Services
Pick by what you are short of.
Capacity, outcomes, structural change, a permanent capability, or the ability to do it yourselves. Every model below is priced, scoped and terminated differently — and choosing the wrong one is the most expensive mistake available to you here.
Team Augmentation
Named engineers, scrum masters, product owners, QA and SRE who join your team, work your hours and your board, and are accountable to your Definition of Done. Not a black-box vendor team behind a project manager.
- Typical size
- 2–25 people
- Commitment
- 3 months minimum, monthly thereafter
- Time to first commit
- 10–20 business days
- Commercials
- Monthly rate card per role and seniority
- Where they sit
- Bengaluru delivery centre, remote-first
This is for you if
- You have a roadmap and a hiring freeze, or a hiring pipeline that is nine months long
- You need a specific capability — platform, data, mobile, security — for two to four quarters
- You have tried an offshore vendor before and got a status report instead of a contribution
What you get
Named people, not a headcount pool
You interview every person. Nobody is swapped without your written agreement. The CV you see is the person who joins, and substitution without consent is a contractual breach on our side, not a staffing convenience.
Embedded in your system of record
Our engineers work in your repo, your Jira or Linear, your CI, your on-call rotation if you want them there. There is no parallel tracker and no weekly deck summarising work you can already see.
Overlap engineered, not accidental
A minimum four-hour live overlap with your core hours is written into the engagement, along with a written handover protocol for the hours outside it.
A delivery lead who is on our payroll
Someone senior owns quality, ramp and escalation on our side at no additional line item. You are not paying a margin for a coordinator whose job is to manage you.
Exit without hostage-taking
Thirty days notice, no termination penalty after the initial term, and a documented handover as a contractual deliverable rather than a favour.
Ask any augmentation vendor for their substitution rate and their median tenure on an account. The answer, or the refusal, tells you everything.
Managed Pods
A complete, durable cross-functional team that owns a product surface end to end — discovery through production support — against outcomes you set quarterly, with our delivery lead accountable for throughput.
- Typical size
- 5–9 people
- Commitment
- Quarterly, renewed on outcomes
- Ramp
- 3–5 weeks including discovery
- Commercials
- Fixed monthly pod fee
- Governance
- Weekly demo, quarterly business review
This is for you if
- You have a product area nobody internally has the capacity to own
- You want an outcome commitment, not a timesheet
- You need to stand up a capability now and absorb it internally in a year
What you get
A whole team, not a group of specialists
Product owner, tech lead, engineers, QA and a fractional designer, staffed as a durable unit that stays together. Team longevity is the single most reliable predictor of delivery performance we have found.
Quarterly outcome contract
Each quarter opens with a one-page outcome contract naming the business measure that will move. Scope inside the quarter is ours to negotiate; the outcome is not.
Flow metrics published weekly
Throughput, cycle time, work in progress, change failure rate and deployment frequency go to a dashboard you own. You do not have to ask how it is going.
Absorption path built in
From month six, your engineers pair into the pod on a schedule, and the handover plan is reviewed at every quarterly business review.
A pod that cannot show you its cycle-time distribution is a pod that is not measuring itself.
Delivery Transformation
Operating-model work for organisations where the delivery problem is structural: dependencies, handoffs, funding models, governance and topology. Diagnosis first, always, and an exit date agreed before we start.
- Diagnostic
- 4–6 weeks, fixed fee
- Programme
- 2–4 quarters, wave-based
- Team
- 2–6 consultants, tapering by design
- Commercials
- Fixed-fee phases with outcome gates
- Exit
- Handover date set in the first month
This is for you if
- You have done an agile rollout and the numbers did not move
- Twenty teams produce the throughput you would expect from six
- Regulatory or audit obligations are being used as the reason nothing can change
What you get
A diagnostic you could act on without us
Four to six weeks: value-stream mapping, flow baseline, dependency census, interviews and a constraint analysis. The output is a prioritised, costed intervention plan that is yours whether or not you engage us further.
Intervention at the structural layer
Team topology redesign, interface contracts, dependency elimination, platform and paved-road investment, funding-model change. Ceremonies are the last thing we touch, not the first.
Governance redesigned as a pipeline concern
Audit evidence, approvals and segregation of duties are moved into the delivery pipeline so compliance becomes a by-product rather than a gate.
An internal coaching cadre
We select, train and certify your own people against the method. Our headcount on your programme is designed to fall every quarter.
We publish our exit date at the start. If our headcount on your programme is higher in quarter four than quarter two, we have failed and the contract says so.
