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Hire AI talent
into your team.

Senior AI engineers and consultants working inside your standups, repo and tools on weekly sprints. IP assigned to you, NDA standard, profile swapped if the fit is wrong.

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PixelCrayons places vetted senior AI engineers and consultants who work as an extension of your team. You brief the role, we shortlist from our own delivery bench, people we already ship with, and the first sprint proves the fit on real work. Weekly cadence, IP and NDA clean, first deliverable inside 14 days, and a profile swap if the fit is wrong. Direct for brands, white-label for agencies.

More than a CV

What hiring through us
actually includes.

01

Vetting you don't have to repeat

Every profile we put forward is someone off our own delivery bench, engineers we already ship client work with, not CVs sourced for the occasion. They've been through our technical screening and, more tellingly, through real engagements with our name on the outcome. You interview to confirm fit, not to do our filtering for us.

Before shortlist
02

The delivery structure, not just the person

Engineers come with the machinery that makes them productive: a named PM who owns cadence and blockers, sprint planning and demos on a weekly rhythm, and QA before work reaches your review. You manage priorities and direction; we make sure the delivery machine around your hire keeps running.

Every week
03

Accountability for outcomes

Because the people are ours, the delivery risk is too. If a sprint slips, that's our problem to fix, with more support, a better process, or a different profile, not a renegotiation. This is the difference between hiring through a dedicated-teams firm and renting a freelancer. Someone besides you is on the hook.

Contractual
04

IP, NDA and security, clean

Everything built is work-for-hire: code, prompts, pipelines and documentation are assigned to you, in writing, from day one. NDAs are standard before we see anything sensitive, access is granted through your systems and revocable by you, and for agencies the white-label rules apply: your brand, our silence.

From day one
05

A replacement policy in writing

If a profile isn't right, say so and we change it. The bench model exists precisely so a swap is a conversation, not a crisis. What we won't promise is a magic bench of infinite specialists on standby: replacement takes a real handover, and continuity comes from the pod and its documentation, not from pretending people are interchangeable.

If needed
Brief to sprint

From role brief
to shipped work.

01
Days 1 to 2

Brief the role

A short call on what you're building, the stack, and who you need. You get a written response, roles, rates, availability, inside 48 hours, the same turnaround standard we hold every proposal to.

02
Within days

Meet the shortlist

A short shortlist from the bench, not a stack of CVs. You interview them on your terms; if nobody fits, we say so and look again rather than talking you into a compromise.

03
Day 14

First sprint

The engagement starts with a real sprint on real work. First deliverable lands inside 14 days of the NDA, the same commitment we make on every engagement. Fit is judged on shipped work, not interviews.

04
Ongoing

Scale or stop

Keep the profile, add another, grow into a full pod, or stop cleanly with everything documented and handed over. The cadence is weekly; the commitment is earned sprint by sprint.

Inside Prism

Your specialist, week to week,
in your workspace.

The specialist you hire works inside your Prism workspace: their tasks, their routines and the weekly review live where you can see them.

Interview the person first · Scale monthly · Their work lives in your workspace

  • 01

    Their tasks, owned and dated

    Every task the specialist takes on has their name and a date on it, in your workspace, not in a report about it.

  • 02

    Requests and approvals, in one place

    Raise a request in your workspace, approve a piece of work, and see who owns it and when it is due.

  • 03

    A weekly review with decisions recorded

    Each decision is written down with the expectation attached: what we expect to change, and by when.

  • 04

    Every action recorded, checked against the outcome

    What we did and what happened sit side by side, so the next review starts from evidence rather than memory.

How we report it, in Prism

The bench profile,
before you commit to a person.

What you receive in month one

Hiring through us is reported as named people doing named work. Before anything is signed you receive the bench profile of the specialist proposed: their shipped work, described under NDA where a client requires it, the interview with them on your calendar, and a second profile to meet if the first is not the fit. Once they start, the weekly review in Prism lists what they shipped, what is in review and what they are blocked on.

  • 01Bench profile: the named specialist, their seniority, and the work they own
  • 02Shipped work: what they have delivered, described under NDA where a client requires it
  • 03Interview: your questions, their answers, and the fit call made by you
  • 04Second profile: another specialist to meet if the first is not the fit
  • 05Weekly review in Prism: shipped, in review, blocked, per person

Related workMulti-location healthcare: delivery unblocked.Healthcare · US · A different discipline, so it is linked here rather than presented as proof of this one.

Build with us instead

Rather buy the outcome than the people?

The same bench delivers finished projects: chatbots, automation, knowledge systems, personalisation. If you'd rather scope a build than run a team, start with the AI services; a pod is the shape when the gap is wider than one role.

Questions

Frequently
asked.

Often you should do both, and we'll say so. In-house hiring wins when the work is permanent, central to your product, and you can afford the months a senior AI search takes plus the risk of getting it wrong in a market where everyone is fishing the same small pond. Hiring through us wins when you need senior capability moving in weeks, when the workload may change shape, or when one profile isn't enough. Most AI work needs slices of several skills, which is brutal to hire for individually but trivial to assemble from a bench. Plenty of clients use us as the bridge while they build the permanent team.

A freelancer is one person carrying all the risk of one person: their availability, their bus factor, their motivation on week nine. Hiring through us gets you the individual plus the machinery around them: a named PM, weekly sprint cadence, QA before work reaches you, documentation as a habit, and an organisation that is contractually on the hook for delivery. If your engineer is ill, on holiday or simply not right, that's our problem to solve, with the bench behind them. The trade-off is honest: a freelancer can be cheaper per hour; nobody refunds you for the sprint that quietly went nowhere.

They are on our delivery bench, not sourced for the occasion: our confidentiality and IP agreements cover them and flow through to yours. You set direction and work with them day to day; the engagement terms, including who holds the contract and the notice period, are stated in the proposal. Everything they build for you is work-for-hire, assigned to you in writing. And because they stay inside our delivery organisation, they keep peer review and technical escalation behind them: hiring one person needn't mean losing the second opinion.

Brief us, and you'll have a written response, roles, rates, availability, inside 48 hours, with a shortlist typically following within days; that's the standard we run on rather than a contractual stopwatch. The commitment we do put in writing is the one we make on every engagement: first deliverable inside 14 days of the NDA. Because shortlists come from our existing bench rather than a cold search, the usual months of sourcing simply aren't part of the timeline.

Yes, across the range this site describes, because it's the same bench that delivers it: LLM integration and prompt engineering, retrieval/RAG pipelines, evaluation and guardrails, MLOps and deployment, data engineering, and the full-stack work, APIs, integrations, front ends, that turns a model into a product. We're deliberately model-agnostic and cloud-agnostic; people join your stack rather than importing ours. If you need something we can't staff well, we'll tell you at the brief rather than learning on your invoice.

Tell us, ideally in the weekly cadence where mismatches surface early. We replace the profile from the bench, with a real handover funded by the pod's documentation habits. No renegotiation, no starting the relationship from zero: the engagement is with the team, and the team is the continuity. What we deliberately don't promise is instant, frictionless swaps of infinitely available specialists. That's a brochure claim, not an operational one. What we do promise is that a wrong fit is our problem to fix, and that the first sprint is judged on shipped work, so most mismatches surface early. The proposal names the backup on the bench and states whether their cover is included in the rate.

Tell us who your
team is missing.

Brief the role in a short call. Written response with roles, rates and availability in 48 hours; the first sprint proves the fit on real work before you commit to anything longer.

48-hour response · IP assigned to you · NDA standard

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