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What Your Lawn Care Company Can Teach You About Hiring Developers

You don't hire a landscaper or buy a mower for your office lawn. A crew just shows up and handles it. What if your technology worked the same way? That's the idea behind FiTT: a predictable subscription that gives you a development team, not a headcount problem.

12/23/2025
7 min read

You probably don't think much about the lawn outside your office. It just looks good. Somebody mows it, edges it, keeps the hedges tidy. In the fall, leaves disappear. In the spring, mulch appears. You didn't hire a landscaper, negotiate their salary, or figure out their benefits package. You didn't buy a mower or debate whether you really need a leaf blower. A crew just shows up, does what needs doing, and leaves.

Sometimes it's three people with a truck full of equipment. Sometimes it's one person with a rake. You don't manage that decision. You don't need to. The service understands what your property needs and handles it.

Maybe your office participates in the city's annual marigold festival, and for two months you bump up to a premium tier so the grounds really shine. Then it quietly scales back down for routine care. No awkward renegotiations. No "that wasn't in the original scope." Just... handled.

Now imagine your technology worked the same way.

That's the idea behind FiTT (Fractional Infinity Technology Teams). A predictable monthly subscription that gives you a development team, not a headcount problem. Sometimes you need three senior engineers and a DevOps specialist to push a major release. Sometimes you need one person to squash a weird production bug. We flex to what you actually need, when you need it.

No recruiting. No onboarding. No ramp-up. No figuring out what to do with a full-time hire during a slow quarter. Just a team that understands your business and shows up ready to work.

The usual options aren't great

When you need more technical capacity, you've traditionally had three choices. None of them are ideal.

Hire full-time employees. This is the default answer, and it makes sense if you have consistent, predictable work that justifies dedicated headcount. But the cons are significant: recruiting takes months, good candidates are expensive and hard to find, onboarding and ramp-up eat into productivity, and you're carrying the full cost of salary, benefits, and management overhead whether the work is there or not. Scaling down is painful (and expensive). Scaling up means starting the whole cycle over again.

Lean on your existing team. Maybe you've got a strong developer who can "also handle" DevOps. Or a backend engineer who's "pretty good" at frontend stuff. This works until it doesn't. You end up with a jack-of-all-trades who's master of none, stretched thin across too many responsibilities. One voice means one set of ideas. And if that person leaves (or gets hit by the proverbial bus), you've got a single point of failure that takes your institutional knowledge with it.

Hire freelancers. Flexible, sure. But freelancers come and go. Every new engagement means explaining your codebase, your standards, your business context from scratch. You get flexibility at the cost of continuity, and you spend real time managing the revolving door. When the project wraps, the knowledge walks out with them.

Each of these options solves one problem while creating others. Full-time hires give you continuity but cost a fortune and don't flex. Your internal generalist is cheap but limited and risky. Freelancers flex but don't stick around.

What if you could get skill, continuity, flexibility, and cost efficiency in the same package?

How FiTT actually works

FiTT gives you access to an established, integrated team. Not a collection of individual contractors, but people who already work together and know each other's strengths. We flex the roles applied to your engagement based on what you actually need right now.

One month you might need heavy backend development to get a new feature out the door. The next month, it's mostly QA and bug fixes. The month after that, you're planning a major architecture change and need a senior consultant to help think it through. You don't hire and fire for each of these phases. You don't renegotiate contracts. We just shift who's working on your account and what they're focused on.

You pick a subscription tier based on your budget and expected needs. We handle the rest: matching the right skills to the work, managing the coordination internally, and showing up ready to be productive. If your needs change (a big launch coming up, a slow quarter, an unexpected emergency), we adapt. Bump up a tier for a couple months, then scale back down. No drama, no paperwork.

It's an annual subscription, billed monthly, with tiers ranging from around $1,000/month for light advisory work up to custom arrangements for heavier ongoing engagements.

What this looks like in practice

Remember the marigold festival? Here's the tech equivalent.

Say you're a SaaS company with a small but capable engineering team. Things are humming along fine, but then sales closes a big enterprise deal, and the new client needs a set of integrations built before Q3. Your team doesn't have the bandwidth, and you don't have time to hire.

With FiTT, you bump up to a higher tier for two or three months. We bring in the people who can build those integrations: an API specialist, someone who knows the third-party systems involved, a QA engineer to make sure nothing breaks. The work gets done, the client is happy, and you scale back down to your normal maintenance tier afterward.

Or maybe your lead developer announces she's leaving for a new opportunity. You've got three months of runway before she's gone, and no idea how long recruiting her replacement will take. FiTT bridges the gap, keeping projects moving, maintaining code quality, and preserving institutional knowledge until your new hire is up to speed.

Or maybe there's no crisis at all. You just have a backlog of maintenance tasks, small improvements, and technical debt that never rises to the top of the priority list because your team is always focused on the next feature. FiTT handles the "important but not urgent" work that otherwise never gets done.

The stuff you don't have to think about

When you work with FiTT, you're not just getting developers. You're getting Infinity's entire operational infrastructure: project management, issue tracking, version control, CI/CD pipelines, testing and QA processes, documentation practices. We bring our tools and methodologies with us, or we plug into yours. Either way, you're not building that scaffolding from scratch or teaching freelancers how you do things.

You also get regular strategy sessions, weekly status meetings, and access to people who've been building software for a long time and have opinions about where the industry is headed. It's not just execution. It's partnership.

And because we're an established team (not a loose collection of contractors who met last week), we already know how to work together. There's no forming-storming-norming period. We show up functional.

The bottom line

You probably don't want to be in the business of recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and managing software developers. You want software that works, built by people who know what they're doing, at a cost that makes sense.

FiTT gives you a full tech team for roughly what you'd spend on a single mid-level hire. Skilled people, working together, focused on your goals, flexing to your needs. One predictable monthly cost. No surprises.

Like a good groundskeeping crew, we just show up and handle it. You can get back to looking out the window at a lawn that looks great, not worrying about who's mowing it.

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We'd love to learn about your business and see if FiTT is a good fit. Reach out to us or give us a call at 800.646.0188.

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