Core Team as-a-service

Or CTO-led, dedicated developers

Outsourcing, but without the micro-management. We actually architect the project first, estimate the work, and justify our suggestions and decisions. We build in such a way that it would be easy to hand over to your in-house team, whenever you need that to happen. We will fully support and train your teammates.

Core Team from £9,500 per month, or a single dedicated developer on an hourly or daily rate.

Most popularCore-team as a serviceA fractional CTO, a technical delivery manager and a senior full-stack developer on one fixed monthly fee. Add QA, design, DevOps and more as the roadmap needs them.Dedicated developer retainerOne vetted engineer allocated to your team on a simple hourly or daily rate, working inside your process and your stack.

What Is CTO-Led Development?

CTO-led development is a software delivery model where a senior CTO or architect leads planning, architecture, and quality control while a dedicated engineering team builds the product. It combines strategic technical leadership with hands-on execution so teams get scalable software, clear communication, and smoother handover to in-house developers.

What's so special about us?

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CTO-Led strategy

Unlike other agencies, we actually allocate a fractional CTO / architect to lead the project, review the code, and support the developers day-to-day.

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Make ourselves redundant

No vendor lock-in with us. We will document everything thoroughly and support your in-house team during handover, if and when you would like us to do so.

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Lean & clean

No over-engineering. No unecessary AI, complexity, or bloat. We choose a future-proof tech stack that is easy to read, maintain, scale, and hire for.

The companies we build for

We work with e-commerce, SaaS, healthtech, consumer apps and IoT businesses across the UK, Europe, the US and the Middle East. What changes between them is the stage, and what the stage needs.

Founders and pre-seed

Non-technical or solo founders with a product to prove and no engineering function yet. The job is to get something real in front of customers and investors without burning the round on headcount.

What we do

  • Product scoping, architecture and a build plan you can take to investors
  • End-to-end MVP delivery, including the parts most agencies leave out
  • Honest advice on what to build now and what to defer until after funding
  • AI used where it speeds delivery, with guardrails around auth, payments and data

Services involved

  • CTO-Led Development
  • Fractional CTO
  • Technical Due Diligence

Seed-stage startups

Funded teams with early traction, a small in-house team, and a roadmap growing faster than the team can absorb.

What we do

  • Feature delivery alongside the in-house team, with code review included
  • Analytics and tracking wired in so growth and marketing can see what works
  • Architecture cleanup before the first scaling problem arrives
  • Hiring support when it is time to bring the work in-house

Services involved

  • CTO-Led Development
  • Fractional CTO
  • CTO-Led Recruitment
  • AI Adoption

Series A and scaleups

Companies with an established engineering team, a real user base, and pressure to ship faster without lowering the quality bar.

What we do

  • A delivery pod owning a workstream end to end, reporting into your CTO
  • Platform, performance and reliability work ahead of a launch or a spike
  • Technical due diligence and tech health reports for the next round
  • Structured AI adoption across the SDLC, with human oversight protocols

Services involved

  • CTO-Led Development
  • AI Adoption
  • Technical Due Diligence
  • CTO-Led Recruitment

Enterprise

Organisations running multiple suppliers and in-house teams, where the hard part is coordination, ownership and documentation rather than raw capacity.

What we do

  • A team that takes ownership of a workstream rather than working ticket to ticket
  • Technical leadership across in-house teams and other delivery partners
  • Documentation, handover and knowledge transfer treated as deliverables
  • Security reviews, GDPR-aligned data handling and engagements that sit outside IR35

Services involved

  • CTO-Led Development
  • Fractional CTO
  • Technical Due Diligence
  • Tech Events

Two ways to work with us

Both models feature senior, vetted engineers with great soft skills. The difference is how much of the thinking, planning and quality control sits with us rather than with you.

Core Team

A complete delivery unit on a fixed monthly fee.

From £9,500 per month

Best for

Companies that want a product built and owned properly, without hiring a full department or managing an agency.

What you get

  • A fractional CTO leading architecture, technical decisions and code review
  • A technical delivery manager running sprints, reporting and day-to-day communication
  • A senior full-stack developer building the product
  • Architecture and estimation before the build starts
  • Daily updates, weekly demos and preview links
  • Documentation and handover support, with no vendor lock-in

Add to the core team as the roadmap needs it

  • QA and test automation
  • UI design
  • UX design
  • Customer interviews
  • DevOps
  • Data engineering
  • Cyber security
  • Landing pages and e-commerce
  • Mobile app developers
  • Additional frontend, backend or full-stack engineers

Per-developer

One vetted engineer, on a simple hourly or daily rate.

Transparent hourly or daily rate, quoted on the intro call.

Best for

Teams that already have technical leadership and delivery management in place, and need capacity in a specific stack.

What you get

  • A single engineer allocated to your team
  • Technically vetted by our CTOs before you meet them
  • Works inside your tools, your process and your rituals
  • You meet the engineer before anything is agreed
  • Scale up, swap, or stop at the end of the term
  • Our CTOs are still available to help ad-hoc whenever needed
Talk to us about a developer

All figures exclude VAT.

From today to results

  • Step 1

    Fractional CTO session

    Every project starts with a fractional CTO session to fully understand your business context, existing tech stack, tech team and suppliers. We dive deep into what you need before writing a single line of code.

