Will they feel like our team or like a vendor?

Embedded. They join your Slack, your tools, your rituals. Most clients stop describing them as 'YouSource' within 60 days.

How do you ensure consistency over months?

Team members rotate rarely, with overlap and handover.

You do, from day one. Standard IP-assignment, no carve-outs.

Single monthly invoice covering the whole team. No T&M, no role-by-role line items, no surprise add-ons.

Dev Team as a Service — Embedded Cross-Functional Team

Item: Yousource
Author: Kevin Conlon

The team

Every role you'd hire for on one contract.

Default team shape. Roles scale as the roadmap shifts — same contract, no renegotiation.

Project Manager

Roadmap owner, sprint planning, stakeholder comms, prioritisation calls.

1 FTE

Experience Designer (ExD)

Research, flows, prototype, design system stewardship, user testing.

1 FTE

Tech Lead

Architecture, code review, hard calls, accountable for delivery quality.

1 FTE

Engineers

Full-stack delivery. Default 2; scale to 5+ with the same contract shape.

2-5 FTE

QA Engineer

Test strategy, automation, exploratory testing, release gating.

1 FTE

DevOps (shared)

Cloud, CI/CD, observability, incident response. Shared across teams at our cost.

Shared

Team size

Smaller — devs only, or devs + QA — also fine.

3–9 people

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The economics

A full team, in production,
before you'd close the first hire.

Hiring a 6-person product team takes 9–12 months. We embed in two weeks.

Roadmaps move at the speed of decisions, not hiring. When the strategy shifts, the team reshapes — no recruiting, no severance, no onboarding.

2 WKs

to embed

From kick-off to first sprint

vs 9–12 months hiring a comparable in-house team

1 contract

all roles

ExD, Lead, Devs, QA — one bill

no employer-of-record, no benefits, no 401(k) admin

Quarterly

arch review

Outside senior reviews your codebase

Audit-style. No extra cost.

How an engagement runs

Embed. Sprint.
Reshape.

Same engagement loop on every contract. The team learns your context once, then compounds.

Roadmap intake

We spend a week on your product, codebase and roadmap. Team shape built against that — not against a generic template.

Team matched

Named people, named seniorities, named timezone. You meet them before signing. If a match is off, we re-pair before kick-off.

Embed

Team joins your tools, your rituals, your Slack. Two-week ramp on your codebase before they pick up real tickets.

Sprint cadence

Two-week sprints by default. Planning, standups, demos, retros — embedded in your rituals, not parallel ones.

Quarterly review

Every 90 days: outside-senior architecture review, retro on velocity vs. plan, team adjustments if needed.

Reshape and renew

Three-month initial term. Auto-renews. Add or swap roles anytime.

What's in the contract

One monthly bill. 6 things included.

No add-ons, no surprise line items. What you see at proposal lands on the invoice.

Quarterly architecture review

An outside senior reviews your codebase every 90 days. No extra cost.

Observability & on-call

Production monitoring, incident response, runbooks — shared DevOps included.

Dedicated tech lead

Named at signing, accountable for delivery and code quality. Single throat to choke.

Cross-functional team

ExD (Experience Designer), Lead, Devs, QA on day one. Roles flex with the roadmap.

Embedded rituals

Standups, planning, demos, retros — in your tools, your timezone, your cadence. Productive by Day 14.

IP ownership

All code, artefacts, rights — yours from day one. No licence-back.

In practice

Teams We've embedded.

Three long-term engagements, three different shapes. Teams scale and reshape with the roadmap.

Kinnect · Occupational health SaaS

The Challenge

A national occupational health services provider was building the cloud platform that would carry their entire business — without becoming a software company themselves.

The Solution

Embedded a DTaaS team — ExD, Lead, Devs, QA — owning front and back. Kinnect kept PM in-house; the team flexed between 3 and 8 as the roadmap shifted.

The Transformation

Ten years in, still a client. Kinnect has scaled at least 20× since the platform launched in 2012. The team has stayed embedded through every reshape.

