Embedded Partner

Senior .NET architect embedded in your team — owning architecture, delivering continuously.

This is the engagement model for companies that need senior backend expertise embedded inside your team. Not a vendor handing deliverables over a wall — we integrate directly into your engineering environment: your tools, your standups, your decision chain.

You gain dedicated senior C#/.NET and Azure engineering capacity driving architecture decisions and implementation — without the hiring timeline, onboarding cost, and retention risk of a full-time senior hire. See how this ran in practice in our 11-month Cloud Robotics Test Infrastructure engagement, where an embedded architect replaced a hardware-bound test lab with a fully cloud-hosted parallel simulation harness.

Most companies reach this model after pricing an outsourced .NET development team, a dedicated backend engineering team, or a remote Azure development partner working their business hours. The commercial shape is the same — continuous senior engineering capacity without permanent headcount. What differs is who shows up: one senior architect who owns the architecture for the length of the engagement, not a rotating bench with an account manager in front of it.

Risk Reversal No long-term lock-in. Scale engagement up or down with 30 days notice. No termination penalties. No proprietary architecture that only we can maintain.
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What's Included

  • Dedicated senior .NET / Azure architect — not a rotating team of juniors
  • Direct participation in architecture reviews and sprint planning
  • Greenfield microservice design using Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architecture
  • Azure-native infrastructure: AKS, Service Bus, Event Hub, Blob, SQL
  • Continuous knowledge transfer — your internal team grows alongside the engagement
  • Documentation as a standing deliverable at every milestone
Best For Companies with ongoing backend development needs who want senior expertise embedded — not junior-volume billing. Typically teams who have already tried a dedicated development team from an agency and got a rotating bench instead. Ideal for teams scaling rapidly or entering regulated markets.
Project-Based Delivery

Defined scope. Fixed milestones. No invoice surprises.

When the problem is well-defined, the engagement model should match. We scope the work, agree on milestones, and deliver — with every phase gated on your sign-off before we proceed.

This model covers third-party API integrations, regulatory reporting automation, performance overhauls, and new backend system builds on .NET and Azure. If you're comparing quotes from custom .NET software development companies or scoping an outsourced backend development project, this is the equivalent engagement — with the scope, architecture, and acceptance criteria written down before the first commit rather than discovered during it.

Risk Reversal Fixed scope. Milestone-gated payments — you approve each phase before we proceed to the next. No budget exposure without your explicit sign-off.
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What's Included

  • Written scope document and architecture specification before any build begins
  • Milestone-based delivery with client approval gates throughout
  • Third-party integrations, REST API development, automation pipelines
  • Performance optimization and bottleneck remediation
  • Compliance-aware design for regulated data types (EU, US)
  • Full handover: documentation, knowledge transfer, post-launch availability
Best For Companies with a specific, well-defined problem where the outcome needs to be contractually clear and the budget needs to be fixed.
Discovery Sprint

Find out exactly what's wrong — and what it's costing you — before committing to anything.

Most expensive engineering failures are misdiagnosed before anyone opens a code editor. Our two-week diagnostic sprint audits your architecture, data flows, and failure patterns — and delivers a written report your CTO and CFO can both act on.

On one engagement we traced a slow, monolithic statement engine to its real architectural constraint and rebuilt it to return 95% of account statements within five seconds — after the internal team had spent months chasing infrastructure upgrades.

Risk Reversal Fully self-contained. The sprint delivers a written assessment with quantified findings and zero obligation to proceed further. You own the report regardless of what you decide next.
Fixed Price
£12,000
USD $15,000  ·  EUR €14,000
Two weeks. Written report. Yours to keep.
Discuss a Discovery Sprint

What's Included

  • 2-week deep audit of backend architecture and critical data flows
  • Bottleneck identification with quantified business impact per finding
  • Architectural remediation roadmap with effort-to-impact matrix
  • Written executive summary suitable for CTO or board-level review
  • Honest assessment — including if the problem doesn't require us to solve it
  • Optional: direct implementation as a follow-on engagement
Best For Companies that know something is wrong but can't pinpoint it — or where a performance failure has already cost real money and leadership needs a clear diagnosis before committing to a fix.
Why we only show the Discovery Sprint price. Embedded Partner and Project-Based Delivery engagements are scoped individually — the right number depends on team size, stack complexity, timeline, and regulatory constraints. Publishing a day rate anchors the conversation in the wrong place. If you have a budget in mind, bring it to the call and we will tell you honestly what is achievable within it.

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