Your embedded Salesforce engineer + solutions architect.
Stay Kinect embeds with your team for 10–30 hours a week as your dedicated senior Salesforce engineer and solutions architect. Same principal, same hands, every week. Day-one productive — no recruiter, no 60-day ramp, no PTO gap.
Searching for a fractional Salesforce developer? This is that — with a solutions architect attached.
One senior engineer + architect. A fraction of the cost.
A full-time Salesforce developer is a $200K+ commitment before they ship a single flow. Fractional gets you the same senior delivery with hours sized to the actual work — and you can scale them up or down as the workload changes.
- 60–90 day hiring window before they start
- 30–60 day ramp before they're productive
- PTO, sick days, holidays — coverage gaps you absorb
- One person, one skill set — what they don't know, you train
- Performance, retention, and management are now your problem
- Start within two weeks of signing — not two months
- Day-one productive — the principal who scoped the work ships it
- Scale hours up or down at the tier boundary; no severance, no offer letter
- Salesforce admin, developer, and AI workflow design — all one principal
- Fixed monthly fee, written and scoped — no surprise invoices
Senior delivery, sized to your team.
Pick the weekly hour budget that matches your workload. Move between tiers at any month boundary with 30 days' notice. Single named senior architect on every tier — no junior swap-out.
- Salesforce admin + developer work — flows, validation rules, Apex when needed
- Next-business-day Slack response
- Weekly 30-minute standing sync
- Monthly written status — what shipped, what's queued, what's blocked
Multi-week dedicated builds (use the Adoption-Led Build instead) · 24/7 on-call · regulated-industry compliance reviews.
- Everything in Starter, with double the weekly capacity
- Same-day Slack response during business hours
- Attendance at one recurring team ceremony — sprint planning or RevOps sync
- Light Agentforce / Data Cloud work alongside platform delivery
Architecture-only retainer (use Revenue Architect Retainer) · regulated-industry compliance reviews · cross-cloud beyond Sales + Service.
- Everything in Growth, with the deepest weekly capacity we offer
- 4-hour Slack response during business hours
- Listed in your org chart as "Salesforce Engineer + Solutions Architect (Fractional), Stay Kinect"
- Full Agentforce + Data Cloud development alongside platform delivery
A second full-stack discipline (e.g. NetSuite, HubSpot dev) · 24/7 on-call · staff-augmentation for a team of admins.
Embedded means actually embedded.
A contractor sits outside your team and waits for tickets. An embedded developer sits inside it. Four concrete commitments make the difference.
Full member of your team channel — not a guest, not a contractor portal, not an emailed ticket queue. We see the work move in real time and answer questions where they're asked.
30 minutes, same time every week, never skipped without notice. What shipped, what's next, what's blocked. The written recap goes to Slack the same day.
Listed as "Salesforce Engineer + Solutions Architect (Fractional), Stay Kinect" wherever you publish your team roster. Visible to your CRO, your auditor, and your new hires on day one.
Sprint planning, roadmap reviews, QBR prep when the agenda touches the platform. We hear the priorities at the same time the team does — not in a ticket two weeks later.
→ This is what justifies the premium over a generic offshore contractor — and what makes the system actually get used.
Three situations where this is the right tool.
You have a Salesforce org, a queue of tickets, and no one to maintain it. Posting the role takes 30 days; interviewing takes another 30; ramp takes 60. We start next week and keep your reps unblocked while you decide whether to backfill at all.
The implementation partner shipped and moved on. The build works on the day they handed it over and degrades from there. We pick up the platform, tune what's drifting, and ship the next 90 days of changes the implementation team scoped out.
They're approving flows at 11pm because no one else can. We take Salesforce development off their plate so they can run RevOps — forecasting, segmentation, the work they were actually hired for. They review and approve; we ship.
What you're probably about to ask.
How does this compare to hiring a full-time Salesforce developer?
A full-time senior Salesforce developer in a major US metro runs about $200K loaded (salary + benefits + overhead + recruiting), takes 60–90 days to hire, and another 30–60 to ramp. Fractional starts within two weeks, has no ramp tax, and costs a fraction of the loaded number. The trade is hours: a fractional developer at 30 hr/wk is not a 40-hr full-timer. For teams whose actual Salesforce workload is 10–30 hours a week, that math is a feature, not a bug.
What if I need more hours one week?
Each tier has a small overage band — typically up to 25% of the tier's weekly hours, billed at the tier's effective hourly rate. Anything bigger, we move you up a tier at the next month boundary. If the spike is one-time and bounded (a launch, a migration), we'll usually flex within the tier rather than ratchet the contract.
What's not included?
Pure admin ticket triage (refer to a $40/hr admin), end-user help-desk work, regulated-industry compliance reviews, and multi-week dedicated builds (use the Adoption-Led Agentforce Build). We also don't replace a salaried employee for benefits, HR, or visa purposes — fractional is a vendor engagement, not employment.
How do you handle multiple clients without losing focus?
Maximum three fractional clients at a time, hard ceiling. Each client gets a dedicated Slack channel, a fixed weekly sync, and a written priority list updated every Monday. The principal who scoped the work is the principal who ships it — no junior swap-out, no agency pool.
Can we convert this to a project (Sprint or Build) later?
Yes. The Readiness Sprint and the Adoption-Led Build both sit comfortably alongside a fractional engagement — and the fractional hours can be paused or partially redirected during a project window so you're not paying twice. We'll scope and price the project separately, and the fractional contract continues unchanged.
How is this different from the Revenue Architect Retainer?
The Retainer is architecture-led — a senior architect who decides what to build and owns the roadmap and the adoption number (strategic capacity, named adoption metrics, monthly reporting). The Embedded Engineer is execution-led — hands-on-keyboard work daily against your backlog (flows, Apex, Agentforce builds, ticket-level delivery, named in your org chart). Same principal, different shape: the Retainer is "we decide what to build and own the number"; the Embedded Engineer is "you hand us the backlog and we ship it."
Three seats. One probably yours.
Free 30-minute discovery call. Bring the work that's piling up. We'll tell you in writing within 48 hours whether fractional is the right fit — or whether you'd be better off with a Sprint, a Build, or a real full-time hire.
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