The Process
Five days from call to code.
- Discovery call on Monday.
- Production code by Friday.
- Here's exactly what happens - no surprises, no fine print .
A 30-minute conversation. We learn your tech stack, your current bottleneck, your timeline, and what success looks like. We recommend a crew structure - or tell you we're not the right fit.
You'll talk to Surbhit, our Founder & CEO
We select engineers from our bench who match your stack and context. You interview every single one. If someone isn't right, we replace them immediately - no questions asked.
Your crew joins your tools: Slack, GitHub, Jira, Linear, whatever you use. They review your codebase, read your docs, and study your conventions. By end of day, they're oriented.
Your crew starts contributing production code. Not a test project. Not a sandbox. Real work on your real product.
A defined, agreed-upon milestone delivered within the first two weeks. You evaluate quality, communication, velocity. You pay only after the milestone is delivered.
The pilot is your chance to validate the crew with zero risk. You define what "done" looks like - we ship it.
You define a milestone - a feature, a module, a sprint's worth of work. Something concrete and measurable.
The crew delivers the milestone in 2 weeks. You see the code, the PRs, the quality - in your repos, reviewed by your team.
You evaluate the work. If the milestone is met, you pay. If it's not, you don't. That's the deal.
If you're satisfied, we continue. If not, you walk away with the code we've written - it's in your repos. No lock-in.
You only pay after the milestone is delivered and verified. No deposit. No upfront commitment. No surprise invoices.
2-week sprints aligned to your existing schedule. Sprint planning, daily asyncs, demos, retros. Same rhythm as your internal team.
Weekly velocity updates. Monthly reviews. You see exactly what was delivered, what's in progress, and what's next. No black boxes.
Month-to-month after the initial 3-month commitment. Scale up for a launch, scale down after. Add AI capabilities, swap a frontend dev for a backend dev. Your crew evolves with you.
| Crewlane | Traditional Hiring | Dev Agency / Outsourcing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first code | 5 business days | 58-71 days (avg. time to hire) | 2-6 weeks (scoping + kickoff) |
| Management overhead | Zero - tech lead manages delivery | You manage the team | You manage the vendor |
| Your tools & repos | Yes - Slack, GitHub, Jira, CI/CD | Yes | Often their tools, their repos |
| Code ownership | 100% yours from day one | Yours | Varies - check the contract |
| Pilot / trial | 2-week paid pilot, pay after delivery | 90-day probation (at full salary) | Pay upfront, hope it works |
| Flexibility | Month-to-month after 3 months | Full-time commitment + severance risk | 6-12 month contracts typical |
| Replacement | 48-hour from same bench | 2-3 month hiring cycle again | Start vendor search over |
| Cost (3-person crew) | $14,500/mo | $45,000-75,000/mo (US) | $20,000-50,000/mo |
They match you with individual freelancers and leave management to you. Crewlane deploys a self-managed crew with a tech lead from our 120-person bench — so you understand exactly how the engineering crew works before day one. You get a team, not an individual, with a pay-after-delivery pilot.
3 months initial, then month-to-month. It starts with a paid pilot engineering engagement - you define the milestone, we deliver it, you pay only after. If the pilot doesn't work, you walk away.
48-hour replacement guarantee. Every engineer is from our bench, so we have vetted replacements ready. No disruption to your engineering team integration - not even a missed sprint.
Yes - always. You approve every engineer who joins your crew. No exceptions. If someone doesn't pass your bar, we present alternatives. That's how we onboard remote developers fast without compromising your standards.
Every engineer comes from HestaBit Engineering Services - our 120-person bench. They've worked on real client projects and are vetted for technical skills and communication. You also interview every engineer before they join your crew, which is why engineering team integration happens in days, not weeks.
Yes. 4+ hours of daily overlap with US time zones, full overlap with UK and Middle East. Your crew joins your standups, responds in your Slack, and reviews PRs same-day. It's how we guarantee a first commit in 5 days regardless of geography.
Yes. Add or remove engineers with 2 weeks notice. Split into multiple crews for different workstreams or change the crew composition. Month-to-month after the initial 3 months - no severance, no notice period. That's how the engineering crew works at every stage of your engagement.
You keep everything. All code is in your repos from day one. We provide documentation, knowledge transfer, and a clean handover. Nothing locked in our systems - part of how we onboard remote developers fast and off-board just as cleanly.
The tech lead is one of the 3 engineers in your crew - they code AND lead. They own architecture decisions, code review standards, sprint planning, and delivery accountability. They align with your lead on day one, agree on patterns and conventions, then execute independently within that framework. It's the engine behind first commit in 5 days and full velocity by week two. They're not a PM - they're a hands-on engineering leader who writes code every day.
Yes. Mutual NDA signed before any project details are shared - before engineering team integration begins, before your codebase is touched.
30-minute discovery call. We'll walk you through how a crew would work for your specific situation - stack, timeline, team size, budget.
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