A senior team this week, or a year of hiring?
Hiring in-house means months of recruiting, real salaries and overhead, and the risk that the role outlasts the work. CodeMagic gives you a senior product and growth team on flat monthly pricing, working in your tools from week one, with no headcount on your books and nothing to unwind when the project is done.
30-minute call · no pitch deck · no obligationTime to start
Days
2 to 4 months to hire
Monthly cost
One flat fee
Salaries plus overhead
Breadth
Build and growth in one team
One role per hire
CodeMagic vs in-house hire
The honest comparison, including the rows where the other option wins.
Where CodeMagic pulls ahead
Live in days, not quarters
No job posts, no interview loops, no notice periods. A senior pod is in your repo and your ad accounts within the first week.
One predictable bill
A single flat monthly fee covers the whole team. No payroll tax, benefits, equipment, software seats, or recruiter fees stacking up behind it.
A whole team, not one hire
Engineering, design, and growth marketing under one roof. The people who build the product also grow it, with no handoffs in between.
Scale with your roadmap
Dial scope up for a launch and back down after, month to month. No hiring sprint, no layoffs, no idle salaries between projects.
No management tax
We run ourselves, report progress weekly in your tools, and hand over clean. You get output, not another set of people to manage.
You own everything
Every line of code, every account, all the IP, with clear docs. Nothing is locked to us, and you can take it in-house whenever you like.
When hiring in-house is the right call
We would rather you pick the right option than the one that pays us. Here is when it is not us.
The work is permanent and core
If the role is full-time forever and central to the business, a dedicated hire who lives and breathes it will usually win over the long run. We will tell you when that is the case.
You want to build internal capability
If the goal is a standing team and institutional knowledge that compounds inside the company, hiring is how you get there. We are happy to help you build toward it.
You already have strong technical leadership
If you have a senior leader who can hire, mentor, and unblock people every day, the management overhead of a team is much less of a tax.
If you need a permanent, core team and you have the leadership to run it, hire. If you need senior work shipped now without the cost, lead time, and risk of building headcount, a flat monthly team is usually the faster and cheaper path. Plenty of our clients use us to move fast first, then hire in-house once the work proves out, and we hand everything over when they do.
Questions, answered
For most teams, yes, once you count the full cost of a hire. One flat monthly fee replaces salaries, payroll tax, benefits, equipment, software seats, and recruiting fees, and you can pause or stop when the work is done instead of carrying a salary through the quiet months.
No. We work in your tools, your repo, and your accounts, and report progress every week. You own all the code, accounts, and IP, so you keep full control and can bring it in-house at any point.
It is all yours. Code, accounts, IP, and documentation are handed over clean, with no lock-in. Many clients use us to get moving, then transition to in-house hires once the direction is proven.
Often that is the best setup. We plug in to add senior capacity or skills you do not have yet, working in your tools and to your standards rather than replacing anyone.
A staffing agency rents you people to manage. We are one accountable senior team that owns outcomes, manages itself, and covers build and growth together. Closer to a fractional product and growth department than a contractor pool.
Not sure which fits you?
Book a 30-minute call. We will give you a straight answer on whether CodeMagic is the right call for your situation, even if the answer is no.