60 fresh hires shipped to billable in 4 weeks — versus their previous 12.

A global retail-tech engineering org was burning bench cost on a 12-week onboarding ramp. We sourced, trained and deployed 60 React + Java + AWS engineers under a pay-on-deploy commercial — no payment to Synergific until each engineer was sitting on a billable client account.

Hires deployed

4_wks

Time-to-billable

96_%

12-month retention

₹2.1_Cr

Bench-cost saved

The challenge

Twelve weeks of bench
was killing the unit economics.

The client's North American retail-tech delivery centre was hiring 60 engineers a quarter and losing 12 weeks per hire to "ramp" before anyone could bill against a client account. Bench cost was running ~₹35K per engineer per week.

Their existing partner offered training as a flat fee paid up-front — regardless of whether anyone got deployed. Finance was tired of paying twice for the same hire (vendor fee + bench salary). Engineering was tired of cohorts that came out unable to commit code on day 1.

The ask: collapse ramp to ≤ 4 weeks, deliver deploy-ready engineers (not certificate-holders), and re-shape the commercial so the vendor only gets paid when the engineer goes billable. REPLACE: specifics from kickoff

What we delivered

Four weeks.
Production-grade from day 1.

Week 0

Joint sourcing · 60 candidatesSourced from Synergific's deploy-ready pool + 2 partner campuses. Coding-test cutoff > client's prior baseline. Final shortlist signed off by client engineering manager.

Week 1

Production fundamentalsGit workflows · React 18 + TypeScript · Java 17 / Spring Boot · AWS core (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch). Two daily commits required; reviewed by Synergific tech leads.

Week 2

Capstone build · client-replica architecture3 capstone teams of 20 each shipped a working microservice on the client's actual reference stack. Code review by a senior engineer from the client's delivery centre — not just Synergific trainers.

Week 3

Account-shadow weekEach engineer shadowed a live engineering account for the week. PR participation, stand-up attendance, sprint-board access. Performance scored by the account lead.

Week 4

Deploy to billable accounts60 of 60 engineers placed on billable accounts by end of week 4. First Synergific invoice raised: only after each engineer logged 80 billable hours.

M+12

Retention check-in96% still on the client payroll. Replacement obligation under the SOW triggered only twice in the year.

The numbers

What finance signed off.

The pay-on-deploy commercial structure is the part that closed the deal in the procurement conversation. Below: actual unit economics of the engagement, validated against the client's payroll & time-sheet data.

Outcome metric	Result
Engineers sourced & trained	60 of 60
Time from offer letter → billable hour	4 weeks
Previous baseline ramp duration	12 weeks
Bench-cost reduction · 60 engineers × 8 weeks @ ₹35K/wk	₹2.1 Cr
12-month retention on client payroll	96%
Replacement triggers under SOW (annualised)	2
Day-1 commit-rate · new engineer to production repo	91%
Cohort follow-on · second batch signed	Day 35

Stack & commercials

Inside the delivery.

Tracks: React 18 + TypeScript · Java 17 / Spring Boot · AWS core + serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) · CI/CD on GitHub Actions · Observability via CloudWatch + OpenTelemetry.

React 18TypeScriptJava 17Spring Boot 3AWS LambdaDynamoDBGitHub ActionsOpenTelemetrySynergific CloudLabs

Commercials: pay-on-deploy. Synergific invoices only after each engineer logs 80 billable hours on a client account. Replacement obligation: 12 months. Coverage for cert retakes & capability gaps included.

Why finance signed: the vendor's incentives align with the client's unit economics. There is no scenario in which Synergific gets paid and the client is left holding bench cost. REPLACE: client's CFO summary if available

When you're ready

Stop paying engineers to learn.
Pay them after they ship.

30-minute audit. Written report. Pay-on-deploy commercial drafted into the SOW. Named trainers. No deck.

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60 fresh hires shipped to billable in 4 weeks — versus their previous 12.

Twelve weeks of benchwas killing the unit economics.

Four weeks.Production-grade from day 1.

What finance signed off.

Inside the delivery.

Stop paying engineers to learn.Pay them after they ship.

What our clients say

Twelve weeks of bench
was killing the unit economics.

Four weeks.
Production-grade from day 1.

Stop paying engineers to learn.
Pay them after they ship.