outsourcing
Dedicated Teams
A Craton-led pod that owns delivery end-to-end against the outcomes you set — full timezone overlap, senior bench, transparent quarterly contracts.
The problem we solve
Hiring in North America is taking nine months. Far-shore options save money but lose four hours of overlap and two quarters of context. You don't want to micromanage offshore headcount — you want a team that writes code you'd have written yourself, runs its own standups, and ships against quarterly outcomes you signed off on.
What you get
- A Craton-led pod (typically 3–7 engineers + a tech lead) that owns its own backlog, code review, and on-call
- Quarterly outcome contracts — signed-off OKRs, not hourly invoices
- Full UTC−3 overlap with NA Eastern; 4 hours with PST, 5 with EU mainland
- No middlemen. Direct communication via Slack / GitHub with the senior engineers building your product.
- Quarterly review and reshape; 60-day notice; no lock-in
Stack we bring
- TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node
- iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), React Native
- Python (data, ML, AI integrations), Go, Elixir
- AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Postgres, Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse
- Rust (systems, cryptography, embedded) where it earns its keep
Sample engagement
- Scope
- Craton-owned engineering pod inside a Canadian healthcare startup — two senior engineers + tech lead, owning an AI patient admission pipeline.
- Duration
- Ongoing, 4 months in.
- Outcome
- Pod-owned delivery against quarterly OKRs; launched secure AI admission pipeline and achieved SOC 2 compliance.
Pricing
Sized off pod composition (3–7 engineers + tech lead) and on-call requirements. Quarterly outcome contracts.
Engineering management is included. Our tech lead runs the pod — you don't hire and pay for that separately.
Frequently asked
- How is this different from staff augmentation or a proxy agency?
- We don't sell hours of an engineer's time and we don't use proxy account managers. The pod is Craton-managed — our tech lead runs the standups, owns the on-call, runs code review, and is accountable for the OKRs. You talk directly to the engineers building your software.
- Are the engineers Craton employees or subcontractors?
- Direct Craton employees. We don't operate a body-shop marketplace; your team works with the engineers doing the work.
- How do you guarantee progress against the outcomes?
- Quarterly OKRs signed off in writing, demoed every two weeks against burn-down, and reviewed at the end of each quarter. If we miss a quarter, the next quarter's fee is reduced — written into the SOW.