Dedicated Development Teams that work only on your roadmap, month after month.
We assemble a dedicated software development team of senior in-house engineers for your product roadmap, working inside your workflow. Your leads set priorities; we recruit, integrate and support the team.
- 120+Projects delivered across 12 countries since 2012
- 100+Senior in-house engineers, six countries
- 5.0Unified rating across 61 client reviews on Clutch
- PMPCertified project managers
- ISTQBISTQB-certified QA engineers
- ISO 27001Certified security practice, audited by Quay Audit UK
01Overview
Who runs a dedicated software development team, and who staffs it
Your leads set priorities and accept the work. We recruit and integrate the engineers, maintain delivery quality and keep product knowledge within the dedicated software team.
- Cross-functional by designEngineering, QA, DevOps, design and analysis are selected around your product. The role mix follows the work, rather than a standard team bundle.
- You interview the candidatesWe propose named candidates. You can interview them and approve each person before they join your team.
- Sized to the phaseWe review the disciplines each phase needs and agree role changes with you, including the transition into or out of the team.
- Inside your workflowYour repository, your board, your stand-ups. We agree how the engineers join your working practices and collaborate with your existing team.
02Proof
Why clients keep a team on
Product knowledge makes a dedicated team valuable beyond the next release.
- WaiverKing: a relationship that began in 2014We refactored this waiver and document management platform onto Yii 2.0, under the condition that hundreds of active customers should feel no major impact. CEO Craig Elsdon-Dew, in his 2022 Clutch review: "We’ve been working together since January 2014."Since 2014Start of the client relationship on the platform we refactored
- Taking over an established SaaS platformA US B2B SaaS company brought us into its existing platform, requiring PHP, AWS and Heroku expertise. Founder Patrick W. described a smooth transition and said on Clutch: "Artelogic has become our programming team."30%+Lower AWS costs for the SaaS platform, achieved with our help
- An embedded engineer for search and discoveryOne unicrew engineer worked in meinUnterricht’s search and discovery team over an extended engagement. We built search features, AI tagging and embeddings for its move to vector search. Director Daniel Siebenson reported the experiment result on Clutch.~9%Lift in search success rate in a controlled experiment
03Compare
Dedicated team, staff augmentation, or a hire?
Choose the engineering model around the expertise your roadmap needs and the responsibilities your organization wants to retain.
| A dedicated teamunicrew | Staff augmentationAugment | Hiring in-houseHire |
|---|---|---|
| Best forOngoing product development that needs coordinated engineering roles and accumulated product knowledge. | Best forSpecific expertise added to an established team, for an ongoing need or a defined period. | Best forA lasting internal engineering function, developed through employment and career progression. |
| Works best withYour product lead setting priorities and accepting work; unicrew recruiting and integrating the agreed team. | Works best withYour engineering lead assigning the specialist's work and integrating it into the team's delivery. | Works best withYour organization managing recruitment, onboarding, development and day-to-day engineering leadership. |
| You end up owningCode and IP under agreed contract terms, with product knowledge documented as the work progresses. | You end up owningContributions under agreed contract terms, with product context maintained by your existing team. | You end up owningAn internal engineering function, with payroll, employment obligations and responsibility for retaining its knowledge. |
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Start with a scoped build
For a defined application or release, a scoped build establishes the deliverable and release plan. A dedicated team supports the continuing roadmap beyond it.
Talk it throughClarify the scope and the role mix
Start by defining the work and who will lead it. Discovery identifies whether you need a team, specialist support or a scoped project.
Talk it throughDefine the team around the roadmap
Discovery establishes which disciplines the work needs and who will direct priorities on your side. The team shape follows those decisions.
Book a discovery callPlan your dedicated team
Your answers point toward ongoing team delivery. Agree the roles, working practices and responsibility for priorities in discovery.
Book a discovery callBuild the team around your product
A dedicated team combines the disciplines your roadmap needs with recruitment and integration on our side. Start by defining the responsibilities and candidate profiles.
Start with discoveryA dedicated team is strongest when every part of the system is known by more than one engineer. We rotate work across the team and write documentation from the first sprint, so the knowledge stays with the team.
Ihor PrudyvusDelivery Director, unicrew04Capabilities
What a dedicated team is made of
We select engineering and supporting disciplines around your product.
Engineers work across application services and interfaces. We embedded three full-stack developers and one UI/UX designer in a climate-tech SaaS team, using React, Next.js and Neo4j.
Web interfaces for operational tools and API-backed products. Our work includes a web GUI for an API-first hotel-content platform, making its services accessible to people through an interface.
Mobile engineering alongside your web product. We contributed layout, theming and video-streaming improvements to a building-security company's iOS and Android apps, built on its existing web client.
