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Technical Capability Diagnosis
Not every technology pain is a role to fill
Hiring for a permanent role to fix a temporary bottleneck is one of the most expensive mistakes growing companies make. The matrix below maps the most common situations and points to the right service model for the moment you're in.
Diagnosis matrix
Which of these situations is your company in?
Pick the one closest to yours and see the path.
Service Models
Five ways to get the right capability
Start with any one of them, and move between them as the moment changes.
Leadership or expertise
Fractional
Executives (CTO, CIO) or specialists (UX, DevOps, QA, AI, DBA, SRE) for a few hours a week.
For seniority that doesn't fit a full-time hire.
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Staff Augmentation
Professionals and squads embedded in your operation, including teams that use AI to amplify delivery.
To scale delivery without swelling headcount.
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Squad as a Service
You hand over the mission and we deliver it, with the squad assembled and run by Tessa.
For when the company would rather buy delivery than manage a team.
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Hunting
Search plus technical and behavioral assessment, with the context understood before the job description.
For when hiring is the right decision.
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“Understanding the role is not enough. What we want to understand is the problem behind it, and which capability, in which format, actually solves it. That is why we stay close after the start: through the ramp-up, talking to the company and to the professional, adjusting whatever needs adjusting. Support, end to end.”
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Which decision, project or role is blocking your company's next cycle?
Thirty minutes on the problem is usually enough to tell which capability is missing.