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What Is Supplemental Engineering?

Supplemental software engineering is short-term, senior-level capacity added to your existing team providing increased speed, bandwidth, and reliability while eliminating long hiring cycles and employee overhead.

NIAB plugs into your engineering workflow to deliver features, fix bugs, improve performance, ship integrations, and strengthen ops pipelines.

You get fast onboarding and trusted execution from a senior-only “Nerd Cluster” with the right expertise for the problems at hand.

Access Options

Project-Based

For clients facing a major challenge or opportunity.

  • Dedicated team focused on solving a single, high-impact problem.

  • Flat or hourly pricing based on scope.

  • Delivery-focused partnership with direct access to senior engineers.

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Retainer Model

For clients who need consistent, ongoing engineering support.

  • Predictable monthly hours with guaranteed availability.

  • Easy approval for extra hours or project expansions.

  • Prioritized scheduling for high-value clients.

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Hackathon Session

For clients facing a major challenge or opportunity, where time matters more than budget.

  • A dedicated squad of senior engineers focused on solving one high-impact problem fast.

  • Delivered in an on-site or remote hackathon sprint with daily demos and tight feedback loops.

  • We work alongside your SMEs, then hand off clean, production-ready code your team can own.

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Which weight can we take off your shoulders?

Give us a brief idea of what you’re needing and we’ll reach out to discuss how we can help ->

How Can We Help?

Our Story

Nerds In A Basement started exactly as it sounds: by nerds, in a basement.

In 2014, two high school juniors throwing a LAN party in their parent’s basement dreamt of a role that could seamlessly step into a company and tackle what’s blocking them most.

In 2023, after nearly a decade of dreaming and gaining experience in the trenches, NIAB was finally established.

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