ISTQB-certified QA engineers cover the testing and automation scope agreed for your product. On a waiver platform, automated tests and scalable architecture reduced the time to release updates from weeks to a couple of hours.
Deployment pipelines, infrastructure and cloud usage connect to the team's application work. Our B2B SaaS transition included changes to AWS and Heroku that helped reduce operating costs.
Engineers build retrieval, tagging and embedding features around your product data, with evaluations for production use. These capabilities support search and discovery within an existing product team.
Designers work with the engineers on interaction flows and interface layouts. For API-first products, this includes the interface people use to work with the underlying services.
An analyst turns product and integration requirements into acceptance criteria the team can implement and review, including the rules connecting storefronts, ERP systems and other business software.
05Trust
What a dedicated team hands over
A dedicated team leaves you with software and product knowledge that remain usable as the roadmap and team composition change.
- Product knowledgeContext recorded as the work progressesCurrent documentation and shared understanding support future development and handover
- Sized to the phaseA role mix reviewed against the roadmapChanges to the team are agreed with you as the product's needs develop
- In the contractOwnership and transfer terms agreed up frontThe agreement defines your rights to the code, documentation and intellectual property
06Stack
What our dedicated teams build with
We build on the technologies your product uses, with the existing codebase, integrations and maintenance requirements guiding team selection.
React
Next.js
TypeScript
Angular
iOS
Android
Node.js
.NET
PHP
Yii2
MySQL
Neo4j
AWS
Heroku07Engagement
How you engage us, and how you pay
Choose how responsibility for planning and delivery is shared. Dedicated and managed teams sit within team extension; a scoped build commits to a defined deliverable.
A dedicated team
Most commonA named senior team focused on your product. You lead priorities and acceptance; we handle recruitment, integration and the team's delivery quality.
- Best when
- You have a continuing roadmap and a product lead to prioritize it
- You pay
- Billed monthly, per team member, with no recruitment or placement fee
- Typical start
- Most engagements start within two to four weeks
A managed team
We own deliveryA named unicrew delivery lead runs the plan, cadence, quality and reporting against the outcome you define.
- Best when
- You want to delegate planning and delivery against a defined outcome
- You pay
- Billed monthly, per team member
- Typical start
- Most engagements start within two to four weeks
A scoped build
Fixed finishCommission a defined deliverable at an agreed price. Discovery establishes the scope before we quote.
- Best when
- You can agree the requirements and acceptance of a defined deliverable
- You pay
- Outcome based, quoted per project
- Typical start
- Most engagements start within two to four weeks
Start with the codebase and delivery process
For an existing product, we review the code, deployment path and dependencies before recommending a team. The findings inform its role mix and onboarding. Where the main work is rebuilding aging software, legacy modernization defines that scope.
08Industries
Industries our dedicated teams work in
Sector experience helps a dedicated team understand the decisions behind an existing product, from its data model to its integrations.
Logistics and transportation
Engineering, QA and design for freight software, including customer and dealer iOS and Android apps. We integrate freight-carrier APIs so users can compare and select transport providers.
Hospitality and leisure
Interfaces for hotel-content and distribution systems. We delivered a web GUI for a previously API-only application, giving its users a direct way to work with the service.
EdTech and learning
Search and discovery over teaching materials, with tagging and embeddings supporting retrieval. Our work includes an extended engagement within a German education platform's search team.
Healthcare
Development and maintenance inside existing healthcare software. We joined a home health monitoring platform, working with .NET and TypeScript to develop and maintain its system.
Fintech and accounting
Accounting software and integrations that connect recorded transactions with invoices. We built bookkeeping automation for a financial advisory company using ASP.NET MVC, C# and MySQL.
E-commerce
Storefronts connected to ERP systems through custom middleware. Our engineers joined a manufacturer's IT team as it replatformed shops onto Shopify and introduced Microsoft Dynamics ERP.
Tell us what the team would own, and get the shape it needs
Share your product roadmap, stack and the responsibilities you want the team to take on. Discovery defines the roles, integration needs and division of responsibilities so you can assess the engagement.
09Delivery
How a dedicated development team gets built and run
We agree the team and its working practices with you before moving into sprint delivery and ongoing review.
- DiscoveryWe map the roadmap to the disciplines and working practices it needs. You provide the product goals, constraints and access to the people who know the current system.You getA proposed team shape, with roles and operating responsibilities recorded in writing.
- Building the teamWe propose named candidates for the agreed roles. You can interview them and approve each person before they join. Contracts and NDAs are settled before work starts.You getAn approved team with defined roles and signed engagement terms.
- Onboarding and ways of workingThe engineers join your repository, tools and delivery cadence. You provide the required access, product context and a person who can resolve onboarding questions. We agree communication and reporting practices together.You getA working environment, an initial task list and an agreed responsibility map.
