Resource augmentation and managed services, senior-led.
We place senior, domain-fluent specialists on your team under your direction: full-stack and platform engineers, data and ML practitioners, cloud and DevOps specialists, QA leads, designers, and marketers, sourced from a pre-vetted bench and matched to your stack and stage. Prefer us to run it? The same specialists deliver as a fully managed pod. Senior-led always, with junior capacity blended in where it buys you cost headroom, under the same screen and senior sign-off.
Every stack our engineers, designers, and marketers have shipped in production.
Stack-fluent doesn't mean tool-name on a CV. Every Xperion specialist we place has shipped one of the stacks below to live production, inside the last 12 months, on a client engagement we can reference.
Claude / GPT
LangChain
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Hugging Face
Pinecone
LlamaIndex
Modal
TypeScript
Python
Go
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Swift
React
Next.js
Node.js
FastAPI
Django
Spring
.NET
AWS
GCP
Azure
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Databricks
BigQuery
Kafka
Redis
dbt
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Pulumi
GitHub Actions
Datadog
Sentry
PagerDuty
Figma
Framer
HubSpot
Salesforce
Customer.io
Segment
Mixpanel
WebflowHiring is slow. Staffing firms are generic.
Both lose context.
Most companies face the same dilemma when growth outruns headcount: in-house hiring takes 90+ days for senior roles, and traditional staffing firms send résumés without domain understanding. Xperion's Resource Augmentation & Managed Services practice closes that gap.
- Senior-led by designEvery placement and pod is led by a specialist with 7+ years of relevant experience. Where it buys you cost headroom, hand-picked junior talent joins under the same vetting screen and senior review gates.
- Two-vertical staffingEngineering & data on one side; creative & functional (product, design, marketing, UX research) on the other, both held to the same vetting standard.
- Context that compoundsSpecialists stay long enough to learn your codebase, customers, and rituals. When you scale further, you don't restart, you extend.
- One contract, many specialistsAdd a backend engineer, a senior designer, and a fractional CMO under the same agreement. No new procurement cycle per role.
How we vet, place, and stand behind every specialist.
Six capabilities applied to every engagement, turning augmentation from a headcount fix into a strategic capability.
Multi-stage vetting
Every specialist passes four assessments before reaching a client conversation.
- Technical or craft depth interview
- Real-world problem-solving exercise
- Communication & collaboration screen
- Cultural & working-style fit review
Domain-matched placement
We staff by industry context and operating cadence, not just keywords on a CV.
- Industry & product-stage match
- Stack, methodology, and tooling fluency
- Leadership level: IC, lead, principal, fractional
AI-fluent by default
Every Xperion specialist is fluent with the AI tools shaping their craft.
- Engineers: LLMs, RAG, agents, evals, MLOps
- Designers: AI ideation, asset variation, prototyping
- Marketers: AI-assisted research, copy, briefing
Day-one embedding
Specialists join your standups, your tools, and your rituals from week one.
- On your Slack, Jira, GitHub, Figma
- In your standups, planning, retros
- Reporting to your leads, not a vendor PM
Engagement accountability
Every placement comes with a named Xperion engagement manager.
- Weekly check-ins for the first 30 days
- Monthly performance & fit reviews
- Replacement guarantee in first 30 days
Context that compounds
Long tenures mean institutional knowledge stays with you.
- Cross-practice handoffs without context loss
- Move from augmentation into AI build & back
- Same MSA across roles and years
The vetting screen, stage by stage.
Most firms say “pre-vetted” and stop there. This is the screen every Xperion specialist passes before a client conversation, and what you receive from it.
Craft depth
A working session with a senior practitioner from the same discipline: engineers screen engineers, designers screen designers. We probe systems the candidate has shipped, decisions they got wrong, and what they’d change now. Production scars over tool names.
Working problem
A real problem from a past Xperion engagement, anonymised, worked live. We watch how the candidate reasons through unfamiliar constraints, not whether they recall a textbook answer.
Written and spoken
A written brief and a live walkthrough in English, the way distributed senior work actually happens. Strong builders who can’t write clearly, or won’t push back constructively, stop here.
Fit & references
Working-style review against your specific context, including stage, cadence, and leadership style, plus reference conversations with people who shipped alongside the candidate. Embedding is the product; solo brilliance isn’t enough.
Every shortlisted candidate arrives with the screen’s output: a dossier covering all four stages, a work-sample summary, reference notes, and the engagement manager’s match rationale. Ask us to walk through one on the scoping call.
Three ways to engage. Mix as you grow.
Placed in your team, or run as a managed service by ours. Pick whichever fits the moment, the budget cadence, and the team shape you actually have.
Single embedded specialist
One senior engineer, designer, or marketer placed onto your team. 30-day notice on either side. Replacement guarantee.
- Senior specialist
- Monthly retainer billing
- 30-day replacement guarantee
- Engagement manager included
Managed pod, run by us
A senior-led pod (3-6 people) we operate as a managed service, seniority blended to your budget. Your product owner sets priorities; the senior lead runs delivery and signs off every deliverable.
- Senior-led, blended to budget
- Cross-functional by design
- Sprint-aligned billing
- Single point of accountability
Scale up, scale down
Add or remove specialists across roles with 30 days notice. Best for organisations with shifting demand.
- Multi-role flex
- Quarterly pricing review
- Spin-up & spin-down assistance
- Cross-practice handoffs
Four phases. Predictable cadence.
Whether we're staffing one role or twenty, the operating cadence is the same, discovery, definition, delivery, optimise.
Discovery
Role definition, stack interview, expectations alignment, and success-metric capture.
Definition
Shortlist of 3 candidates, all pre-vetted and domain-matched. You decide who to interview.
Delivery
Specialist embedded in your team. Weekly check-ins, monthly review, engagement manager standing by.
Optimise
Quarterly recalibration. Scale up roles, swap, or transition to AI build engagements as needs evolve.
Commitments, in writing.
Every number below is a term of the engagement letter, not a marketing aspiration.
When augmentation isn't enough.
Most engagements start with one specialist and evolve. Here's where augmentation and managed delivery hand off to the other practices.
Need senior talent this quarter?
Brief us on a role. You'll have a shortlist of three pre-vetted candidates inside two weeks and an embedded specialist live in your team shortly after.