Every engagement runs the same playbook. No bespoke pitches, no last-minute “we found someone better.” The process below is the system — written down, instrumented, audited.
A succinct scoping call. Skills, timezone, team fit, must-haves.
Technical screens, language assessment, references. Only finalists reach you.
Your normal interview process. You pick the developer who fits.
Pay-as-you-go MSA, SOW per developer. No setup, no annual commit.
Integrated into your team. One US invoice each month. We handle the rest.
Spoken English fluency, written async clarity, conflict-handling responses. Every developer placed has been signed off by a US-based reviewer.
Stack-specific exercises scored against a public rubric. Two reviewers, blind to candidate identity, must agree to pass.
Designed by a Staff+ engineer in the candidate's stack. Same questions, same rubric, every time. Calibrated against engineers already placed.
Candidate ships a small change against a benchmark repo while we watch the process — testing, instincts, debugging, comms under load.
We track quarterly funnel numbers (acceptance rate, time-per-gate, rejection reasons). The trailing average funnel on the home page is sourced directly from this same dataset.
The “funding gate” is a system invariant. It’s not a policy or a promise — it’s enforced in the platform itself, the same state transition shown below.
Disputes pause the funding gate. No developer payout fires on a disputed invoice — money is held by sourceBOLD until the dispute resolves.
sourceBOLD margin is zero in months 1–3 — the recruiter installment fully consumes the spread. We make money when retention works, which is why we vet for it.
A succinct scoping call. Pre-vetted candidates. First standup in a few short weeks.