Embedded teams
Embedded AI and software engineers, from one expert to a whole team.
Senior product managers, architects, AI, software, DevOps and data engineers who work in your tools, to your priorities. One monthly rate per person, with senior reviews and cover included and no recruiting fee.
- Week onein your stand-ups and your codebase
- One rateper person, per month, agreed up front
- No feeto recruit, and no hourly billing
- Carefully screened
- Skills proven, not claimed
- Interviewed by our senior team
- Background and employment checked
Build your team
One expert, or a whole team.
- To fill a gap in skills or capacity
One expert
A senior person who joins your existing team, works your hours and tools, and takes priorities from your lead.
- AI engineer
- Product manager
- DevOps engineer
- To build a new product or platform
A whole team
A product manager, an architect, engineers and DevOps working together inside your organisation to build the solution end to end, then hand it over or stay on.
- Product manager
- Solution architect
- Engineers
- DevOps
Start from
Or set each role
- Product managerRoadmap, discovery and specs
- Solution architectSystem design and technical direction
- AI engineerAgents, models, evaluation and guardrails
- Software engineerFull-stack features, in your codebase
- DevOps engineerCloud, pipelines, monitoring and cost
- Data engineerPipelines, warehouse and data quality
- Fractional CTO or CISOPart-time technical or security leadership
Your team
Your leadSets the priorities. Our people work to them.
- Product manager
- Solution architect
- Software engineer
- Software engineer
- DevOps engineer
- From Sixth Wave
- 5 people
- How it is paid for
- One monthly rate per person
- Every person
- Screened, assessed, interviewed and background-checked
- Before anyone starts
- You interview them, and we replace anyone who is not the right fit
- Included
- Onboarding, senior reviews and cover
How we choose our people
Hand-picked, then proven.
We are careful about who we put on your team. Every person we bring in has shown what they can do before they ever meet you.
- Carefully screenedEvery applicant is checked with Ropes Scout across dozens of signals, from phone and email to résumé and public profiles, so only real, verified people reach an interview.
- Skills proven, not claimedEvery candidate passes a Ropes AI technical assessment: a real-world project built from the role, with their identity verified and the whole session recorded.
- Interviewed by our senior teamThe people who would review their work interview them first, on judgment, communication and how they work in a team.
- Background and employment checkedBefore anyone joins a client team, with their consent and as the law allows: identity, past employment verified with former employers, eligibility to work in the US and, where the role calls for it, education and criminal records.
- Matched to your teamWe put forward only people whose experience fits your role and your stack, and you interview them before anyone starts.
- Reviewed every monthA check-in with your lead and reviews from our senior people, for as long as they are on your team.
Screened and assessed withRopes Scout fraud screening (opens in a new tab)Ropes AI assessments proof of skill (opens in a new tab)
What we build
What it looks like in your business.
Product managers
Turn goals into a roadmap, run discovery with your customers, write the specs and keep everyone pointed at what matters most.
Architects and AI engineers
Design the system and build the AI in it: agents and features on your own data, with the evaluation, guardrails and monitoring that keep them reliable.
Software and DevOps engineers
Full-stack engineers who pick up your backlog in the first week, and DevOps engineers who own the cloud, the pipelines, monitoring and cost.
Fractional leaders
A part-time CTO, head of product or CISO, for the judgment a team needs before it is ready for the full-time hire.
How it compares
Faster than hiring, steadier than a contractor.
| Hiring full-time | A contractor | Sixth Wave embedded | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to start | Months of searching | Weeks, if you find the right one | Usually within two weeks |
| Cost to start | Recruiting fees and onboarding | None, but hourly billing | None: one monthly rate |
| Backed by a team | No | No | Senior reviews and cover when they are away |
| If it is not working | Hard and slow to change | Start the search again | We replace them |
| Commitment | Permanent | Per contract | Month to month, notice agreed up front |
Is it for you?
You might need this if…
- Your roadmap is clear, but hiring cannot keep up with it.
- You need AI experience on the team now, not after a six-month search.
- A project needs a product manager for a year, not forever.
Where it helps
Who we build it for.
Common questions
What people ask us first.
- How do you choose your people?
- Carefully. Every applicant is screened for fraud with Ropes Scout, then passes a Ropes AI technical assessment, a real-world project built from the role with identity verified, then an interview with our senior team, a background check and verification of their employment history and their eligibility to work in the US. You meet them before they start.
- How is it priced?
- One monthly rate per person, set by the role and seniority and agreed before they start. No hourly billing and no recruiting fee.
- Who does the person work for?
- Day to day they work in your team, with your leads setting priorities. They stay part of Sixth Wave, so we handle employment, benefits, reviews and cover.
- What if someone is not the right fit?
- Tell us, and we replace them. The point is the work getting done, not the person we happened to send first.
- How quickly can someone start?
- Usually within two weeks of agreeing the role. They work your hours, join your meetings and can be full-time or, for leadership roles, part-time.
- Who owns what they build?
- You do. Code, documents and everything else they produce for you belongs to your company, and that is written into the agreement before anyone starts.
- How is this different from a project?
- A project is scoped and priced against what it delivers. An embedded team works to your priorities and is paid monthly, per person. Many clients start with one and add the other.
How we work
Tell us who your team needs.
A free discovery call to agree the roles, then people who fit, introduced for you to interview. One monthly rate per person, and no recruiting fee.