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Choose the Right Cooperation Model for Your Business

At Q, we adapt how we work to fit each company’s needs, offering flexible cooperation models based on your goals, project complexity, timelines, and budget. Whether you need a fully dedicated team through Team as a Service, a clearly defined Fixed Price and Scope project, or additional capacity via Staff Augmentation, each model is designed to support different levels of ownership, flexibility, and delivery.

Team as a Service (TaaS)

Built for long-term collaboration, where shared context and continuity make a real difference. Over time, teams align better, move faster, and make more confident decisions. This setup supports complex work that evolves as you go.

What Is It

Instead of hiring individual developers, you get a full team that develops and manages your digital product. You focus on the core business and stakeholders, we take care of the tech.

When It Fits Best

  • Scale-ups, enterprise companies, and private equity or venture capital portfolios looking for a long-term technology partner
  • When you need a cross-functional team that owns delivery end-to-end, from product direction to execution, without managing individual resources

Fixed Price and Scope

A model grounded in clarity from the start, where everything is defined before execution begins. It creates a structured environment with clear expectations and accountability. This makes delivery more controlled and easier to manage.

What Is It

A model of cooperation for projects with clearly defined requirements, scope, and timeline. We agree on the budget, deliverables, and milestones upfront, so you get full predictability and control. You bring a clear vision and a dedicated decision maker, we deliver the project as planned.

When It Fits Best

  • For mid-size to enterprise companies starting a project with clearly defined requirements and a fixed direction, where predictability is critical
  • When you have a clear vision, defined deliverables, and a set budget, and need a partner to execute against agreed milestones and outcomes

Staff Augmentation

Designed to strengthen your existing team without changing how you work. It allows you to bring in specific expertise while keeping your processes and ownership intact. A practical way to stay flexible as needs shift.

What Is It

Q’s professionals integrate into your existing setup and work under your leadership, following your priorities and processes. You define the skills and capacity, we provide the people who help your team move faster.

When It Fits Best

  • Mid-size to enterprise companies that need to extend their teams with specific skills or additional capacity
  • When you want experienced engineers to integrate into your existing processes while you retain full control over priorities and delivery

What Our Clients Say About Us


Trusted by leaders of global companies, our clients share their experience of working with us as their technology partner.

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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Manpower & Q Agency

Chief Informational Officer, Manpower

Jean-Claude Maillard, HARVN & Q Agency

Chief Executive Officer

Joe de Sena, Spartan Race & Q Agency

Founder and CEO of Spartan

Why CHOOSE Q

Our philosophy is straightforward: we deliver tailored solutions, focus on lasting partnerships, and cultivate a supportive environment for our team. Take a look below to see our focus areas and how we make it all happen.

Delivery Excellence

Q consistently proves to be “better than all the rest” when inheriting projects, thanks to superior documentation, IP handling, and modern practices. A strong Community of Practice (CoP) and Center of Excellence (CoE) reinforce consistency through shared knowledge, clear processes, and disciplined delivery.

AI & Innovation Leadership

We operate with an AI-first mindset that accelerates development, reduces cost, and improves accuracy. AI-assisted development and testing are embedded directly into our workflows, while dedicated R&D ensures bleeding-edge tools and practices consistently flow back to our clients.

People & Culture Advantage

Our brand is backed by four Best Employer Awards, with attrition at ~7% annually, well below industry averages. With a 2,000+ talent pool across five countries and English proficiency ranked 5th globally, we provide stable, scalable teams and seamless, barrier-free collaboration.

End-to-End Capability

As a true delivery partner, Q takes responsibility across discovery, build, scale, and maintenance. Our full in-house SDLC coverage avoids fragmented delivery and helps us outperform co-vendors in multi-vendor setups. This ensures continuity, fast team transitions, and clear IP ownership without licensing complications.

Commercial Advantage

Q offers competitive pricing with a demonstrably lower total cost of ownership, driven not by day rates, but by faster ramp-up, continuity, and fewer delivery slips. We support flexible engagement models, pragmatic payment terms aligned to milestones, and bring portfolio-grade credibility from 200+ projects for 100+ clients.

Our Technology Expertise


You’ll work with senior experts across a wide range of modern technologies and disciplines. Our capabilities are structured around key areas of software development, product design, and cloud infrastructure — allowing us to support complex digital products end-to-end.

Back-End Software
  • PHP
  • nodeJS
  • .NET
  • Java
  • Python
AI, ML and Data
  • Python
  • Spark
  • R
  • AWS
  • PyTorch
  • LlamaIndex
  • LangChain
  • LabelStudio
Front-End Software
  • React/Next
  • Angular
  • Flutter
  • Vue.js
CMS
  • WordPress
  • Shopware
  • Strapi
  • Drupal
  • Contentful
  • Sanity
Mobile Application
  • Flutter
  • Swift
  • Kotlin
Product Design
  • UX/UI design
  • Digital product innovation
  • Digital product management
Cloud Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure as a Code
  • CI/CD and Configuration Automation
  • Cloud agnostic Scalability & Optimization
  • Security Hardening
  • Observability & Logging

Quality & reliability

We pride ourselves on delivering top-tier quality and reliability, backed by our AWS Select Tier partnership and recognition by Clutch as one of the top 15 companies in our field. Our commitment is reinforced through ISO-certified standards in quality, security, and privacy – ensuring our clients receive services that are consistently secure, compliant, and dependable.

Quality – ISO 9001:2015
Security – ISO 27001:2022
Privacy – ISO 27701:2019
AWS Partner Select Tier Services
AWS AI
Practitioner Associate
AWS Machine Learning Engineer Associate

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