FDEmax

FDEmax vs Staff Augmentation

They rent you people. We own outcomes.

Staff augmentation fills seats and leaves delivery risk with you. FDEmax embeds forward deployed engineers who are accountable for what actually merges and runs in production.

Instead of Staff Augmentation

  • You manage the contractor: onboarding, direction, quality, and output
  • Ramp time counts against your budget, often one to three months
  • Individual skill varies; delivery risk stays entirely on your side
  • One person's pace, no force multiplier behind them
  • When the contract ends, the knowledge walks out the door

You get FDEmax

  • A delivery model, not a seat: FDE plus git-native agents plus playbooks
  • Production pull requests from week two of the pilot
  • We manage quality and pace; you review and approve
  • Agent throughput behind every engineer, at no extra headcount
  • Knowledge lands in commits, tests, and docs inside your repos

Key Differentiators

Where the models actually diverge.

01

Accountability for outcomes

Staff aug is accountable for showing up. We commit to merged, working software against metrics agreed on day one.

02

Force multiplication

One embedded FDE directs agents that open dozens of reviewed pull requests. A contractor gives you one keyboard.

03

No ramp tax

Our playbooks for modernization and remediation transfer across engagements. Week one is assessment, week two is shipped code.

04

Clean exits

Everything we produce lives in your git history. Ending the engagement loses capacity, not institutional knowledge.

Honest Assessment

Which is right for you?

Choose Staff Augmentation if

  • You need a specific skill for a role you will manage directly
  • You already have strong delivery management and just need hands
  • Headcount optics matter more than delivery risk

Choose FDEmax if

  • You want delivery owned end to end, inside your environment
  • Your bottleneck is legacy modernization or a security backlog, not one missing skill
  • You want AI leverage with a human review gate, not more resumes

Staff augmentation sells headcount. FDEmax sells outcomes that merge.

See the difference in your environment.

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