Teams
Teams, shaped
to the problem.
One engineer or a full pod. Same standard either way.
Eighteen years of building, much of it embedded inside enterprises, taught us that the shape of the team decides the outcome. We field six configurations, from a single specialist inside your squad to a fully managed operation, and every one runs under the same delivery discipline.
The configurations
Six ways we show up.
Embedded Engineers
Individual specialists inside your existing squads: senior mobile, backend, blockchain or AI engineers who join your standups, your codebase and your on-call, from day one.
Best for: filling a hard-to-hire seat without slowing the roadmap.Product Pod
A complete, self-directed product team under one lead: web, mobile, backend and QA, composed per product, the formation that shipped Airzon, Keyride and EzFill end to end.
Best for: taking a product from brief to launch.OPEN THE CONFIGURATION →Platform Team
Systems engineers who work inside enterprise architecture: integrations, compliance-aware infrastructure and the modernization of systems the business already runs on.
Best for: core-system work at national scale.AI Task Force
AI engineers and automation specialists who take one high-volume workflow, prove it, then harden it into production, with governance built in from the first sprint.
Best for: moving AI from pilot to production.OPEN THE CONFIGURATION →Managed Operations
A standing team that runs what we or others built: monitoring, SLAs, disaster recovery and SOC 2 / HIPAA / GDPR compliance support across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Best for: systems that can never be down.Advisory & AI Counsel
Strategy-level consulting from people who build: AI adoption roadmaps, build-vs-buy and vendor decisions, technology direction and governance, the counsel enterprises once reserved for the big consultancies, delivered by engineers who have shipped what they recommend.
Best for: executives who need a trusted guide through AI.Leadership
Every team has a name on it.
Augmented teams fail when nobody owns the outcome. Ours ship with leadership built in, three layers of it, so accountability never dissolves into an account-management layer.
Day to day, every configuration answers to one senior engineer inside the work itself: in your standups, in the codebase, owning the commitments the team makes.
Architecture and delivery are reviewed against one standard across Miami, Doha and London, so a pod in one office ships like a pod in any other.
For decisions above the codebase, roadmaps, build-vs-buy, technology direction, engagements can include strategy-level leadership through our technology strategy practice.
ZTG has been founder-led since Henry Zakkour started it in Miami in 2008, and the escalation path on every engagement ends with leadership, not a ticket queue.
How a team forms
Discovery decides the shape.
We do not sell headcount off a rate card. A build begins with Discovery: business alignment, operational mapping and a systems audit that tell us, and you, what shape of team the problem actually needs. A placement into your own team is scoped with your leads. Then the team embeds, ships and scales up or down as the work changes.
In the field
Where the shapes came from.
Every configuration on this page is generalized from engagements we have actually run: engineers embedded inside a national brokerage, product pods shipping consumer mobility apps, platform teams inside managed care, AI teams automating revenue-cycle work, and operations teams carrying the pager afterward.
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