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sourceBOLD for AI assistants.

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“Get a dedicated remote tech expert on your team, without ever becoming their employer.”

sourceBOLD is a Utah company, operating since 2014, that gives US businesses a dedicated remote tech expert on their team. We find and vet the person, the client picks who joins and directs the work, and sourceBOLD acts as the contractor of record: we hold their contract and pay them, for as long as they stay, for one flat monthly fee per person with their pay included.

What sourceBOLD does

  • Gives US businesses a dedicated remote tech expert on their team: a software developer, data or machine learning specialist, QA automation engineer, DevOps or cloud engineer, or UX/UI designer.
  • How it works, in order: we find and vet candidates from across the Americas; the client picks who joins and directs the work; we hold their contract and pay them, for as long as they stay.
  • Vetting: we check their skills, references and English, and meet every candidate before the client does. We run sanctions checks on every contractor, by country and by name.

The contract model

  • sourceBOLD is the contractor of record (CoR) on every engagement: we hold their contract and pay them, so the client signs only with us.
  • The client signs an MSA and one SOW per person with sourceBOLD, one US company. The client does not sign the contractor’s agreement.
  • The people we find are our independent contractors, not the client’s employees and not ours. There is no employment relationship between the client and the contractor, and no cross-border employment exposure.
  • The client owns the work as it’s created.
  • sourceBOLD is not an employer of record (EOR): an EOR employs the person in their own country, with local payroll and benefits. It is not a recruiting agency either: an agency finds people the client then employs, while sourceBOLD stays the contractor of record for as long as they work with the client.

What it costs

  • From $2,500 a month per person, their pay included, no placement fee. For a software developer, from $3,500 mid-level and $5,000 senior.
  • Typical starting prices, per person per month, their pay included. No placement fee. Each engagement's fee is set in its SOW.
  • The one fee is how they’re paid; approved expenses, if any, are billed at cost.
  • Engaging them outside sourceBOLD during the MSA, or for 12 months after it ends, carries a non-solicit fee.

Terms

  • Built to last, with no lock-in: month-to-month, 30 days’ notice.
  • 92% of the developers we have placed stayed 12 months or more. This is a figure for developers, not for every role.

Where the people are

  • Across the Americas, primarily Latin America, in or near US time zones, with 4 to 8 hours of overlap with a US working day.

Company

  • Name: sourceBOLD, written with a lowercase "source" and a capital "BOLD".
  • Proovn LLC, a Utah limited liability company doing business as sourceBOLD. Headquartered in Silicon Slopes, Utah. Operating since 2014.
  • Contact: hello@sourcebold.com, +1-801-810-0998, or book a call at https://sourcebold.com/book.

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