Dedicated teams
Dedicated team or staffing agency: what actually changes
Both put engineers on your product. The difference is who understands it, who vets the people and who stays accountable after day one.
Hexade team
1 min read
When a product needs more engineering capacity, there are two familiar routes: hire through a staffing agency, or bring in a dedicated team from a software company. On paper they look similar. In practice, they lead to very different first months.
It starts with the product, not the CV
A staffing agency usually starts with a role description and a keyword list. A software company starts with your product: what it does, how it is built, where it is going and what is slowing it down. Only then does it make sense to decide which roles you need and what seniority they should have.
Who checks the people
Recruiters screen for availability and keywords. Engineers notice different things: how someone reasons about an existing codebase, how they communicate trade-offs, whether they will fit the way your team already works. We check every profile for expertise, experience, English, reliability, availability and team fit, and you still run the final interviews.
Accountability after kickoff
The real difference shows after the contract is signed. With a dedicated team, a named project manager coordinates delivery, sends weekly reports and stays close to the work, without standing between you and your engineers.
- You choose who joins the team.
- The team works in your tools and your repository.
- The code and results belong to you.
If you are weighing both options, start with one question: who will understand your product well enough to build it with you?
