/The bench · Senior people, by the week
Extend your team with ours.
Add experienced specialists or fractional leadership to your team. Our designers, engineers and product people work alongside you, sharing your tools and goals.
Extend your team / A clearer starting point
The expertise you need.
Part of your team.
For founders, established businesses and in-house teams needing experienced design, product or engineering support, or fractional leadership.
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The problem
You have work to deliver but lack capacity, specialist skills or senior direction. You need someone who can contribute alongside your existing team.
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What we do
Understand the gap, agree the role and introduce the people suited to it. They work in your tools and routines, with shared priorities and clear responsibilities.
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What you receive
Hands-on delivery or leadership against agreed goals, with knowledge shared as the work progresses. You know who is accountable and what they are there to help achieve.
/The bench · Monday 09:00
48 hours
From gap to a name
Who is on the bench.
People we know through doing the work together. Bring in a specialist, add leadership or shape a small team around what you need.
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Product design
Senior and lead designers who work in Paper and Figma, ship design systems, and have sat in your sprint reviews before.
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Engineering
Full-stack and front-end engineers on TypeScript, React, Next.js and Supabase. They open their own merge requests and read yours.
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AI engineering
People who've built agents, retrieval and evals in production, and know the difference between a demo and a feature.
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Product ops
Leads who install the rituals, tooling and ownership that let a team ship weekly, then hand it back.
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QA and automation
Engineers who write the tests you keep meaning to write, and block the deploy when they fail.
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Fractional leads
Head-of-design or head-of-engineering cover, two days a week, for teams between hires.
How the bench works.
Weekly terms, 48-hour matching, and a 9point0 lead who stays accountable.
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Tell us the gap
A role, a stack, a start date and what done looks like. Fifteen minutes on a call is enough.
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We match from the bench
One or two people, not a shortlist of twenty. You meet them within 48 hours.
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Become part of your team
In your tools, planning and everyday conversations. Your Nine Point Zero lead stays involved as the work moves forward.
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Adapt as you grow
Weekly terms. Scale up, change the mix, or wind down with a week's notice.
Ongoing
/ For founders
“I need someone who’s done this before.”
- An experienced sounding board for the big decisions.
- Hands-on support to turn priorities into progress.
- Fractional leadership as your business grows.
- One relationship across design, product and engineering.
Typical shapeFractional CPO · two days a week · from month one
/ For product teams
“We need capacity, not a handover.”
- Specialists who join your existing ways of working.
- Shared ownership, from planning through to release.
- Extra capacity around the priorities that matter.
- Knowledge shared throughout, so capability stays.
Typical shapeTwo engineers and a designer · eight weeks · in your tools
Start with a conversation.
Tell us where you need support, even if the role isn’t clear yet.
We’ll work through the skills and commitment with you.
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01 / What happens next
Tell us a little
Your challenge, goals and any budget or deadline you have in mind.
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02 / What happens next
Talk it through
We discuss the work with you and whether we’re the right fit.
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03 / What happens next
Agree the next step
A proposed approach, scope and fee for you to consider.