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What it costs to engage a developer

One fee. No tiers.

One monthly fee per developer. No platform fee, no minimum seats, no markup-on-markup. The price is the price — published on this page, written into your SOW.

Per placed developer · billed monthly
from
$2,400
/ month · ACH · invoiced on the 15th

Rate scales with seniority and stack scarcity — Eng Manager and Staff+ at the higher end. Rate set at signing. Any change requires a written Change Order signed by both parties. No unilateral creep.

  • Dedicated senior developer (IC or above)
  • Time-zone aligned · 4–8h US overlap
  • Month-to-month engagement · 30-day notice
  • Contractor-of-record engagement — you never contract the individual
  • Onboarding payment prorated from your Effective Date
  • Funding-gated developer payouts
  • Work product is yours as it is created
  • Portal access for finance, legal, engineering
  • State-privacy-aligned handling, encryption, hash-chained audit trail
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02 · how sourceBOLD compares

The honest table — what each model gives you, and where the costs hide.

Building in-house
Traditional agency / BPO
sourceBOLD
Time-to-first-match
6–12 weeks
4–8 weeks
3–5 days · 18d median
Vetting depth
You run it yourself
Varies / opaque
4-gate · 3.9% accept rate
Cross-border tax + entity
You handle it
Hidden in their fees
We handle it · you pay US$
Who picks the developer
You
They assign one
You pick from a shortlist
Pay structure
Salary + benefits
Per-seat markup
Month-to-month US invoice
Developer take-home
~100% of comp (but you also pay tax and benefits)
Small fraction of billable
Large majority of billable
Payment risk
You float
Agency floats · marks up
Funding-gated · zero float
Non-solicit
N/A (you employ them)
Often vague, hard to enforce
Term + 12 mo · 12× highest monthly
Term commitment
Open-ended employment
Annual commitment typical
Month-to-month
Cancellation
Severance, notice periods
Buyout fees common
30-day notice · unused days refunded

Numbers from public sources and our own quotes. We’ll cite specifics on a call — happy to be wrong about a competitor, not about ourselves.

03 · where the money goes

The dollar breakdown — published, not implied.

$$$$
To the developer

Direct payout, in their currency, to their primary bank.

$
sourceBOLD org

Professional services, platform, contracts, compliance, payment ops.

0%
Markup-on-markup

No stacked markup, no marketplace cut on top, no platform fee for clients.

Zero
Hidden minimums

No platform subscription, no annual commitment, no seat minimums.

04 · key contract terms · upfront

The terms a procurement team would find anyway. Surfaced before the call.

Lifted directly from our standard Master Services Agreement and Statement of Work. We send those documents on request, before any pricing call.

Billing cycle
MSA §2

Monthly Service Fee billed in advance on the 15th, via ACH (or other authorized method).

Onboarding payment
SOW §3

Prorated Service Fee covering the period from the SOW Effective Date to the first full invoiced month. Due on signing. If the Effective Date falls after the 15th, that period also includes the following full month.

Cancellation
MSA §5

30 days' written notice for convenience. We refund, prorated by calendar day, any part of a Service Fee already collected that covers the period after the Termination Date. No charge at all for a month beginning on or after that date, and anything already collected for one is refunded within 30 days, including the unearned part of an onboarding payment.

Late fees
MSA §2

2% per month on the unpaid amount, not compounded. A Service Fee starts accruing on the first day of the period it covers, or its due date if that is later; any other invoice, including an expense reimbursement, starts 15 days after its due date. If a Service Fee is unpaid on the first day of the period it covers, services and developer access are suspended from that day, across any or all SOWs.

IP transfer
MSA §3

Everything a developer creates for you under an SOW is yours as it is created — no payment condition. Each developer agreement assigns it to your company by name and lets you enforce that directly. Pre-existing tools stay with sourceBOLD, licensed to you permanently and royalty-free where they are built into your work product.

Non-solicit
MSA §4

During the engagement and for 12 months after the MSA ends. Breach fee = 12× the highest monthly Service Fee paid or payable for that developer, as liquidated damages.

Funding contingency

Developers are paid only after the client invoice funding them settles. If an engagement is suspended for non-payment for more than 30 days, either side may end it.

Governing law
MSA §9(c)

State of Utah. Exclusive jurisdiction in Utah state and federal courts.

The MSA and SOW are short, plain documents. We send them under NDA before any pricing discussion.

05 · billing FAQ

What people ask before signing.

No setup fee or platform fee. The only first-month charge is the Onboarding Payment — a prorated Service Fee covering the period from your SOW Effective Date to the first full invoiced month.

Ready when you are

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One intro call, no sales pitch. Pre-vetted finalists, not a stack of résumés. First standup in weeks, not months.

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