---
title: "Senior Engineers for a Season: $5,000, Two Weeks | Heartwood"
description: "You need more engineers and you’ve been burned. For $5,000, two weeks with our engineers and their lead answers one question: would they lighten your load?"
url: "https://heartwood.agency/services/team-trial"
---
Starter · While you build

# Team Trial: two weeks with senior engineers inside your team

You need more engineers, but every one you add makes your days heavier.

Spend two weeks with a team that makes your day lighter, not longer. Then decide. For a season, or for longer.

Price:$5,000Length:Two weeks

What you walk away with

A clear answer to one question: would this team lighten your load?

[Start my Team Trial →](https://heartwood.agency/services/team-trial#contact)

## Is this the right Starter for you?

Check any that fit. If two are true, you’re in the right place, and your answers come with you to the form below.

* You need help for three to six months, not forever.
* You’re not ready for a W-2 hire yet.
* You need to add to your team temporarily.
* You’ve been burned by contractors who padded hours to keep you on the hook.
* You’d rather not have the hard conversations, or review someone else’s code.
* You’re spending your evenings reviewing what an AI agent wrote.
* Every dollar is spoken for, and another bad hire isn’t an option.

Not you? [See all six Starters, or tell us what’s going on →](https://heartwood.agency/services)

## What’s true now

Every extra pair of hands is one more thing to manage. Even the ones that aren’t human.

## What’s true after

You add engineers without your own days getting heavier, and you know it because you watched it happen.

Writing code is the easy part. We’re here to make you enjoy your job again.

## How we choose

If we accept the work, it’s because we believe in what you’re building. Our people care more than makes sense on paper, and it shows up in the work.

## Your timeline, start to finish

1. 01Kickoff: two or three of our engineers and our engineering lead, live discovery on your repos. You leave with less on your mind than you came with.
2. 02One ticket, yours, taken end to end to a pull request.
3. 03One code review, with your team.
4. 04At the end, we propose the next ticket before you ask.

What you walk away with

## A clear answer to one question: would this team lighten your load?

Plus a merged PR, and a code review your team sat in. Whatever you decide next, the work stays.

* You have seen us work inside your codebase before you commit to anything.
* Your team has met the people, not a sales deck.
* The work stays merged whatever you decide next.

Length

Two weeks

Price

$5,000

## Questions you’re probably asking

How much does the two-week trial cost?+

A Team Trial is $5,000, fixed. Two weeks.

What do we get for it?+

A merged pull request on one of your own tickets, taken end to end, and a code review your team sat in. Plus a felt answer to the only question that matters: would this be a burden?

What happens if we don’t continue afterwards?+

Nothing is clawed back. Whatever you decide next, the work stays: the ticket is merged and the review already happened.

How do you decide which work to take?+

If we accept the work, it’s because we believe in what you’re building. Our people care more than makes sense on paper, and it shows up in the work.

[Start my Team Trial →](https://heartwood.agency/services/team-trial#contact)

## You finished a Starter. What now?

When you’re ready, it grows into a **Partnership**. It takes one of two shapes.

* Custom Build  
We build it with you.  
From $20,000  
[Learn about Custom Build →](https://heartwood.agency/services/custom-build)
* Most Team Trials lead here  
Embedded Team  
We join your team.  
From $6,500/month  
Two weeks was the trial. The same engineers stay on at the cadence you pick, taking work off your plate instead of waiting to be pulled. The ticket we proposed at the end of the trial is where it starts.  
[Learn about Embedded Team →](https://heartwood.agency/services/embedded-team)

Start here

## Start your Team Trial.

$5,000 · two weeks · fixed price, agreed before we start

You’ll walk away with

* A clear answer on whether we’d lighten your load.
* Our engineers inside your codebase before you commit.
* A merged PR, and a code review your team sat in.

[Not the right fit? See all six Starters →](https://heartwood.agency/services)

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