Pannicle gives you senior AI, forward-deployed and product engineers who work in your stack and join your standups — embedded in two weeks. No four-month search. No recruiter fee. Scale down whenever you want.
You know exactly what you need. The job post has been live for months. And every week it stays open, the release you promised slides another week to the right.
Sourcing, screening, four rounds, an offer, a notice period. A senior AI hire routinely takes a full quarter to close — before they write a line of code.
The engineer you want has an offer from a frontier lab with equity you can't print on a seed round. You lose the ones you like most.
At eight people, a mis-hire is a tenth of your company, a chunk of runway, and months of rework nobody planned for.
The integration a design partner signed up for is still in a Linear backlog. Momentum is the one thing an early-stage company can't buy back.
You don't need a longer search. You need senior engineering capacity you can turn on this month — and turn off when you've raised and hired.
Pick the shape of the gap. We match engineers from our bench who have shipped the exact thing before, you interview them yourself, and they embed in your repo, your Slack, your standups — as your team, not a vendor behind a ticket queue.
The people who take a demo that works on your laptop and make it survive real users, real latency and a real cloud bill.
Half solutions engineer, half backend engineer. They sit with your customer, learn their mess of a schema, and ship the integration that closes the deal.
The product around the model. Full-stack engineers, plus the DevOps and QA to keep shipping weekly without breaking things.
Every engineer we place has shipped production work in the stack you interview them on. If it isn't on this list, ask — the bench is wider than the page.
Four steps, no procurement theatre. You keep every decision — we just remove the search.
Your stack, the gap, the first thing you need shipped. We tell you honestly whether we're the right fit — sometimes we aren't.
Two or three engineers with production experience in your exact stack. Full CVs, code samples, rates. No blind resumes.
Run your own loop — technical screen, pairing session, whatever you'd do for a full-time hire. Say no as many times as you need to.
In your repo, Slack and standups, with a two-week trial window. If the fit is wrong, you don't pay for it.
A full-time hire is the right answer for your core team long term. It's the wrong answer when you need someone shipping in a fortnight.
| Full-time hire | Freelance marketplace | Pannicle pod | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first commit | 3–5 months | 1–3 weeks | 2 weeks |
| Up-front cost | Recruiter fee, 15–25% of salary | Platform margin | None — monthly, in arrears |
| If it isn't working | Months of performance management | Re-post and start over | We replace them, at our cost |
| Scaling down | Layoff | Contract ends abruptly | 30 days' notice |
| Seniority you can access | Whoever accepts your offer | Highly variable | Pre-vetted seniors only |
| Working hours overlap | Full | Whatever they choose | 4–6 hrs with US hours, guaranteed |
| Continuity & handover | Strong | Usually none | Documented, pod covers absences |
| Code & IP ownership | Yours | Check the terms | Yours, assigned in writing |
Flat monthly rate per engineer, billed in arrears. No setup fee, no recruiter fee, no minimum term beyond the first month.
One senior engineer, full-time on your product, reporting to you. The fastest way to unblock a single roadmap item.
A squad that owns a whole surface — the AI layer, the mobile app, the integrations backlog — with a lead who runs delivery so you don't have to.
A clear deliverable with a clear number — an MVP, a migration, an integration, a security-review-ready refactor.
If you've got an engineering role you can't fill and a release you can't move, a 20-minute call is the cheapest thing you'll do this week. We'll scope the gap, tell you what a pod would cost, and tell you plainly if you're better off hiring.