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Core Team as a Service

Three roles decide whether a product works out: technical leadership, delivery management and senior engineering. Rent all three on a fixed monthly fee, instead of spending the next six months hiring them one at a time.

From £9,500 per month, excluding VAT. Minimum engagement of 3 months.

What is a core team as a service?

Core team as a service is an engagement model where a company rents a complete, managed development unit rather than hiring engineers or buying project work. The Metamindz Core Team is a fractional CTO, a technical delivery manager and a senior full-stack developer on a fixed monthly fee starting at £9,500 excluding VAT, with QA, UI, UX, customer interviews, DevOps, data engineering, cyber security, e-commerce and additional engineers available as add-ons. The team owns architecture, delivery management, code review and release, with a minimum engagement of three months.

What the Core Team is for

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One team, three jobs covered

Technical leadership, delivery management and senior engineering in a single unit. These are the three roles that most often go missing, and the ones that are hardest and slowest to hire individually.

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A fee that does not move

A fixed monthly fee, so the cost is predictable and nobody is arguing about change requests. Add-ons are taken deliberately, when the roadmap needs them.

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Architecture before code

The fractional CTO designs and estimates the work before the team starts building, then reviews the code that comes out of it. No over-engineering, no unnecessary complexity.

The companies we build for

We work with e-commerce, SaaS, healthtech, consumer apps and IoT businesses across the UK, Europe, the US and the Middle East. What changes between them is the stage, and what the stage needs.

Founders and pre-seed

Non-technical or solo founders with a product to prove and no engineering function yet. The job is to get something real in front of customers and investors without burning the round on headcount.

What we do

  • Product scoping, architecture and a build plan you can take to investors
  • End-to-end MVP delivery, including the parts most agencies leave out
  • Honest advice on what to build now and what to defer until after funding
  • AI used where it speeds delivery, with guardrails around auth, payments and data

Services involved

  • CTO-Led Development
  • Fractional CTO
  • Technical Due Diligence

Seed-stage startups

Funded teams with early traction, a small in-house team, and a roadmap growing faster than the team can absorb.

What we do

  • Feature delivery alongside the in-house team, with code review included
  • Analytics and tracking wired in so growth and marketing can see what works
  • Architecture cleanup before the first scaling problem arrives
  • Hiring support when it is time to bring the work in-house

Services involved

  • CTO-Led Development
  • Fractional CTO
  • CTO-Led Recruitment
  • AI Adoption

Series A and scaleups

Companies with an established engineering team, a real user base, and pressure to ship faster without lowering the quality bar.

What we do

  • A delivery pod owning a workstream end to end, reporting into your CTO
  • Platform, performance and reliability work ahead of a launch or a spike
  • Technical due diligence and tech health reports for the next round
  • Structured AI adoption across the SDLC, with human oversight protocols

Services involved

  • CTO-Led Development
  • AI Adoption
  • Technical Due Diligence
  • CTO-Led Recruitment

Enterprise

Organisations running multiple suppliers and in-house teams, where the hard part is coordination, ownership and documentation rather than raw capacity.

What we do

  • A team that takes ownership of a workstream rather than working ticket to ticket
  • Technical leadership across in-house teams and other delivery partners
  • Documentation, handover and knowledge transfer treated as deliverables
  • Security reviews, GDPR-aligned data handling and engagements that sit outside IR35

Services involved

  • CTO-Led Development
  • Fractional CTO
  • Technical Due Diligence
  • Tech Events

Two ways to work with us

Both models feature senior, vetted engineers with great soft skills. The difference is how much of the thinking, planning and quality control sits with us rather than with you.

Core Team

A complete delivery unit on a fixed monthly fee.

From £9,500 per month

Best for

Companies that want a product built and owned properly, without hiring a full department or managing an agency.

What you get

  • A fractional CTO leading architecture, technical decisions and code review
  • A technical delivery manager running sprints, reporting and day-to-day communication
  • A senior full-stack developer building the product
  • Architecture and estimation before the build starts
  • Daily updates, weekly demos and preview links
  • Documentation and handover support, with no vendor lock-in

Add to the core team as the roadmap needs it

  • QA and test automation
  • UI design
  • UX design
  • Customer interviews
  • DevOps
  • Data engineering
  • Cyber security
  • Landing pages and e-commerce
  • Mobile app developers
  • Additional frontend, backend or full-stack engineers

Per-developer

One vetted engineer, on a simple hourly or daily rate.

Transparent hourly or daily rate, quoted on the intro call.

Best for

Teams that already have technical leadership and delivery management in place, and need capacity in a specific stack.

What you get

  • A single engineer allocated to your team
  • Technically vetted by our CTOs before you meet them
  • Works inside your tools, your process and your rituals
  • You meet the engineer before anything is agreed
  • Scale up, swap, or stop at the end of the term
  • Our CTOs are still available to help ad-hoc whenever needed
Talk to us about a developer

All figures exclude VAT.

From today to results

  • Step 1

    Fractional CTO session

    Free, no obligation, NDA available first. We dig into the business context, the existing stack, your team and your suppliers.

