UK R&D Lab

It depends on the number of roles, their seniority, the location model and whether the local CTO is full-time or fractional. We do not publish prices for this service. We scope it on a call and send you a quote. Salaries are the biggest part of the cost; our guide to UK vs US engineer cost has the current market figures.

In a Managed R&D Lab, Metamindz is the UK employer and runs the team for you, so you do not need a UK company, UK payroll or UK HR. With your own UK subsidiary, your company is the legal employer and you handle accounting, legal, tax and HR, while we still hire the team and provide the local full-time / fractional CTO.

Yes, on request. You can start with a Managed R&D Lab and move the team into your own UK subsidiary later. In the UK, staff transfers like this usually fall under TUPE, which means employees keep their terms and length of service. We agree the transfer terms with you up front.

We coordinate it, and our regulated accounting and formation partners do the registration and provide the registered office. You choose the structure (usually a UK private limited company owned by your US parent) with their advice. Your company then owns and runs it.

No. Remote across the UK is usually the cheapest option, hybrid works for a London core with people elsewhere, and if you want a dedicated office we find it, book it or help you book it, and bring the team there.

If a hire needs visa sponsorship, we can look into sponsoring it for you. Most of the UK talent pool already has the right to work here, so it is rarely a blocker.

Leads the UK team day to day: architecture and code review, 1-1s, delivery and engineering practices, plus regular reporting to your CTO or CEO at home. Full-time or fractional, depending on the size of the team, and included in both models.

London is five hours ahead of New York and eight hours ahead of San Francisco for most of the year. East Coast teams share most of their morning with the UK; West Coast teams usually share an hour or two, so we set up async handovers and protected overlap hours.

You do. In both models, the work is done for you and the IP is assigned to your company under the contract.

US startups and scale-ups that want more engineering capacity than they can afford in San Francisco or New York, and companies in AI, fintech and insurance that want to be close to London's talent and markets.