This call will change
what you think is possible for your product.
Tell us what you're building and we'll match you with an AI-native product engineer who's already solved a version of the problem you're facing and back it with a guarantee that only pays out when your product does.
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So What Happens On The Call?
Most founder conversations with talent partners feel like being sold to. Ours don't. Here's exactly what happens from the moment you book to the moment your engineer is working on your product:
We learn about your product, your specific engineering challenge, what good looks like for your specific engineering challenge, your users, your architecture, your biggest bottleneck, and the gap between where your product is and where it needs to be. By the end of this conversation you'll already have more clarity on your engineering needs than you did before we spoke.
Within 48 hours of our call, we translate everything you told us into a precise IKE profile — the specific competency combination, experience background, product context, and technical depth that your product moment demandWithin 48 hours of our call, we translate everything you told us into a precise IKE profile — the specific competency combination, experience background, product context, and technical depth that your product moment demands, and we’ll share this with you before we go looking, so you know exactly what we're sourcing for.s, and we’ll share this with you before we go looking, so you know exactly what we're sourcing for.
When your engineer is placed, the work doesn't stop. Klysera manages their performance against the KPIs we agree with — monitoring delivery, tracking benchmarks, and stepping in when anything drifts.
If your engineer doesn't hit the goals we agreed, you pay nothing.
Before your engineer starts, we define success together — retention targets, delivery milestones, performance benchmarks. If they hit them, you pay. If they don't, you don't. It's that simple. And it's the reason every founder who works with Klysera books a second call.
The engineers speak for themselves. So do the products they built.
"Honestly I wasn't sure what to expect. We'd tried two agencies before and both times the engineer was technically fine but never really felt like part of the team. The IKE we got from Klysera was different from week one. She was asking questions I hadn't even thought to ask yet — about our payment flow, about where users were dropping off, about decisions we'd made eighteen months ago that were quietly slowing us down. Six weeks later the core flow was refactored and retention numbers moved in a direction I hadn't seen in two years. That's not a placement. That's a product partner."
"I'll be straight with you — I almost didn't book the call. I'd heard the same promises before and I was tired of onboarding people who needed six weeks to understand the product before they could do anything useful. Our IKE understood the product within three days. Not just the technical side — the user side. He was flagging UX problems in our dashboard that my own team had stopped seeing because we'd been staring at it too long. We shipped v2 in six weeks. Zero rework cycles. I haven't had a single sleepless night about engineering since."
We had no technical co-founder. Just two founders with a product idea and no idea how to build it properly. The IKE Klysera placed didn't just build the MVP — she made decisions I didn't know needed to be made yet. Architecture choices that would have killed us six months later if we'd gotten them wrong. She cared about the product in a way I didn't expect from someone who wasn't a co-founder. Honestly she might as well have been. We raised our seed round on a product that worked. That's her."
"What surprised me most wasn't the technical quality — I expected that. It was the product instinct. Our IKE would push back on features that didn't make sense. Not in an obstructive way — in a 'have we thought about what the user actually does here' way. That kind of thinking is rare. Most engineers build what they're told. Ours built what was right. There's a real difference and our retention data shows it."
"Two years of technical debt. Gone in ninety days. And not just cleared — properly resolved, documented, and handed back to the team in a state they could actually work with. Then he shipped the feature that unblocked our biggest enterprise client. The ROI on that single placement is probably the best investment we made that year. I used to think technical debt was just something you lived with. Turns out you just needed the right engineer to care enough to fix it."
"The thing that got me was the transparency before we even started. Klysera sent us a full breakdown of our engineer's IKE scores — every competency, where he was strongest, where the gaps were, how they'd addressed them. I've never seen that from a talent partner. Ever. It meant that by the time he started I already trusted him. That trust compounded quickly. He's still with us fourteen months later and he's become one of the most important people on the team."
"Our cloud bill had tripled in 18 months and nobody could tell me why. The Klysera engineer we brought in audited everything, cut $38K in monthly spend, and rebuilt our deployment pipeline in six weeks. We went from shipping fortnightly to shipping daily. That's not an infrastructure win — that's a product win."
"We had 14 infrastructure vulnerabilities flagged two weeks before our biggest enterprise sales call. Klysera's cloud engineer closed every one and had our compliance documentation ready before the meeting. We closed the client. That engineer paid for themselves in one deal."
"We had no infrastructure, no DevOps, nothing. Just a product that needed to exist. Klysera built the entire cloud foundation from scratch — architecture, CI/CD, security baseline — and stayed with us through the seed round. Investors were asking about our technical foundation. For the first time, we had a real answer."
"We were burning through compute budget and our unit economics didn't make sense. The inference infrastructure Klysera built reduced our per-request cost by 64%. That number is what got us to Series A. I'm not exaggerating."
"Honestly I wasn't sure what to expect. We'd tried two agencies before and both times the engineer was technically fine but never really felt like part of the team. The IKE we got from Klysera was different from week one. She was asking questions I hadn't even thought to ask yet — about our payment flow, about where users were dropping off, about decisions we'd made eighteen months ago that were quietly slowing us down. Six weeks later the core flow was refactored and retention numbers moved in a direction I hadn't seen in two years. That's not a placement. That's a product partner."
"I'll be straight with you — I almost didn't book the call. I'd heard the same promises before and I was tired of onboarding people who needed six weeks to understand the product before they could do anything useful. Our IKE understood the product within three days. Not just the technical side — the user side. He was flagging UX problems in our dashboard that my own team had stopped seeing because we'd been staring at it too long. We shipped v2 in six weeks. Zero rework cycles. I haven't had a single sleepless night about engineering since."
We had no technical co-founder. Just two founders with a product idea and no idea how to build it properly. The IKE Klysera placed didn't just build the MVP — she made decisions I didn't know needed to be made yet. Architecture choices that would have killed us six months later if we'd gotten them wrong. She cared about the product in a way I didn't expect from someone who wasn't a co-founder. Honestly she might as well have been. We raised our seed round on a product that worked. That's her."
The numbers behind every placement.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Klysera cost?
There's no fixed price list because every engagement is different. Our billing is tied to the impact benchmarks we agree on together before the engagement begins so what you pay is directly connected to the value your engineer delivers. Most clients save up to 60% compared to local hiring, and if your engineer doesn't hit the benchmarks, you pay nothing. Book a call and we'll walk you through exactly how it works for your situation.
How is Klysera different from other staffing or talent platforms?
We're not a marketplace. We don't hand you a stack of resumes and wish you luck. We place a specific type of engineer, vetted against five competencies that predict real-world impact and we stay accountable for their performance after they join your team.
What does "you don't pay until they deliver" actually mean?
Before every engagement, we agree on clear impact benchmarks together. If your engineer doesn't meet them, you don't owe us. No fine print, because our business model only works when yours does.
What kind of companies do you work with?
Founders and engineering leaders at startups and scale-ups building in fast-moving, AI-driven markets. If you're under pressure to ship differentiated products with a lean team, we're built for you.
How fast can I get an engineer?
From first call to first commit — in days, not months. We've already done the hard work of sourcing and vetting. Your job is to tell us what you're building.
What if the engineer isn't the right fit?
We monitor performance against the benchmarks we set together. If something drifts, we step in — before you have to. If a replacement is needed, we handle it.
What does AI-native actually mean at Klysera?
It means AI is embedded in how they think, build, and make decisions — not bolted on as an afterthought. They use AI to build better products, make sharper trade-offs, and maintain production-grade quality at every stage.
Can I see the full IKE framework before we talk?
Absolutely. → Read the full IKE framework
