How we build a dedicated team in 21 days
The unglamorous mechanics behind a three-week ramp: a standing bench, one hiring bar, and an onboarding programme that is rehearsed rather than improvised.
Three weeks from signature to a named team writing production code sounds like a sales number. It is not — it is the output of three things we invested in years before any particular client asked for them.
The first is a standing bench. We keep senior specialists in every discipline between engagements, paid, working on internal products or rotating through guild work. It is expensive and it is the entire reason a shortlist can exist within seventy-two hours.
The second is one hiring bar. Everyone at Blocify — internal or client-facing — has passed the same technical assessment and the same domain interview run by the practice lead. That means we never have to re-vet a person before we propose them.
The third is a rehearsed onboarding. Access, environments, security training and the codebase walkthrough are a checklist, not an improvisation. First merged pull request within five working days is a target we measure and publish internally.
What we do not compress is your interview. You meet every person, and you have a veto. A team assembled without the client in the loop is a team the client never quite trusts — and trust is the thing that makes the next six months fast.
The honest caveat: twenty-one days assumes a discipline we already staff. If you need something genuinely unusual, we will tell you it is six weeks and why, rather than presenting someone who nearly fits.