Dedicated squad aligned to your roadmap
A named team, engineering, QA, design, and delivery, works exclusively on your backlog. Capacity scales up or down with agreed notice, without restarting recruitment.
Partnership
A long-term engineering partner for Australian product teams
Move beyond one-off projects. Our partnership model gives you a stable squad, shared roadmap, and transparent commercial terms, so you can ship continuously without rebuilding the team every quarter.
Built for organisations that need continuity, not churn
Dev House Australia is headquartered in Sydney. When you join our partnership program, you work with the same delivery leads, architects, and engineers over months or years, not a rotating bench of contractors.
You get Australian business-hours communication, proposals and run-rate pricing in AUD, and access to 100+ specialists across Dev Centre House in Ireland, the UAE, Norway, and the USA when programmes need follow-the-sun capacity or niche skills.
The model suits enterprises and growth-stage companies across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and wider APAC that run multiple products, platforms, or modernisation streams and want one accountable partner.
Why partner with us
What you gain on a partnership engagement
Partnerships are structured around outcomes your leadership team can measure, velocity, quality, and cost predictability, not hourly timesheets alone.
Predictable investment in AUD
Monthly retainer or capacity-based models with clear scope boundaries, change control, and reporting. No surprise invoices after informal scope creep.
Senior technical governance
Architecture reviews, security and quality gates, and documentation standards suited to regulated and enterprise environments common in Australia.
Local accountability, global depth
Your primary contacts sit in Sydney. When you need specialised skills, cloud, AI, mobile, or legacy modernisation, we draw on Dev Centre House’s global delivery network.
Transparent delivery rhythm
Fortnightly demos, backlog visibility, and RAID logs your product and IT stakeholders can rely on. We align ceremonies to your timezone and governance cadence.
Continuity through change
Knowledge stays in playbooks, repos, and handover docs, not in one person’s head. We plan for leave, attrition, and roadmap pivots without dropping delivery.
Who it is for
Typical partnership profiles
If you recognise your organisation below, a partnership conversation is usually more efficient than scoping yet another fixed-price project.
Enterprise IT and digital teams
Multiple systems, integration debt, or transformation programmes that need sustained engineering capacity alongside internal teams.
Product-led scale-ups
A growing roadmap, investor milestones, and pressure to ship features without hiring a full in-house department upfront.
Agencies and consultancies
White-label or co-delivery capacity for web, mobile, or cloud builds where you need a trusted build partner behind your client brand.
Regulated industries
Healthcare, finance, insurance, and public-sector adjacent work where audit trails, privacy, and change control matter as much as speed.
How it works
From first conversation to a running partnership
We keep onboarding lightweight. Most partnerships begin with a short discovery phase before moving to a retainer or capacity agreement.
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Discovery and fit check
We review your products, team shape, constraints, and goals. You meet our Sydney delivery lead and see relevant case studies, no generic pitch deck.
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Commercial and squad design
We propose squad composition, ways of working, SLAs, and AUD pricing (retainer or capacity band). Adjust until it matches your governance and procurement needs.
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Pilot sprint or transition window
A time-boxed pilot proves working rhythms, tooling access, and communication before a longer commitment, especially when replacing an incumbent vendor.
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Ongoing partnership delivery
Regular planning, delivery, and executive summaries. Quarterly reviews cover roadmap, capacity, and continuous improvement, not only ticket throughput.
FAQs
Partnership program FAQs
Q: How is a partnership different from a fixed-price project?
A project has a defined scope and end date. A partnership reserves capacity for your evolving backlog, roadmap changes are handled through agreed change control rather than a new RFP each time. You keep the same team and context.
Q: What is the minimum commitment for a partnership?
Most partnerships start from three months with a minimum monthly capacity equivalent to a small squad (often two to four engineers plus delivery oversight). We confirm exact terms after discovery based on your roadmap and risk profile.
Q: Can you work with our existing in-house developers?
Yes. We frequently embed alongside internal teams, sharing ceremonies, repos, and standards, rather than replacing them. The goal is to extend capacity and raise quality, not create a parallel shadow IT function.
Q: Do you only support clients in Sydney?
No. Dev House Australia serves clients nationwide and across APAC. Primary account management runs on Australian business hours from Sydney; delivery can include remote and follow-the-sun support when required.
Q: How do we start a partnership conversation?
Book a call or send a brief through our contact page. Share your products, team size, and what you want from a long-term partner. We will respond with a suggested next step, usually a discovery workshop within one to two weeks.
Explore a partnership with our Sydney team
Tell us about your roadmap, internal team, and how you buy engineering services today. We will outline whether a partnership model fits, and what a sensible first phase looks like.
