One monthly fee, published.
One monthly fee per person, with typical starting prices for every role we place, at mid-level and senior, published below. No platform fee, no minimum seats, no markup-on-markup. Your fee is written into your SOW.
Our lowest typical starting price, for a mid-level contractor. Prices vary by role and level: see each role’s mid-level and senior prices. Typical starting prices, per person per month. Each engagement's fee is set in its SOW. Scarce platforms, leadership of other people, and certifications you require all price higher. Any change to your fee needs a written Change Order signed by both parties. Junior roles are quoted on request.
- One dedicated contractor, mid-level or senior
- 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 contractor payouts
- We never take a cut of the contractor's rate
- Work product is yours as it is created
- Portal access for hiring managers, finance and legal
- State-privacy-aligned handling, encryption, hash-chained audit trail
“They reduced the cost and time to market for my website. Without their knowledge, experience and caring, I don’t know where my company would be right now.”
Two levels, defined. And why it costs less than a US hire.
Delivers reliably when someone senior on your team, or a clear product lead, sets direction and reviews the work.
Has owned this kind of work alone at a company like yours. Sets direction and makes the calls without anyone reviewing their work.
Why the price is lower
- The person you engage is our independent contractor, not your employee, so the fee carries no payroll taxes, benefits or paid leave.
- We don't charge recruiting, placement or setup fees, and there's no annual commitment.
- They bring their own computer, software and workspace. You give them access to your systems.
- We keep our own overhead low: one short set of contracts, and a portal that runs billing, payouts and paperwork.
| Role | Mid-level | Senior |
|---|---|---|
| Software developer | from $3,500 | from $5,000 |
| Data or BI analyst | from $2,500 | from $3,500 |
| Data or analytics engineer | from $3,750 | from $5,250 |
| Data scientist | from $3,750 | from $5,500 |
| ML engineer | from $4,000 | from $6,000 |
| QA automation engineer | from $2,750 | from $4,000 |
| DevOps or cloud engineer | from $3,500 | from $5,500 |
| UX/UI or product designer | from $2,500 | from $3,750 |
What each role does is on roles we place, and what the same roles cost a US employer is in our guide ‘What it costs to hire tech talent in the US in 2026, by role’.
The honest table — what each model gives you, and where the costs hide.
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.
The dollar breakdown — published, not implied.
Direct payout, in US dollars, to their primary bank. We never take a cut of their rate.
Professional services, platform, contracts, compliance, payment ops.
No stacked markup, no marketplace cut on top, no platform fee for clients.
No platform subscription, no annual commitment, no seat minimums.
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.
Monthly Service Fee billed in advance on the 15th, via ACH debit from a business checking account.
Prorated Service Fee covering the period from the SOW Effective Date to the first full invoiced month. We invoice it within three business days of signing, and work starts once it is received. If the Effective Date falls after the 15th, that period also includes the following full month.
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.
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 — or on its due date, if that falls later — services and contractor access are suspended from that day, across any or all SOWs.
Everything a contractor creates for you under an SOW is yours as it is created — no payment condition. Each contractor 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.
During the MSA and for 12 months after it ends, covering anyone we introduced to you. Where that contractor has been named in an SOW, the breach fee is 12× the highest monthly Service Fee paid or payable for them, as liquidated damages; for anyone else we may recover our actual damages.
Contractors are paid only after the client invoice funding them settles, so sourceBOLD never floats a payout ahead of your payment.
Utah law governs. Exclusive jurisdiction in Utah state and federal courts.
The MSA and SOW are short, plain documents. We send them on request, before any pricing discussion.
Who you contract with, and what we check.
Proovn LLC, a Utah limited liability company doing business as sourceBOLD. sourceBOLD has operated since 2014.
Commercial general liability of $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 in aggregate. We send certificates on request.
Each side is capped at the Service Fees paid in the 12 months before the event behind the claim: under the SOW the claim arises from, or under all SOWs if it does not arise from a single one. Breaches of intellectual property or confidentiality are capped at twice that, on the same basis. Your payment obligations, refunds we owe, indemnities, the non-solicit, and gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud are not capped.
Contractors work in your systems with the access you give them, and a device or license you issue stays yours. You do not give a contractor health, payment-card or similarly regulated personal data unless we have first agreed in writing how it will be handled. We sign a data processing addendum where the law requires one, and tell you within 72 hours of confirming any unauthorized access to your confidential information.
We each keep the other's information confidential for five years after the MSA ends, and trade secrets for as long as they qualify. Every contractor is bound by written confidentiality terms.
Invoiced on the 15th for the following month and paid by ACH debit from a business checking account. Cards can be used for expense invoices only. Larger teams that need another arrangement can ask.
Contractors may access your confidential information from outside the United States, but never from a country under comprehensive U.S. sanctions, or from one the U.S. Department of Justice lists as a country of concern for sensitive personal data.
After our screening partner, we meet every candidate ourselves, check their English, confirm their experience is accurate, contact their references and review their code, or a designer's portfolio. We do not run background checks.
Our MSA and SOW are available on request, as are certificates of insurance.
We source contractors from across the Americas, outside the United States.
What people ask before signing.
Scale your team.
Surge ahead.
One intro call, no sales pitch. Pre-vetted finalists, not a stack of résumés. First standup in weeks, not months.