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The shape of an engagement

Four stages, in the order they happen. What decides the dates is usually contracting and access rather than availability, so the honest version is worth reading before the first call.

  1. Step one

    A scoped discovery, not a proposal

    We look at what already exists, agree what the problem actually is, and produce a plan with costs and sequencing against it. A proposal argues for the work before anyone has examined it; a discovery finds out whether the work is the right work.

    The plan is yours whether or not the engagement continues with us.

  2. Step two

    Contracting and access, then a start date

    What sets the start date is contracting and getting the team access to your systems, rather than whether people are free. It is worth knowing which one it is, because access is the half you can move from your side.

    Two to four weeks for most engagements. Staff augmentation for common skill sets can be faster; scarce expertise takes longer.

  3. Step three

    Delivery, with the overlap agreed first

    Nearshore and offshore models are both available, and which one you get is a decision rather than a default. The working-hour overlap is agreed before work starts, so it is a term of the engagement and not something discovered in the first sprint.

    Clients across fifteen countries.

  4. Step four

    You own it from the first commit

    Source, infrastructure definitions and runbooks live in your repositories and your accounts throughout, not in ours. That is what makes the last step possible: a clean handover is a normal way for an engagement to end here, and we plan for it rather than treating it as a loss.

    A clean handover is treated as a normal way for an engagement to end, not as a failure of one.

The questions worth asking first

The same answers we give on a first call, written down so you do not have to book one to get them.

  • What kind of work does AcmaCorp take on?

    Three broad areas: cloud and infrastructure services, application and product engineering, and the telecom and business software products we build ourselves. Engagements range from a four-week advisory piece to a managed service running for years.

  • How does an engagement usually start?

    With a scoped discovery rather than a proposal. We look at what exists, agree what the problem actually is, and produce a plan with costs and sequencing. That plan is yours whether or not the work continues with us.

  • Are we too small, or too large, to work with you?

    We work with organisations from a few dozen staff to several thousand. The question that matters more than size is whether the problem is well enough defined to scope, and discovery exists to answer that.

  • Where do you operate?

    Delivery centres in India, with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom, serving clients across fifteen countries. Nearshore and offshore delivery models are both available, with working-hour overlap agreed before anyone starts.

  • How quickly can work begin?

    Two to four weeks for most engagements, driven by contracting and access rather than by availability. Staff augmentation placements for common skill sets can be faster; anything requiring scarce expertise takes longer and we say so up front.

  • Who owns the code and the documentation?

    You do, from the first commit. Source, infrastructure definitions and runbooks live in your repositories and accounts throughout, not in ours. A clean handover is a normal way for an engagement to end and we plan for it.

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