  • Step 2

    Scope, estimate, meet the team

    We agree the roadmap, the estimates and which add-ons you actually need. You meet the people before you commit.

  • Step 3

    Delivery

    Daily updates, weekly demos, code review on everything, and documentation that keeps up with the code.

Tech stacks we've delivered with

The languages, frameworks and platforms our delivery teams work in day to day. If your stack is on this list, we can pick it up without a learning curve on your budget.

Frameworks and languages

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vite
  • Angular
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript

Interface engineering

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • SCSS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Material UI
  • MUI X
  • Razor
  • HAML
  • ERB

State, forms and tooling

  • Redux
  • Zustand
  • React Hook Form

Our Partners Include

Camden AICapgeminiFrogHeyHiHellonuudsPayoneerHargreaves LansdownSuperdrugThreeWinnAIWonderblyaide healthHTA Hive OptimumJoy Health

We believe in "Show, Don't Tell"

See what our clients have to say.

“Great working with Lev and team at MetaMindz! We were working on a project to build new features in our mobile app. Lev was brilliant with managing the project and supporting the definition of tasks to complete with his insight on the user experience. The dev team was very responsive throughout by sharing updates on both Slack and our project management board in Asana. I look forward to continuing to work with MetaMindz in the future.” source

Patrick Huang

Google review

“Worked with Metamindz for a few years now and have only had great experiences. Brilliant at helping us navigate our tricky requirements and diligently strive to give us the best possible outcome. Their insight still gives us value long after they've finished their work. Recommend.” source

Robert Watts

Google review

“We've been working with Metamindz for a year now, and it's been a great experience. The developer we're collaborating with is solid, and we've seen real progress. What I love most is their flexibility and how they take feedback seriously, adapting quickly to our needs. Highly recommend for anyone looking to boost their dev team!” source

Dor Lahav

Google review

“Working with Lev at Metamindz has been an absolute pleasure. The level of service and personal input has been outstanding since the beginning. Lev, was able to find the right people, talent and skills required. But the service does not end there, the aftersales, the advice, the attention to detail are all outstanding. If we had any concerns, they were dealt with immediately and with regular follow-ups. Metamindz are the first name that springs to mind when considering recruitment, I would totally recommend.” source

Andrew Robinson

Google review

“Working with Metamindz has been instrumental in helping us deliver development projects without needing to actively scale our internal team. The level of tech knowledge across platforms and breadth of talent has been excellent. On top of that, they are just wonderful to work with!” source

Dan Gough

Google review

“Great service and and amazing team! Metamindz build our demo platform and provided professional services. They are an organised and agreeable team and we recommend working with them.” source

Aleta Index

Google review

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Core Team versus usual outsourcing

The differences that show up three months in, not in the pitch.

What mattersMetamindz Core TeamUsual outsourcing
Who runs the engagementA fractional CTO and a technical delivery manager, both hands-onA non-technical account manager relaying messages to the team
Before any code is writtenArchitecture designed and the work estimated, with the reasoning explainedA quote against your brief, and the architecture decided as they go
Code qualityReviewed by a CTO as part of the fee, every changeReviewed internally, if at all, and not something you can see
CommercialsOne fixed monthly fee, add capability as the roadmap changesChange requests for anything outside the original scope
When you want to leaveDocumentation and handover support as standard, no lock-inKnowledge stays with the supplier, so once they're gone - the knowledge is gone, too.

Core Team, for your situation

The same team and the same price. What changes is the problem it is pointed at.

Core Team for enterprises

Own a workstream alongside your in-house team and existing suppliers, with technical leadership across partners. Outside IR35, GDPR-compliant.

Core Team for startups

Full feature delivery with AI, analytics and tracking included, and no extra management load on your existing tech lead.

Core Team for solo founders

Build the product end to end without hiring a department or paying three agencies, with a CTO owning the technical decisions.

Frequently Asked Questions

A fractional CTO leading architecture, technical decisions and code review; a technical delivery manager running sprints, reporting and day-to-day communication; and a senior full-stack developer building the product. Architecture and estimation happen before the build starts, and documentation and handover support are included throughout.

From £9,500 per month, excluding VAT, as a fixed monthly fee. QA, UI, UX, customer interviews, DevOps, data engineering, cyber security, landing pages and e-commerce, mobile developers and additional frontend, backend or full-stack engineers are priced separately and added when the roadmap needs them.

Three months, which is long enough to onboard properly and ship something you can judge us on.

An agency typically gives you an account manager and a team delivering an agreed scope. A Core Team gives you a technical leader who owns the architecture and the quality bar, a delivery manager who runs the work, and engineers who build it, all on a fixed monthly fee. The team is expected to tell you when something is a bad idea, including when that means less work for us.

Yes. QA and test automation, UI design, UX design, customer interviews, DevOps, data engineering, cyber security, landing pages and e-commerce, mobile app developers and additional engineers are all available as add-ons on top of the core team.

Tell us what you are building

Send over the context and we will come back with an honest view of whether a Core Team is the right shape for it.

All figures exclude VAT.