Software and AI engineering for enterprises within your delivery process
We develop software and AI with enterprise teams, working within your architecture, tooling and change controls.
Choose engineers under your leads or a managed team with agreed delivery responsibility.
- 100+Senior in-house engineers, six countries
- 120+Projects delivered across 12 countries since 2012
- 2 to 4 weeksTypical time from signature to start
- ISO 27001Certified security practice, audited by Quay Audit UK
- ISTQBISTQB-certified QA engineers
01Overview
Engineering within an established organization
unicrew supports enterprise software development within existing codebases, release calendars and industry requirements. Founded in 2012 as Artelogic, we bring senior in-house engineers into your agreed process, with delivery responsibility and procurement requirements settled before work starts.
- Onboard into the codebaseWe learn the architecture, conventions and domain context before taking responsibility for agreed work.
- Codebase and domain onboarding
- Existing conventions kept
- Questions asked, not assumed
- Clear procurementWe provide the credentials and contracting details your procurement review needs.
- ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015
- EU entity, Artelogic OÜ
- NDA and contract first
- Agree system accessOn a build engagement, least-privilege access agreed with your technical contact and nothing wider.
- Access agreed, then granted
- Read-only where the work allows
- Your cloud where required
- Work in your processOur engineers work with your sprints, board, release conventions and definition of done.
- Your ceremonies and cadence
- Your repo and pipeline
- Your reporting lines
- Plan the team around deliveryWe agree engineering roles and later team changes around release priorities and the engagement model.
- Up for a phase
- Down when it eases
- No fee to source or place
02Models
Assign delivery responsibility before choosing the model
Choose engineers working under your leads or a managed team with a unicrew delivery lead. Use technology advisory to define that responsibility when the initiative is still being scoped.
| Engineers in your teamTeam extension | A dedicated teamStanding unit | A managed teamWe own the plan |
|---|---|---|
| Best whenYour leads direct the work and want specific engineering expertise inside the existing team. | Best whenThe roadmap keeps going and you want a standing unit whose priorities you set. | Best whenThe outcome is defined and you want a partner responsible for the delivery plan and reporting. |
| Who owns deliveryYou do. Our engineers take work from your board and report into your leads. | Who owns deliveryShared. The unit runs its own internal process; you own the roadmap and acceptance. | Who owns deliveryWe do. A named unicrew delivery lead owns the plan, the cadence and the reporting. |
| What your side suppliesDay-to-day direction, code review and a technical contact for product and system questions. | What your side suppliesPriorities, acceptance, and a product owner the unit can reach. | What your side suppliesThe outcome, the constraints, and a decision-maker for scope changes. |
03Capabilities
Engineering roles for your product and platform
Agree the engineering disciplines around the initiative. Our client work includes frontend, backend, mobile, search and AI, QA and business analysis.
Frontend engineers develop within your existing application conventions and team process.
- Engineering scope
- Frontend development within your conventions
Custom features built alongside your own head of software development, in your service boundaries.
- Engineering scope
- Backend engineering within your service boundaries
App rebuilds and new features shipped to production stores under the client's own release process.
- Engineering scope
- Mobile apps through your release process
Work that goes from a user-facing feature down to the tagging, embeddings and data underneath it.
- Engineering scope
- Search, tagging and embeddings
We have ISTQB-certified QA engineers. Testing responsibilities and automation are agreed around the product and release process.
- Engineering scope
- Automated tests your team can run
The person who turns a stakeholder request into something your team can estimate and accept.
- Engineering scope
- Business analysis within your product team
04Vetting
Engineer selection and procurement review
Your engineering leads assess the proposed people; procurement and security assess the engagement. We prepare for both reviews.
Your requirements shape the profile
We refine the engineering profile with your leads and use your candidate interviews to assess fit for the product and process.
- In practice
- We learn your bar by watching you use it
You assess each proposed engineer
Your leads interview the proposed engineers against the agreed requirements. Dedicated teams and team extension carry no recruitment or placement fee.
- In practice
- Rejections are not billable
No recruitment or placement fee
Dedicated teams and team extension carry no separate charge for sourcing, vetting or placing engineers. Team extension is billed monthly per team member.
- In practice
- Monthly, per team or per engineer
ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015
Information security and quality management, both renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK. We provide certification details for your procurement review.
- In the review
- The controls a questionnaire asks about
Testing evidence your team can use
We agree automated testing and acceptance checks around the product. Test outputs support your own QA and user acceptance work.
- In the review
- Tests your own team can run
Least-privilege access, agreed first
Contracts and NDAs before anyone starts. On a build engagement we work from access agreed with your technical contact, read-only wherever the work allows, and inside your own cloud where required. Rescue and maintenance work is scoped separately.
- In the review
- An access list, not a blanket login
Assess motivation alongside technical skill
We discuss motivation, product context and the work each engineer will own alongside technical skill when defining the candidate profile.
For enterprise teams, we vet engineers on the work they will do with you, such as reading an existing codebase and working within your change process. You then interview each candidate against your own constraints.
Maria OliinykHead of Recruitment, unicrew05Proof
Client experience inside established engineering teams
These engagements show how engineers work within existing organizations, from team integration to measured product improvement.
