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Team as a Service

# One senior team, the whole lifecycle.

Tarmac plugs an integrated, multidisciplinary team into yours: design, engineering, AI, data, DevOps, and product working as one. No handoffs between vendors, no body-shop churn. Just senior people who own quality end to end through the Tarmac 10.

[Let’s team up→](https://www.tarmac.io/contact/?source=services) [See our work](https://www.tarmac.io/work/)

What Team as a Service means

## Not a vendor list. One team across the software lifecycle.

Most firms sell you a discipline: an agency for design, a shop for code, a consultancy for data. Tarmac gives you a single senior team that covers all of it, scales up and down as your work gets spiky, and stays for the long run. That is why 85% of our new work comes from clients who refer us.

Capabilities

## Everything you need to design, build, and scale software

Pick one capability or the whole lifecycle. They are built to work together.

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### AI & Applied ML→

Production GenAI, RAG, and agents shipped into real products, with the evals and guardrails to keep them reliable.

](https://www.tarmac.io/services/ai/)[

### Software Development→

Custom web, mobile, and platform engineering for startups through the Fortune 25. Tech-agnostic, quality-obsessed.

](https://www.tarmac.io/services/software-development/)[

### Data Engineering & Analytics→

Pipelines, warehouses, and analytics that turn raw data into decisions. Accelerated by our Databricks partnership.

](https://www.tarmac.io/services/data-science/)[

### DevOps & Cloud→

Cloud migrations, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD that ships multiple times a day, from startup to scale-up.

](https://www.tarmac.io/services/devops/)[

### Design (UX/UI)→

First UX, then UI. Research-led product design that bridges your team, product managers, and engineers.

](https://www.tarmac.io/services/design/)[

### Product Management→

Lean, evidence-driven product leadership that proves assumptions fast and ships working software.

](https://www.tarmac.io/services/product-management/)[

### Cloud Optimization→

Cut cloud spend and raise reliability with a data-backed review of your architecture, scaling, and costs.

](https://www.tarmac.io/services/cloud-optimization/)[

### Databricks→

A certified Databricks Consulting Partner for the lakehouse: data engineering, ML, and analytics at scale.

](https://www.tarmac.io/databricks/)[

### NVIDIA→

An NVIDIA Solution Advisor for accelerated computing: AI architecture, inference, and GPU economics.

](https://www.tarmac.io/nvidia/)

How it fits together

## One accountable team from idea to scale

1.  01
    
    ### Discover & design
    
    Product management and UX research frame the problem and prove the plan before a line of code.
    
2.  02
    
    ### Build & integrate
    
    Senior engineers ship custom software, AI features, and data pipelines as one integrated team.
    
3.  03
    
    ### Ship & operate
    
    DevOps, cloud, and continuous delivery keep it live, fast, and affordable as you scale.
    

Quality by default

## The Tarmac 10 keeps every service honest

Single-purpose branches, mandatory automated tests, continuous integration and delivery, shared code review, daily status, and daily stand-ups. Ten practices that make quality, speed, and transparency the default across every engagement.

[Explore the Tarmac 10→](https://www.tarmac.io/tarmac-10/)

**14 years**average engineer experience

**150+**projects delivered

**5.0 / 5**across 7 verified reviews on Clutch

A model built for spiky work

## Senior teams in your time zone, ready to scale

Tarmac runs a nearshore delivery model with aligned hours and 24-hour coverage across 7 countries. Founded in Minneapolis in 2012, we pair local product leadership with senior engineering teams that flex with your roadmap.

-   [How nearshore works→](https://www.tarmac.io/nearshore-software-development/)
-   [Our Minneapolis home→](https://www.tarmac.io/minneapolis/)
-   [Our software case studies→](https://www.tarmac.io/work/)

## Ready to build with a team that stays?

Tell us what you’re working on. We’ll bring a senior team that plugs into yours and ships, across whatever part of the lifecycle you need.

[Let’s team up→](https://www.tarmac.io/contact/?source=services) [info@tarmac.io](mailto:info@tarmac.io)

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