Working here

Small team. Remote. Real work.

Else is an AI you hand real work to. It takes a task from a sentence to a finished result, shows what it did, and accounts for what it cost. We are a small, fully remote team building it.

Small and remote are not perks we advertise — they are constraints. There is no layer between you and the thing shipping. Whatever you build goes in front of people who paid money for a result, and it either holds up or it doesn't.

If that sounds like the job you want rather than the job you tolerate, keep reading.

What we look for

Six things, and they're not negotiable.

01You finish thingsThe whole product is a promise to carry work through. Someone who ships 90% of ten things is worth less here than someone who lands three.
02You check before you claimWe publish numbers about our own product. That only works if the people producing them would rather report a bad result than a flattering guess.
03You write clearlyRemote and small means writing is the main interface — to each other and to customers. Clear writing here is a technical discipline, not a soft one.
04You take the boring halfTrustworthy software is mostly error paths, empty states, refunds and edge cases. If that reads as beneath you, this will be a bad fit.
05You work without a queueNobody hands out tickets. You are expected to find the most useful thing, argue for it briefly, and then go do it.
06You respect other people's moneyCustomers spend real money through us, itemized to the cent. Anyone building on that has to care about it more than the customer does.
How we work

The parts people ask about.

Where is the team?
Distributed. We work asynchronously by default, in writing, and we don't pretend a shared timezone is coming. If a conversation needs a call, we have the call and then write down what we decided.
What does the work actually look like?
Product, engineering, design, and support are not separate countries. You will read the transcript of a task that went wrong, form a view about why, and fix it — whichever of those four boxes the fix lands in.
How do you decide what to build?
Whether the work gets done and whether people trust the result. Features that don't move either one lose the argument, however clever they are.
What's the hiring process?
A written exchange, a conversation, and a small piece of paid work that resembles the actual job. We will tell you where you stand at each step, including when the answer is no.

Open roles

We don't keep a job board. Roles here get written around the person, and posting a list we're not actively hiring against would waste your time. So the honest version is: tell us what you'd want to own, and we'll tell you straight whether there's room for it right now. If there isn't, we'll say so rather than keep you warm.

Get in touch

One email. No form.

Write to us with what you'd want to do here and something you've actually made. A short note about the work beats a long note about yourself.

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We read every one. We answer the ones we can act on, either way.

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