Hire a Dedicated Web Developer
One developer, dedicated blocks of their week, embedded in your workflow — your standups, your board, your release cadence.
Dedicated means reserved: a block of a senior developer's week — half-time or full-time — committed to your work for the term, planned around your rhythm rather than ticket-by-ticket. You get continuity project work cannot give: the developer who learned your codebase in week two is still there in month six, and the codebase shows it.
This is the model for products that ship weekly, WordPress/WooCommerce estates that need a standing operator, and teams that have learned the true cost of context-switching contractors. It is monthly, predictable, and cancellable on fair notice — the terms are in the contract before the first invoice.
What it is not: a body to rent. If the backlog does not justify a dedicated block, the honest recommendation is a fixed-scope engagement — the scoping call prices both, and the cheaper one for your situation is the one you will be told about.
Quarterly, and only when the numbers move
Get the rate report before you negotiate.
Updated rate bands across the major stacks and regions, plus what changed and why. No other email.
Questions
Asked about hiring dedicated.
It derives from the published hourly bands — region, stack and seniority set the rate, the reserved hours set the total, and the quote shows the math. No invented "monthly package" price that hides the hourly; the numbers are on the rates page and your quote reconciles to them line by line.
No — and the differences matter: no employment relationship, no benefits overhead, no severance exposure, and terms that flex month to month. You buy senior capacity without the employment tail. When the work outgrows that, hiring an employee is the right answer and you will hear it said plainly.
That is the design center: embedded in your standups, your code review, your release process — a senior who arrives productive inside your workflow instead of a satellite orbiting it. The first weeks are deliberately heavy on integration; the payoff is a developer your team treats as their own.
Not sure this model fits?
Describe the work in the brief — the reply recommends the commercial model with the reasoning shown, not the one with the best margin.
Other engagement models
Freelance
One contract with the person who does the work — no agency layer, no marketplace fees, no account manager translating your brief into a different brief.
Team
A small senior team when the work wants one — assembled from a vetted network, contracted once, accountable through a single lead.
Hourly
Hourly billing with the rates published before you ask — banded by stack and region, tracked honestly, reconciled against visible work.
Monthly
A predictable monthly retainer for ongoing work: reserved capacity, an agreed plan, reporting that reconciles to it — and terms you can leave.
Fixed price
A fixed price on a written scope: deliverables, milestones, acceptance criteria — and change requests priced as what they are, not as surprises.