The roadmap will not wait for recruiting
Ship like you hired.
Without hiring.
Every founder knows this math: the roadmap needs five engineers, you have two, and every senior candidate takes six months and a recruiter fee to land. We close that gap in two weeks with senior engineers who ship inside your team from sprint one.
The cost of one empty seat
6 mo
Avg time to hire
$40k
Recruiter fees
2
Releases missed
Trusted by founders across the US, UK, EU and Middle East. 98% client retention.
Your Growth Blueprint
Get Your Growth Blueprint
Tell us your stack and where delivery hurts. We come back within a business day with the exact team shape we would plug in.
The problem
Hiring is a second job
you never applied for.
You started a company to build a product. Instead you spend evenings screening resumes, weekends doing technical interviews, and Mondays apologizing to customers for the features that slipped again.
The market makes it worse. Every good engineer you find is also being courted by companies with bigger salaries, faster processes and dedicated recruiters. By the time your offer letter goes out, they have three others.
And the cruel part: even when you win, you wait. Notice periods, onboarding, ramp time. A hire signed today changes your velocity next quarter, not this one. Your roadmap needed them last quarter.
Senior engineers, embedded in your team, shipping from sprint one.
Our approach
Run the numbers.
We did.
This is the comparison every founder makes on a napkin eventually. Here it is without the napkin.
To be fair to hiring: you should build an in-house team eventually. The question is whether your roadmap can afford to pause while you do. Ours is the bridge that means it does not have to.
How it works
Two weeks
from call to commit.
Days 1-2
Map the gap
We review your stack, your roadmap and where delivery actually stalls. Sometimes the answer is two engineers. Sometimes it is one engineer and a better release process. You get the honest version.
Days 3-7
Meet the team
You interview the actual engineers who will work with you. Not profiles, not representatives. If they are not a fit, we swap them before we start, not after.
Week 2
Embed and ship
Your standups, your Slack, your board, your conventions. First production PR lands inside the first sprint. If it does not, we want to know why as badly as you do.
Ongoing
Scale on evidence
Add capacity when the roadmap demands it, reduce it when it does not. Monthly velocity reviews keep the team size honest. No lock-in doing the thinking for us.
Business outcomes
What changes
in the first quarter.
These are the outcomes founders tell us mattered, in the order they usually notice them.
W2
The roadmap moves again
Features that sat in the backlog for two quarters start landing. The team stops triaging and starts building.
M1
Your calendar comes back
No more interview loops eating your afternoons. The hours you spent recruiting go back into customers, sales and the product itself.
M2
Velocity becomes predictable
Sprint commitments start meaning something. You can promise dates to customers and investors and actually hit them.
Q1
Burn drops, output rises
Typically 40 to 60 percent below the fully loaded cost of equivalent hires, with no recruiting fees and no severance exposure. Your CFO notices before you do.
Why NyxaLabs
Bodies are cheap.
Accountability is not.
Anyone can send you resumes. The difference is who answers for the outcome.
We answer for delivery, not hours
Outstaffing firms invoice for attendance. We are measured on what ships. Our engineering leads own code quality and velocity so you do not have to police either.
Senior only, interviewed by you
You meet and approve every engineer before they touch your code. No bait and switch, no bench juniors billed as seniors.
Continuity is our problem
People take holidays and change jobs everywhere. In our model the team carries the context, so a single departure never takes your roadmap with it.
Built to make ourselves optional
Documentation, clean handovers and help interviewing your future in-house team. 98% of clients stay because they want to, which is the only retention worth having.
Founder insights
You cannot hire your way out of a velocity problem.
Ten average engineers moving without direction ship less than four strong ones with a clear roadmap.
Speed is a system, not a headcount.
NyxaLabs, from the field
The founder journey
Wherever you are today,
this is the whole road.
Most vendors solve one stage and disappear. We build for the stage you are in, then stay for the ones ahead. The team that ships your product is the same firm that runs your growth and your customer operations when you get there.
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01
Idea
Behind you
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MVP
Behind you
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03
Product Market Fit
Behind you
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04
First 100 Customers
Behind you
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05
First 1,000 Customers
Behind you
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Growth
You are here
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Customer Experience
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AI Automation
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Global Scale
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Long Term Partnership
Where this goes
Swipe to see the road →
NyxaLabs grows with you.
Think two steps ahead
Engineering is one bottleneck.
It is rarely the only one.
Founders who fix shipping speed usually discover the next constraint within a quarter. These are the two we see most often, plus the question of who steers it all.
A note on fit
We do not work
with everyone.
