What we do · Extend
Our specialists on your team, for as long as you need
A named engineer or specialist from our team, working inside yours: your standups, your repo, your tools. Booked in prepaid blocks that roll over.
- Price
- $400 to $1,000/day by platform; blocks of 40, 80 or 160 hours
- Time
- As long as you need; two-week satisfaction start
- For
- Teams that already run a platform but are out of capacity, or need a skill they do not have in-house.
- You own
- Everything the specialist builds, in your accounts
In short
Extend places a named SBD specialist on your team: an Airtable, SmartSuite, Retool, Bubble, Make, n8n or custom-code developer who works inside your tools and your meetings. Priced from $400 to $1,000 a day by platform, booked in prepaid blocks of 40, 80 or 160 hours that roll over. The first two weeks are paid only if you are satisfied, and a replacement clause is written into the agreement.
Is this you?
If three of these sound like your week, an extended team is the place to start.
- Your roadmap has automation work your team has no time for
- You need n8n, Supabase or AI skills for months, not years
- A contractor left and nobody can maintain what they built
- Hiring a full-time specialist would take a quarter
- You want senior review on work your team is doing
What this is not
So the scope is clear before the call.
- Anonymous staff augmentation. You get a named person, not a rotating seat.
- Work without a lead on your side. Someone in your team sets priorities.
Most often for
What we have built
Extend in practice.
- SaaS
An AI outbound platform, built with the client
Product design, platform build and releases run alongside the client's own team.
Read the story - Real estate
An agent fleet with a control plane
Engineers working phase by phase with the client on agents, approvals and policies.
Read the story - Manufacturing
White-label builds for agencies
Operations systems delivered under an agency's own name.
See the project
Extend
A specialist in your standup next week.
Tell us what your team needs help with and for how long. We will say who would join and what they would pick up first.
Tell us what you need
How it runs
Extend, step by step.
- 1Match
You tell us the platform, the work and the hours. We propose a named specialist with their recent work.
- 2Weeks 1 to 2
The specialist joins your tools and your standups. If it is not working, you do not pay for these two weeks.
- 3Ongoing
Hours drawn from your block, reported weekly. Unused hours roll over. Replacement on request.
What you get
- A named specialist with stated overlap hours
- Weekly hours report
- Handover notes when the engagement ends
How we know it is done
- The specialist works in your tools and your rituals, not ours
- Hours are reported weekly and match the block
What you own
- Everything the specialist builds, in your accounts
- Unused hours, rolled over
- The right to stop at the end of any block
typical UK contractor rate for an Airtable and Make specialist, 2026
Source: IT Jobs WatchBuilt on
The tools you already run, where we can.
Proof
Customer stories.
“An embedded specialist should be indistinguishable from a good hire, except that you can stop next month.”
How it starts
Every project starts with an audit.
One to two weeks with the people who do the work. A costed blueprint in order of payback. The $500 is credited in full to the build.
- Audit1 to 2 weeks. $500, credited to your build.
- BlueprintIncluded in the audit’s second week. Included with the Audit; quoted separately for multi-phase programmes.
- Build2 to 8 weeks. From $2,500 one-time; most builds $5,000 to $15,000.
- Run60 days of hypercare, then monthly. Hypercare included; care plans from $1,000/month.
Questions
What people ask about an extended team.
Which platforms?
Airtable, SmartSuite, Retool, Bubble, Softr, Make, n8n, Zapier, and custom code in TypeScript and Python. Ask about others.
What hours do they work?
Overlap hours are agreed in writing before the start and stated on the engagement. Most clients get at least four hours of overlap with their working day.
What if the specialist is not a fit?
Say so in the first two weeks and you do not pay for them. After that, a replacement is provided on request.
Can we convert a block into a full build?
Yes. Hours already used count toward a fixed-price sprint if the work is scoped as one, and the specialist usually carries on as part of that team.
Who owns the code, the workflows and the accounts?
You do, from the first sprint. Every tool, automation and database lives in accounts in your name. Code sits in your repository. Documentation is part of the deliverable. If you stop working with us, everything keeps running.
Reading
- Systems
Six months of AI agents in production: what broke
Not the model. Field renames, a confidence score that drifted, a supplier who changed invoice format, and a Slack channel nobody read. What failed across the agent systems we run for clients, and what we changed.
- Systems
How much should an AI agent be allowed to do?
An agent with an unscoped token dropped a production database and its backups in nine seconds. The permission model we use for every agent: read widely, write narrowly, spend with a cap, and escalate when unsure.
Also what we do
- What we do
Automate
Teams re-typing data between tools, chasing status by hand, or waiting a day for a report.
- What we do
Modernise
Companies running a $5M to $100M operation on spreadsheets, a legacy ERP or a tool nobody dares change.
- What we do
Advise
Founders and COOs making technology decisions without anyone senior to check them.
- What we do
Harden
Founders who shipped something real with an AI builder and need it to survive real customers, investors or an audit.
Extend
Talk to the people who would build it.
Thirty minutes. Bring the work your team still does by hand. You leave with a yes or no on fit and the first thing we would build.
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