Embedded

10 YR

Kinnect growth

20×

Team flex

3↔8

Team-owned

Front + back

PineConnector · post-MVP scale-out

The Challenge

Founder shipped MVP with us in 12 weeks. Growth post-launch demanded a roadmap the founder couldn't deliver alone — but they couldn't justify hiring a full team yet.

The Solution

Same team, new contract shape. DTaaS team scaled from 3 to 6 over a year as the roadmap grew. Quarterly architecture reviews kept the codebase clean as load increased.

The Transformation

Went from 100 to thousands of paying customers on the same codebase. No re-architecture, no rewrite. Founder owns 100% of the IP throughout.

Team Scaled

3→6

Customer growth

30×

Rewrites needed

Founder-owned

100%

Qore · MVP to AI agents

The Challenge

A founder with a novel gig-work idea: at-home workers keeping enterprise datasets clean. Needed engineering velocity to ship the MVP and stay with the product as it evolved.

The Solution

The team — ExD, Lead, Devs, QA — owned front and back from the MVP through the pivot to AI agents. Founder kept PM; the team shipped against his roadmap.

The Transformation

One year embedded through the pivot — no re-architecture. Qore reached $9M revenue in that year. The founder's product chops drove it; the team kept pace.

DTaaS embed

1 yr

Team-owned

Front + back

Revenue reached

$9M

Rewrites

FAQ

Questions every founder asks.

Direct answers on scope, ownership and process. Anything else lands on the 15-min scoping call.

How is this different from Dev On Demand?

Dev On Demand sells tasks, month to month. Dev Team as a Service gives you full-time people, 160 hours a month each. Cheaper per hour, for committing.

What's the minimum commitment?

3 months, renewing every 3 months. To stop, give 6 weeks' notice before a term ends.

Can we hire your team members at the end?

No. Team members stay with yousource and rotate to other clients when the engagement ends.

What if a team member isn't working out?

Tell us and we replace them at no charge. In the first 30 days, you can also leave with no penalty.

Who owns the code?

You own all code we write for you once it's paid. Our reusable building blocks stay ours, and you get a permanent licence to use them.

How much does it cost?

From $3,840 per engineer a month, by seniority. Managed adds project manager and tech lead hours. Billed monthly in advance.

How do we start?

Book 15 minutes with Albert. Tell us what you need and we recommend a team, free. Then we match engineers to your stack.

Is production on-call included?

No. Production cover is an optional paid add-on, with weekend cover if you need it.

What hours do they work?

Distributed team, Manila HQ. 160 a month per person, less public holidays and agreed leave. Working hours are agreed in your contract. Other shortfalls are credited.

How we run engagements

Three principles, every engagement.

Excellence in execution

Production-grade work — reviewed, tested, deployed. Built to ship, not to demo. Modern engineering stack.

Evidence-driven solutions

Start small — audit, trial, or scoping. Scale based on findings, not pitches. Regular demos and written updates keep the work observable.

Relentless commitment to mission success

Outcome-tied delivery. We measure ourselves by your wins, not our invoices. Direct accountability to the people who hired us.

Shipping code since

2012

Continents served

6-month renewal

100%

Let's talk outcomes

Book a 15-min. Size your team.

Tell us your roadmap, your team today, your gap. We'll come back with a team shape, a monthly number, and named people to meet before signing.

Albert Estela

Solutions Advisor · Yousource

"Send me your roadmap and the team you have today. I'll come to the call with the shape I'd propose— names, seniorities, and a ballpark monthly."

Book 15 min with Albert

↳ info@you-source.com

↳ 4-hour response

Singapore

68 Circular Road #02-01
Singapore, 049422

Philippines

Unit 2201 22/F, The Peak Building,
107 P. Leviste St., Bel Air,
Makati City, Philippines

South Africa

359 Rivonia Boulevard Edenburg, Sandton, 2191 Johannesburg,
South Africa

A full dev team without the hiring.