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One number a month. Nothing hidden behind it.

No platform fee, no deposit, no recruitment percentage and no charge for replacing an engineer. What follows is the whole commercial picture.

One engineer, embedded

from$4,000/month, all-in

Salary, benefits, contracts and local compliance in the engineer’s country, and the AI tooling they work with, all in one figure. The band runs to $6,000 for specialist ML engineers.

  • Nothing invoiced until day 8
  • Month to month, cancel any month
  • Free swaps until you are happy
  • No platform fee, no deposit
  • Your hours, one client only
  • Hours tracked and visible
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Engineering management

Freefrom five engineers

From five engineers up, management of the account is included at no cost. It is a service over the work, not a person sitting on your payroll. Want someone dedicated to you full time, that is a separate hire at any size.

Delivery is owned

Cadence, scope and what ships are managed on our side, so the account is not yours to run.

Dedicated, if you want it

A full-time engineering manager of your own can be hired at any team size, charged separately.

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The same work, costed three ways

Loaded cost means what leaves your account, not the salary line. Recruiter fees, benefits, employment costs, equipment and the months a seat sits empty all belong in the comparison.

A US senior engineer

$15,000+/mo

Loaded: salary, benefits, employment costs, equipment and the recruiter fee to find them.

An agency or dev shop

$8,000-$20,000/mo

Split across accounts, staffed by whoever is free, and the relationship ends when the retainer does.

Hireboard

from $4,000/mo

One AI Native engineer, your hours, one client only, owning what runs in production.

US loaded cost and agency rates are market benchmarks, not quotes. Your own numbers will differ by city, stack and seniority.

What you are never charged for

Recruitment fees

No percentage of salary, no placement fee, no finders cut.

Replacing an engineer

Swaps are free, as many times as it takes.

The first week

Nothing is invoiced until day 8. Walk away inside it and you owe nothing.

Deposits

Nothing up front and no platform fee on top of the monthly figure.

Their tooling

The AI tooling the engineer works with is inside the price.

The diagnosis

An engineer reads your codebase and writes back at no cost.

Questions the finance side asks

One engineer working your hours, for you only. The figure includes their salary, benefits, the contracts and local compliance in their country of residence, and the AI tooling they work with. There is no separate platform fee and no deposit. Specialist ML engineers run up to $6,000.

Day 8. The first week is not invoiced, so if it is not working you can end it inside that week and owe nothing at all.

We replace them at no cost, as many times as it takes. You are never left paying for a match that is not working.

No. It is month to month with no deposit and no notice penalty. Cancel any month.

Nothing from five engineers up. It is a managed service over the account, covering cadence, scope and what ships, rather than a full-time manager assigned to you. If you want someone dedicated to your team, that is a separate hire and is charged separately, at any size.

Hours are tracked and visible to you. The engineer works one client at a time and is never double-sold to another account.