Dedicated engineers.Deployed in days.
No job posts. No résumé piles. No marketplace roulette. Tell us your stack and your goal, and a senior engineer from our team is shipping inside yours within 72 hours.
72h to kickoff·112 hrs per sprint·5-Day Fit Guarantee
✦ The problem
Hiring is slow. Marketplaces are a gamble.
Hiring
6 to 10 weeks of job posts, screening calls, and interviews. Then months of salary risk if you missed on the person.
Freelance marketplaces
You do the vetting, you carry the risk, and the good ones vanish mid-project.
Old-school outsourcing
Account managers, timesheets, and a junior dev behind a senior's CV.
You don't need a search. You need an engineer who starts.
✦ How it works
From "we need help" to engineer in Slack, in 72 hours.
Step 01
Tell us what you need.
One 30-minute call: stack, scope, team rituals, start date. That's it.
Step 02
We deploy.
We assign the right senior engineer from our team, someone we've already shipped with, and embed them in your Slack, standups, and repo within 48 to 72 hours.
Step 03
Ship in sprints.
14-day cycles, 112 focused hours each. A demo every sprint. Add engineers, pause, or stop with 15 days' notice.
✦ Why no interviews
You meet your engineer at kickoff. Not in round three.
Interview rounds don't predict fit, working together does. So we skip the theater. We assign an engineer we're staking our name on, you start shipping this week, and if it's not right in the first 5 days, we swap them at no cost. That's the 5-Day Fit Guarantee. You risk five days, not five weeks.
✦ The unit
One sprint = 14 days = 112 hours.
- One full-time senior engineer, embedded in your workflow
- Minimum to start: 2 sprints
- Demo at the end of every sprint
- Your repo, your tools, your rituals. Code lands in your GitHub from day one
- Direct Slack and WhatsApp access. No account-manager relay.
- Sprint report every cycle: shipped · blocked · next
✦ How we staff
Solo engineer. Full squad. Or a whole product team.
Solo
One senior engineer. Ship features, clear the backlog, cover a departure.
Squad
2 to 4 engineers plus a lead. Own a roadmap lane end-to-end.
Fractional product team
Engineers, designer, and delivery lead. A complete product built sprint by sprint, without hiring anyone.
Start solo. Scale to a squad next sprint. Downshift when the crunch is over.
Roles we cover
✦ The comparison
How we stack up.
Time to start
- In-house hire
6 to 10 weeks - Marketplace freelancer
1 to 2 weeks of screening - Old-school outsourcing
2 to 4 weeks - zoof04 Sprints
48 to 72 hours
Who vets
- In-house hire
You - Marketplace freelancer
You - Old-school outsourcing
Nobody, really - zoof04 Sprints
We do, and guarantee it
Accountability
- In-house hire
Employee - Marketplace freelancer
Individual - Old-school outsourcing
Account manager - zoof04 Sprints
The studio shipping your work
Flexibility
- In-house hire
Hard to undo - Marketplace freelancer
Gig by gig - Old-school outsourcing
Quarterly lock-ins - zoof04 Sprints
Per sprint · 15-day notice
Cost shape
- In-house hire
Salary + benefits - Marketplace freelancer
Hourly, unpredictable - Old-school outsourcing
Opaque retainers - zoof04 Sprints
Fixed per sprint
✦ 5-Day Fit Guarantee
Wrong fit in 5 days? Free swap.
If it's not working in the first 5 days of sprint one, we replace your engineer at no cost. The replacement's ramp-up days are on us.
✦ 15-Day Notice
No lock-ins beyond your current sprints.
Pause, scale, or stop. 15 days' notice is all we ask.
✦ Use cases
When teams reach for Sprints.
- Ship the roadmap your team can't reach
- Keep momentum between funding rounds
- Cover a departure without a 3-month gap
- Add AI features without making an AI hire
- Build v1 while you hire slowly and properly
⏱ Time zones
We deliver in your time zone. 5+ hours of live overlap for US, Canada, UK, Australia, Europe, and Asia. Async coverage handles the rest.
✦ Questions
Everything founders ask, answered.
Tell us what you're building. Meet your engineer this week.
30 minutes · no pitch · kickoff possible within 72 hours