Comparison · Building in-house
Brief us →Guruboxz vs. building in-house.
If you can hire two senior full-stack engineers tomorrow and afford to wait 90 days for them to ramp, in-house is almost always the right move. If either of those is in doubt — talk to us.
Building in-house wins when
- The thing you're building is your company's core IP for the next 5 years.
- You have engineering leadership in place to manage hires and set technical direction.
- You can wait 60–120 days for the right hire and another 60 for them to ship.
- You're already at the headcount and cash flow to absorb $400k/year fully-loaded per senior engineer.
Guruboxz Tech wins when
- You need to ship in 8–14 weeks, not 8–14 months.
- The build is a wedge — once it's live, in-house can take it from there. We hand off cleanly.
- You don't yet have a CTO who can vet the hire or set the stack.
- You'd rather a fixed bid than the open-ended cost of "we're hiring engineers."
Where we fit
Founders pre-CTO, ops teams without engineering leadership, and companies who want a wedge built and handed over — not an ongoing team to manage. We've done several engagements where the deal was "build it, hand it over, your in-house team takes it from here."
The pricing reality
One senior engineer fully loaded in the US: $325k–$500k/year. A 14-week Guruboxz engagement: $24k–$60k. The wrong question is which is cheaper — the right question is which gets a shipped product into market faster.
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