Via agency partner · white-label
Multi-location healthcare: delivery unblocked.
An agency drowning in backlog handed us their delivery queue. Dedicated pod, their brand, their tools: velocity up 85%.
85%
Faster delivery
Cleared
Delivery backlog
Dedicated teams you can name,
not a ticket queue.
A named group of senior engineers, marketers or designers working as an extension of your team: your tools, your cadence, your priorities, one transparent monthly rate. You meet every member before signing, and the project manager is part of the pod.
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A dedicated team at PixelCrayons is a named senior pod that works as an extension of yours, at a monthly rate. You choose the roles and meet each person before you commit. The pod works in your tools, on your cadence, with a project manager included. It scales up or down under written notice periods. IP and ownership terms are agreed before work starts, and an NDA is standard. Brands engage a pod directly; agencies run one behind their own brand.
The operating record
Judge the record,
not the adjectives.
Outcomes tied to real engagements, not averages.
2004
Established
500+
Agencies served
4,500+
Projects delivered
340%
Revenue growth · 7 months
Client outcome: eCommerce
+127%
Organic traffic · 5 months
Client outcome: SaaS
85%
Faster delivery · backlog cleared
Client outcome: via agency partner
Where the work happens
In every pod
What the monthly rate
actually covers.
01
A named pod, chosen with you
You see exactly who is on your team (role, seniority, specialism) and you interview each of them before anything is signed. The same people stay on your account so context compounds; nobody is swapped out without your sign-off.
Named
02
A project manager, included
Every pod ships with a PM who runs the cadence, keeps the backlog current and acts as your single point of contact. That's part of the pod's rate, not a management fee bolted on after you've agreed a number.
In the rate
03
Your tools, your cadence
The pod joins your Slack or Teams, your tracker, your standups and your review rhythm. If you'd rather hand the process over, the PM runs it in whatever tools you prefer. Either way, nothing about how you work has to change.
Your stack
04
One transparent monthly rate
Pods are priced per month (the third of the three engagement shapes on our pricing page). There's no single menu price because no two pods match. Each role page shows an indicative monthly range in your currency, and the itemised proposal turns it into a real number agreed in writing before the pod starts.
Monthly
05
Scale rules, notice periods included
Add a role when the roadmap grows; release one when it doesn't. Both directions carry a notice period agreed upfront in the contract. We say that plainly because "scale down anytime" with no notice is a promise nobody running senior teams can keep.
Agreed upfront
06
Your IP, clean (NDA first)
Everything the pod produces is assigned to you: code, designs, documents, credentials, accounts. The NDA is signed before we see anything sensitive. Agency partners get the same client-protection terms as every engagement here: we do not approach the clients they introduce to us for direct business, and those terms are agreed before work begins.
Contractual
From call to running pod
Meet them, trial them,
then commit.
01
Days 1 to 2
Scope the pod
A short call about what the team needs to do, not a headcount order form. Once we have a complete brief, we confirm the date you will receive your proposal: the roles and seniority, with an itemised monthly rate, in writing.
02
Same week
Meet the pod
You interview every proposed member on a video call: experience, communication, fit. Not happy with someone? We swap them before you've committed to anything.
03
Trial
14-day trial
For eligible roles, the pod runs a full sprint on real work from your backlog. End within the trial and pay nothing for eligible trial hours; continue, and those hours are billed at the agreed rate.
04
Ongoing
Run and adjust
The pod settles into your cadence with a weekly review in Prism tied to outcomes. Scale up or down under the notice rules you agreed. The shape flexes with the roadmap, not against it.
Inside Prism
Your specialist, week to week,
in your workspace.
Where the engagement includes it, the specialist you hire works inside your Prism workspace: their tasks, their routines and the weekly review live where you can see them.
Interview the person first · Scale monthly · Their work lives in your workspace
- 01
Their tasks, owned and dated
Every task the specialist takes on has their name and a date on it, in your workspace, not in a report about it.
- 02
Requests and approvals, in one place
Raise a request in your workspace, approve a piece of work, and see who owns it and when it is due.
- 03
A weekly review with decisions recorded
Each decision is written down with the expectation attached: what we expect to change, and by when.
- 04
Every action recorded, checked against the outcome
What we did and what happened sit side by side, so the next review starts from evidence rather than memory.
Scoped to the work
One pod,
any discipline.
Pods are assembled from the same senior bench that delivers every service here: pick the discipline, or mix them in one team.
01MarketingSEO, paid media, content and CRO run by a pod that reports against revenue.02DevelopmentEngineers and a tech lead shipping web, eCommerce and API work every sprint.03DesignProduct and brand designers embedded in your review rhythm, not a ticket queue.04AIChatbots, automation and retrieval (RAG) builds staffed with the specialists they need.05Hire AI TalentWhen the gap is one AI engineer, not a whole pod; hire the role on its own.06Hire Performance MarketersA senior performance marketer on your team: paid media run against CAC, not activity.07Case studiesWhat pods have shipped: anonymised engagements with the numbers left in.
