Engineering Capacity
CREA-KO extends established engineering organizations with embedded specialists and dedicated teams. They work within your technical direction and your delivery practices, under responsibilities agreed before the first commit.
Strong engineering organizations reach the point where the backlog outgrows the team, a specialist skill is missing, or a workstream needs sustained attention nobody can spare. More people is the obvious answer.
More people working to a different standard, reporting through a different channel and holding knowledge you cannot see is how a team quietly splits in two. CREA-KO builds engineering capacity the other way round: engineers join your direction, your repositories and your review practice, and each side’s responsibilities are written down first.
Both models put CREA-KO engineers inside your engineering environment. They differ in one decisive way: who coordinates the work day to day.
Embedded Specialists
For teams that already have an engineering lead, a backlog and a delivery cadence, and need specific skills or more capacity without building a parallel vendor process.
Dedicated Engineering Teams
For a product, platform, modernization or integration stream that needs sustained, coordinated capacity. The coordination each side carries is agreed at the outset, so your leads spend their time on direction rather than on managing contributors.
Want CREA-KO to own an entire project, from requirements to delivery? That is custom software development, not augmentation.
Capacity only helps when it works inside the system you already run. Every engagement is built from three parts, and each part has a named owner.
Owned by you
Provided by CREA-KO
Agreed in writing
The two models differ in where the coordination line sits inside that shared practice — never in who owns your architecture. See who owns what
Engineers come from the disciplines CREA-KO practises on its own systems: custom institutional and enterprise software, platforms and commercial products. Each is described by the contribution it makes.
Services, business logic and APIs built inside your codebase, to your conventions and your review standards.
Delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code and container platforms, including controlled and on-premises environments.
Connecting the systems you already run: data exchange, identity and access, and the automation of workflows between them.
Data pipelines and AI capabilities engineered into products and platforms that already have owners.
Roles outside these disciplines are discussed case by case. We propose an engineer only when we can staff the role responsibly, never simply to fill a request.
The same sequence for both models. Durations depend on the role, your onboarding process and availability, and are agreed case by case.
The work, the skills it calls for, the team or workstream it joins and the outcome you expect.
We propose engineers whose experience fits the work. If a role cannot be staffed well, we tell you.
Your engineers meet the proposed engineers before any commitment, so fit is judged by the people who will work together.
Accounts, repositories and environments provisioned under your approval, then onboarding into your practices.
Contribution inside the planning, review and reporting rhythm agreed for the engagement.
Regular review of fit and output; scaling, replacement and handover handled as the agreement sets out.
The comparison to settle before any conversation about people. These are the default arrangements; your agreement sets the final terms.
| Decision | Embedded Specialists | Dedicated Engineering Teams |
|---|---|---|
| Your need | Specialist contribution inside an existing team | Sustained capacity for a defined stream of work |
| Day-to-day direction | Your engineering lead | Shared governance, with CREA-KO’s coordination scope defined in writing |
| Technical architecture | Yours | Yours, with ownership of interfaces and decisions made explicit |
| People | One or more role-specific specialists | A coordinated team scoped to the workstream |
| Accountability | Each specialist’s agreed contribution, within delivery you lead | Agreed outcomes for the workstream, with reporting to match |
| Collaboration | Your workflow, tools and review process | Joint planning, integrated with your workflow |
| Commercial structure | Agreed scope, allocation and term | Negotiated team structure, scope and recurring terms |
| Continuity | Replacement and handover as agreed | Knowledge retention and continuity arrangements as agreed |
Engineers work in your accounts, repositories and environments, under access you grant, scope and withdraw.
Confidentiality terms are agreed in writing before access to your code or data is granted.
Rights to code and work product are defined in the engagement agreement, not assumed from the model.
CREA-KO has engineered software since 2007: custom systems for public institutions and businesses, enterprise platforms and commercial digital products.
That record describes how CREA-KO engineers. It is company history, not a list of augmentation clients, and no organization named in it is presented as one.
The ones that decide whether added capacity strengthens your team or complicates it.
A short description is enough to begin. It helps to include:
