Discovery sessions
Structured working sessions to define scope, architecture and risks before money is committed.
Days
In depth →- From first call to first day
- ~2 weeks
- Invoiced monthly, timesheet visible
- Hourly
- The smallest engagement
- 4 h / month
- A remote team across the Americas, Europe and Asia
- 3 continents
01 · The wall
Every growing company hits the same wall.
You need senior engineering judgement now — for an architecture decision, a project that's slipping, a platform that has to scale.
Hiring takes months. Agencies hand you juniors. Freelancers leave with the context.
And the moment the project changes shape, so does the team you need.
02 · The shift
A different way to staff serious engineering work.
One contract with Codefield. No hiring cost, no employment overhead, no long notice periods.
Senior architects and engineers who join your team, lead, build, and hand over cleanly.
Scale capacity up when the project demands it. Scale it down when it doesn't.
Leverage, on your terms.
Capacity over a year, in the worked scenario from How we work.
03 · How it works
Four steps. The first one is free.
- 01
A free 30-minute conversation.
You tell us where the complexity is. We tell you honestly whether and how we can help. No pitch, no obligation.
- 02
A clear proposal.
Scope, the people involved, the rate and the expected duration — in writing, in plain language, usually within a few days.
- 03
We start within ~2 weeks.
Our engineers join your team, in your tools and repositories, in your working hours.
- 04
You stay in control.
Scale up, scale down, pause or stop with short notice. When development ends, the code and documentation are yours. Keep us for support or don't — your choice.
Every engagement starts the same way — with a free 30-minute conversation. How we charge →
- Flex
- Part-time
- Full-time
- + SLA
- The more sync you need, the higher the rate.
04 · The arithmetic
The maths most companies never do.
| Comparison | Hire a senior engineer UK, illustrative | Engage Codefield |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first productive day | ~3–4 months (recruit + notice + onboarding) | ~2 weeks |
| Year-one cost | ~£124k+ fully loaded* | Hourly, invoiced monthly — only the hours you book |
| Flexibility | One full-time seat | Flex, Part-time or Full-time — you choose the sync level |
| Commitment | 12 months minimum, notice periods, redundancy risk | Scale up, down or stop |
| Knowledge | One person's | A whole practice's |
*Illustrative. £85k base + employer NI + pension + recruitment fee + equipment and onboarding. Assumptions and sources on the How we work page.
Around 50% less than a hire.
In a typical first year, once employment costs, pension, insurance, equipment and the hiring process are counted — and you only pay for the months you need.
Senior engineering, priced by the project — not by the year.
The full arithmetic →Want the numbers for your project?
Thirty minutes with a founding engineer. Bring the problem; we'll bring the honest answer, including when a hire is the better choice.
05 · What you get, what you keep
What you get, what you keep
One seat, many minds
One engineer on your project. A whole practice behind them.
Your Codefield engineer isn't working in a silo. Architecture reviews, second opinions and specialist know-how from the rest of the team are part of the engagement, not an extra line on the invoice.
Your code. Your choice.
You pay for the work. You own the result.
Code, documentation and infrastructure live in your accounts from day one. When development ends, keep us for support, take it in-house, or bring in someone else. No lock-in, no hostage clauses.
06 · What we do
From a single conversation to an embedded team.
Seven ways to engage us. Every one of them starts with the same free conversation and ends with a clean hand-over.
Architecture & foundations
Enterprise and solution architecture, stack selection, standards and the first working skeleton of a new platform.
Weeks
In depth →Fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership for companies that need direction without a full-time executive.
Ongoing, part-time
In depth →Embedded senior engineers
Hands-on architects and developers who join your team and ship.
Months, scaled to the project
In depth →Project leadership
We lead delivery: planning, team, quality, stakeholders.
Project duration
In depth →Recovery & continuity
Derailed projects put back on track; ownership transitions handled without losing knowledge.
As needed
In depth →Consulting
Independent technical opinion on decisions that are expensive to get wrong.
Hours to days
In depth →Or start from what you want to build: AI, apps, connected systems →
07 · How we work
Clarity at every layer.
- 01
Understand
We start with the real process, constraints and people, not the brief.
- 02
Architect
Trade-offs made explicit. A path from first release to sustained scale.
- 03
Engineer
Observable, secure, maintainable software that behaves predictably in production.
- 04
Evolve
Incremental modernisation. Systems that keep pace as the business changes.
Enterprise and solution architecture is where we're strongest. Hands-on delivery is how we prove it.
08 · Where we are
One headquarters. A team across the world.
Codefield is headquartered in Joinville, Brazil, with a fully remote team practising across the Americas, Europe and Asia — different projects, time zones and teams. We work inside your hours, not around them.
- Joinville, HQAmericas
- London referenceEurope
- Singapore referenceAsia
09 · Start here
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes, free, no pitch deck. Tell us where the complexity is and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right people to help.
- 30 minutes
- One call, at a time that suits you
- Free
- No obligation, no proposal unless you want one
- A founding engineer
- No sales team on the other end
We want to see your business grow — and get the most out of what technology can do for it.