Pod, white-label, or something else?
A dedicated pod can serve your brand directly, or work under an agency's brand for that agency's clients. If everything must ship under your brand, white-label is the shape you want; if you're still comparing, see how every engagement here runs.
Every role, one bench
Browse the full
52-role roster.
Each role below is its own page: skills, engagement steps, a hiring comparison and an indicative monthly rate. Not sure which one fits? Scope a pod instead and we'll staff it.
Development
Marketing
Proof
One pod, one queue,
cleared.
Before you sign
Our commitments
Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.
14-Day Risk-Free Trial
For eligible managed specialists. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for eligible trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop.
Eligible managed-specialist roles only, one trial per customer. Not offered for AI, chatbot, prompt, automation, API-integration or QA work. Brand and graphic designers, brand strategists, video editors, content writers, copywriters and content marketers start with a paid pilot.
Full termsTime-zone overlap
At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast.
Managed specialists only; not a staffing promise for project teams.
Full termsClear IP & Ownership Terms
Your materials remain yours. Bespoke deliverable rights, licences and handover are agreed before work starts.
All engagements.
Full termsClear Delivery & Escalation Ownership
Know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue.
All engagements. Roles may be combined and vary with your engagement.
Full termsQuestions buyers ask before they commit
Why not just hire a freelancer?
A freelancer can be the right choice for a single, well-defined task. We are set up for work that needs an accountable team: a named coordinator, delivery reviewed by QA and a senior lead before release, and continuity arrangements written into the engagement. Confidentiality, ownership and escalation terms are agreed in writing before work starts.
How does time-zone overlap work?
Your engineers work at least four hours a day inside your core working hours. We set the window with you before the engagement starts and hold it for as long as the engagement runs. For the US West Coast the live overlap is two hours each morning, with a written handover at the end of every Indian day. We do not run night shifts: engineers who work nights leave quickly, and keeping the same people on your team matters more to us than a longer overlap.
Can we try you before we commit?
For eligible managed specialists, yes: up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for eligible trial hours; continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate, and unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop. For project work, and for roles outside the trial, we offer a paid pilot with its scope, acceptance criteria, duration and fee agreed before it starts.
What if we want to stop?
Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.
How we handle claims, credentials and your data: group credentials, dated ratings, how case figures are signed off, client permissions and data handling.
Questions
Frequently
asked.
Mostly speed and shape. Recruiting a senior team takes months of sourcing, interviewing and notice periods before anyone writes a line of code. Eligible engagements can typically start within two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed. The shape flexes too. Roles change as the roadmap changes, under agreed notice, without redundancy processes. We won't invent a "save X% versus salaries" figure, because the real comparison depends entirely on your market and mix. The rate is itemised per role, so you can run that comparison yourself with real numbers on both sides.
A pod is a team, not a collection of individuals you coordinate yourself. The members already work together, a project manager runs the cadence, and work is QA-reviewed inside the pod before it reaches you. There's one contract and one invoice, with IP and ownership terms agreed before work starts. Freelancers are the right call for a single well-defined task; a pod is for work that needs several disciplines pulling in the same direction for months.
The term is agreed per proposal rather than a blanket rule, and pods run month to month after it. But we'll be straight with you: this is not a "cancel anytime" product. Both scaling down and ending the engagement carry notice periods, agreed in writing before you start, because the people on your pod are committed to you and deserve the same honesty in reverse. You'll see the exact term and notice in the proposal, before you sign anything.
The pod's project manager runs delivery (standups, backlog hygiene, blockers, the weekly review in Prism) and you set direction and priorities. If you'd rather run the backlog yourself through your own product owner or producer, the pod slots into your process instead. Either way you're never the one chasing individual contributors; that's what the PM is for.
For eligible managed specialists. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for eligible trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop.
Yes, it's a step in the process, not a favour. Once the pod is proposed you meet every member on a video call before anything is signed. You can ask us to swap anyone who doesn't fit. The 14-day trial then lets you judge the team on real work before the engagement settles in.
We tell you straight away, propose a replacement for you to interview, and overlap the handover wherever notice allows. Account knowledge is kept in shared documentation from day one precisely so it never lives in one head. Continuity is the product here.
Yes, we're headquartered in Noida, India. You know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue. When you hire Indian developers through a pod, they work remotely inside your tools, standups and review rhythm. If you only need to hire a software developer in India for one role, each role in the directory above has its own page. Either way, you meet every person before anything is signed.
Through a marketplace you coordinate individuals yourself. A pod is a named team: you interview every member on a video call before anything is signed, and a project manager is part of the pod. It works in your tools and cadence, with scale rules and notice periods agreed in writing. IP and ownership terms are agreed before work starts, with an NDA as standard. For eligible roles, the trial then lets you judge the team on real work.
Put a named team
behind your roadmap.
Tell us what the team needs to do. We'll propose the roles, the seniority mix and an itemised monthly rate, and you meet every person before you sign.
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