SaaS Platform Engineering
Strategic Engineering Partnership
A senior pod that plugs into your orgโno hiring slog required.
When the roadmap accelerates, CURTIS Digital drops in as the fully formed engineering strike team that ships, scales, and safeguards your product while your HR inbox stays empty.
The Reality: Talent Gaps Are Business Risks
Deadlines donโt pause when you lose a lead developer or pivot to a brand-new feature set. And recruiting specialized engineersโor a fractional CTOโusually takes months you donโt have. That vacuum can stall sprints, pile up tech debt, and put revenue milestones in jeopardy.
Our Strategic Engineering Partnership solves the gap instantly. We embed an elite podโarchitect, PM, senior devs, and QA leadโdirectly into your workflow in five days or less. Think of it as borrowing a Formula-1 pit crew: they know the car, the track, and the stakes, so youโre refueled and back in the race before competitors finish arguing over job requisitions.
Why Execs Keep CURTIS on Speed-Dial
| Pain Point | How We Cure It |
|---|---|
| Need architectural clarityโfast | Fractional CTO translates business KPIs into a battle-tested tech roadmap. |
| Delivery stuck in purgatory | We unblock pipelines, refactor whatโs slowing you down, and put features into prod. |
| Market shift demands new features yesterday | Pod scales velocity 25-50 % without permanent headcount or culture shock. |
| Pressure to do more with less | Predictable burn, no recruiter fees, zero onboarding churnโone simple statement of work. |
Partnership Benefits at a Glance
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| Benefit | What It Means for You |
|---|---|
| Immediate Velocity | Pod integrates with Slack/Jira, attends stand-ups, and commits code within the first sprintโno six-week onboarding lag. |
| Fractional CTO Guidance | Senior architect steers critical decisionsโcloud cost models, buy-versus-build, AI adoptionโso you avoid costly wrong turns. |
| Scalable Capacity | Dial the pod up or down each quarter to match budget and roadmapโno layoffs or under-utilized hires. |
| Transparent Burn & Forecasting | Real-time dashboards show spend, completed story points, and riskโfinance teams never get surprise invoices. |
| Quality Baked In | Automated CI/CD, security scans, and QA harnesses halve defect rates and keep auditors happy. |
Our Embedded Delivery Playbook
We approach every engagement with a disciplined, proven framework that marries startup agility with enterprise rigor.
Rapid Alignment (Days 0-3)
Kickoff workshops capture objectives, KPIs, and tech stack constraints. We map a 90-day outcome planโno vague roadmaps.
Pod Spin-Up (โค Day 5)
Named resources (fractional CTO, PM, 2-4 senior devs, QA lead) gain repo access, replicate environments, and enter your rituals (stand-ups, sprint boards).
Accelerated Sprints (Weeks 1-12)
Two-week iterations deliver shippable increments: feature branches merge daily, automated tests run on every PR, staging deploys on merge. Velocity is benchmarked and shared in sprint reviews.
Quarterly Executive Reviews
We meet with leadership to report on OKRs, burn rate, and tech debt posture. Capacity scales up for aggressive quarters or down post-launchโyour call.
Knowledge Transfer & Transition
When internal hiring catches up, we shift to SME advisory: pair-programming, documentation sprints, and architecture office hours. You retain momentum long after we exit.
our benefits
Why CURTIS Digital Instead of Staff Aug or Big-Box Consultancies?
Senior-Only Talent: No bait-and-switch. Every CURTIS engineer averages 8+ years in production environments. You engage expertise, not trainees.
Engineering DNA + Product Sense: We pair code excellence with product empathyโbalancing tech decisions against user experience, revenue, and timeline pressures.