A dedicated development team for your startup, without the hiring.

Full-time engineers and designers on Sprout's team do the daily work, with a product manager running each squad. Senior leads, with backgrounds at companies such as Careem, Kollegio AI and Turing, work part time with Sprout to supervise every squad and review its architecture, code and design. You get senior judgment on every decision without paying senior rates for every hour.

A dedicated development team is a group of engineers, and often a designer and product manager, who work only on your product on an ongoing basis, usually billed monthly. It behaves like an in-house team without you hiring each person. Sprout's version is called an embedded squad and starts from $6,000 per month.

A Sprout embedded squad starts from $6,000 per month. The price grows with the size of the team your roadmap needs, from a single engineer with product support to a full squad of engineers, a designer and a PM. That is typically a fraction of the fully loaded cost of hiring the same team in-house in the US.

For an ongoing product, usually yes. Freelancers are good for small, well-defined tasks, but you have to manage them, combine their work and replace them when they leave. A dedicated team comes with a PM, shares context across the product, and is accountable as a group for what ships.

Yes. Sprout squads change size with your roadmap. You can add engineers ahead of a launch or reduce the team after it instead of going through a hiring or layoff cycle.

Less than with an in-house team. The founder sets the goals and makes the key product decisions. Sprout's PM turns those goals into sprints and sends a written update every week, so the founder's time goes to decisions, fundraising and customers instead of managing tickets.