{"id":1563,"date":"2025-11-26T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galm.sg-host.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:35:35","slug":"why-engineering-headcount-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evinced.com\/blog\/why-engineering-headcount-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why engineering headcount matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you\u2019ve noticed Evinced has an unusually large engineering team, you\u2019re not alone. That\u2019s by design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From day one, we understood that if we wanted to approach accessibility the way it needed to be done, we would have to invest heavily in engineering. So we built our business, including our fundraising strategy, around that vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve grown this team, this way, for two key reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Innovation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When we launched Evinced in 2021, the accessibility landscape was nowhere near where it needed to be. The market was dominated by service-centric businesses and a handful of tools that, frankly, weren\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As old hands at product development, our early team knew that companies would never achieve accessibility without at least some automation. A company that ships once a month and has an unlimited labor budget might scrape by with an entirely manual program. But for organizations deploying hundreds or thousands of times a week? For that you\u2019re going to need something more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Amazon\u2019s JoAnna Hansen<\/a> likes to say, \u201cPeople don\u2019t scale, tools do.\u201d What that means, to us, is that companies with complex websites and mobile apps need tooling to be accessible without slowing down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we invested. With every funding milestone, we expanded our exceptionally talented engineering team. Four years later, we offer a product suite of nine breakthrough tools, including unique capabilities like recognizing interactable elements<\/a> even when they\u2019re not properly defined in a page\u2019s HTML.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Customization<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As important as great tools are, we also knew early on that customers would need deep, ongoing customization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every customer\u2019s environment is unique, and many needs simply can\u2019t be predicted. Rather than keeping our customers waiting for months or years when they have requests (we\u2019ve heard some vendor horror stories on this) we proactively planned for high-touch support by ensuring our engineering team was sized so we could frequently partner with customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roughly half of our engineering organization focuses on customer-driven customization. When a customer needs a new report format, a custom integration, or a workflow-specific feature, our team can move quickly. It\u2019s common for us to deliver customizations in weeks, not months or years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the Numbers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As of August 2025 we had 103 engineers who are doing nothing but working on accessibility tooling. As far as we can tell, that is dramatically more than any of our competitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This all adds up to a development organization that can do it all: develop industry-leading tools, keep up with maintenance, and be responsive to customization requests from customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We think this is a unique approach in the space and our customers certainly tell us so. In the end, a deep bench of talented engineers is what\u2019s needed to take customers where they want to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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