Teams
Pre-composed teams. Ready in a week.
Don’t hire one engineer at a time when you need five. A Lateral team is a delivery lead, a small senior team, and a shared playbook. Stood up in days, embedded in your tools, shipping from week one.
How a team works
Composed in days. Embedded in your tools.
Three things every Lateral team does in week one, and three things they don’t do.
- 01
Scope
A real engineer scopes the problem with you. Press-release-first, outcome metrics defined.
- 02
Compose
We assemble the team from our network: the lead, the senior engineers, the designer. You meet them.
- 03
Embed
They join your repo, your Slack, your standups. Your on-call rotation only if you want.
- 04
Ship
Weekly demos, fortnightly retros. The team’s output flows through your release process, not a parallel one.
Team shapes
Pick the shape. We’ll bring the team.
Each team is composed from a base template and adapted to your stack and constraints.
Product Teams
A full product squad. Product, design, engineering. One team, one lead.
Platform Teams
Infra, observability, CI/CD, built to be boring.
AI Teams
Evals, retrieval, agents. The team that ships ML to production.
Data / ML Teams
Warehouses, pipelines, and the metrics layer your CFO actually trusts.
Design Systems
The single source of truth for how your product looks and feels.
SWAT / Rescue
The team you call when it’s already on fire.
What you don’t get
Three things a Lateral team won’t do.
- No discovery phases priced like the build. If we can’t scope it in two weeks, we shouldn’t be the ones building it.
- No parallel scrum. The team joins your release cadence. We don’t run our own.
- No junior bait-and-switch. The senior engineer you interview is the senior engineer who ships. No swap-outs without your consent.
Tell us the problem.
A 20-minute conversation, a team composed by Friday.