Dedicated development pods
A pod is a complete senior team — a lead, the specialists and a producer — that owns one slice of your game or product and ships it inside your engine, your repo and your rituals, in your time zone. It's how we do co-development: you keep the vision and the pipeline, we take a deliverable off your plate.
What is a pod
Senior, self-contained, on Central time
A pod is accountable for a deliverable: the front-end, a character roster, every stadium in the game, a platform build. The pod lead answers for quality, schedule and scope, so your producers manage one relationship instead of a dozen contractors.
We work inside your Perforce or Git, your Jira, your Slack and your engine: Unreal, Unity, Frostbite-class proprietary tech or a web stack. Assets and code land in your repo, reviewed by your leads, on your naming conventions.
Austin and Monterrey both run on Central time. A 9-to-5 on the West Coast overlaps six hours with us; on the East Coast, seven. Stand-ups happen live, not as a recording.
Pod vs. the alternatives
Freelancers and staff augmentation give you people to manage. A traditional outsourcer takes the whole thing away. A pod owns a finished slice — and does it inside your pipeline.
| What you need | Freelancers | Staff augmentation | Full outsourcing | CGBOT pod |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owns a finished deliverable | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Senior lead included | — | Sometimes | ✓ | ✓ Named before kickoff |
| Works in your engine and repo | Varies | ✓ | Often their own | ✓ Always yours |
| Scope smaller than a whole game | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ That's the point |
| Live overlap with US teams | Varies | Varies | Rarely | ✓ Central time |
| Scale up or wrap in weeks | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
The pods
Every pod ships with a lead and a producer. Need something that spans two pods? We combine them under one lead.
Wireframe to in-engine, one team.
Key UI partner on EA Sports FC 25 and Madden NFL 24 · Borderlands UI
Concept to rig, ready for animation.
Remnant 2 · Roller Champions · Madden NFL 24
Biomes, missions and stadiums, lit in engine.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 · EA Sports FC 25 · Fortnite
The look, mood and identity of the project.
Roller Champions · Star Wars: The Old Republic
Gameplay-ready motion and real-time effects.
Rocket League: flagship VFX, UE3 to UE5
Shaders, pipelines and optimization passes.
Unreal · Unity · proprietary engines
Certification-ready builds, end to end.
Borderlands: UI optimization and porting
For games already in players' hands.
Fortnite: environment props across seasons
The apps and tools that sit around the game.
Game-designer UX applied to business software
How it works
A 45-minute call with our creative director and a pod lead. We define the deliverable, the engine, the platforms and what success looks like. You get a proposal with a named team within a week.
Onboarding into your Perforce or Git, Jira, Slack and build pipeline. NDAs, hardware and dev kits sorted. Your leads meet ours and agree on a review cadence.
The pod runs on your rituals. Our lead owns the backlog for the slice, demos weekly and escalates early. You review in your engine, not in a slide deck.
Add a second pod, extend for live ops or hand off. Everything we made is documented and in your repo, so nothing walks out the door when we do.
The people in your pod
Every pod is staffed from our own team in Austin and Monterrey — people who have shipped together before, not a roster assembled for the proposal.
“The team at CGBot are skilled, agile, and have a high bar for quality. Their location in North America makes them much easier to work with than many houses in more far flung parts of the world. I would recommend them without hesitation to any team that needs quality, flexibility, and superb leadership to help hit aggressive dates.”
Time zone
Austin and Monterrey both run on Central time. Stand-ups happen live, reviews happen the same day, and nobody waits overnight for an answer. A 9-to-5 on the West Coast overlaps six hours with us; on the East Coast, seven.
United States
Mexico
Questions producers ask
A pod is a self-contained senior team — a lead, the specialists the work needs and a producer — that owns one slice of your game or product: the UI, the characters, the stadiums, the console port, the companion app. It plugs into your engine, your repo and your rituals and ships in your build, in your time zone.
Staff augmentation gives you individuals to manage; a traditional outsourcer takes the whole thing away and works in its own pipeline. A pod sits in between: it owns a finished deliverable with a named lead who answers for quality, schedule and scope, but it does the work inside your engine and your repo, reviewed by your leads. Scope stays smaller than a whole game, and you scale up or wrap in weeks.
After a scoping call you get a proposal with a named team within a week. Week one is onboarding into your Perforce or Git, Jira, Slack and build pipeline; from week two the pod ships in sprints on your rituals.
Unreal (UMG, Slate, Niagara), Unity (UI Toolkit, uGUI), Frostbite-class proprietary engines and web stacks. Source control in Perforce or Git, tracking in your Jira, reviews in your build — assets and code land on your naming conventions.
Typically three to twelve months, scaling up for launch and down for maintenance. Everything the pod makes is documented and in your repo, so handing off is a decision, not a risk.
Yes. Pods are how we like to work, but every discipline is available on its own — art or engineering outsourcing for when you need a few more hands rather than a whole team. See what we do.
A few lines about the piece you need built — engine, platforms, what's slowing you down. You'll hear back from a person with a proposed roster.
Build your podor write to us directly: info@cgbot.com.mx
