Hiring takes a quarter. Your roadmap needed someone last month.

Staff augmentation is an engagement model where a skilled professional joins your team on a contract basis, without the overhead of permanent hiring. You get the expertise you need, working under your direction, with no recruitment delay, no HR overhead and no long-term headcount commitment. Twopir sources, vets and places the professional and holds the commercial relationship; you direct the work and own the outcome.

It depends on who should own delivery. Choose augmentation when you already have the plan and the manager and what you are missing is capacity or a specific skill — the specialist works to your plan. Choose the Twopir POD model when you need a whole delivery function that owns discovery through deployment as a self-contained unit. Choose a permanent hire when the role is core to the business and the work outlasts any single project. The comparison table on this page sets the three side by side.

Most staffing agencies present a volume of résumés and step back. Twopir is a delivery practice that also places people, and the difference is who does the vetting. We have spent over a decade delivering Salesforce implementations, integrations and operational systems, so we can assess implementation fluency rather than matching keywords on a CV. We only recommend people we would put on our own engagements.

Every engagement starts with a three-month minimum. That gives the specialist enough runway to ramp properly and contribute at full capacity, rather than spending the first weeks on basics before real work begins. Our preferred engagements run six to twelve months, where deeper platform knowledge and stronger alignment with your roadmap produce the best outcomes. If your need is genuinely a couple of weeks of work, augmentation is the wrong instrument and we will tell you so.

Your team. The specialist works under your direction, in your tools and to your standards; you own the priorities and set the bar for what finished looks like. Twopir provides the expertise and handles the commercial relationship, but delivery accountability sits with you. That is the defining feature of the augmentation model, and it is the main thing that separates it from the POD model, where the POD owns delivery.

Once you share your requirements we move quickly, and depending on role complexity and availability we can typically present matched profiles within days. After you select someone, we handle the onboarding coordination so they become operational on your schedule rather than at the end of a months-long hiring process. A rare or highly specific skill combination can take longer, and we will say so up front rather than send a near-match.

Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons teams come to us. Many companies have a working Salesforce environment but need additional capacity for a specific build, migration, cleanup or period of operational support. An augmented specialist embeds into your existing team, works alongside your in-house staff and contributes without disrupting what is already running.

Every professional we recommend is assessed for technical depth, communication ability and delivery readiness — not just availability. The assessment is done by people who have delivered the same work, which is what lets us judge whether someone has actually run a migration or has only worked adjacent to one. We only present people we would trust on our own engagements.