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brainiac/studio

Digital Studio

brainiac/studiobrainiac/studio
Outsourcing / Team as a Service
05 · outsourcing / dedicated developers

Developers who join your team, not a queue.

They attend your standups, work your board, and answer to your lead. The difference from an agency is that you manage the work — we handle employment, cover and replacement.

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In short

You get senior developers working full-time on your product, inside your process — your standups, your tools, your priorities. We handle contracts, payroll, equipment and cover. Monthly, cancel with notice. Interviews before anyone starts; you can say no.

Updated August 2026

The question is who does the managing.

Every staffing model is a trade between control and your lead's time.

WHO DOES THE MANAGINGFixed projectWe manage it. You review milestones.SquadTheir lead runs it. One sync a week.Dedicated developerYou assign the work. We employ them.Direct hireAll yours — including payroll and cover.■ YOUR TIME□ OURS
what this actually means

The difference is who decides what gets built.

With a project, you agree a scope and we deliver it. With dedicated developers, you decide week to week — because your priorities move, and re-scoping every time is slower than just having the people.

They work your hours, in your tools, on your board. Your lead assigns the work. From the inside it should feel like they are on your team, because functionally they are.

We stay responsible for the parts you should not have to think about: contracts, payroll, equipment, holiday cover, and replacing someone quickly if the fit is wrong.

2–4 wksFrom first call to starting
MonthlyScale up or down with notice
YouInterview and can say no
what we build

How it works.

01

You interview first

CVs, then a call, then a technical conversation with your lead. You can say no, and people do.

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They work your hours

The Gulf is one to two hours behind Karachi, so the working day is genuinely shared.

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In your tools

Your repository, your board, your Slack. Not a separate system we report out of.

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Your lead assigns work

We are not a layer between you and the developer. Talk to them directly.

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Cover included

Holiday, sickness, someone leaving. Continuity is what you are buying from an employer.

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Replacement if the fit is wrong

It happens. We replace quickly rather than defending the placement.

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Scale up or down monthly

Add for a push, reduce after. Without a redundancy process.

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One invoice

No recruiter fee, no equipment cost, no employer taxes to work out.

Dedicated, project, or hiring directly.

Three ways to get engineering capacity. The right one depends on how settled your roadmap is.

Dedicated developerFixed projectDirect hire
Who sets prioritiesYou, weeklyAgreed upfrontYou
Time to start2–4 weeks2–4 weeks2–4 months
Changing directionFree — just re-prioritiseRe-scope and re-quoteFree
If it is not workingReplace, or stop with noticeFinish the scopeA long, difficult process
Holiday and sicknessWe cover itOur problemYour problem
Equipment, payroll, taxOursOursYours
Right whenThe roadmap keeps movingYou know exactly what to buildThe role is permanent and core

Who you are working with.

1–2 hrs

Behind Doha and Muscat — a shared working day, not overnight handoffs.

Karachi
12+

Developers, plus designers, project managers and marketing strategists.

The team
2016

Not a marketplace of freelancers — people we employ, in one office.

Building since
use cases

When this makes sense.

01

Your roadmap keeps changing

Fixed scope fights you. Having the people means re-prioritising costs nothing.

02

You need capacity for months, not weeks

Under about six weeks, a fixed project is usually cleaner and cheaper.

03

Hiring locally is slow or expensive

Common in the Gulf. Three months to hire is three months not shipping.

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Not if you have nobody to lead them

Dedicated developers need someone setting priorities. Without that, buy a project instead — we will say so.

approach

How we work.

01

We agree what you need

Skills, seniority, how many, how long. Including whether this is the right model at all.

02

You see candidates

CVs within about a week, from people already with us — not sourced after you sign.

03

You interview

A call, then a technical conversation with your lead. Reject anyone. That is the point.

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They start inside your process

Your repository, board and standups from week one. We handle equipment and access.

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We check in monthly

Separately from your day-to-day, so problems surface early rather than at renewal.

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You scale or stop

Monthly, with notice. No redundancy process, no recruitment to unwind.

faq

Frequently asked.

6 questions answered. Still have one? Reach out.

An agency takes a scope and returns a result; you do not manage the work. Dedicated developers sit inside your process — your board, your standups, your lead assigning tasks. Choose the agency model when you know exactly what you want built. Choose this when priorities move week to week and re-scoping every time would slow you down more than it protects you.

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