  • Step 2

    Alignment on goals

    We align on the roadmap, expectation, estimations, and the required resources. Of course, you get to meet the team before we kick-off.

  • Step 3

    Go go go

    The team onboards and we start working together. Code is regularly reviewed, you get daily updates weekly demo calls / planning calls / catch ups.

Tech stacks we've delivered with

The languages, frameworks and platforms our delivery teams work in day to day. If your stack is on this list, we can pick it up without a learning curve on your budget.

Frameworks and languages

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vite
  • Angular
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript

Interface engineering

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • SCSS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Material UI
  • MUI X
  • Razor
  • HAML
  • ERB

State, forms and tooling

  • Redux
  • Zustand
  • React Hook Form

Our Partners Include

WonderblyThreeCapgeminiFrognuudsSuperdrug

We believe in "Show, Don't Tell"

See what our clients have to say.

“Great working with Lev and team at MetaMindz! We were working on a project to build new features in our mobile app. Lev was brilliant with managing the project and supporting the definition of tasks to complete with his insight on the user experience. The dev team was very responsive throughout by sharing updates on both Slack and our project management board in Asana. I look forward to continuing to work with MetaMindz in the future.” source

Patrick Huang

Google review

“Worked with Metamindz for a few years now and have only had great experiences. Brilliant at helping us navigate our tricky requirements and diligently strive to give us the best possible outcome. Their insight still gives us value long after they've finished their work. Recommend.” source

Robert Watts

Google review

“We've been working with Metamindz for a year now, and it's been a great experience. The developer we're collaborating with is solid, and we've seen real progress. What I love most is their flexibility and how they take feedback seriously, adapting quickly to our needs. Highly recommend for anyone looking to boost their dev team!” source

Dor Lahav

Google review

“Working with Lev at Metamindz has been an absolute pleasure. The level of service and personal input has been outstanding since the beginning. Lev, was able to find the right people, talent and skills required. But the service does not end there, the aftersales, the advice, the attention to detail are all outstanding. If we had any concerns, they were dealt with immediately and with regular follow-ups. Metamindz are the first name that springs to mind when considering recruitment, I would totally recommend.” source

Andrew Robinson

Google review

“Working with Metamindz has been instrumental in helping us deliver development projects without needing to actively scale our internal team. The level of tech knowledge across platforms and breadth of talent has been excellent. On top of that, they are just wonderful to work with!” source

Dan Gough

Google review

“Great service and and amazing team! Metamindz build our demo platform and provided professional services. They are an organised and agreeable team and we recommend working with them.” source

Aleta Index

Google review

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Core Team, by the kind of company you run

The same core team, described for the situation you are actually in.

Core Team for enterprises

Ownership of a workstream, technical leadership across in-house teams and other partners, outside IR35.

Core Team for startups

Feature delivery with AI, analytics wired in, and no extra management load on your existing tech lead.

Core Team for solo founders

Build the product end to end without hiring a department or juggling three agencies.

Frequently Asked Questions

Every project starts with a fractional CTO session to fully understand your business context, existing tech stack, and requirements. A CTO/architect leads the project, reviews code daily, and supports developers day-to-day. Unlike typical outsourcing, you get strategic technical leadership, not just code delivery.

We make ourselves redundant. We document everything thoroughly and support your in-house team during handover. There's no vendor lock-in - we'll train your team and ensure a smooth transition whenever you're ready.

Code is regularly reviewed by our CTOs and architects. You get daily updates and weekly demo calls, planning calls, and catch-ups. We choose future-proof tech stacks that are easy to read, maintain, scale, and hire for - no over-engineering or unnecessary complexity.

Absolutely! We can work alongside your existing team, integrate with your current processes, and help upskill your developers (if necessary). We're flexible and can adapt to your team structure and workflows.

Frontend in React, Next.js, Angular and TypeScript. Backend in Node.js, NestJS, Python, Ruby on Rails, .NET Core, Go, Java and PHP. Mobile in React Native, Flutter, Swift and Kotlin. E-commerce and content on Shopify, Solidus, WooCommerce and WordPress. Data on PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and BigQuery. Cloud on AWS, Azure and GCP. During the initial fractional CTO session we recommend the stack that fits your project, your team and your hiring plans.

Our Core Team starts at £9,500 per month, excluding VAT. That is a fixed monthly fee covering a fractional CTO, a technical delivery manager and a senior full-stack developer. QA, UI, UX, DevOps, data engineering, cyber security, mobile developers and additional engineers are added on top as the roadmap needs them. A single dedicated developer is priced separately on an hourly or daily rate.

The Core Team is a complete delivery unit on a fixed monthly fee: a fractional CTO leading architecture and code review, a technical delivery manager running sprints and reporting, and a senior full-stack developer building. Per-developer pricing allocates a single vetted engineer to your team on an hourly or daily rate, working inside your process. Core Team suits companies that want delivery owned for them. Per-developer suits teams that already have their own leadership and delivery management in place.

Three months. That is long enough to onboard properly, ship something real and judge us on the work rather than on the sales call.

After the initial CTO session, we align on the roadmap, expectations, and estimations. We provide transparent estimates and keep you updated throughout the project. You'll have regular visibility into progress and can adjust priorities as needed.

Let's Build Together

Have a project in mind, or simply want to learn more about how we can help? We'd love to hear from you.

All figures exclude VAT.