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>svcyour engineering team

A fractional engineering team that treats your product as its own.

If you have real software work and no senior engineers on staff, you can bring us in as your team. A small senior crew plans, builds, and ships alongside you, and what we learn about your business stays with the same people instead of resetting with each new vendor. No recruiting, no full-time headcount, and everything stays in your name.

For businesses with ongoing software needs and nobody senior to own them. Maybe the work is too uneven to justify a full-time salary, or you're tired of re-explaining your business to a new vendor for every project. We learn your domain once and keep building on it.

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>01when you need this

Sound familiar?

No senior engineer in the room

Technical decisions are piling up and nobody on staff can make them with confidence. That also makes vendor proposals hard to judge.

Every project starts from zero

Each new vendor has to relearn your business before it can do useful work, and that context leaves when the project ends. You end up paying for the same learning again and again.

The work is real but lumpy

Some months need three engineers, some need a code review and a deploy. A full-time hire is overkill half the year and underwater the other half.

The roadmap outruns the team

You know what the business needs built. What's missing is a crew that can plan it, sequence it, and ship it without you managing every step.

>02what you get

The work, concretely.

An embedded senior crew

Engineers who plan, build, and ship like the product is theirs. We bring judgment as well as hands, which includes pushing back on a bad idea before we build it.

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Context that compounds

The same crew from one engagement to the next. Decisions, domain knowledge, and architecture notes get written down as we go, so month six builds on month one instead of repeating it.

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A real delivery pipeline

Repos, CI, code review, and deploys set up (or adopted) properly. We use AI where it helps, and everything it writes gets the same review as hand-written code.

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Everything in your name

Code, infrastructure, and accounts belong to you from day one. If we part ways, you keep the product, the pipeline, and the paper trail.

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>03how it works

From first email to handoff.

  1. Tell us the problem

    What the business does, what needs building, and what you've tried. A call or an email to hello@bashsquad.com is enough to start.

  2. We shape the engagement

    We size the crew and cadence to the actual need, not a seat count. You get a written proposal for what we'll own and how we'll report on it.

  3. We embed in your tools

    Your repos, your project tracker, your chat, your process. Where those don't exist yet, we set them up in your accounts, not ours.

  4. We plan, build, and ship

    Ongoing cycles of scoping, building, and releasing, with decisions documented as we make them, so each cycle builds on the last.

  5. You own everything, always

    Handoff isn't a single event. Code, infrastructure, docs, and accounts stay in your name the whole time, so ending the engagement is straightforward.

>04faq

Questions people actually ask.

How is a fractional engineering team different from hiring an agency per project?

Continuity. A per-project vendor learns your business, ships, and leaves, and the next one starts over. With a fractional team, the same crew stays across engagements, so domain knowledge, architecture decisions, and the working relationship carry forward and new work doesn't start from scratch.

Should I hire a full-time engineer or a fractional engineering team?

If you have steady, full-time engineering work and the capacity to recruit, manage, and keep a great engineer, a full-time hire is the right call, and we'll tell you so. A fractional team fits when the work is real but uneven, or when you need a range of skills (backend, frontend, infrastructure, AI) that one hire won't cover, without the cost and risk of recruiting.

How much of your time do we get?

As much as the work needs, agreed up front. Some engagements need sustained build capacity; others need a steady senior presence for planning, reviews, and releases. We don't sell seats by the hour and let the meter run, and you'll always know what we're working on and why.

Can we hire senior engineers without taking on full-time headcount?

Yes, that's what this engagement is for. You get senior software engineers working inside your business without adding employees, running a recruiting process, or committing to salaries and benefits. There's still a learning period while we get to know your systems and your business, and we plan the first weeks around it. Once we understand the work, we put the scope in writing.

Does an embedded software development team work with our existing tools and process?

Yes. We adapt to your repos, issue tracker, chat, deployment setup, and review process. If some of that doesn't exist yet, we'll set it up inside your accounts using standard tooling. The goal is a team that fits your company, not a company reshaped around its vendor.

What happens if we stop working with you?

You keep everything, because you owned it all along. Code and infrastructure live in your accounts, decisions and architecture are documented as we go, and nothing runs through systems only we control. Ending the engagement means we stop showing up, not that you start a rescue project.

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>05book

Tell us the hard thing.

It takes about two minutes. An engineer reads every one of these, not a bot and not a sales sequence. Whether it's broken, half-built, or still just an idea, tell us what it is. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.

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No spam, no sales reps. One engineer, one reply.

direct line

Rather just email?

Skip the form. Write it however you like; the same engineer reads it either way.

what happens next

An engineer reads your note (no triage bot, no lead scoring) and replies fast, usually within 1 business day. If it looks like a fit, we offer a few times for a 25-minute call.