Our mission
Good engineers are
easy to miss.
We started ZeroIntake in 2022 because strong engineers keep getting filtered out by keyword screens and rushed interviews, while startups struggle to find them. We do the careful vetting so both sides can get straight to the work.
Our mission
Find skilled engineers that conventional hiring overlooks, vet them properly, and place them with startups without the fees and delays of a traditional agency.
Quality over quantity
We'd rather place one excellent developer than ten mediocre ones. Every placement reflects our reputation.
Human-first vetting
No automated screening. Every candidate is assessed by a human interviewer who has actually built software in production.
Transparent by default
No hidden fees, no mysterious matchmaking. We show our process, our pricing, and our reasoning.
Long-term thinking
We care about what happens after the hire. Our team stays in contact with both the client and developer post-placement.
ZeroIntake by the numbers
120+
Developers placed globally
8+
Countries served
97%
Client retention rate
2022
Operating since
Meet the team
Aqudam
CEO
Pratham G.
CTO
Ayaan
COO
Our foundation
Mistake-proof
hiring.
Our process borrows from Poka-Yoke, a Japanese manufacturing principle meaning "mistake-proofing." Instead of fixing errors after they happen, you design the process so they are hard to make. We apply that to hiring, so the checks happen before an engineer touches your codebase.
Prevention
Design the process so the common mistakes are hard to make.
Detection
Spot problems early, while they are still cheap to fix.
Resilience
Add safeguards so one failure doesn't take everything down.
The Founder's Dilemma
If your team keeps fixing the same kinds of bugs, the problem is usually who writes the code, not the stack.
Chasing the same bugs twice
Fixes don't stick, and every sprint loses time to the same issues.
Fix the cause
Engineers who ask why a bug happened, not just where, and fix it at the source.
The founder becomes the debugger
Your week goes to yesterday's production issues instead of the roadmap.
Write maintainable code
Developers who write tests, document decisions and leave code easier to change than they found it.
Preventable hotfixes steal roadmap time
Every hour spent on an avoidable outage is an hour not spent on the product.
Plan for growth
Systems sized for the traffic you expect next year, with load tests to prove it.
Reliability should be the engineer's job, not the founder's.
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