Nearshore delivery pods for agencies and consultancies
A named group of people with an agreed monthly capacity rather than a fixed list of job titles: backend one week, QA and release work the next, a front-end specialist for a launch, support and change delivery throughout. It works inside your processes and tooling, it can be client-facing, and it has a technical lead on our side who owns continuity, quality and escalation.
Why a pod rather than a headcount
A single dedicated engineer solves a staffing problem you can predict. Most partners cannot predict it: one customer needs testing this month and integration work the next, a second goes quiet, a third lands with a stack nobody on your side has touched. Hiring for that means either carrying a bench or telling a customer to wait.
A pod is capacity you buy once and draw skills from. Within an agreed band you flex it up and down with demand, and the mix inside it changes with the work instead of with a recruitment cycle. What we will not promise is instant unlimited scaling, because the only way to keep that promise is to staff your work with whoever happens to be free.
What you can draw on inside a pod
Software engineering
C# and .NET on Azure is our deepest practice, with Python beside it for automation, integration and data work, and Angular, React, Vue and Next.js on the front end. Mobile in Swift, .NET MAUI and React Native when a customer needs it.
Technical support and troubleshooting
Reproducing and diagnosing faults in systems that are already live, including ones nobody on your side wrote, and fixing the cause rather than restarting the symptom every Monday.
QA and test automation
Manual QA, test plans and automated suites in Playwright, run in continuous integration so a failing test blocks the release rather than reaching your customer.
Cloud, DevOps and CI/CD
Azure infrastructure declared in Terraform, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines, monitoring, drift detection and cost control, so releases are predictable instead of eventful.
Project and change delivery
The unglamorous half: planning, release coordination, change control and written status your own account manager can forward without rewriting it.
Design, when the work needs it
Figma design systems, prototypes and interface design, handed to engineers in the same company who build them pixel-accurate and accessible.
Thirteen engineering and operations disciplines sit behind a pod, across the fourteen services we staff. More useful to a partner than any single stack: we are used to picking up whatever a project already runs on rather than steering it towards what we happen to know, because your customers will not all be on the same technology.
Partner-side oversight, not just people
Every pod has a named technical lead on our side. That is not an account manager; it is somebody who reads the code and is answerable for four things.
Continuity
Cover during leave and illness comes from BigTree108, not from your budget, and a person leaving is a handover rather than a gap you discover in a stand-up.
Performance
The lead is accountable for what the pod produces, raises it with us when somebody is not working out, and replaces them from our own hiring pipeline.
Quality
Architecture review and a second pair of eyes on pull requests come from inside the company. Our written engineering rules apply to your customer’s code the same as to ours.
One escalation point
One person you call when something is wrong, at any hour that matters to the incident, rather than a mailbox and a hope.
Your own leads still set priorities and accept the work. The lead on our side makes sure the capacity you paid for turns into it.
Inside your process, in your hours
The pod joins your repositories, your tracker, your CI, your stand-ups and your ticket flow rather than reporting progress across a wall. Where the work needs it, people are client-facing: on your customer’s calls, running demos and handling support conversations, under your brand or ours depending on what you have agreed. We bring our engineering rules with us, because that is what keeps the output consistent, but the process the work runs through is the one your organisation already has.
Ukraine is one to two hours ahead of Western Europe, so for UK and EU partners the whole working day overlaps. Beyond Europe we treat the schedule as a staffing requirement rather than a compromise: we already have people running to European hours, to Australian hours and to US Pacific, so the pod is staffed to your day.
Overflow, without committing to a pod
Not every partnership should start with a monthly capacity. If you are simply full, send us the project you cannot take: we scope it, quote it and deliver it end to end, under your brand or ours, with no standing commitment on either side. It is the lightest way to find out whether we work well together, and several partnerships are easier to judge after one overflow project than after three meetings.
The same runs the other way. When work reaches us that is outside what we do well, we would rather hand it to a partner who does it properly than take it and learn on the customer, so tell us what you want sent your way.
What a pod costs
Pods are priced on capacity, per month, with the flex band and the notice period agreed in the contract rather than improvised later. We quote per partner rather than publishing a rate card, because the mix of seniority, the skills you need on call and the length of the engagement change the number. Everyone logs time in our own portal and you see it throughout the month, so a capacity you are paying for can be checked against the work that came out of it.
If what you actually need is delivery under your own name, white-label development describes that arrangement; if it is keeping live systems running, managed application support does.
Questions partners ask about pods
What is a delivery pod, and how is it different from hiring one developer?
A pod is a named group with a fixed monthly capacity rather than a fixed list of job titles. Inside that capacity you can draw on the skills you need this month: backend one week, QA and test automation the next, a front-end specialist for a release, delivery and change management throughout. One developer gives you one skill; a pod gives you a bench without paying for a bench.
Can we flex the pod up and down?
Yes, within an agreed band and an agreed notice period. That band is the whole commercial conversation and we would rather have it honestly up front than discover mid-engagement that your definition of flexible and ours are different. What we will not do is promise instant unlimited scaling, because the only way to keep that promise is to staff your work with whoever happens to be free.
Who manages the pod day to day?
A named technical lead on our side owns continuity, performance and quality, and is your single escalation point. That means one person you call when something is wrong, regular reporting on what the pod is doing, and no situation where somebody disappears and nobody picks up their work. Your own leads still set priorities and accept the work.
Will the pod work in our tooling and processes, or yours?
Yours. Our people join your repositories, your tracker, your CI, your stand-ups and your ticket flow rather than reporting progress across a wall. We bring our engineering rules with us, because that is what makes the output consistent, but the process the work runs through is the one your organisation already has.
Can pod members be client-facing?
Yes, where the work needs it, and it is our normal way of working rather than an exception. People can join your customer’s calls, run demos and handle support conversations, under your brand or ours depending on the arrangement.
What time zones can the pod work?
Ukraine is one to two hours ahead of Western Europe, so for UK and EU partners the whole working day overlaps. Beyond that we treat schedule as a staffing requirement rather than a compromise: we already have people running to European hours, to Australian hours and to US Pacific, so the pod is staffed to your day.
We are an agency with overflow work. Can we send you what we cannot take?
Yes, and it does not require a pod. Overflow is the lightest way to start with us: you send the project you do not have capacity for, we scope it and deliver it under your brand or ours, and neither side has committed to a monthly capacity. Several partnerships are easier to judge after one overflow project than after three meetings.
Need capacity that flexes with your pipeline?
Tell us the skills you keep running short of, the hours you need covered and how much your demand moves. You get an answer within one business day: the people we would put on the pod and how soon they can start.