Staff Augmentation Services
RaftLabs adds engineers, QA, DevOps, product design, or delivery support to an existing software team. Your lead owns priorities and day-to-day direction. We handle matching, commercial terms, and continuity, with a monthly team rate agreed before the engagement begins.
Bring the problem, the current workflow, or the existing code. We reply with a practical next step within one business day.
The brief
Good software decisions begin with the constraint, not a list of features or a preferred technology.
Is a critical workstream waiting on a hire while the rest of the roadmap keeps moving?
Do you need extra capacity but already have the product leadership and process to direct it?
Plain answer
Staff augmentation adds outside specialists to an existing team while the client keeps day-to-day control. RaftLabs provides software engineering, QA, DevOps, and product roles on a monthly model. A lean team starts around $12,000 per month, with an initial 4-week term.
The team knows what to deliver. The backlog is clear. One missing capability turns every planning session into another shuffle of work that cannot start.
Staff augmentation closes that capacity gap without moving product control outside your company. Your lead directs the work. RaftLabs provides the agreed people, manages the commercial relationship, and stays responsible for continuity.
Delivery record
Extra capacity solves a resourcing gap. It does not replace product ownership, technical leadership, or an agreed delivery process.
A named workstream is constrained by missing capacity or a specific capability.
Your team has a lead, backlog, tools, and review process for the added people to join.
The need lasts at least four weeks and you can define the contribution expected in that period.
You need someone else to define the product, manage the roadmap, and own delivery.
The scope is fixed enough to price and hand off as a project.
The requirement is an occasional task rather than sustained capacity.
Scope
| Staff augmentation | Managed delivery | |
|---|---|---|
| Priorities | Your product lead sets and changes them | The provider plans against an agreed outcome |
| Daily direction | Your engineering lead directs the work | A provider delivery lead runs the team |
| Commercial unit | Monthly capacity by role and allocation | Phase, milestone, or managed team |
| Best when | You have leadership and need more capacity | You need one partner to own delivery |
| Main risk | Capacity without enough client direction | Ambiguous scope or divided product ownership |
If you want RaftLabs to own delivery rather than join your operating model, product engineering is the better path. Technology-specific hiring is a different decision: it fits buyers who already know the exact role and stack.
How it works
The first term is short enough to judge in the real workflow and long enough to produce meaningful work.
Name the workstream, role mix, stack, overlap hours, reporting line, access needs, and result expected in the first four weeks. This profile matters more than a generic job title.
Review relevant experience and hold a working interview. The person you approve is the person who joins the engagement. If the match is wrong, ask for another before access or billing begins.
Add the team to your tools, repositories, ceremonies, and review process. One client lead owns priorities and feedback so the embedded group does not become a parallel queue.
Assess output, communication, fit, and next-month capacity against the workstream agreed at the start. Extend, change the mix, or finish the engagement based on evidence.
Scope and price
A lean team starts with two people and part-time coordination. The first term is four weeks.
Begin with one constrained workstream. Add capacity only after the first month shows where it changes delivery.
Starting investment
Starts at $12,000 per month
Use $6,000 to $6,500 per person per month for planning. Role mix, allocation, and duration set the final monthly rate.
The approved match joins
The people you meet and approve are the people who start. A substitution requires a new introduction and your approval.
Monthly rate in writing
The role mix, allocation, first-term dates, and monthly rate are agreed before onboarding. Changes begin only after both sides approve them.
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Read moreStaff augmentation adds outside specialists to an existing team for a defined period. The client owns priorities, backlog, technical direction, and day-to-day management. The provider handles matching, employment or contracting, commercial terms, and continuity. It fits a capacity gap better than an ownerless product problem.
With a dedicated team, your lead directs the work and the monthly capacity is the commercial unit. With a fixed-scope project, the provider owns delivery against agreed requirements and milestones. Choose dedicated capacity when priorities may change and your team can direct the work.
The available mix can include frontend and backend engineering, QA, DevOps or cloud work, product design, and delivery coordination. The right profile depends on the current workstream and team. We agree the role, expected contribution, overlap, and reporting line before proposing a match.
RaftLabs uses a public planning range of $6,000 to $6,500 per person per month. A lean team engagement starts around $12,000 to $15,000 per month. The final rate depends on role mix, allocation, and duration, and is agreed in writing before the first term.
A suitable match can often be introduced within 5 to 7 business days after the role, stack, working hours, and expected contribution are clear. Availability can change, so the match is confirmed before a start date is promised. The first term is four weeks.
RaftLabs proposes people with relevant production delivery experience, clear communication, and the ability to work inside an existing team. We review their work against the role and workstream before making an introduction. You then hold a working interview and approve the match before onboarding begins.
The client owns the code, designs, and documentation produced during the engagement. NDA and confidentiality terms are agreed before sensitive access or information is shared. Repository, account, and permission boundaries are documented during onboarding.
Before onboarding, ask for another introduction. After work begins, raise the fit or contribution issue against the agreed workstream. We review it with you and change the role or proposed person under the written engagement terms rather than leaving your team to absorb the gap.
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