skill set, and you run their work. A pod is a complete team with its own project manager, QA and DevOps, so it brings the skills and runs the work with you. Code is reviewed by someone who didn't write it, tests come with the work, and if one person is away or leaves, the rest of the pod already knows your code.

An 11-person team costs R920K–R1.15M a month in salaries, and recruitment fees run at 15–25% per hire, about R1.5M–R2.7M upfront for the same 11 roles (Codehesion sales presentation). Then it's 3–9 months before a new hire is fully productive (Microsoft Research & AIHR).

We start with a code audit, so we know exactly what we're taking on and nothing breaks in the handover. We agree a handover plan with you, and the pod picks up the work from your current provider without it stopping, with one point of contact and a clear monthly plan. You own all code and IP throughout. If the work needs to be taken over and put right first, project rescue is the better starting point.

No. Most of our pod clients have their own team, and keep growing it. The pod works in your repo, through your pull requests and to your standards, and shares what it knows with your developers as it goes.

Yes. The pod becomes your team, with one point of contact, and builds your software scalable and maintainable from the first release, so it can grow and be looked after by whoever runs it later. If you have one specific product to build, custom software development may suit you better.

Usually 1–4 weeks after signature. A Discovery week can start sooner.

Yes. Your pod is a dedicated team, so the people who learn your product stay on it.

Most clients start bigger for a build and scale down as the product settles. If you only need one skill, start small. Need more than 400 hours a month? We'll shape a larger pod with you. We'll recommend a size in the first conversation.

Yes, between pod levels from one month to the next, with no lock-in. Add hours for a launch, drop them when it's out.

The pod works as a team, with shared documentation and code reviews, so the knowledge stays with the pod and your work carries on.

We lead with AI, and an experienced engineer reviews every line it produces. Your code is never used to train AI models.

You own all code and IP from day one. When you're ready, we plan the handover with you: documentation, pairing, and a smaller pod while your team takes the lead.