The same people, long enough to matter.

Project-based work is scoped, priced, and delivered against a fixed brief that ends at launch. A dedicated team is ongoing capacity that sits inside your backlog and adapts as your priorities shift — there's no re-scoping every time direction changes.

A freelancer is a single independent contractor you source, vet, and manage yourself, with no backup if they disappear mid-sprint. A Motion 8 dedicated hire is vetted by us, backed by an agency for continuity and coverage, and accountable to a delivery process — not just their own calendar.

Frontend, backend, and full-stack engineers, blockchain and smart contract developers, mobile engineers, QA, DevOps, and product/project management — individually or as a small pod built around your roadmap.

We match hires to your working hours before onboarding starts, and every dedicated hire commits to a set overlap window with your US, UK, or Australia team — typically 4–6 hours of live overlap for stand-ups, pairing, and quick decisions.

Most dedicated placements start at a three-month minimum, which is enough time for a hire to onboard fully and become genuinely productive on your codebase. Longer terms are typical — most clients keep their team for a year or more.

Your hire works inside your project board, your sprint ceremonies, and your Slack — you assign the work, review the PRs, and set the priorities. Motion 8 handles employment, performance oversight, and backup coverage in the background.

You pay a flat monthly rate per seat based on role and seniority — no hourly tracking, no scope-change invoices. It covers recruiting, employment overhead, tooling, and management, so the rate you see is the rate you pay.

Yes — that's the point of the model. Add seats ahead of a funding-driven push, or wind a role down between milestones, with weeks of notice instead of a hiring or layoff cycle.

We run a structured first two weeks — codebase walkthroughs, access provisioning, and paired tasks — so your hire is committing real work well before the onboarding period ends, not still reading documentation.

Every candidate goes through a technical screen, a live coding review, and reference checks before we shortlist them against your stack and role brief. You only interview candidates who've already cleared our bar.

We replace them at no additional recruiting cost during an agreed fit window, and hand over a fully vetted alternative rather than leaving you to restart the search yourself.

You own everything your dedicated hire builds. Every engagement is covered by an NDA and an IP assignment agreement signed before onboarding begins, so there's no ambiguity once work starts.

Yes. Dedicated hires work inside your stack, your repo, your project management tool, and your Slack — we don't ask you to adopt ours. The goal is a hire that feels internal from day one.

You get vetted talent in weeks instead of months of in-house recruiting, backed by an agency that shares accountability for delivery — not a marketplace that hands you a resume and walks away. We work alongside marketing and product from day one, so engineering capacity ships against real growth goals.

Start a project with us and we'll set up a scoping call within 24 hours to map roles, seniority, and timeline, then get you interviewing shortlisted candidates within days.