Building an in-house engineering team rom the ground up
We partnered with Atom Advantage to support a full transition from external vendor to owned, embedded engineering — faster product delivery, more control, better alignment.
About the company
Atom Advantage helps healthcare and workers’ compensation organizations unlock their Intelligence Layer so experienced teams can make faster, better decisions inside real operational workflows.
As the business scaled, the leadership team recognized that relying on external vendors was limiting their speed, ownership, and ability to innovate — and set out to change that.
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The challenge
- The company relied on an external software vendor for its core platform, creating dependency and limiting the team's ability to move fast.
- Without an in-house engineering team, Atom Advantage lacked direct control over their product roadmap and release cycles.
- Scaling new features and improving platform performance was constrained by a third-party relationship with no deep institutional knowledge.
- Scaling new features and improving platform performance was constrained by a third-party relationship with no deep institutional knowledge.
- The team needed experienced technical leadership and engineers who could hit the ground running in the same time zone.
Before Motum
External vendor dependency
Limited platform ownership
Slow product iteration cycles
Cross team misalignment
The solution
Motum staffed a comprehensive, embedded engineering organization — from SVP of Technology down to key engineering roles - fully integrated into Atom Advantage's team and operating on US hours.
SVP of Technology and senior engineering leads embedded directly into the organization
Team assumed full ownership of the existing platform, auditing architecture and implementing performance improvements
Faster development cycles and greater control over the roadmap through dedicated, embedded engineers
Stronger collaboration between engineering, product, sales, and other business units
Full US-hours coverage for seamless communication and delivery outcomes
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Node.js
TypeScript
React
Next.js
PostgreSQL
AWS
Terraform
Docker
Gitlab
Highlights and impact
Fully transitioned from external vendor to an owned, in-house engineering team
Accelerated product innovation and faster release cycles
Platform performance, scalability, and reliability meaningfully improved
Greater control over technology and roadmap direction
Stronger cross-functionalcollaboration across engineering, product & sales
Time zone alignment drove measurably better delivery efficiency
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