Every Engagement Starts
With the Real Problem
Most vendors start with resumes. We start with why your delivery model is broken. Then we build teams that own it from backlog to production. Not resumes. Not strategy decks. Delivery.
Software Delivery Acceleration, Organized Three Ways
Most engagements start with Consulting and evolve into a POD. Some start directly with POD. A small number of clients need capacity, not accountability, and Senior Staff Augmentation serves that case.
Tier 1 · Primary Services
Consulting and Managed Delivery POD anchor every client journey. Consulting is the wedge, diagnostic and advisory engagements that surface delivery dysfunction. Managed Delivery POD is the hero, long running engagements that own the delivery outcome end to end. Most journeys move from wedge to hero. Some start directly with POD.
Tier 2 · POD Delivered Specializations
These are POD engagements with a specialized scope. Same delivery model as the flagship POD (US based principal engineering leadership, senior LATAM team, end to end backlog ownership) configured around a specific technical or product objective.
Tier 3 · Capacity Supplement
Reserved for clients who already have strong internal delivery leadership and need engineering capacity, not delivery accountability. This tier exists for situations where the POD model is not the right commercial fit.
Engagement Journey
How Engagements Begin and Evolve
Two parallel paths into the same delivery model. The right entry point depends on whether the diagnosis is already clear.
Continue with POD, continue independently, or end here
Standalone Consulting outcomes are valid, sometimes the right answer, and not a failure. POD without prior diagnostic clarity is harder to sell and harder to deliver well. We sell Consulting and POD as a system, not as competing line items.
Framework to Offering Map
Diagnose First, Prescribe Second
Each framework names a specific failure pattern. Each pattern has a corresponding offering or set of offerings that resolves it. The mapping is not arbitrary, it is built from 60+ client engagements and 195+ podcast conversations with engineering leaders.
Engagement Models
Three Ways to Engage, One Goal: Shipped Software
For organizations that need leadership clarity before adding execution capacity. Define direction, align product and engineering, and validate architecture before scaling.
Most consulting engagements establish direction in weeks, not quarters. Many clients start here, then move to a Managed Delivery POD once the roadmap is clear.
Not sure where your delivery model is breaking down?
Uncover bottlenecks, measure execution health, benchmark your team.
Senior Staff Augmentation
Strong Leadership. Solid Architecture. You Just Need More Senior Capacity.
When the delivery model already works and you need more throughput, senior staff augmentation is the cleanest way to scale. Every engineer is senior level (7+ years experience), US time zone aligned, and integrated into your existing team.
When It Fits
When You Need More
"Not sure which model fits? We will tell you in the first conversation. We would rather disqualify ourselves than waste your budget."
Need to know whether your platform is the bottleneck?
Pinpoint infrastructure, tooling, and developer experience gaps limiting throughput.
Not Sure Where to Start?
Match the Problem to the Solution
Find the category that sounds familiar. We will point you to the right engagement model.
Engineering Assessment
How Mature Is Your Engineering Delivery?
Take our Engineering Velocity & Leverage Maturity Assessment to uncover bottlenecks, measure execution health, and benchmark your team.
Proven Results
Real Outcomes From Real Engagements
Choose Your Model
Staff Aug vs PODs vs Consulting
Client Feedback
What Engineering Leaders Say
"We stopped debating whether to build or outsource. Sonatafy just became part of the team and the backlog started moving for the first time in a year."
CEO
PE-Backed SaaS Company
Technology
If the Backlog Keeps Growing, the Model Is Broken.
Adding more developers to a fragmented delivery system rarely fixes the problem. Installing accountability often does.