Will you help us hire?

Yes. We will write the role, sit in on technical interviews and assess candidates' work, and we do not charge for it on an active engagement. It is not a conflict: a client with a good internal team is a better long-term relationship than a dependent one.

What happens to what you built when we hire?

It transfers. The code is already yours, the infrastructure is already declarative, and the runbook is written for someone who was not on the project — because the assumption is that eventually somebody else operates it.

Kamo vs hiring in-house

Usually the right long-term answer, and not always available

We will start with the conclusion, because it is not the one you would expect from a page like this: if software is central to your business and will remain so, you should hire. People who work only on your problem accumulate context nobody external can match, and over several years the economics favour employment clearly. The reason this comparison exists at all is that hiring is not always available when the need arrives.

Where we differ from hiring in-house, including where they are stronger.
Dimension	hiring in-house	Kamo
Cost over three years	Lower, once you count benefits, equipment, recruitment and management	Higher per hour, no fixed commitment
Time to productive work	Three to nine months including notice periods and ramp-up	Weeks
Accumulated context	Compounds, and is the single largest long-term advantage	Real but bounded; we document deliberately to reduce the gap
Breadth of skill	One or two people cannot cover design, front end, back end and operations	A team that already covers all of them
Risk concentration	A single hire leaving can halt everything	No single person is the dependency
Hiring well	Hard without an engineer to assess candidates, and the failure mode is expensive	You can see our work before committing
Peak demand	Either overstaffed most of the year or a bottleneck at the peak	Scales with the engagement

When hiring in-house is the better choice

Software is your core product and will be for years
The work is continuous rather than project-shaped
You can already assess engineering candidates credibly
You have the runway to wait several months for someone to become productive

The honest verdict

Hire if you can. The cases where an external team is the right answer are: you need to start before a hire could possibly be productive, the work is project-shaped rather than continuous, the breadth required exceeds what one or two people can cover, or you need something built well enough that your first engineering hire inherits a good system rather than a mess. We are happy to build something and hand it to the person you hire next year — that is a good outcome, and we write the handover expecting it.

Questions we get asked

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Tell us what you are trying to do

A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether we are the right people. If we are not, we will say so and point you somewhere better.

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