##outside help 04
- hire Advocu
The ambassador-programme platform behind Google Developer Experts, Docker and Chainlink, sold with implementation support rather than as pure self-serve software.
- hire Fractional DevRel
A member-led collective where you hire the practitioner directly and they set their own rate, with no agency margin in between. Founding members are required to have 3+ years at dev-facing companies.
- hire Jono Bacon
22+ years of community strategy, author of *People Powered* (HarperCollins) and *The Art of Community* (O'Reilly), selling strategy, coaching and training rather than delivery.
- hire SlashData
30,000+ developers surveyed a year across 168 countries, 17+ years of continuous waves, and a published methodology, sold as population sizing, segmentation and developer-programme benchmarking.