Allow me to paint you a picture. You and your company have a backlog with 6 months worth of work. And it’s not slowing down. You can’t help but read up on new technologies and wonder how they could integrate into your current company. But you can’t justify taking time away from your core work.
Enter fractional R&D. You can work with a small team experienced in new technologies to prove out your idea before taking it in house. This is a flexible, low-risk and budget-friendly way to de-risk a new project or technology that has been top of mind for you and your stakeholders.
That is exactly what we do at Spoke.dev. We have a small team specialized in full-stack software engineering, artificial intelligence, and web development. We can build your project from start to finish, or from ideation to prototype and hand it off to your engineering team when ready.
But why?
Here are the three main reasons why hiring fractional makes sense:
- Budget friendly
- Low risk
- Small, agile, specialized teams
Budget Friendly
Hiring a team of three specialized full-stack AI engineers would be expensive. Not only the salary hit, but how long would that take? A month? Five? Who knows. They are a hot commodity. We start working with you the day we begin talking if the project is clearly defined.
Low Risk
Hiring fractional is low risk. You can arrange short contracts with a defined scope of work. Once delivered, you’ll have a better sense of whether the work is worth pursuing further. There is little sunk-cost fallacy when contracting out the work. You may feel better about not pursuing and letting your engineers down if the project they started no longer has the green light. Engineers are fickle creatures and moral must be managed.
Small, agile, specialized teams
Want something done quickly? Do not give it to a lazy person, Mr Gates. Give it to a small team. The analogy of large organizations being akin to large ships attempting to steer holds true. A small team of specialized engineers can spin up complete projects in a matter of weeks. There is no bureaucracy, they simply do the work that is asked of them. No egos. No yellow tape. No biases. A specialized team can out-execute large organizations over the short-term. And that is exactly how they should be used.
If we’ve peaked your curiosity, let’s talk. Reach out to us if you’re curious about what it would look like to work with us, or if you’d like our thoughts on one of your next big ideas to use chatGPT in your business.
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