Every team we field is senior and every engagement gets leadership attention. That only works if we stay selective, so we are honest about fit before either side spends a week finding out.
We work best with ambitious founders building businesses for the next decade.
Quality over quantity.
We are probably not the right fit if
- ✕ You are looking for the cheapest quote
- ✕ You are comparing hourly rates
- ✕ You are looking for freelancers
- ✕ You want a one time project and a handshake
- ✕ You are unwilling to invest in growth
Why founders stay with us
They don't.
At least not all of them.
Some founders use us to validate an idea. Some use us to build their first product. Some stay for years.
What matters to us is not how long you stay. It is whether we helped you build something worth staying for.
The best partnerships usually start with one problem and end with years of solving them together.
What happens next
You reach out.
Then this happens.
No mystery, no maybe-we-will-call-you. This is the exact sequence every engagement follows, and you can hold us to it.
One partner throughout the journey
No handoffs between vendors. No re-explaining your business every quarter. The context we build in week one is still working for you in year three.
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Founder Strategy Session
A direct conversation about your business with someone senior. No sales script.
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Requirements Discovery
We map your product, market and constraints in plain language, in writing.
03
Dedicated Team Allocation
Named senior people matched to your problem before anything is signed.
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Sprint Planning
The first two weeks planned to the day, with owners against every item.
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Execution Begins
Working software and live systems, not status decks.
06
Weekly Reviews
What shipped, what moved, what happens next. Every week.
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Monthly Growth Reviews
Numbers against targets, and the decisions they drive.
08
Quarterly Strategy Reviews
Zoom out with your leadership team. Reset priorities. Compound.
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Long Term Partnership
The same firm from your first sprint to your global scale.
FAQ
Before you ask
on a call.
How fast can NyxaLabs add engineers to my team?
Within one to two weeks. We match engineers from our existing senior team to your stack, they join your standups, your Slack and your sprint board, and they ship production code in their first sprint. Compare that with the four to six months a single senior hire typically takes.
How is this different from hiring freelancers or outstaffing?
Freelancers give you individuals you have to manage, vet and replace when they disappear. We give you an accountable team with engineering leadership included. Code review, delivery standards and continuity are our problem, not yours. If someone rotates out, the team absorbs it and your velocity does not drop.
How much does it cost compared to hiring in-house?
Typically 40 to 60 percent less than the fully loaded cost of equivalent in-house hires. A senior US engineer costs $200,000 or more per year once you add benefits, equity, tooling and recruiting fees. Our teams start at a fraction of that with zero recruiting cost, zero severance risk and no six month ramp.
Will external engineers slow my existing team down?
No. This is the most common fear and the easiest to disprove. Our engineers follow your conventions, your review process and your definition of done. Most clients report velocity gains within the first month because senior engineers reduce review cycles instead of adding them.
What if I want to hire the capacity in-house later?
Good. That means the product is working. We help you scale down gracefully, hand over context and even help you interview your in-house candidates. Our job is your velocity, not your dependency.
What stacks and roles can you cover?
Frontend, backend, full-stack, mobile, DevOps, QA and AI engineering across TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, React Native and major cloud platforms. If your stack is unusual, tell us in the blueprint form and we will be honest about fit.
Can NyxaLabs support more than engineering as we scale?
Yes, and most clients eventually use that. Engineering is usually the first bottleneck, then growth, then customer operations. Because we run all three as dedicated teams, you fix each constraint with a partner who already knows your business instead of onboarding a new vendor at every stage.
Pick your next chapter
What would you like
to build next?
- Build my MVP
- Acquire my first customers
- Build revenue systems
- Automate operations
- Build global support
- Global scale
Wherever you are today, we would love to help you build what comes next.
NyxaLabs
The long game
From your first customer
to your first million.
Every number on this chart is a different company with different problems. Most founders change vendors at every step and pay the re-learning tax each time. Our clients climb it with one partner who already knows the whole story.
We would love to be there for the whole journey.
NyxaLabs
First customer
100
1,000
10,000
100,000
Global scale
Partnership
One partner, the whole climb →
Founder Strategy Session
Book your founder strategy session.
Thirty minutes with someone senior enough to give you real answers. Not a discovery call, not a sales script. We take on a limited number of new partnerships each quarter, and this is how they all start.
- → You talk to people who have shipped 100+ products, not an account executive
- → Bring your hardest question. That is what the call is for
- → You leave with next steps, whether or not they involve us
- → If we are not the right fit, we say so on the call
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Your next sprint could have
twice the engineers.
Send us your stack and your bottleneck. We reply within one business day with the team we would embed and what it would cost. Then you decide.