Last updated: May 2026
No fluff. No surprises. The exact terms, timelines, and standards under which Uvik Software embeds senior Python and AI engineers into your team. Read it before the first call — most of our clients have.
Each of these is contractually binding and operational across every Uvik engagement, from a single embedded engineer to a 12-person team. None of them require negotiation. None of them are upsells.
Every engineer placed has 5+ years of production Python experience, has shipped architectural decisions in real products, and has been a Uvik employee for at least 12 months before client placement. We do not bench juniors. We do not fill seats with mid-level engineers wearing senior titles.
From signed NDA and role brief, we deliver 2–3 matched senior profiles within 48 business hours. Profiles include CV, technical portfolio, and a 30-minute recorded technical screen. Engineer operational on your codebase within two weeks of contract signature in 92% of engagements.
Every engagement starts with a 14-day evaluation window. If the engineer is not the right fit, you owe nothing beyond the prorated trial period — we absorb the search and onboarding cost. Past the trial, our 30-day replacement guarantee applies.
Flag any fit issue within 30 days of trial completion: replacement profile delivered within 7 business days, with a 5-day parallel hand-off, at zero charge. The replacement clock resets on the new engineer.
Add or remove engineers with 30 days written notice. No exit fees, no minimum engagement length beyond the trial, no clawback on volume discounts. Your team size flexes with your roadmap, not our quarterly targets.
All code, documentation, models, and derivative work are assigned to you on creation under work-for-hire. NDA and IP assignment are signed before any code is written. Repositories, credentials, and infrastructure live in your accounts — never ours.
The exact sequence. Most clients are working with embedded Uvik engineers inside two weeks of the discovery call. Here’s how that happens, day by day.
30–45 minute call with a Uvik engineering lead — not a sales rep. We map your stack, team shape, sprint cadence, and the specific problem the new engineer will own. NDA sent during the call if needed.
2–3 engineer profiles selected from our internal bench. Each profile ships with a CV, GitHub or portfolio, a recorded 30-minute technical interview, and a written rationale explaining why this engineer fits your specific role. No 50-CV inbox dumps.
Schedule 60-minute interviews with shortlisted engineers on your terms — technical deep-dive, pair programming, take-home, system design, whatever your hiring bar requires. We’ll prepare them on your domain context but not on the questions.
Standard Master Services Agreement plus a monthly Statement of Work — both available in advance for your legal review. IP assignment, GDPR DPA, NDA confirmation, security addendum if needed. Most clients close in a single redline cycle.
Engineer receives credentials to your Slack, Jira, GitHub, CI, and any cloud accounts they’ll touch. Endpoint hardened to your standards. Background check confirmed in writing. We provide the laptop unless you require client-issued hardware.
Engineer joins your standups from Day 11. First merged PR by Day 14 in 87% of engagements — typically a small, scoped task to validate environment access, code review fluency, and team collaboration. Trial period begins.
Engineer ships against your sprint goals. Mid-trial check-in with your tech lead and a Uvik engineering manager. End-of-trial decision: continue, replace, or terminate at no further cost. The replacement clock resets for the new engineer.
Monthly business review with your sponsor and our delivery lead — covers velocity, code quality metrics, blockers, and team composition decisions. Quarterly retrospective on the engagement itself. Median active engagement runs 18 months; 64% renew or expand.
These are not aspirational targets. They are the operating envelope inside which our delivery team runs. We publish them because every Uvik engagement is judged against them, and because we’d rather lose a deal to a competitor whose numbers genuinely look better than win one on vague promises.
Numbers are recalculated quarterly from the live engagement portfolio and validated against client-signed monthly reports. Last refresh: Q1 2026.
These are not optional add-ons or premium-tier features. Every Uvik engineer carries these practices into every codebase, every sprint, by default.
Zero merges to protected branches without peer review — either by your internal team or, if you have only one engineer in the stack, by a second Uvik engineer at your option. No “rubber-stamp” approvals.
New code ships with tests in the same pull request. Coverage thresholds match your existing standards or, on greenfield work, default to ≥80% line coverage on business logic. TDD where practical.
Broken build, broken pipeline, or red main is a P0 — work stops until it’s green. Engineers fix CI first and feature work second. We don’t add CI as an afterthought.
Material design choices ship as ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) committed to the repo, including alternatives considered and trade-offs accepted. Future engineers — yours or ours — inherit the reasoning, not just the code.
Every shipped feature includes runtime docs, README updates, and onboarding notes for the next engineer. Documentation debt is treated identically to test debt — fixed in the same sprint, not deferred indefinitely.
Dependency scanning, secret detection, SAST, and dependency review run on every PR. Findings above medium severity block merge until triaged. We use your existing tools where possible — never a parallel security stack.
We hold ourselves to enterprise-grade controls without the overhead of a Big Four consultancy. Our governance posture is documented, audit-ready, and identical across engagements.
Pick the one that fits your team shape today. Switch between them with 30 days notice. No fee, no friction.
One or more senior engineers will be integrated into your team. They report to your tech lead, attend your standups, work in your repos, and on your roadmap. The default model.
A 3-to-8 person team — engineers, optional QA, optional team lead — embedded as a unit on a defined product or initiative. Reports to your stakeholder; we provide engineering management overhead.
A bounded engagement with a senior staff-or-principal-grade engineer providing architecture, code review, hiring support, and technical strategy — typically 1–2 days a week alongside your in-house team.
Ad-hoc reporting and surprise check-ins waste time and signal nothing useful. We run a fixed cadence so your sponsor knows exactly what to expect and exactly when.
| Touchpoint | Frequency | Format & participants |
|---|---|---|
| Standup | Daily | Joins your existing team standup. Engineer reports as a member of your team, not as an external vendor. 15 min max. |
| Sprint demo | Weekly / bi-weekly | Engineer demos shipped work in your existing demo. No separate Uvik demo cycle, no parallel reporting. |
| Sponsor sync | Weekly, 30 min | Your sponsor + Uvik delivery lead. Ad-hoc unblockers, scope flex, team adjustments. Skipped freely if nothing to discuss. |
| Monthly business review | Monthly, 60 min | Your sponsor + our engineering manager. Velocity, code quality metrics, satisfaction signals, team composition, upcoming roadmap fit. Written summary follows. |
| Quarterly retrospective | Quarterly | Honest review of the engagement itself — what's working, what isn't, what should change. Uvik comes prepared with our own observations, not just yours. |
| Incident response | As needed, <2 h | P0/P1 issues escalated to a Uvik engineering manager within 2 business hours. Direct line for the engagement sponsor — no ticket queues. |
We turn down roughly 20% of inbound engagements because they aren’t a fit. We’d rather tell you upfront than disappoint you in month three. The map below covers what we ship, where we ship it, and the contexts we’re built for — and the engagements we’ll honestly refer you elsewhere on.
We turn down roughly 20% of inbound engagements and refer them to one of the firms named above. If you’re early in evaluation, a 15-minute call where we tell you Uvik is wrong for you is more valuable than three months proving it. Book it.
Most of these come up in the discovery call anyway. Reading them in advance saves you 10 minutes and lets us spend the first call on your actual problem.
Discovery call is 30 minutes with a Uvik engineering lead — not a sales rep. We’ll map your stack, scope the role, and tell you on the call whether we’re a fit. NDA on request before the call.