From signed brief to first standup. Cleared roles can run longer; commercial roles often land sooner.
Practice — IT Staff Augmentation
Talent your roadmap deserves. On the timeline it requires.
Three pre-vetted senior candidates within 72 hours of brief. Embedded on your team, accountable to your milestones, convertible to FTE on your terms.
01 — What we do
A curated bench, not a body shop.
Every candidate we slate has been technically screened by a practitioner in their domain — not by a recruiter reading off a checklist. That means architects who can defend a design decision, engineers who can read and ship the existing codebase, project managers who can run a steering committee, and security leads who can write the policy and review the pull request.
We staff for outcomes you can describe in a sentence: cut MTTR in half, exit the data center by Q3, pass the SOC 2 Type II audit, ship the platform migration on the original date. If we can't believe in the outcome, we won't take the engagement.
02 — How we work
Four practitioner groups, one accountable team.
The roles we place most often. Each candidate is screened by a senior in their own discipline before they reach your inbox.
Architects & Engineers
Cloud architects, platform engineers, SREs, network engineers, ERP and integration leads. AWS, Azure, GCP, multi-cloud, on-prem exits.
Project & Program Leads
Senior PMs, TPMs, and program leaders who run steering committees, not just Jira boards. PMP, Agile, SAFe, and federal program experience.
Data & Analytics
Data engineers, analytics engineers, BI leads, and ML practitioners. Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Looker, Power BI, modern data stack end-to-end.
Security & Compliance
Cleared and commercial security engineers, GRC leads, IR responders, identity architects. SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, NIST 800-53.
03 — Our approach
Four steps from brief to embedded.
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Brief us
A 45-minute call with the practice lead. Role, scope, constraints, clearance level, hard deadlines, the political reality. We write it down and read it back.
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Slate of three
Three pre-vetted candidates inside 72 hours, each with a written technical screen summary. No résumé blasts, no copy-paste pipelines.
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Selection in 72 hours
You interview, we coordinate. We sign offers within 72 hours of selection so candidates don't go cold while the paperwork moves.
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Embed and deliver
Day-one onboarding plan, weekly engagement-lead check-ins, and a two-week mutual trial window. Quiet replacements available if fit is wrong.
04 — Outcomes
What clients hire us to deliver.
Clients select a candidate from the first slate of three on 95% of engagements. No second rounds of résumés.
If the fit isn't right in the first two weeks, we replace at no cost. We almost never need to.
05 — Questions we hear most
Before you brief us.
For commercial roles, we typically deliver a slate of three pre-vetted candidates within 72 hours of a signed brief and have someone embedded inside two weeks. Cleared roles take longer because clearances do — usually three to five weeks for an interim solution while a permanent placement runs in parallel.
Yes. Our bench is national. Roughly 40% of placements are remote, 35% hybrid, and 25% on-site. We place most often in Atlanta, D.C., Dallas, Charlotte, New York, Chicago, and Denver, but we'll source for any U.S. metro.
Public Trust, Secret, and Top Secret. SCI and polygraph requirements case-by-case, depending on agency and project. We don't place sponsorship-required candidates as a workaround for cleared roles — if the requirement is real, we honor it.
Yes, anytime. The conversion fee scales down monthly and goes to zero after month six. We don't penalize you for hiring someone you've worked with and trust; we'd rather you keep them than churn them.
Time-and-materials at a transparent bill rate, no markup tiers, no minimums beyond the initial two-week trial. Rates depend on discipline, seniority, clearance, and geography. We send a written rate card before the brief, not after.
06 — Adjacent practices
Other ways we help.
Government IT
Cleared delivery, FedRAMP landing zones, NIST 800-53 controls, GSA MAS, and 8(a) partnerships.
Explore practiceM&A and Divestitures
IT due diligence, day-one connectivity, TSA exit plans, and carve-out clones of ERP and identity stacks.
Explore practiceCybersecurity & Compliance
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, CMMC, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF implemented as operating systems, not binders.
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