Tech as a service: your on-demand product team
Hiring a CTO and a tech team is expensive and takes months. Tech as a service gives you a fractional product team, ready to maintain and grow your applications, with no hiring and no team to manage.
Product studio · Based in France · Monthly hour-based plan
Building a tech team is expensive and slow.
Before the first useful line of code, most leaders spend months hiring and structuring a team.
A CTO takes months to hire
Finding a strong senior technical profile, convincing them and onboarding them takes time and locks up a large budget before any result.
An in-house team is heavy to carry
Salaries, taxes, management, tooling, leave, turnover: the total cost of an in-house team far exceeds the headline figure.
Real workload is irregular
Your needs vary: a busy month, then a quiet one. A fixed team costs full price even when the backlog is empty.
What is tech as a service?
A fractional product team you activate on demand, without hiring or managing it.
A team, not a lone freelancer
You access product, development, review and deployment skills combined, without depending on a single person.
Activated on demand
You reserve a monthly plan of hours and submit requests through a portal. You scale up or down based on your real workload.
Accelerated by AI
A pipeline refines, estimates and implements your requests, with automated review and deployment. You pay for delivered value, not friction.
Transparent end to end
Requests, estimates, project tracking and billing are centralized in the client portal. You always know where each hour goes.
Product studio vs agency vs staffing firm vs freelance
Four ways to outsource your tech, with very different outcomes. Here is how Figue is positioned.
| Product studio (Figue) | Agency | Staffing firm | Freelance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working logic | Product and impact | Delivered project | Billed time | One-off mission |
| Long-term commitment | Maintenance + evolutions | Ends at delivery | As long as the mission lasts | Variable, person-dependent |
| AI acceleration | Built-in pipeline | Rare | Rare | Depends on the profile |
| Transparency (client portal) | Requests, estimates, billing | Project reporting | Timesheets | Direct exchanges |
| Workload flexibility | Adjustable monthly plan | Bound by the quote | Low, dedicated profiles | High but fragile |
| Dependency risk | Low, shared team | Medium | Medium to high | High, single point |
Indicative comparison: every provider varies. The key idea: a product studio combines longevity, quality and flexibility.
Resources to go further
The concrete offer and a free tool to estimate value before you commit.
Discover the TMA offer
The full monthly plan: corrective maintenance, evolutions, monitoring, client portal and AI pipeline.
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Frequently asked questions
What is tech as a service?
It is a model where you access a fractional product team on demand, instead of hiring in-house. You reserve a monthly plan of hours and activate the skills needed to maintain and grow your applications.
How is this different from hiring a CTO?
An in-house CTO means a long hire and a high fixed cost. Tech as a service gives you immediate access to a full team, with a workload you adjust month after month and no team to manage.
Who is this model for?
For leaders and teams with an application to run and grow, but who do not want (or do not yet want) to build an in-house tech team. The model fits both a ramp-up and steady ongoing maintenance.
How does a product studio compare to an agency or a staffing firm?
An agency thinks in delivered projects, a staffing firm thinks in billed time. A product studio like Figue thinks product and long-term impact, with maintenance, evolutions and an AI pipeline to speed up delivery.
How do we start concretely?
You book a call to frame your need and your plan. Then you submit requests through the client portal, the AI pipeline refines and estimates them, and implementation, testing and deployment follow.
What if my needs vary month to month?
The plan is monthly and hour-based (minimum 40h). You plan your requests over the coming months and adjust the volume to your real workload, without carrying the fixed cost of an in-house team.
Your product team, on demand.
Book a call to frame your need and start with a fractional product team.