From discovery to first standup in a few short weeks.
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.
The engagement playbook, step by step
Tell us the role
A concise scoping call. Skills, timezone, team fit, must-haves.
We source & vet
Technical screens, language assessment, references. Only finalists reach you.
You interview
Your normal interview process. You pick the developer who fits.
Sign one contract
Pay-as-you-go MSA, SOW per developer. No setup, no annual commit.
They start working
Integrated into your team. One US invoice each month. We handle the rest.
“These guys found great talent who are now an essential part of our team and operations. It’s a relief knowing we can rely on them to supply quality developers as we continue to grow and expand.”
Four-gate vetting, two human reviews, one decision per applicant.
Communication assessment
Spoken English fluency, written async clarity, conflict-handling responses. Every developer placed has been signed off by a US-based reviewer.
Technical screen
Stack-specific exercises scored against a public rubric. Two human reviews, blind to candidate identity, must agree to pass.
Systems interview
Designed by a Staff+ engineer in the candidate's stack. Same questions, same rubric, every time. Calibrated against engineers already placed.
Live pairing
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 — developers are paid after your invoice settles.
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.
- INVOICEIssued on the 15th for the following month's services.
- SETTLEMENTFunds land in sourceBOLD's account via ACH.
- GATE RELEASESLinked developer payout queue unlocks automatically.
- PAYOUTSExecute on the 20th and the 5th — Wise or ACH to dev banks.
Disputes pause the funding gate. No developer payout fires on a disputed invoice — money is held by sourceBOLD until the dispute resolves.
What every dollar pays for, per developer.
sourceBOLD margin is zero in months 1–2 — the professional services installment fully consumes the spread. We make money when retention works, which is why we vet for it.
What sourceBOLD runs — and what we don’t touch.
Operations, money, compliance
- Sourcing & vetting funnel
- Contracts, IP transfer, NDA
- Monthly invoicing & ACH collection
- Multi-currency developer payouts
- Reimbursement workflow & audit
- State-privacy-aligned handling, encryption, hash-chained audit trail
- Compliance purge + retention policy
Engineering and decision-making
- Final dev selection (always yours)
- Day-to-day technical direction
- Code review and architecture calls
- Performance feedback to sourceBOLD
- Approving reimbursements
- Reviewing & paying monthly invoices
Scale your team.
Surge ahead.
A concise scoping call. Pre-vetted candidates. First standup in a few short weeks.