Your agency owns the keys. We hand them to you.
A capable engineering team that builds in your accounts, hands you every line as it’s made, and bills one predictable monthly price. You keep full ownership and complete control from day one - and a Technical Lead guarantees quality, so you never have to be the judge of it yourself.
You’re paying an agency, and you still don’t control your own product.
- No surprise bills: no more per-change quotes and invoices you can’t question.
- No losing your product: you hold the code, the logins, and the accounts - not them.
- No black box: someone explains what you’re paying for, in plain English.
- No quality anxiety: a Technical Lead guarantees the work, so you don’t have to read code to trust it.
- No feeling stuck: no lock-in, because everything is already yours.
- No standing still: priorities change whenever you say so.
A capable team. Handled for you.
1 Pod Owner. 1 Technical Lead.
Up to 5 AI-native devs.
Pod Owner and Technical Lead are included in every pod and don’t count toward the cap.
One number. No surprises.
Start with one AI-native developer. Add up to four more before a second pod opens - your Pod Owner and Technical Lead are included in every pod, at no extra cost.
A capable engineering team for one monthly price. All-in. No setup fees, cancel monthly. ACH preferred.
- 1 AI-native developer
- A Technical Lead on your standards
- Every change reviewed before it ships
- A dedicated Pod Owner
- A written report every week
- You own all of it
Add up to four more AI-native developers to a pod. At six total developers, a second pod opens automatically - Pod Owner and Technical Lead included.
- 1 dev pod$7,500/mo
- 3 dev pod$20,480/mo
- 5 dev pod (full)$33,460/mo
We confirm role fit before any plan change. Added without a hiring cycle.
K15 Labs vs. how you're hiring today.
For one-off work, pick a freelancer - we'll say so. For long-term staff aug, agency retainers, or hiring in-house, here's why K15 Labs is the cleaner deal.
Staff aug rents you a body.
- One developer, nobody reviewing their work - quality lives or dies on a single hire.
- No Pod Owner. You coordinate, you handle swaps, you manage the handoff. When they leave, the context leaves with them.
- Typical band ~$8k–$14k/mo per dev, often with a 12-month lock-in - and none of the review or coordination that keeps you out of the weeds.
Same monthly band as a K15 Labs base pod. Without the Technical Lead guaranteeing quality, the Pod Owner handling the day-to-day, or anyone keeping the work continuous when people change.
K15 Labs is for the work that doesn't end.
- You never wonder if the code is good - a Technical Lead holds every change to your standards and reviews every PR before it ships.
- Everything lives in your code and your accounts from day one. You own it all, nothing to claw back.
- You change priorities whenever you want, and scale up or down without a hiring cycle. When someone changes, the next person picks up exactly where they left off.
- One predictable monthly price. One point of contact. Pod Owner and Technical Lead included.
Same job. Cleaner deal.
Pick a freelancer when the work is one-off.
- The task fits in 4 weeks or less.
- You can fully define the scope up front.
- Nobody needs to read the PRs after you sign off.
Right call for: a landing-page rebuild, a migration script, a discrete plugin job.
Staff aug rents you a body.
- One developer, nobody reviewing their work - quality lives or dies on a single hire.
- No Pod Owner. You coordinate, you handle swaps, you manage the handoff. When they leave, the context leaves with them.
- Typical band ~$8k–$14k/mo per dev, often with a 12-month lock-in - and none of the review or coordination that keeps you out of the weeds.
Same monthly band as a K15 Labs base pod. Without the Technical Lead guaranteeing quality, the Pod Owner handling the day-to-day, or anyone keeping the work continuous when people change.
An agency sells you the project and keeps the keys.
- The code, the accounts, and the logins live with them - not you.
- Every change is a quote. Predictability runs in their favor, not yours.
- Leaving means a rebuild. Lock-in is a feature for them, not a bug.
Fine for a one-off, fixed-scope build. The wrong shape for an ongoing roadmap, where everything should already be yours.
One US senior is six figures and three months. For the same ownership.
- $225k–$330k fully loaded year one - salary, benefits, recruiting, ramp.
- 42 days to fill, ~3 months to full output. About 40% of US engineers leave inside year one - that risk lives with you.
- You get the same code ownership with a K15 Labs pod. Hiring in-house buys you the same thing, slower and more expensive.
Same code, same ownership, three times the cost and twelve weeks of waiting. There is no version of the math where this wins on value.
K15 Labs is for the work that doesn't end.
- You never wonder if the code is good - a Technical Lead holds every change to your standards and reviews every PR before it ships.
- Everything lives in your code and your accounts from day one. You own it all, nothing to claw back.
- You change priorities whenever you want, and scale up or down without a hiring cycle. When someone changes, the next person picks up exactly where they left off.
- One predictable monthly price. One point of contact. Pod Owner and Technical Lead included.
One point of contact. Who speaks tech.
No escalation chains, no ticket queues, no bouncing between a 'business' contact and a 'technical' one. Your Pod Owner comes from an engineering background, so a single person streamlines every conversation - yours, your CTO's, and the pod's.
Pod Owner
One point of contact - from an engineering background
Because your Pod Owner is an engineer, one person handles everything: turning your roadmap into the plan, running the cadence and the weekly report, and talking architecture, standards, and trade-offs with your CTO. You never bounce between people or repeat yourself.
Technical Lead
Coordinated for you, behind the scenes
Your Pod Owner coordinates the Technical Lead - who reviews every change against your standards - and the developers, so the whole pod moves as one. Quality is guaranteed and you never manage individuals.
Book the strategy call.
30 minutes, no commitment. We confirm fit, scope the work, and walk you through the contracts - including how you own everything we build from day one.