Scope
We agree the role, the salary, and written terms before any work starts. If we think the role is too niche or the pay too far below market to source honestly, we say so before taking your money.
Concierge Service
Three developers
worth interviewing.
Skip the resume pile. Forcepull's founder, a developer with 20 years at companies like Priceline and Getaroom, personally sources and screens developers for your role, then introduces up to three he would interview himself. Every search is his, start to finish. No recruiters, no handoffs.
How it works
Sourcing, done properly
Source
We search GitHub, open-source projects, the board's own audience and the wider remote world for people doing the work you need done, not just people whose CV contains the right words.
Screen
Every candidate is screened by the founder, in a real conversation, not a keyword scan. We read the code, talk to the human, and only pass on people we would put through our own interview.
Introduce
You get up to three introductions: screened, interested, and ready to talk. The messy pipeline stays our problem. You just take the calls.
Forcepull Search
$499
/ search
Flat fee, agreed up front. An introductory price while the service is new.
- Up to three introductions, each screened personally by the founder
- Includes the $99 listing, published for you
- Sourced from GitHub, open source, and the wider remote world
- Terms agreed in writing before any work starts
- Introductions, not placements: no commission on hires
- Candidates never pay a penny
- We take on at most two searches at a time
No commission
No subscription
Candidates never pay
Search questions
Quick answers
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What exactly am I buying?
Up to three introductions to developers we believe are a strong match for your role and who have told us they are interested. Introductions, not hires: the interviews and the offer are yours to run. The $99 listing is included, so your role is live on the board while we source.
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How do you screen candidates?
The founder reads their public work, then talks to them: a real conversation, on video or in writing, whichever gets the best out of the candidate. Give us your screening questions and we will put them to each candidate, alongside our own, and you get the answers with every introduction.
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Do you run background checks?
No. We confirm who the candidate is and screen for skills and experience, nothing else. Credit checks, criminal record checks, right-to-work checks and references are not part of the service; those stay with you, exactly as they would in a direct hire.
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What happens after I get in touch?
We scope the role together, by email or a short call, and if we do not think we can source it honestly we say so there. Then we agree written terms, send a Stripe payment link, write up and publish your listing, and start the search.
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Why is it only $499?
Contingency recruiters take 15 to 25% of first-year salary, which is five figures on most of the roles we list. $499 is a deliberately low introductory price while the service is new. It will go up.
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Does my role need a published salary?
Yes, same rule as the rest of Forcepull. We cannot honestly pitch your role to a busy developer without a number, so a real salary range is a condition of every search.
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Who pays, and when?
You do, once we have agreed terms and scope in writing. Candidates never pay anything, at any point.
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How is this different from just posting a job?
A listing waits for the right person to find you. Search goes and finds them, and the listing comes included: it catches the active lookers while we chase the ones who were not looking at all.
Something else? Get in touch.