Core Talent

Staff augmentation

Core Talent gives you engineering capacity on demand — dedicated specialists who plug directly into your team and ship, without the time or overhead of a full-time hire. This is for teams who know exactly what they need built, and need the hands to build it now.

We place developers, AI engineers, and technical specialists who've already worked inside our own delivery process, so they're productive inside yours faster than a typical external hire. You get someone who writes code the same day, not someone who spends the first month ramping up.

Engagements scale with your need — a single specialist filling a skills gap, or a small dedicated team taking on a defined workstream alongside your in-house engineers. Either way, you keep full visibility and control over the work; we provide the capacity and the technical management overhead disappears.

This works best when you already have technical direction and need execution capacity — if you need both the plan and the build, Core Build or one of our other branches is usually the better starting point, and we'll tell you that directly rather than sell you a placement you don't need.

What's included

Dedicated remote development teams

A small team of engineers embedded in your workflow for a defined project or ongoing workstream.

On-demand hiring of tech specialists

Individual specialists placed to fill a specific skills gap, scoped to the length of the need.

AI engineers & NLP specialists

Specialists with production AI and NLP experience, for teams building AI capability in-house.

Cloud computing experts

Infrastructure and cloud specialists for teams scaling systems or migrating environments.

Project leaders & technical managers

Technical leadership placed to run a workstream or manage a distributed engineering team.

Short-term or long-term capacity

Engagements scoped to your actual timeline — a few weeks to cover a gap, or an ongoing arrangement.

Frequently asked questions

Typically within one to two weeks of scoping the role, since our specialists are already onboarded to our delivery process and just need context on your specific project.

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