A Development Team
That Stays With You
Not Just Delivers and Leaves

A dedicated development team is a group of developers, designers, and QA engineers hired on a long-term retainer basis rather than for a fixed project scope. Instead of hiring for a specific deliverable, you hire for ongoing capacity — a team that works on your product month after month. The dedicated team model suits products that need continuous development: SaaS platforms adding features based on user feedback, eCommerce stores with ongoing customisation and integration work, and long-lived web applications that grow over time. CV Infotech has maintained dedicated team relationships since 2012, including AI SaaS platforms maintained for Steven since 2019.

A dedicated development team at CV Infotech costs $30 per hour. Part-time capacity (80 hours per month, roughly half a developer) costs $2,400 per month. One full-time equivalent developer (160 hours per month) costs $4,800 per month. A small dedicated team of 3 people (developer, QA, project manager) costs approximately $14,400 per month. US-based dedicated teams of equivalent skill cost $15,000 to $40,000 per month for the same capacity. Retainer hours not used in a month are typically not rolled over — work is scoped and prioritised to fill the committed capacity.

A project-based engagement has a fixed scope, fixed price, and a defined end date. A dedicated team engagement has ongoing capacity — a committed number of hours per month — without a fixed scope or end date. Project-based is right when the requirement is clearly defined and unlikely to change: 'build this SaaS MVP by this date.' Dedicated team is right when the product evolves continuously: 'maintain and extend this SaaS platform as we learn from users.' Most long-term client relationships begin as a project and transition to a dedicated team model when the first project demonstrates delivery quality.

CV Infotech dedicated teams are composed based on your requirements. Common configurations: a single full-stack developer (160 hours/month) for a product at early growth stage; a developer plus QA engineer (320 hours/month) for a product where test coverage is important; a full team of developer, designer, QA, and project manager (640 hours/month) for an active product in rapid feature development. Team composition can be adjusted monthly based on your current development priorities.

Two billing models are available. Time-and-materials: you pay for actual hours worked, invoiced monthly. Most flexible — no minimum commitment. Suitable when work volume varies month-to-month. Fixed-capacity retainer: you commit to a fixed number of hours per month in advance and pay that amount regardless of actual hours used. Gives the team predictability to plan capacity. Provides a small rate discount. Minimum commitment: 3 months. Payment: monthly in advance for retainer, monthly in arrears for time-and-materials.

Yes. Dedicated team capacity can be adjusted up or down with 30 days notice. Scaling up requires team member availability — we confirm capacity before committing. Scaling down from a retainer requires the notice period specified in the agreement. The 30-day notice window is standard. For time-and-materials engagements, you can reduce hours without notice — simply assign less work in any given month.

Team augmentation embeds CV Infotech developers into your existing development team and process. Your team lead manages the work, uses your tools and sprint cadence, and the CV Infotech developers follow your engineering practices. A dedicated managed team is where CV Infotech manages the team — work prioritisation, sprint planning, and delivery accountability sit with CV Infotech. We recommend team augmentation when you have a strong engineering lead and want capacity without overhead. We recommend the managed model when you want to delegate delivery accountability entirely.

No. Every developer, designer, and QA engineer in a CV Infotech dedicated team is a direct employee. We do not use subcontractors, freelancers, or third-party staffing agencies. The people you meet in the kickoff call are the people working on your product. This matters because a subcontractor model means you have no visibility into who actually touches your codebase — the agency is a broker, not a team.

Accountability mechanisms: weekly written status updates (what was completed, what is in progress, what is blocked), biweekly video sprint review calls, a shared project management board (ClickUp or Jira) where all tasks and hours are logged in real time, and GitHub commit history that shows work happening daily. For time-and-materials engagements, detailed timesheets are provided monthly. Productivity is measured by output — features shipped, bugs resolved, performance improvements — not just hours logged.

The minimum engagement for a dedicated team arrangement is 3 months. This minimum exists because meaningful onboarding, context-building, and productive output require time. A developer who joins a new codebase and leaves after 4 weeks has cost more in onboarding overhead than they produced. For one-time projects with a defined end, the project-based model is more appropriate. For time-and-materials without a retainer commitment, there is no formal minimum — but ongoing work works better than sporadic tasks.

You choose. In the team augmentation model, your team lead manages the work — CV Infotech developers follow your sprint cadence and tooling. In the managed model, CV Infotech's project manager handles day-to-day work planning, task allocation, and sprint structure — you review output and set product direction. Most clients begin with the managed model and transition to closer integration as trust is established. The management model can be adjusted after the first quarter.

Yes. CV Infotech operates as a dedicated development team for clients in the USA, UK, Australia, and Canada. Francisco Escobar (Netherlands) has been our client since 2012. Steven has had a dedicated team maintaining his AI SaaS platforms since 2019 — UltimaBot and UltimaWriter are maintained by the same team today. Our rate is $30 per hour. 100% in-house. 512 verified 5.0 reviews on Freelancer.com. Discovery call is 30 minutes and free.