This service is privately scoped and quoted by email. Contact [email protected] for a custom proposal. For smaller needs, our starter options are $49 for a quick consultation, $299 for one small fix, and $899 for one landing page or one basic integration. Work requiring $1,000 or more is quoted privately.
Staff augmentation at a glance
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The difference between staff augmentation that works and staff augmentation that drifts is who selected the engineer and who stays accountable after the start date. Both are on our side of the agreement.
Each engineer clears the hiring process Shipverra uses for its own work (technical assessment, several interview rounds, a final interview with our C-level) before you meet them. Your interview is the last gate, and nobody joins your team without it.
The engineer works in your repository, your stand-ups, your code review, and your planning cadence from the first week. You manage the work day to day. We handle selection, payroll, replacement, and the Claude Team subscription the engineer uses on your work, and time off is not billed.
When a placement is not working for either side, we surface it early and replace the engineer through the same selection process and your interview. You do not carry the cost of a bad placement.
Every engineer we place works with AI-augmented development tools, LLM APIs, and agent patterns as a matter of course. It is part of the selection bar, and it does not appear as an extra line on the invoice.
A single seat usually staffs faster than a full team; the 2 to 4 week window the dedicated line commits to is the outer bound.
Role, stack, seniority, how the engineer will be managed, and the start date you need. If the gap is really a team and a roadmap, we say so and route you to the dedicated team.
We match the brief against engineers who have already passed Shipverra’s internal hiring process, so the profiles you see are people we would put on our own builds.
You interview each candidate the way you would interview a hire. The engineering check has already passed on our side, so your interview is the fit check, and nobody starts without it.
The engineer joins your repository, stand-ups, and code review in the first week. Replacement and conversion terms are set in the agreement before day one.
Most engagements on this line start with one or two placed engineers. When the roadmap needs a unit with a senior partner running replacement and composition decisions, the engagement moves onto dedicated-team terms without restarting the relationship.
This service is privately scoped and quoted by email. Contact [email protected] for a custom proposal. For smaller needs, our starter options are $49 for a quick consultation, $299 for one small fix, and $899 for one landing page or one basic integration. Work requiring $1,000 or more is quoted privately.
COST
This service is privately scoped and quoted by email. Contact [email protected] for a custom proposal. For smaller needs, our starter options are $49 for a quick consultation, $299 for one small fix, and $899 for one landing page or one basic integration. Work requiring $1,000 or more is quoted privately.
WHAT MOVES THE MONTHLY RATE
WHY A STARTING RATE AND NOT AN HOURLY RATE CARD
Staff augmentation is usually sold by the hour, and the hourly number hides what decides whether the engagement works: who selected the engineer, who replaces them, and whether they can work in your codebase in week one. A monthly rate per engineer keeps the incentive on shipped work. We publish where it starts, and the brief call sets the rate for the role you describe.
IS THIS YOU
The common thread is an engineering leader with the management capacity to run one more person, and a gap that is real but does not need a unit.
A senior engineer left, a hire fell through, or a workstream has nobody on it. You need one person who can work in your codebase in week one, and you want to interview them yourself.
A migration, an integration, or an AI feature needs a skill your team does not have and will not need permanently. One engineer for two or three quarters closes it without a permanent hire.
The role is open, the pipeline is slow, and the roadmap will not wait. A placed engineer keeps the work moving, and if they turn out to be the hire, the agreement has a conversion path.
You never receive a timesheet. The engineer is priced per month and works full time on your team, so the incentive is shipped work.
Marketplaces hand you a feed of profiles and leave the selection to you. Every engineer we place has already cleared the hiring process we use for our own work, and a senior Shipverra person stays accountable for the placement.
You manage the engineer day to day. When the gap needs a unit with a senior partner running replacement and composition decisions, that is a dedicated software development team, and we will route you there.
CLIENT VOICE
I'm impressed by their quick identification and availability of capable talent.
Custom Software & AI Dev & DevOps for Transportation Company
We have monthly goals to complete specific requirements, and Shipverra always meets those goals quite easily.
Custom Software Dev for Computer Vision Startup
We trust their judgment because they are extremely reliable.
Every placement clears the same hiring process Shipverra uses for its own builds, run by the CTO and the engineering team. Your interview comes after theirs.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
The questions we hear from people comparing staff augmentation companies, marketplaces, and a dedicated team. The answers match how the engagement runs.
Adding engineers from an outside firm to your own team, under your management, for as long as the gap lasts. The firm hires, pays, and replaces the engineer; you direct the work. It differs from outsourcing a project, where the vendor manages delivery, and from a dedicated team, where a unit of engineers comes with its own partner layer.
Staff augmentation fits one or two seats you have the capacity to manage. A dedicated team fits an ongoing roadmap that needs a unit of engineers with a senior partner running replacement and composition decisions. Managed services fit when you want the vendor to own the outcome, such as an AI agent run in production for a monthly fee. Shipverra runs all three, and the brief call routes you to the right one.
Staff augmentation vs managed services, in depthThis service is privately scoped and quoted by email. Contact [email protected] for a custom proposal. For smaller needs, our starter options are $49 for a quick consultation, $299 for one small fix, and $899 for one landing page or one basic integration. Work requiring $1,000 or more is quoted privately.
The engineer’s full-time attention to your team, the selection process they cleared before you met them, replacement if the fit does not hold, payroll and everything else that is not engineering, and the Claude Team subscription they use on your work. Time off is not billed. Scope changes are not an issue because you direct the work; the rate is for the person, not a scope.
A single seat usually staffs faster than a full team. The dedicated line commits to 2 to 4 weeks from signing to a fully staffed kickoff, and that window is the outer bound for one engineer. Selection does not get skipped to move faster: the shortlist only includes engineers who have already cleared our hiring process.
Yes. Funded startups with a technical leader who can manage one more engineer are the most common shape. If you have no engineering management yet, a placed engineer without direction is the failure mode, and we will suggest a dedicated team with a delivery manager instead.
You do, day to day: priorities, code review, planning. Shipverra handles selection, payroll, replacement when fit does not hold, and a senior point of contact who checks in on the placement. If you find you need us to manage the work as well, that is a dedicated team.
Yes, through the same structured buyout the dedicated line uses. Conversion terms are set in the agreement before the start date and scale with how long the engineer has been on your team. Using staff augmentation as a bridge to a permanent hire is a normal outcome, and the agreement is written for it.
Hiring a forward deployed AI engineer: full time vs embeddedA recruiter finds candidates and hands them over; the employment, the risk, and the replacement are yours. A staff augmentation company employs the engineer, so a bad fit is our cost to fix, and the engineer can move on to another engagement when your gap closes.
They work with AI-augmented development tools in their own loop, and they can build with LLM APIs and agent patterns when your roadmap calls for it. It is part of the bar every engineer clears rather than a specialist tier. If your immediate work does not touch a model, you still get an engineer who moves faster because of the tooling.
A 30-minute brief call with someone who understands the engineering and the business. It ends with a shortlist plan and the monthly rate for the role, or with a straight answer that the gap is a team, not a seat.
Tell us about the role, the stack, and the start date you need. Someone who understands the engineering and the business will review it and come back with a shortlist plan and the monthly rate, or with a straight answer that the gap is a team, not a seat.