- ExecutionThe team develops in sprints, with ISTQB-certified QA inside each one. You set priorities, resolve product decisions and review the work with the engineers directly.You getTested software and delivery status for your review.
- Review and handover-readinessWe review the work against agreed measures and keep documentation current throughout delivery. You provide the measures, feedback and someone authorized to accept the review.You getA review of the agreed measures and current documentation for future development or handover.
10Client voices
Our clients say
They’ve been helping us grow our platform together since the beginning, from a couple hundred companies to around 2,000. Artelogic has been front and center in this process.
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.
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.
They always seem to have a suitable developer on standby when we require an additional skillset and they always respond very quickly and help to work out a solution if e.g. the project requirements are suddenly changing.
Artelogic has enabled us to develop and roll out products significantly faster than our previous service provider. The team has great knowledge of AWS and Heroku, which has helped us streamline and reduce costs. Artelogic has helped us reduce our AWS costs by 30% or more.
11Case studies
Our case studies
unicrew was formerly Artelogic, the name used in the older client reviews above.
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SaaSWaiverKing: Software Development for a Waiver Form CreatorWaiverKing is a document management business serving primarily the health and fitness industries. The platform integrates with Mindbody Online, one of the largest business-systems providers for gyms and yoga studios.Weeks to hoursTime to release an update to production- SaaSAWS costs down 30%+ for a US B2B SaaS platformunicrew became the programming team for a B2B SaaS platform that had run for over a decade, streamlined how it used AWS and Heroku, and sped up rollouts.30%+Lower AWS costs
12Questions
More about dedicated development teams with unicrew
A dedicated software development team brings coordinated engineering roles to your product; your leads own priorities and acceptance of the work.
Staff augmentation adds individual dedicated software developers to an existing team under your management. A managed team adds a named unicrew delivery lead responsible for the plan and outcome you define.
Our managed delivery versus team extension guide explains the responsibility split in more detail.
A dedicated team is billed monthly per team member, with no recruitment or placement fee.
We quote the proposed team after defining its roles and the work it will support. Sourcing, vetting and placing an engineer carry no separate charge. Discovery establishes the team shape for your budget decision.
For project-based alternatives, our time and materials versus fixed fee guide explains the billing differences.
The engagement period is agreed around your roadmap. There is no minimum engagement period.
In our delivery experience, we cut hiring timelines by up to 50%. We define the roles and candidate requirements with you, then confirm dates for the proposed team.
Most engagements start within two to four weeks.
Yes. We agree role changes against the next phase of work, including notice, handover and the dates a role joins or leaves.
A European e-commerce retailer's head of IT described the pattern in his 2020 Clutch review: "We typically work on projects for 3–6 months and then scale down. Once there’s another project, we scale up our resources again."
Yes. The team can join an existing codebase and work with its systems and integrations.
Discovery examines the dependencies, deployment path and access needed for onboarding. Our B2B SaaS transition required PHP, AWS and Heroku expertise; its founder described a smooth transition from the previous provider.
Ownership and transfer terms are settled in your agreement before work starts.
The agreement covers the source code, documentation and intellectual property, including the terms on which they transfer to you. Documentation stays current throughout delivery to support future development and handover.
We agree working-hour overlap, meetings and reporting with you, then integrate the team into your repository, task board and communication tools.
unicrew has 100+ senior in-house engineers across six countries company-wide; our client-facing project managers and engineers work from Ukraine, Poland, Estonia and the UK.
The team size and disciplines follow the product roadmap. We propose dedicated software developers and the QA, design, analysis or DevOps roles the work needs.
For example, a US waiver platform's CEO described two developers and one QA engineer working full-time, with access to specialists for specific functions, in his 2022 Clutch review.
We agree how code and data will be accessed and handled before the team starts, alongside contracts and NDAs.
unicrew is ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certified, renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK. Before you sign, we settle repository access, secrets handling, incident-response expectations and rules for AI tool use on your code.
Assess the proposed roles, responsibility split and continuity practices, alongside relevant product experience.
With unicrew, you review named candidates, agree who sets priorities and define ownership terms before work starts. We maintain current documentation and share product knowledge across the team. Our client reviews and case studies show how these working relationships have developed on actual products.
We agree the transition and knowledge handover with you. Any replacement follows the candidate approval process; timing and transition obligations are defined in the engagement agreement.
We rotate work across the team and document from the first sprint, keeping product knowledge shared across engineers. That practice supports continuity when the team composition changes.
The dedicated team model fits a continuing product roadmap that needs several disciplines, with a lead on your side setting priorities and reviewing the work.
If you want unicrew to run planning and delivery, choose a managed team. For an individual specialist inside an established team, explore team extension. For a defined application or release, a scoped build establishes the deliverable and acceptance criteria.