Reliable supply
Senior engineers recruited for each company, to it, with no rotation. Supply you can plan a roadmap around.
For VCs
Keep portfolio companies shipping.
Dedicated development teams at known costs, for platform teams and operating partners. One company, or across the portfolio.
The pattern
Every roadmap stalls in the same place.
Funding closes, the roadmap accelerates, and hiring doesn't keep up. Engineering is the biggest post-raise burn driver and the slowest seat to fill. You see the same pattern in every engineering-led company you back.
Our research on flat companies examines what Gore, Valve and Zappos did with coordination when conventional management layers were absent or removed.
The proposition
Reliable supply, at known costs.
The same three commitments, whether it's one company or twenty.
Known costs
One invoice per team, in the company's currency, covering salary, equipment, facilities, and management. Costs the board can see coming.
One company or the portfolio
Engage for a single company, or set the terms once and reuse them across every engineering-led company you back.
Safe to recommend
What founders get.
Founders interview everyone
Nobody joins a portfolio company unseen. The engineer they interview is the engineer who joins.
Senior only, no bench
Every engineer is assessed against the TwinTeams engineer standard before a founder ever sees them.
Terms that survive diligence
Contracts in the company's jurisdiction, named engineers, clear IP assignment, and an exit path: the things acquirers and auditors ask about, already answered.
How it runs
From one introduction to portfolio-wide supply.
Start with one company. Extend when you're ready. No fund-level commitment to begin.
- 01
Introduce
Start with one company. A short brief covers the roles, timing, and context.
- 02
Build
We recruit and verify the team. The founder interviews every engineer at final round.
- 03
Run
The team joins the company's codebase, standards, and rituals, with delivery visible to everyone.
- 04
Extend
The same terms and the same standard reach the next company. Portfolio-wide, one company at a time.
The sequence each company goes through, from brief to working team, is at how it works.
Next step
Start with one company.
Tell us what the company is building, which roles are missing, and when the team needs to be working.