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Blocify

Flagship practice

Dedicated Teams & Team Building

We build the team, then we build the product.

Most engagements fail for the same reason: the wrong people, assembled too late, reporting to nobody. Team building is our first discipline, not an afterthought — every other practice on this page is delivered by a team we designed on purpose.

A Blocify team is a named, stable group of senior specialists who work only on your product. They join your stand-ups, your Slack, your board reviews. You get the velocity of an agency and the ownership of an in-house team, without the eighteen-month cost of building one from scratch.

And when you are ready to run it yourself, we hand it over. We hire into your entity, we transfer the knowledge, and we step back. Roughly half of the people we place with clients end up on the client's payroll — that is the outcome we design for.

Capabilities

What this practice actually covers.

01

Squad design & role architecture

Before we name a single person, we model the team. What roles does this product need in month one versus month six, what seniority mix keeps cost sane, and where is the single point of failure?

  • Capability mapping against your roadmap and risk areas
  • Seniority mix modelling — cost, velocity and bus-factor trade-offs
  • RACI, decision rights and escalation paths agreed in writing
  • Ramp plan phased by milestone, not by headcount budget
02

Sourcing, vetting & hiring

We recruit from a bench we have spent five years building across the Balkans and the Netherlands, plus an active pipeline in every discipline we staff. Every candidate passes the same gate our own engineers passed.

  • Structured technical assessment — real codebase, not puzzles
  • Domain interview run by the practice lead who will work with them
  • Reference and background checks, EU right-to-work verified
  • Two-week paid trial period on your actual backlog — swap, no charge
03

Embedding & onboarding

A team that takes three months to become useful is not a team, it is a cost centre. Our onboarding is a fixed, rehearsed programme that gets people to their first merged pull request inside a week.

  • Environment, access and security onboarding completed pre-day-one
  • Codebase walkthrough, architecture decision records, ownership map
  • First production commit within five working days
  • Buddy system pairing each joiner with a senior for the first sprint
04

Team leadership & delivery management

Every dedicated team ships with a delivery lead. They run the cadence, protect the team from churn, and give you one accountable person to talk to instead of a resource pool.

  • Sprint cadence, demos and release management
  • Weekly written delivery report — scope, risk, burn, blockers
  • Quarterly performance reviews shared with you
  • One escalation path, one phone number, one owner
05

Growth, training & retention

The cheapest engineer is the one who stays. We invest in the people on your team — certifications, internal guilds, conference budget — because attrition is the most expensive line item in any engagement.

  • Individual growth plans reviewed every quarter
  • Internal guilds per discipline — code review across all client teams
  • Certification and conference budget carried by us, not you
  • Bench cover: planned absence backfilled within 48 hours
06

Knowledge transfer & hire-to-own

We plan the exit at kickoff. Documentation, pairing and a formal transfer window mean the team you rely on can become the team you employ — with no transfer fee after twelve months.

  • Living documentation maintained as part of definition-of-done
  • Shadowing programme for your own hires during transition
  • Direct-hire conversion available, no fee after month twelve
  • Post-handover advisory retainer for the first two quarters

Deliverables

What lands in your account.

  • Team charter — roles, ownership, decision rights, escalation
  • Named CVs and interview records for every placed specialist
  • Onboarding runbook and 30/60/90-day ramp plan
  • Weekly delivery report and quarterly performance review pack
  • Knowledge-transfer dossier and handover checklist

Stack

  • Jira / Linear
  • Slack / Teams
  • Notion
  • GitHub / GitLab
  • Figma
  • Metabase

Chosen per engagement, not by habit. If your team already runs something else and it works, we work in it rather than around it.

Staffed by

Every engagement in this practice is delivered by a named team you interview yourself — designed, hired and led through our team-building practice.

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Engagement

Three ways to start.

Indicative starting figures for a typical engagement, excluding VAT. Your actual number comes from a written scope — but it will be in the same neighbourhood.

Squad Extension

Adding capacity to an existing in-house team.

Duration
3–6 months, rolling
Team
2–4 specialists + delivery lead
From
€14,900 / month

Dedicated Product Team

Owning a product line end-to-end.

Duration
12 months+
Team
5–9 specialists, full discipline mix
From
€34,000 / month

Build–Operate–Transfer

Standing up your own engineering office abroad.

Duration
12–24 months
Team
Scales to 20+, then transfers
From
Custom

FAQ

Questions about this practice.

Ask us directly
Is this staff augmentation?
No. Staff augmentation gives you interchangeable contractors billed by the hour. We give you a designed team with a named delivery lead, a shared operating model, and accountability for outcomes. The people do not rotate.
Can we hire the team ourselves later?
Yes — that is the point of the model. After twelve months on your engagement, any team member can convert to your payroll with no transfer fee. Before month twelve, a pro-rated fee applies.
What if someone is not the right fit?
Tell us in the first two weeks and we replace them at no cost, with no notice period charged. After that, replacement is inside two weeks and covered by the retention SLA in the contract.
Which time zones do you cover?
Our teams operate on CET with a guaranteed four-hour overlap with US Eastern. For 24/7 coverage we combine engineering in Prishtina with our customer-experience floor on a follow-the-sun rota.

Get started

Tell us what you need built — or who you need building it.

Send us the situation as it actually is. You get back a shaped engagement, a named team, a fixed timeline and a number you can put in front of a board.

A partner replies within one business day — with questions, not a sales sequence.