Hire a Web Development Team
A small senior team when the work wants one — assembled from a vetted network, contracted once, accountable through a single lead.
Some projects are honest one-developer work. Others want a frontend specialist, a backend brain and an integrations hand at the same table — but not the account directors, delivery managers and margin stack an agency brings. The team model is the middle: a deliberately small group of vetted senior independents, coordinated by one accountable lead, under one contract.
Every specialist is vetted the way this site tells you to vet anyone — live portfolio verification, technical interview, references, probation on the first project. Core-stack work stays direct; specialist work routes to the network; the mode is stated in your quote. You deal with the lead; the lead deals with the team; the buck stops in one place.
This is also how the developer network grows: specialists who deliver under this model are the ones who earn public profile pages. The directory fills with people who have already shipped, not with profiles that hope to.
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 team.
Structure and price: an agency sells you an organization — its managers, its margin, its bench. This sells you exactly the seniors the work needs, coordinated by the person who scoped it. Same breadth on paper, radically different invoice and radically different accountability chain. The comparison guide covers the decision honestly, including when the agency actually is the right call.
Named, before signature: the lead (the owner of this practice) plus the specialists your scope justifies — with their verification trail available during evaluation. No mystery resources, no post-signature substitutions without your sign-off. If the network cannot field a specialist your project needs honestly, you hear that during scoping, not after.
The lead absorbs continuity immediately — the architecture, the repo state and the documentation are managed to make that survivable — and a replacement from the network ramps under the same vetting bar. The contract, the accountability and the single point of contact never change. That is the entire reason the model has a lead.
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.
Dedicated
One developer, dedicated blocks of their week, embedded in your workflow — your standups, your board, your release cadence.
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.