Requirements

• You already build with AI. That's most of what we need.
• You don't need to have 2+ years of experience in anything. Most of what we use isn't even that old. You just need to already be curious and keen to get stuck in and learn.
• You've driven a coding agent far enough to watch it go wrong. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, whichever. You've at least used them enough to know what they can do.
• You can put a small site live. We use Next.js, TypeScript and Postgres. If you don't know them yet, AI and a few weeks will get you there, and we'll help.
• You find business interesting. Not an expert. Interested. You notice when a company is leaving money on the table and you have an opinion about why.
• You'd rather make a sensible first attempt than wait to be told. And you ask before anything that would be expensive to undo.
• You finish things. Including the boring last ten percent, which is where most people stop.
• You can get to London one day a month.

What We Offer

• In six months you'll be able to do all of this, without us.
• The paycheque is half of what you'll get here. Here's the other half.
• Build agent systems that survive contact with a real customer. Not a demo. Something a business runs on Monday morning and rings you about when it breaks. The pool of people who can do this well right now is small.
• Sit in front of a business owner and find the money. The rarest half of this job, and the half that keeps paying you for the rest of your career.
• Leave with proof and two people in your corner. If we can't extend, or you want to move on, we'll put real effort into getting you somewhere good. References, introductions, whatever helps.

About Us

We're engineers who write the code and talk to the customers.

We aren't salesmen outsourcing the work. We write the code, design the architecture and answer the phone.

There are two of us, and that's the whole company. Alex maintains Stripe's official Rust integration and worked at Vercel and Meta. Sean has spent seven years shipping production software, from startups to FTSE 100s. We met studying Computer Science in Edinburgh and we both left well-paying jobs at big companies to do this instead.

So far we've built:

• A self-serve quote engine for one of Scotland's biggest boiler installers, helping them compete against the VC-backed Boxt.
• Reactivation agents that messaged 4,000 dormant customers for a client and won £60k of work back.
• QR code equipment management for a gym servicing company, allowing them to scale work with less admin time.
• Right now: a sales engine for high-ticket SMBs, a WhatsApp assistant connecting sole traders to their accountant, Hermes agents for businesses doing millions a year, and a contract with a FTSE 100 company setting up outbound sales at scale. You'll work on most of this.

Working Conditions

Small team with no manuals and no guarantee of stability.

Every job has a list of downsides. Most of them don't print it.

Some of this has no manual. Parts of what we do are new enough that nobody has written the guide yet. We can tell you what we've tried and how we'd think about it. We can't always tell you the right answer.

It's six months, and we're not going to dress that up. We have the funding and the income for it, and we hope the work makes the case to extend. But we can't promise that.

There are two of us. No onboarding programme, no learning budget, no team to hide behind on a bad week.

The work moves. Several clients and two products means we can't put you on one thing and leave you there.

If that list put you off, we'd rather you found out now than in week three. If it did the opposite, you're the person we're looking for.

Application Process

• Fifteen minutes to apply. Simple hiring process.
• Applications close 4 September.
• Four steps, and we'll give you a response even if it's a no or not right now.
• Apply through the button above. It's a short form on our site, about 15 minutes. No CV needed, the form is the application.
• Take-home. We'll send a realistic exercise to people we'd like to see more of. It's built to take 45 minutes to complete, and you'll have a week to fit it in. Use AI. We'd think less of you if you didn't.
• Interview. We'll go through your take-home, then change part of the problem and work on it together.
• Start. As soon after that as you're available.