Engineering Bandwidth refers to the current capacity and availability of a development team to take on new tasks, features, or projects. It represents the team’s throughput potential in a given timeframe, factoring in skills, workload, and team structure.
An Escrow Model is a financial arrangement where a third-party service temporarily holds funds during a transaction between two parties. The funds are released only after predefined conditions are met, adding trust and security to remote hiring or freelance agreements.
An Employer of Record (EOR) is a third-party organization that officially employs workers on behalf of another company. It manages payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance, allowing businesses to hire globally without setting up legal entities.
An equity compensation structure is a system companies use to reward employees, advisors, or contractors with ownership shares or rights to acquire shares — aligning incentives with long-term company growth.
The Emergency Engineering Augmentation Protocol (EEAP) is a high-stakes, rapid-response operational framework used by engineering-led organizations to immediately stabilize failing systems, unblock mission-critical product delivery, counteract velocity collapse, and restore engineering throughput by deploying pre-vetted, context-ready, high-autonomy developers into crisis zones where architecture, deadlines, and business continuity are simultaneously under pressure.
The Engineering Mismatch Escalation Path (EMEP) is a structured, multi-layered, time-bounded, and signal-driven protocol that defines how engineering, product, and hiring teams identify, document, diagnose, communicate, escalate, mitigate, and resolve any form of functional misalignment between a developer and the technical, cultural, architectural, product, or operational expectations of the team—ensuring that mismatches are surfaced early, handled transparently, corrected efficiently, and prevented from silently degrading velocity, increasing tech debt, amplifying cognitive load across squads, or destabilizing the broader engineering ecosystem.
An engineering velocity audit is a structured assessment of how efficiently a software engineering organization delivers value—evaluating workflows, bottlenecks, decision-making cycles, tooling, communication patterns, code quality, and team behaviors to determine the true speed and predictability of engineering output.
Extended trial alignment is the process of coordinating expectations, scope, goals, and success metrics for a longer-than-standard trial period—ensuring both the client and the developer understand objectives, responsibilities, and evaluation criteria before commencing an extended engagement.