For funded scale-ups · pods · EU contract
You just raised. Engineering has to double this quarter.
Pre-assembled pods of one senior and two engineers — AI/ML, full-stack or backend — vetted by our engineers and working in your repo within two to four weeks. A 30-day paid pilot, no deposit, month to month after.
CVs in about five days. Swap anyone free within 90 days.
- Day 0Call · roadmap, stack, budget, hours agreed
- Day 2role_map.pdf · 1 senior AI + 2 engineers
- Day 59 CVs with notes · 3 per role
- Day 7–9Your interviews · pod confirmed
- Day 14Kick-off · repo access · first sprint planned
- Day 30Pilot review · velocity, quality, keep or swap
- to 3–5 vetted CVs per role
- ~5 days
- from first call to a working pod
- 2–4 weeks
- per month for a three-engineer pod
- from $11K
- paid pilot, then month to month
- 30 days
Engineering trusted by teams at
- Income
- Askend
- Wisercat
- Focuusa
- PragmatiqAI
- DocLogix
- Altimapa
- Evonomix
- Yozma
Pods
Three engineers for less than one Toptal senior
A senior on Toptal starts around $13,000 a month. A Bonsay pod — a senior who leads plus two engineers, with replacements, delivery management and one monthly invoice — starts at $11,000 from our Vietnam centre, or about €15,000 from our European bench on your hours.
Growth Pod
1 senior + 2 mid-level engineers · full-stack, back-end or mobile
from $11,000 per month
- A working team in 2–4 weeks
- 30-day paid pilot, no deposit
- The senior acts as tech lead
- Scale up or down monthly
- Most requested
AI / ML Pod
1 senior AI engineer + 2 engineers · Python, LLM, data
from $12,000 per month
- RAG, agents, evaluation, MLOps
- Model-agnostic, your data stays yours
- 30-day paid pilot
- Weekly demo to your product lead
Two-track team
Product pod + AI/ML pod with a shared lead
from $23,000 per month
- Product and AI roadmap in parallel
- One delivery lead, one invoice
- Quarterly capacity planning
- European engineers on request
Runway calculator
How many months of runway does your hiring plan cost?
Pick the market you would hire in, how many engineers you need this year and your monthly burn. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Where would you hire locally?
~A$220K a year loaded
Used to translate savings into months
With Bonsay
Pods come in threes: calculated for 6 engineers.
12 months of engineering
Hiring in Sydney / Melbourne$864,000
With Bonsay$264,000
- Per month today
- $72,000
- Per month with Bonsay
- $22,000
- Saved every month
- $50,000
- Team
- 2 pods · 6 engineers
Runway you keep
+2.4 months
$600,000 stays in the bank — or turns into more roadmap.
At these numbers local hiring is cheaper. We still help when speed is the bottleneck.
Indicative. Defaults from our 2026 market research — replace them with your numbers.
How it works
From first call to a working pod in two to four weeks.
What every pod includes
- A senior engineer who leads and reviews
- Your repo, your rituals, your tools
- Weekly demo and a named Bonsay contact
- IP assignment from the first commit
- Free replacement within 90 days
- 1
Roadmap call30 minutes
What must ship this quarter, which roles, which hours, what budget. You get a written role map within two days.
- 2
Shortlist~5 days
3–5 CVs per role with our engineers' notes. Everyone has passed a technical interview with a senior peer.
- 3
Your interviewsweek 2
You meet the shortlist and decide. Contract with Bonsay Technologies OÜ, one invoice a month.
- 4
30-day pilotweeks 2–6
The pod works in your repo, rituals and tools. At day 30 you keep it, resize it or swap anyone — free.
What clients say
Teams that stayed for years
FAQ
Questions we hear first
Why a pod and not individual engineers?
A senior who leads two engineers ships more than three people you have to manage yourself. The pod comes with its own lead, rituals and replacements — you manage outcomes, not people.
What happens after the 30-day pilot?
Month to month. Scale the pod up or down with 30 days' notice, swap people free within 90 days, or hire them permanently through the buy-out option.
Who owns the code?
You, from the first commit. IP assignment is in the contract; everything lives in your repositories and accounts.
Where are the engineers?
You choose by the hours you need to share. From our European bench — Estonia, Poland, Romania, the Balkans, the Caucasus — at €30–40 per hour, with a full working day of overlap; or from our Ho Chi Minh City centre at the pod prices above, with three to six shared hours.
Can we mix Europe and Vietnam?
Yes. A common set-up is a European lead on your hours with engineers in Vietnam around them — one contract, one invoice.
Related
Build the plan around your market
Next step
Turn the round into product, not payroll.
Book 30 minutes. Bring your roadmap and hiring plan; leave with a role map, a pod proposal and a start date.
- Written role map within two days
- 3–5 CVs per role in about five days
- 30-day paid pilot, no deposit
You will talk to
Gleb Zamyslovsky
Executive Officer · Warsaw
One reply within a business day: questions, a fixed price, or an honest “not worth it”. No account managers in between.