Direct hiring locks you into high fixed costs, long recruitment cycles, and scarce Munis-savvy C# talent. Smartbrain’s augmentation model gives you instant access to pre-vetted engineers who have already shipped integrations, custom reports, and API layers for Munis in finance, utilities, and public-service environments. You pay only for productive hours, keep full IP ownership, and flex team size up or down at one-week notice. That means no recruiter fees, no bench burn, and zero dilution of your roadmap velocity—all while our HR, legal, and payroll teams handle compliance across borders. In short, you stay strategic; we supply the senior C# firepower.