The alternative that starts working before you pay anything.
Marketplaces hand you a shortlist and a rate card. We hand you one dedicated engineer who starts on a real item from your backlog this week, free. Day 8 you sign at $4,000 a month, all-in, or you walk away.
What changes when you skip the marketplace
- How you start
- Talent marketplacesPost a role, review profiles, interview, negotiate a rate
- HireboardSend one task. We scope it in a day and an engineer starts inside the week
- What you pay first
- Talent marketplacesHourly or weekly rates, plus platform or placement fees
- HireboardNothing until day 8. Then $4,000 a month, all-in
- How you find out if it works
- Talent marketplacesYou find out after you have committed
- HireboardYou find out during a free week, on your own codebase
- If it is not working
- Talent marketplacesRe-post, re-interview, start again
- HireboardFree hot-swap, anytime. Or walk away in week one
We would rather show you than pitch you
Every hiring process is a bet made on incomplete information. You read a profile, you run an interview, you form an opinion, and then you find out whether you were right after you have already signed something.
We moved the finding-out to the front. You send us one real item off your backlog, not a test task, and an engineer works it for a week on your codebase with your constraints. At the end of the week you have either shipped something or you have not, and you know which.
That week costs nothing and nothing is invoiced during it.
One engineer, AI agents, every diff reviewed
Our engineers work with AI agents. The agents do the volume, the engineer reviews every diff before it lands in your repo. You watch commits arrive rather than reading a status update.
That is also why one engineer covers more ground than the headcount suggests, and why we can put a real week of work behind a free trial without it being a loss leader.
What it looks like when it works
MyServiceApp
Tyrie at MyServiceApp spent two years and over $60k with agencies before Hireboard. Engineer working in 30 days, product on its fourth release with 99% uptime a year in, engagement still running.
“This is a no brainer. Hireboard is best in class.”
Tyrie · Founder · MyServiceApp LLC
- One week of engineering, free.
- Walk away anytime in week one.
- Day 8 you sign and the first invoice goes out. $4,000 a month, all-in.
- Free hot-swap, anytime.
- 50 engineer-weeks free this quarter.