CLIENT STORY · KORVATO · MULTI-ASSET TRADING SOFTWARE · MIAMI
Two hires on payroll and a 90-day pod. Sprint closed on day 88.
Korvato builds AI-assisted execution software across forex, gold and crypto pairs, with funds never in custody. It needed two permanent seniors and a short blockchain-capable build without standing up a US crypto team. Odesa recruited both at a flat $7,999 each and ran a three-person pod for ninety days, about $94,000 below the traditional path.
Hybrid engagement · Flat-fee recruitment with 90-day guarantee · Staff-augmentation pod with a dedicated engagement lead
RESULTS AT A GLANCE
5
professionals: 2 recruited to payroll, 3 on the podDay 88
product sprint closed, two days early$7,999
per hire, against $18K to $24K at a percentage agency$94K
saved combined versus the traditional pathRepo handed back. Both recruits joined Korvato's payroll after the 90-day guarantee window; the pod was released when the sprint ended.
THE COMPANY AND THE CHALLENGE
Two permanent seats, one short build, and a 30-day clock.
Korvato's bots execute across forex, metals and crypto without ever holding customer funds. Expanding the core engine and the customer-facing control panel meant two things at once: two senior engineers on payroll for the long run, and a scoped build for wallet-connect and on-chain event listeners that did not justify a permanent US crypto team.
A prior agency had quoted $28,000 to $32,000 to place a single senior and could not source blockchain-adjacent backend talent inside thirty days. Korvato wanted the hires without the percentage fee and the build without a retainer.
✓ Two senior hires on its own payroll at a fixed fee
✓ A blockchain-capable pod for one 90-day sprint, then released
✓ Code and infrastructure handed back, no lock-in
THE COST COMPARISON
Recruitment fees about 55% to 60% lower; pod about half the cost of an equivalent US contractor bench. Combined saving about $94,000.
WHAT ODESA DID
Flat-fee hires for the long run. A pod for the sprint.
One partner, two models. Odesa recruited the permanent seats and ran the temporary pod with a dedicated engagement lead for standups, scope control and the handoff. Korvato interviewed every candidate and made every decision.
Recruit two seniors at $7,999 each
A senior backend engineer on Node and a senior frontend engineer on React, sourced, evaluated and interview-coordinated by Odesa, hired directly onto Korvato's payroll with a 90-day replacement guarantee.
Stand up a three-person pod
A Solidity-capable backend engineer, a DevOps and cloud engineer and a QA engineer, with an Odesa engagement lead running standups and scope for the 90-day sprint.
Ship the sprint
Multi-asset bot control panel, broker adapter layer and the on-chain event service, with the funds-never-in-custody architecture intact. Sprint closed on day 88.
Hand back and release
CI/CD and the staging environment were rebuilt so Korvato owned the repo at handoff. The two recruits stayed; the pod was released when the sprint ended.
THE RESULTS
Two hires. One sprint. Repo handed back.
Figures for the Korvato engagement, provided by Korvato.
2
Senior engineers on Korvato's payroll
Senior backend on Node and senior frontend on React, recruited at a flat $7,999 each with a 90-day guarantee. Both stayed past the window.
Day 88
Sprint closed two days early
Bot control panel, broker adapter layer and on-chain event service shipped by a three-person pod inside the 90-day window.
$94K
Saved versus the traditional path
Recruitment fees about 55% to 60% lower than a percentage agency; the pod about half the cost of an equivalent US contractor bench.
100%
Ownership at handoff
CI/CD and the staging environment were rebuilt so Korvato owned the repo and infrastructure when the pod was released.
Figures are for the Korvato engagement and were provided by Korvato. Every engagement is scoped to its own roles and timeline.
WHY IT HELD
Three things made the hybrid model work.
Two models, one partner
The permanent seats went through flat-fee recruitment; the short build went through a pod. One point of contact, one clear line for each.
A dedicated engagement lead
Standups, scope control and the handoff were run by an Odesa lead, so Korvato's founders were not managing three contractors on top of two new hires.
Built to be handed back
The pod's exit was planned from day one: rebuilt CI/CD, a staging environment Korvato owns, and no retainer after the sprint.
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Hire for the long run. Build for the sprint.
Tell us which seats are permanent and which are a push. Flat-fee recruitment at $7,999 per hire with a 90-day guarantee, and a pod for the work that ends.
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Val Narodetsky
Founder, Odesa.co · Lighthouse Point, Florida
I ran the Korvato searches personally. I will run yours the same way.