Software factory and team augmentation are not the same thing

They are two different ways to add capacity, and confusing them is where most failed engagements start. With team augmentation we place developers inside your team: they report to your tech lead, work your backlog and follow your process. With a software factory you hand us a defined scope and we deliver it working, with our own tech lead and our own process.

One question settles which one you need: who decides what gets built and in what order? If the answer is your team, you need augmentation. If you want to delegate that decision too, you need a factory.

When each one fits

We do not sell augmentation when what you actually need is to hire. If the role is permanent, central and you have time to recruit, the best thing for your company is to have it in-house. Outsourcing the heart of the business forever rarely ends well.

Not sure whether you need two people inside your team or a project delivered turnkey? In a 30-minute call we review your backlog and tell you which model fits, or whether neither does. Get in touch and let us look at it together.

How the team plugs in

A developer who joins is not productive on day one, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling smoke. What you can do is shorten the curve. We work with an explicit ramp-up: in week one the developer takes small, real tickets rather than reading documentation in a vacuum, and has one person on your side assigned to unblock them.

Architecture and priority decisions stay on your side under augmentation. We bring judgment and we argue our case, but we do not impose: the system is yours and you are the one who will maintain it. Under the factory model it is the reverse, and there we take full technical responsibility for the deliverable.

Real seniority, not inflated résumés

You interview every profile before they join. If someone does not work out in your context, technically or with the team, we replace them with no argument and no replacement fee. That is the only guarantee that matters in this business.

What drives the cost

It is not just the hourly rate. What moves the real number of an external team is this:

• The seniority you actually need. Three mid-level developers do not replace one senior when the problem is architectural, and a senior underperforms doing three mid-level people's work.
• Team size. A single person needs a lot of hand-holding from you; from three onward the team self-manages and your coordination cost drops.
• Duration. The first two months always yield less than the ones after: the learning curve is paid once and amortized over time.
• How much context is written down. A clear backlog and a dev environment that spins up in a day are worth more than any discount.

We build the proposal after looking at your backlog, not before. Tell us what you need to solve and we will come back with a team composition and a number.

Common mistakes

• Adding people to a late project. If the problem is definition or architecture, more hands make it slower. Fix the bottleneck first.
• Not assigning an internal counterpart. An external team with nobody on your side to answer questions delivers half as much and frustrates everyone.
• Asking only for juniors to save money. They generate review work for your seniors, which is exactly the scarcest resource you have.
• Not defining what happens when they leave. Documentation, access and handover are agreed at kickoff, not in the final week.

Questions we get before kickoff

Can we interview the developers first?

Always. We present profiles with their real experience and you interview them as if they were joining your payroll. If none convince you, we keep looking.

What if someone does not work out?

We replace them. We do not bill the replacement's onboarding time and we do not tie you to a minimum tenure per person.

What time zone do you work in?

The team is based in Argentina and works hours that overlap with the Americas and the European morning. Real time-zone overlap is what makes this work: it is not overnight offshore.

Who owns the code they write?

You do, from the first commit, in your repositories and under your accounts. We keep no copies and never reuse your code with other clients.

What it pairs with

Team augmentation rarely comes alone. If what you need is a system built from scratch, we do it as custom software development. If the work is connecting platforms, it belongs in e-commerce and marketplace integrations. And if your backlog is stuck behind an old system nobody wants to touch, read how we handle progressive modernization before adding people.

Across 25 years and more than 500 projects we learned that an external team does not replace your own judgment: it multiplies it when it exists, and exposes its absence when it does not. That is why the first conversation is always about your backlog, never about our rates.