Send us the thing on your backlog you’ve been avoiding.
We’re giving away 50 engineer-weeks this quarter. One of our engineers ships it. Two weeks, no invoice, no contract, you keep the code. If you like the work, they stay at $4,000 a month, all-in.
No invoice. No contract. You keep the code.
50 engineer-weeks open this quarter
Four steps. No sales call needed to start.
Tell us the task.
The migration, the flaky test suite, the integration nobody wants. Anything real.
We scope it in a day.
If it doesn’t fit in two weeks, we say so before you commit anything.
An engineer ships it.
They work the way our engineers work. Agents do the volume, the engineer reviews every diff.
You keep the code.
Whether you continue or not. If you like the work, they stay at $4,000 a month, all-in. Wrong engineer? We swap them.
What a good pilot task looks like
Good
Real, bounded, and you can tell when it’s done.
- A backlog item with a clear definition of done.
- A migration.
- A test suite nobody maintains.
- An integration.
- A performance problem with a number attached.
Bad
Open-ended, blocked, or impossible to check.
- “Rebuild our product.”
- Anything needing six approvals to start.
- Anything with no way to tell if it worked.
Building is easy now. Engineering is what survives.
Agents generate code. They don’t carry judgement, and they don’t carry ownership. So the work moved, from generation to review. Across the industry, roughly 59.4% of agent effort now goes to review, against 8.6% to generation.
That’s the job our engineers do. Not typing. Deciding what ships.
Two weeks of real work tells you more than any interview loop. That’s why we’d rather give the weeks away than argue about it.
Where agent effort goes
Industry figure, not ours. The rest is planning, testing and everything in between.
Run by an engineer, not a sales floor.
Hireboard is led by Alexander Bothe, who came up through infrastructure and security. The engineers here work the way he does: agents do the volume, a person reviews every diff before it lands in your repo. You see the work as it happens. Commits in your codebase, not a status deck.