EMBEDDED DELIVERY PODS

The teamyou neededtwo quarters ago.

A pod is six to eight engineers who work inside your repos, your standups and your definition of done on our payroll, with our accountability.

You retain product direction, architecture authority, and every line of IP. We handle recruitment, performance & attrition risk through dedicated technical leadership.

1st WeeksTarget first demo
250+Pod engineers scaled
<6%Annual attrition rate
TotalClient IP ownership
Draft a pod plan ➤Read the outcome first ↓Scroll through nine months in #plat-pod. From day-one scope to full

The channel below is a composite of real engagements names, issue keys and dates changed. The delivery model, the ramp and the metrics are ours.

# plat-pod
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This is the very beginning of #plat-pod.

Nine months of a shared channel between VP of Engineering and an Agilyti delivery lead. The task. The sprint variance. The roadmap acceleration.

CREATED WEEK 09 MEMBERS274 MESSAGESRETENTION: FOREVER
THURSDAY
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Engineering LeadPlatform Team09:41

Recruiting tells me six months to hire six senior engineers.
We’re going to miss our Q3 board commitments.

This is the board, if it helps.

PLAT board — backlog · week 0
12 ageing
▲PLAT-241Migrate auth service off Node 1413TO DO
▲PLAT-198Split billing monolith21TO DO
✓PLAT-176Replace nightly batch with events8TO DO
✓PLAT-160Test coverage for payments5TO DO
▲PLAT-143Rebuild admin portal34TO DO
84 more issues, unassignedcapacity 34 SP
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Agilyti TeamEmbedded Pod 09:58

Don't wait six months. Take a pod of seven.
We plug directly into your repos, your standups, and your definition of done. Under our operational management, driven by your product vision.

Here’s the exact shape for your mission.

✓ 2
SEATROLEFOCUSSTATUS
4–5EngineersMixed seniorityMatched
1QA / SDETAutomation-firstMatched
1Tech leadOwns standardsMatched
+Delivery leadFractionalAssigned
WHO JOINS
ARTSLP+4
7people
Sprint2 weeks
OverlapCET / US AM
IPYours, day one
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Engineering LeadPlatform Team10:12

Who retains the final architecture sign-off, your lead or mine?

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Agilyti TeamEmbedded Pod10:14

You do. Your team sets direction, ours advises and executes.
You retain 100% IP ownership and technical authority. We take full accountability for delivery velocity, code quality, and team retention.

YOU KEEP
✓Direction and prioritiesYour roadmap drives every sprint.
✓Architecture authorityYour architects decide; ours advise and execute.
✓All intellectual propertyYours from the first commit, contractually.
✓The option to internalizeBuild-operate-transfer whenever you want it.
WE CARRY
●Hiring and retentionSourcing, offers, careers, attrition risk.
●PerformanceUnderperformance is ours to fix or replace.
●Open reportingMetrics published monthly, flattering or not.
●ElasticityScale up, re-mission, or release each quarter.
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Engineering LeadPlatform Team10:31

Let's get the paperwork sorted. Aiming for Monday onboarding.

CMAC
4 repliescontract signed, week 0 friday
DAY 14 · FIRST SPRINT REVIEW
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Agilyti TeamEmbedded Pod16:07

First sprint review complete. Three tickets were demoed, and PLAT-160 merged to main by your reviewers this morning

Onboarding log — pod-7 · platform
14 / 14
DAY 0109:02✓SSO and VPN provisioned under your access modelACCESS
DAY 0211:40✓Repository access granted — least privilege, auditedACCESS
DAY 0316:18✓Local environments green on all seven machinesACCESS
DAY 0510:05✓Ceremonies agreed: standup, refinement, review, retroAGREEMENTS
DAY 0614:22✓Definition of done and code review policy signed offAGREEMENTS
DAY 0809:15✓Pod joins your standup — first tickets pulled from PLATBACKLOG
DAY 1117:40✓First pull request merged to main by your reviewersBACKLOG
DAY 1416:05✓Sprint review — three tickets demoed, working softwareSHIPPING
First commitDay 9
First mergeDay 11
Blockers escalated0
Warm-up ticketsNone
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EL
Engineering LeadPlatform Team16:31

Fourteen days to a merged PR!? My last engineering provider took two months just to issue VPN access!!

✓ 5
SPRINT 2 · DAY 23 — THE WOBBLE
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Agilyti TeamEmbedded Pod16:40

Checking in early: We missed our Sprint 2 target. Completed 24 of 42 committed story points, and one defect escaped to staging. Here is the variance report, root cause analysis, and retro fixes attached before our sync

Variance report
MISSED
Committed42 SP
Completed24 SP
Spillover18 SP
Escaped defect1 — payments
Root causeBatch coupling
Retro actions
SPRINT 3 ON
✓Pairing with your platform engineersTwice a sprint on the undocumented systems.
✓Contract tests on the batch boundaryNow covered and enforced in CI.
✓Commitment cut to 32 SPSized to observed velocity, not optimism.
✓Defect review in your channelEvery escape posted with cause and fix.
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Engineering LeadPlatform Team17:09

You brought me the variance before I even noticed. That's a first, nobody has ever sent me the bad numbers ahead of time.

MONTH 6
EL
Engineering LeadPlatform Team11:20

The board asked how we cleared a six-month platform backlog two quarters early.
What should I show them?

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Agilyti TeamEmbedded Pod11:26

Show them the week-zero board.
Same issue keys, all shipped to production with median cycle time down to days.

PLAT board — same issues · month 6
0 ageing
▲PLAT-241Migrate auth service off Node 1413DONECM
▲PLAT-198Split billing monolith21DONEAR
✓PLAT-176Replace nightly batch with events8DONETS
✓PLAT-160Test coverage for payments5DONELP
▲PLAT-143Rebuild admin portal34IN REVIEWDK
84 previously unassigned — triaged and scheduledvelocity 31 SP
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Burndown — 6 sprints
● on plan
completed the wobble
94% since
Cycle time by stage
median, 90 days · 3.1 days
In progress1.4 d
In review0.6 d
QA0.7 d
Waiting on deploy0.4 d
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BACKLOG
Cleared
Scope shipped to production
VELOCITY
Steady
Predictable output every cycle
DEPLOY
Fast
Code to production in days
POD
Stable
Domain context retained
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Engineering LeadPlatform Team11:40

We stopped talking about capacity and started talking about the roadmap again.

✓ 9↑ 4

I’m taking two more pods next quarter. Start with the data platform.

TODAY · YOUR TURN

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