Rent an engineer for $399/mo. Satisfied or refunded.

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Symbai is an AI startup building the agent stack that lets one senior engineer ship like a team. You rent that engineer for one flat monthly price, write what you need in plain words, and get it back done. No hiring, no meetings.

The Symbai Exchange dashboard on a laptop, a hand on the keyboard

Everything you need, included:

  • Flat $399/month, no surprises
  • A senior engineer in your inbox
  • Message us any time, day or night
  • Satisfied or refunded
  • Cancel anytime
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Rent an engineer, live today

An engineer on our AI stack, for rent

An engineer at work on a brief
A senior engineer at the keyboard

Skip hiring. Rent the engineer instead

No job ads, no interviews, no waiting. Rent one senior engineer backed by Symbai's AI agents, for one flat price, working on your stuff this week.

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Everything, in one thread

Every request, update, and progress note lives in one conversation. Nothing gets lost, nothing needs a meeting.

No limits on what you ask

Bug fixes, new features, updates, big cleanups. Anything you'd hand an engineer. No counting tasks.

Work is performed by senior engineers using AI tooling. Scope, pace, and outcomes vary per engagement. Cancel anytime.

AI agents working a queue in parallel

What's in an agent:

  • Custom-built for your workflow
  • Hosted, monitored, improved by us
  • Flat monthly per agent
  • Human review on everything it ships
  • First agents already in production
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Agents, custom AI employees

AI employees for the work that never stops

An engineer pairing with a teammate
A senior engineer, at work

We build it. We run it. It just works.

Customer support, daily chores, internal tools. Describe the job and you get a working agent, not a framework. Symbai builds it, hosts it, and tunes it every week, with a human reviewing everything it does. Flat monthly per agent. The first ones are already live.

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An engineer's desk, late

What Flash gives you:

  • 1-hour response, business hours
  • 4-hour response, off hours
  • Add-on to Sidekick, drop any month
  • Silent when quiet, no noise
  • Pay only for months you need it
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Flash, 1-hour response add-on

An engineer in your chat in under an hour

An engineer picking up a Slack ping
Debugging a broken release

For the weeks a breakdown can't wait.

Not a 24/7 pager. Not a junior on-call. A senior engineer in your Slack channel inside an hour, for the three things that need it this week — launch days, things breaking, urgent moves. Enable Flash the month you need it, drop it the month you don't.

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Scoped work, shipped

The Bounty contract:

  • Flat fee per deliverable
  • Scope, fee, deadline agreed up front
  • 50% refund if spec isn't met
  • No retainer, no subscription
  • Paid on acceptance, not on start
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Bounty, one-shot engineering

Pay when it's done, not a minute before

Scoping a bounty
Shipped and accepted

For the one thing that's been stuck for a month.

You know the shape of the work, the deadline, and the ceiling you'd pay. We agree on all three, do the work, and get out — no retainer, no ongoing overhead. If the work doesn't match what we agreed, half comes back.

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AI-native from day one

An AI engineering stack,
built around your list

An engineer pairing on an architecture sketch

Engineering guidance and architecture review

Your engineer, backed by a second A-player review, answers questions about your tools, your setup, and day-to-day choices—so you have the guidance you need to build safely and grow.

We're building the AI layer for engineering work,
and renting it out one engineer at a time.

What you actually get

No reviews yet. On purpose.

We'd rather show you the offer than invent a crowd: a senior engineer in your inbox this week, a flat price, and a refund if you're not satisfied. The first public case studies go here as clients allow it — until then, judge us by the terms we put in writing.

  • The guarantee

    “Your first task done inside a week, or the month is free.”

  • Refunds

    “Satisfied or refunded. Not satisfied-or-we-schedule-a-call. Refunded.”

  • No lock-in

    “Cancel in two clicks. No notice period, no exit interview.”

  • Flat price

    “One flat price. The meter never runs.”

  • No meetings

    “No standups, no syncs, no “quick calls.” Ever.”

  • One engineer

    “A senior engineer reads every task. The same one tomorrow.”

  • The guarantee

    “Your first task done inside a week, or the month is free.”

  • Refunds

    “Satisfied or refunded. Not satisfied-or-we-schedule-a-call. Refunded.”

  • No lock-in

    “Cancel in two clicks. No notice period, no exit interview.”

  • Flat price

    “One flat price. The meter never runs.”

  • No meetings

    “No standups, no syncs, no “quick calls.” Ever.”

  • One engineer

    “A senior engineer reads every task. The same one tomorrow.”

  • Any scope

    “Bug fixes, new features, updates. If an engineer can do it, send it.”

  • The math

    “Recruiter fee for one senior hire: ~$20,000. That's 50 months of Symbai.”

  • AI speed †

    “Engineers work up to 55% faster with AI.†”

  • The benchmark ††

    “A US senior engineer costs ≈ $11,500/mo all-in.†† This is $399.”

  • Time-to-start †††

    “Time-to-hire: 6–8 weeks.††† Time-to-start: this week.”

  • Capacity

    “We cap active clients. When we're full, the button says Waitlist.”

  • Any scope

    “Bug fixes, new features, updates. If an engineer can do it, send it.”

  • The math

    “Recruiter fee for one senior hire: ~$20,000. That's 50 months of Symbai.”

  • AI speed †

    “Engineers work up to 55% faster with AI.†”

  • The benchmark ††

    “A US senior engineer costs ≈ $11,500/mo all-in.†† This is $399.”

  • Time-to-start †††

    “Time-to-hire: 6–8 weeks.††† Time-to-start: this week.”

  • Capacity

    “We cap active clients. When we're full, the button says Waitlist.”

† Peng et al. 2023, controlled study of AI-assisted development · †† all-in US benchmark: salary + benefits + recruiting · ††† industry recruiting averages