Cost is comparable to salaries for similar level talent, but you also get the talent on-demand, with flexibility and modularity. Longer-term engagements also lowers the cost burden. The value we offer is more than just high-quality embeddable talent: we bring services of an entire institution. Among the value-adds worth mentioning: 1. Modularity (change out team based on chemistry or skill sets, don't be constrained by the talent itself, while we help you ensure you have superior documentation; you always own the IP) 2. Wholistic and complementary (access on-the-ground CTO-level support to augment your team, despite size of company) 3. Save on recruitment fees 4. Preserve scarce equity and prevent dilution 5. Above all - speed. With 3CK, you can have a team within 2 weeks, not months, to get your company moving. And during this time you can still build your own team internally to incrementally make 3CK redundant if you wish. Ultimately, we help you to stop worrying about the tech and allow you to focus on the business priorities and products.

The engagement is done within your accounts, so you maintain, control, and own all documentation and IP. While engaging, you have time to recruit and build complementing internal tech capacity, while scaling your company's tech management capabilities. At the end of the engagement, our contributors may be hired directly. Alternatively, we can also build a bespoke team for you and help you set up foreign company certification (i.e. to help with payroll).

Our talent has gone through a vigorous and competitive selection process. Unlike in other markets, when we post for a role with us, we receive on average of more than 500 applicants. With Senior Developers assessing young talent in colleges, we cut the applicants down to ~30. Then, with coding interviews, technical tests, attitude assessments, we present 10 candidates with leadership. Of these, 2-5 get selected. After this, new talent undertakes a 6-month training program to learn how to work within a product squad structure, and take backlog prioritization instructions from PMs, UX designers, and engineering managers to build prototypes for FE, solution architecture for BE and other API documentation. They do this by shadowing senior engineers for that time. Only then do they become client ready at the junior level. Furthermore, we build in redundancy. Typical team structures include 2 FE and 2 BE, with a senior to junior match up. If it’s 2 junior level individuals, we’ll complement that with a senior engineering manager. But of course, we are also happy to connect you to our current previous clients who have good things to say about us, as well!

Documentation is done under startup’s accounts, not 3CK’s. Stringent documentation process exists for the whole stack, with APIs on Postman/Swagger, repositories on GitHub, project management on Jira, all of them integrated. These will be client’s accounts and 3CK accesses them as guests on those systems. Replacing us should not be difficult; we also aim to be replaceable and showcase this to generate long-term trust.

Of course! While we don't currently publish startup testimonials (as we've now started with working with startups) and because of confidentiality, we're happy to introduce you to our current clients. 3CK's track record has also been built working with multi-national development organizations. To see 3CK's overview for that service - along with those testimonials - head over to www.3ck.design