Development pods

Your developers.
Every day. No sprints.

A dedicated pod of senior architects — averaging 10 years at Wegile — working only on your product, shipping to staging daily through the AI governance pipeline. Not a vendor. Your team. Built for new products, live platforms, modernization, AI features, and long-term product evolution.

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Pods for every challenge

One pod. Six things you can point it at.

A pod isn't a fixed service — it's senior capacity you direct. These are the engagements our pods run most.

Build end-to-end

From discovery to production: architecture, design, development, QA, and deployment for a complete product.

3–5 architectsTeam / Custom pod
Interdisciplinary
AI integration

LLM features, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, AI SDRs and omnichannel — production AI, no research theatre.

3–5 architectsfrom Team pod
Interdisciplinary
Architecture & modernization

Audit, re-architect, and migrate existing systems to AI-native infrastructure — without downtime.

2–4 architectsDuo / Team pod
Domain-specific
Product discovery

BA-led scoping: user flows, requirements, API mapping, documented roadmaps before a line is written.

2–3 architectsDuo pod
Domain-specific
Managed Product Evolution

Long-term ownership of live products: ongoing releases, enhancements, AI upgrades, and 24/7 production support. See the full MPE plans →

1–3 architectsfrom Dedicated
Domain-specificLearn more →
QA & test automation

Intelligent test generation, regression coverage, API and release testing — quality as a system, not a phase.

1–3 architectsfrom Dedicated
Domain-specific
You are not buying headcount

You are buying product continuity.

The difference between a pod and a team of freelancers isn't the number of people — it's what they leave behind. Every Wegile pod builds your product as if they'll own it for a decade. Because many of them do.

Architecture that compounds

A pod that understands the full system makes better decisions at every layer. Architects who've lived through every architectural choice don't repeat the mistakes — they build on the hard-won lessons.

Documentation as a first-class deliverable

Technical framework, code, API references, and how-to docs — updated with every change, handed over throughout. Your product's knowledge doesn't live in anyone's head. It lives in the docs.

Transition with zero context loss

Whether you're scaling up, bringing work in-house, or changing scope — a pod's documentation and codebase health mean any competent engineer can take over without starting from scratch.

The pod stays with your product, not the project

Our engagement model is structured around your product, not a project with an end date. That changes how architects think, prioritize, and build — they treat it like their own because they'll still be here for it.

Long-term product ownership

The product launched. Now it needs to keep growing.

After your product launches, it enters a second phase — one most agencies aren't built for. Features slow down. Bugs compound. AI upgrades get deprioritized. A Wegile MPE pod owns your production system end to end: ongoing releases, enhancements, AI upgrades, security patches, performance, and monitoring. You retain full architectural governance without carrying a full-time team.

01
Continuous feature releases

New functionality on a weekly or bi-weekly cadence — shipped to staging, reviewed, and deployed. Your product keeps moving without you managing a team.

02
AI upgrades as standard

LLM feature updates, RAG pipeline tuning, and new AI capabilities integrated into your live product — model upgrades included. Your product doesn't age out of AI.

03
Security patches, zero lag

Dependencies kept current. Vulnerabilities patched before they're exploited. No security debt accumulating while you're focused on the roadmap.

04
Production monitoring, 24/7

Observability configured, alerts tuned, and incident response from the same architects who built the system — not a generic support desk following a runbook.

Care

Production monitoring, security patches, minor enhancements
Your live system, protected
$3,000/mo
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Growth

New features, AI integrations, and ongoing improvements
Your product keeps moving
$6,000/mo
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Scale

Multi-product or high-traffic ownership
Full pod capacity, all domains
$12,000/mo
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Who's in your pod

Four sizes. Real people, named on your proposal.

Compositions below; full feature lists and the comparison matrix live on the pricing page. Every architect: 10+ years' experience, averaging 10 years at Wegile, 8 dedicated hours a day.

Dedicated Architect

FSFull-stack Development Architect10+ yrs exp · 11 yrs at Wegile
End-to-end: architecture, dev, infra, DevOps
$4,500/mo
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Duo Pod

DADevelopment Architect11 yrs at Wegile
BABusiness Analyst Architect9 yrs at Wegile
Build + roadmap, stories, documentation
$8,500/mo
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Team Pod

DADevelopment Architect11 yrs at Wegile
BABusiness Analyst Architect9 yrs at Wegile
MBSr. Cross-platform Mobile Architect9 yrs at Wegile
$12,000/mo
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Custom Pod

5+Composed for your product
Native iOS & Android · AI specialists
Dedicated QA · DevOps · Enterprise SLAs
Let's scope it
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Supercharged delivery

The numbers a pod changes.

2–3×velocityAI-native workflows plus architects who don't re-learn your codebase every quarter — measured against our own pre-AI-native delivery.
<5%attritionArchitects average 10 years at Wegile. Your pod in year three is your pod from day one.
5 daysto assembledFrom first call to a named pod with environment access — the full sequence is on How we work.
Dailystaging deploysNo sprint gates. Every day ends with deployable progress you can see on your dashboard.
Fixedmonthly costPer-architect subscription. No hourly drift, no surprise invoices, month-to-month flexibility.
6 gateson every lineThe AI governance pipeline — quality, security, and architect review — runs identically at every pod size.
The honest comparison

Freelancers vs. agency
vs. a Wegile pod.

FreelancersTraditional agencyWegile pod
Who does the workVariable — you vet, you hopeRotating teams, often juniorNamed senior architects, 10-yr avg tenure
ContinuityEnds when they move on2–3 yr churn, context resets<5% attrition — context compounds
Delivery rhythmWhenever2-week sprintsDaily staging deploys
Quality controlYours to manageManual review, variesSix-gate AI governance pipeline
Management loadHigh — you're the PMLayers of PMs, billed to youZero — pod lead included
Cost shapeHourly, driftsQuotes, change ordersFixed monthly, in plain sight
ScalingRe-hire, re-vet, re-rampWeeks per added headAdd architects to the same pod
DocumentationIf you insistOften a deliverable extraTechnical, code & how-to docs — standard
Before your pod

Every pod runs on LaunchPad.

Your AI-native core — cloud, CI/CD, AI tooling, mirrored environments — live in 5 business days. Pro for new products, Elite for existing ones. Included at Team tier and above.

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Response within 24 hours. After the architecture call, your named pod recommendation, architect tenure, and day-one delivery plan arrive within 4 business hours.

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