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Isn't that just staff aug? TCS/Infosys?
Makes sense, though it's certainly doesn't sound new. It's the kind of thing a small business can do because they can take risk of being understaffed. (ie. Why my firm doesn't offer this)
For a customer it's good on cost, low on risk cuz you can just drop bad devs. In the flip side those devs could get too busy for you next week, want higher rates, or possibly switch you with someone else and lose knowledge.
I have a professional peer who does this as a side hustle. They have a bench of contractors they leverage to sell Dev work to SME market. It works well because SMEs often don’t wanna deal with big support or retainer costs. I think it could work super well if they have the right talent.
Hmm, I think it has merits. Would it be primarily focused on app dev, or would there be other kinds of work?
As a potential client, would I be able to go to them for a, say, IT modernization project and scope it out to hire a team to modernize, say, a handful of legacy case management systems into a COTS SaaS platform?
Would I have to know how many and which people to hire, or would the company offer preset scalable packages of X people per type of project? Or is the upfront pricing more of something to give a basic understanding of pricing and I'd have to go through a custom sales pricing process to get my actual cost?
Their site shows team compositions for different offerings, e.g. two designers and a developer, $30k/wk
i think it could be good. to me, the major risk is that the amount of work the client wants or thinks is feasible isn’t doable by the number of people they are paying for or at the rate that they want to pay.
here is the reason i say this:
a friend of mine worked for a professional services startup that recently folded, largely due to their inability to accurately forecast margins. their model was a monthly professional services subscription for startup companies that can’t afford the expensive and qualified employees it would require to do in-house, nor could they afford the services of a traditional firm in that industry. but presumably, their needs were more basic. so for a flat monthly fee, startups could get the services they need from this company.
however, they underestimated the amount of work their clients felt entitled to, and couldn’t really ever nail down how much they were willing to pay. so they were operating at a loss and eventually folded.
sure, the industries are different. the one you mention, OP, is better defined and there is a more established market so it’s easier to benchmark comps and compete on that basis. but i thought it was relevant regardless as a cursory tale.