Build–Operate–Transfer
We stand up your India engineering centre — recruiting, entity guidance, facilities, delivery process and leadership bench — run it to an agreed performance bar, then transfer it to you as a going concern at a pre-agreed price.
- Build
- 3–6 months to first delivering team
- Operate
- 12–24 months typical
- Transfer
- Pre-agreed price and trigger
- Scale
- 15–150 people
- Location
- Bengaluru, with tier-2 options
This is for you if
- You want an offshore capability you eventually own, not a vendor relationship forever
- You have been quoted a captive-centre setup and it looked like an eighteen-month project
- You need the capability producing before the entity is fully stood up
What you get
Build — hiring against your bar, not ours
Your interview loop, your levelling, your compensation philosophy. We run the funnel, the employer brand and the offer process, and we hire for the team you will inherit.
Operate — a real delivery record before transfer
The centre delivers under our management against published flow and quality metrics, so what you take over has a track record rather than a business case.
Transfer — priced up front
The transfer price, the trigger conditions and the retention arrangements for key staff are agreed in the original contract. No renegotiation at the moment you have the least leverage.
Entity and compliance navigation
Coordination with the specialists who handle incorporation, transfer pricing, payroll, PF and statutory compliance. We do not give legal or tax advice; we make sure it happens on schedule.
Any BOT contract without a transfer price written into the original document is not a BOT contract. It is a staffing contract with an optimistic name.
AlphaScrum Academy
Certification and applied training in the method, delivered to your teams against your actual backlog and your actual constraints. Cohort-based, assessed on evidence of practice rather than a multiple-choice exam.
- Cohort size
- 8–20 participants
- Method tracks
- 4–12 weeks, part-time
- Technical tracks
- 5–10 weeks, part-time
- Tracks available
- 8
- Delivery
- Remote-first, on-site available
This is for you if
- You want internal coaches rather than a permanent consulting line item
- Your scrum masters have certifications and no diagnostic ability
- You need a common language across teams, vendors and business stakeholders
What you get
Eight certification tracks
Three in the method — Practitioner, Lead and Architect — and five technical: AI-Native Delivery, AI Engineering, Agentic Systems Engineering, Web3 and Smart Contract Security, and Mobile Delivery. Each is assessed on a submitted body of work from your own environment.
Taught against your backlog
Cohorts work their own value stream, their own dependency map and their own flow data. Nobody leaves with a case study about a fictional company.
Assessment that means something
A portfolio and an oral defence, reviewed by a practising consultant. Certification can be withheld, and sometimes is. That is what makes it worth holding.
Free public curriculum
The entire knowledge library stays open and free. We charge for assessment, cohort facilitation and coaching — not for access to ideas.
A certification you can fail is the only kind with any signal in it.
Choosing
A one-screen comparison
If two rows look equally right, the deciding question is usually whether you want to own the capability afterwards.
| Model | You bring | We are accountable for | Commitment | Ends when |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team Augmentation | Backlog, leadership, Definition of Done | Capability, ramp, retention, quality of individuals | Monthly after 3 months | You give 30 days notice |
| Managed Pods | Quarterly outcomes and a product surface | Throughput, quality and the outcome contract | Quarterly | The outcome is met or you absorb the pod |
| Delivery Transformation | Executive sponsorship and access | Diagnosis, intervention plan, capability transfer | Phased, 2–4 quarters | The handover date set in month one |
| Build–Operate–Transfer | Hiring bar, capital, long-term intent | Recruiting, operations, performance bar, transfer | 18–30 months | Transfer trigger fires at the agreed price |
| Academy | Candidates and a real backlog to work on | Curriculum, facilitation, honest assessment | Per cohort | The cohort certifies — or does not |
Talent
Roles we staff
Rate cards are per role and seniority band, issued on request with two anonymised profiles so you can judge the bar before you judge the price.
LLM applications, retrieval, agents, evaluation harnesses
Applied ML, feature pipelines, training cadence, MLOps
Solidity and Rust contracts, invariants, upgradeability
Threat modelling, fuzzing, invariant testing, audit prep
Swift, Kotlin, React Native, Flutter, release engineering
Backend, frontend, full-stack
Kubernetes, IaC, observability, release engineering
Pipelines, warehousing, applied ML, MLOps
Automation strategy, performance, contract testing
AppSec, cloud security posture, smart contract review
Discovery, backlog economics, stakeholder management
Flow management, dependency removal, coaching
Multi-team systems, topology, operating model
Team health, performance, hiring, technical strategy
Domain boundaries, integration, migration strategy