How Modern Climate has run the same three-person Mexico team for years
An independent Minneapolis agency, three specific people, and production capacity that did not have to be re-explained every project.
Marketing Agency · QA / Front End / Design · Staff Augmentation
IN A NUTSHELL
Agency production capacity has an awkward shape. It is continuous enough that project-by-project freelancers mean re-explaining the brand, the codebase and the standard every engagement, and specialized enough that a generalist will not do. It also goes out under the agency’s own name.
Modern Climate staffed three named roles rather than a block of capacity, and the same three have held for years. Its President reports the agency has saved money as a result.
Overview
About the client
Modern Climate is an independently owned marketing agency in Minneapolis working across brand strategy, creative, demand generation and marketing technology. It helps clients define their positioning and then runs the media and demand programs that carry it to market.
IndustryBrand & Demand Generation Agency
Company sizeIndependent agency
LocationMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Solution
Our Approach
Modern Climate engaged CodersLink for Staff Augmentation: three senior professionals, vetted to the Top 1% Standard, working inside the agency’s own production process on a per-professional contract.
The scope was defined as three named roles rather than a headcount: a QA engineer, a front-end developer and a UI/UX designer, each with its own criteria. Sourcing ran from CodersLink’s warm community pipeline and every profile went through five-layer vetting against a 75-point gate, with Modern Climate interviewing and deciding on each role itself.
Key decision: treat a three-person engagement as three separate searches. At this size there is no bench and no rotation, so there is nowhere to average out a weak hire.
Impact
The Results
Outcome: a three-person embedded team covering QA, front-end development and design, running for more than four years.
Three roles filled across three disciplines.
The client reports having saved money. No figure or basis of comparison was given, so none is stated here.
More than four years of continuous engagement at an independent agency.
Thanks to CodersLink’s work, we’ve saved money. Their developers are amazing and very efficient — Their work exceeds expectations.
NEXT STEP
Need three specific people rather than a team?
Book a call. We will scope the roles individually and tell you which are standard and which are scarce, before there is a contract.
