Senior researchers and designers, on loan to your team.
Embed an experienced practitioner directly into your team for a defined stretch — a crunch, a parental leave, a sabbatical, or a specialist gap. They ship from week one. When the seat reopens, we hand the work back cleanly.
Four moments when an extra pair of expert hands changes everything.
The thread connecting them: the work shouldn't stall, and the person you're covering for shouldn't return to chaos. We fill the seat with someone who can do the job at your standard — then hand it back clean.
More work landed than your team can carry.
A launch, a board deadline, two studies at once. We place an experienced researcher or designer alongside your team to take real work off the queue — not to shadow, not to ramp for a month, but to ship from week one.
Someone's going out, and the work can't.
Parental leave, medical leave, an extended trip. We scope the coverage with your person before they go, keep their projects moving to their standards, and hand everything back the day they're back.
A three-month sabbatical is on the calendar.
Time off shouldn't mean a frozen roadmap. We bridge the gap with a practitioner at the right level, run the standing rituals, and keep a clean project log so your returning team member steps back in, not back through.
You need a skill you don't have on staff.
A quant lead for one survey, a designer for a single sprint, a specialist for a phase your generalists can't cover. We slot in the right person for the duration of the need — and only for that duration.
Four stages. The one most firms skip is the last one.
Scope
A free 30-minute call to learn the team, the work that needs covering, the timeline, and the level of seniority the role calls for. You leave with a written engagement brief.
Match
We match a practitioner whose background fits the work — not whoever happens to be free. You meet them and approve the fit before anything is signed.
Embed
They join your standups, your tools, your repo or design files. On-site, remote, or hybrid — your call. Weekly check-ins with Naviscent leadership are built in.
Return
When the engagement ends, we run a structured handoff — active threads, decisions made, open questions — so your returning team member catches up in a day, not a quarter.
Handing the work back is the whole point.
Two weeks before our engagement ends, we run a structured handoff: an active-work index, a decision log with rationale, file and tool access, and a paired session with whoever is picking the work back up. Your person comes back to a team that kept moving — not a backlog to dig out of.
- Active-work index with status
- Decision log (and why)
- Files, repos + tool credentials
- Paired shadow on day one back
Three ways to engage. All quoted upfront.
We pick the structure that fits the need — and write the quote before you sign. When the work is done, the engagement ends. No drawn-out wind-downs.
Project
A defined deliverable with a clear start and finish.
- Scoped to one body of work
- Fixed scope agreed upfront
- Quoted per project
Fixed-Term
Leave coverage, sabbatical bridges, time-boxed crunches.
- 3–9 month engagements
- Dedicated practitioner
- Quoted monthly
Flexible
Ongoing overflow support and ad-hoc specialist hours.
- Part-time or as-needed
- Quoted by seniority
- Weekly invoicing
Tell us who you're missing. We'll place the right person.
Thirty-minute call. We'll learn the team, the work that needs covering, and the timeline — then send you the engagement brief and a quote within 48 hours.