- Engineers inside the client's own team, on the recordA hotel-content platform, Goldn, a building-security software company, meinUnterricht and a climate-tech SaaS platform, each backed by a verified Clutch review. The hotel-content platform's brief was to "Extend capacities in software development"; Goldn's was to "Extend the existing frontend development team". The German hotel-content platform engagement delivered a customer-facing GUI; Goldn's frontend team was extended for a year. The building-security software company reports engineers "fully integrated into our teams and workflows". Separate from those five engagements, Interone in Munich integrated our engineers into its own Scrum team. A QC/BA also worked within JewelCandle's IT team.5published embedded engagements
- Measured improvement in product searchmeinUnterricht's Director of Product & Engineering writes: "Our headline result was a controlled experiment showing a roughly 9 percent lift in search success rate." Our engineer worked on their search and discovery team "scoping, building, shipping, and measuring impact", alongside their own product and engineering leads. Barrett Values Centre received "working code and automated tests that allowed us to independently QA/UAT the work with a variety of data sets".9%higher search success rate
- Nothing charged for finding the personDedicated teams and team extension carry no recruitment or placement fee. JewelCandle's head of IT told Clutch that unicrew "don’t move forward with a candidate who doesn’t meet our requirements", and "They don’t charge us for that part of the service." He said this saved time reviewing CVs and conducting interviews. A Hamburg ERP SaaS provider had us join its candidate interviews and refine the profile between rounds. In a five-star review, Goldn's CTO wrote that "While pre-screening and selection of project members was overall good, a more thorough evaluation of motivation of candidates would have made the experience even better."0recruitment or placement fees
06Client voices
What engineering and IT leaders say
Artelogic anticipates our needs and meets them before we even identify them. My team lead wants to keep both of Artelogic’s developers on the project until the product’s release. We have a backlog of 40 big projects, so I only see Artelogic’s involvement increasing.
Shippable and well received web GUI for previously API only application. The whole team is highly dedicated to the success of the project and delivers the planned artefacts on time. We are very happy to have chosen Artelogic.
The project led to the release of our production apps and a prototype showcasing new features. They were reliable, responsive, and consistently addressed our needs very well. We were impressed by their strong technical and interpersonal skills and how smoothly they adapted to our team, processes, and product.
Meeting our deadlines as well as achieving the story points committed to the (end-)client. We were very happy with the contribution and work of Artelogic.
Our headline result was a controlled experiment showing a roughly 9 percent lift in search success rate. The features built are live in production, and the AI tagging and embeddings work set up our move to vector search. What stands out most is their ability to own work end to end, from user-facing search features to the AI and data layer underneath.
07Case studies
Frontend engineering in practice
Explore a customer-facing GUI and a year of frontend team extension within established product teams.
See all case studies- HospitalityA web interface for an API-only hotel-content applicationunicrew produced a shippable, well-received web GUI for an API-only application.
- Personal CareEmbedding engineers in the team for a personal-care products platform (Goldn)unicrew worked as an integral part of Goldn's internal development teams, from refining stories to deploying epics into production.
08Questions
Questions procurement and engineering ask us
Our client record includes companies from small teams to the 201 to 500 employee band. For your initiative, we assess fit through the engineering scope, existing architecture, change process and procurement requirements. Your leads interview the proposed engineers and agree responsibility for delivery before the engagement starts.
Three engagement models: time and materials billed hourly and quoted per project, fixed price quoted per project against an agreed outcome, and team extension billed monthly per team member. Which fits depends on how firm the scope is, and we recommend one at the end of discovery. Dedicated teams and team extension carry no recruitment or placement fee. Most engagements start within two to four weeks of signature.
We hold ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015, renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK, and have ISTQB-certified QA engineers. Share your security questionnaire and any regulatory requirements during scoping so we can agree the evidence, access controls and responsibilities your engagement needs.
Contracts and NDAs are signed before anyone starts. On a build engagement we work from least-privilege access agreed with your technical contact, read-only wherever the work allows, with no write access to production during discovery, and inside your own cloud where your customers or insurers require it. Rescue and maintenance engagements are scoped separately, because taking over a running system needs different access.
You do. Once contractual obligations are fulfilled, full ownership of all intellectual property, source code and technical documentation transfers to your organisation, and the legal framework for that is put in place at the start of the engagement rather than at the end. Documentation is kept current throughout, so moving the work in-house stays a decision you can make.
We agree the replacement profile and handover with you. Dedicated teams and team extension carry no recruitment or placement fee. The transition plan covers the product knowledge, access and responsibilities needed for continuing delivery.
Choose engineers under your leads when you want to direct priorities, reviews and daily work. A dedicated development team provides a standing unit around your roadmap, with responsibilities agreed at scoping. Choose managed teams when you want a unicrew delivery lead responsible for the plan, cadence and reporting.
Define the engineering work and its owner
Share the initiative, existing architecture and delivery process. We discuss the engagement model, engineering responsibilities and procurement steps with your team.
What happens after you contact us
- We reply within one business dayWe review the initiative and your delivery requirements.
- A call about your constraintsYour codebase, your change process, and what your security review demands.
- Model and shape, in writingTeam extension, a dedicated team or a managed team, priced as time and materials, fixed price, or monthly per team member.
- You interview, then NDA and accessMost engagements start within two to four weeks of signature, after the scope and responsibilities are agreed.