MK Serving sources AI-native engineers and operators from emerging markets, runs them through a rejection-heavy vetting bar, and places them with US founders in 14 days. One shortlist. One signed offer. No recruiter games.
We are not a recruiter, a school, or a payroll company. We are a vetting bar — and the trust on the other side of it.
We hunt the top 1% of already-skilled AI-native operators across Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Inbound is closed; every candidate is referred or sourced.
Three rounds: a paid take-home graded against a public rubric, a senior-practitioner code or work review, and a founder-bar interview. Roughly 1.2% clear all three.
We hand you a shortlist of two to three operators we'd hire ourselves. Median 14 days from intro to signed offer. Payroll runs through Deel or Remote.
Senior Python/TS engineers who ship LLM-backed product. Have shipped at least one agentic feature into production.
Operators for solo founders. Run inbox, calendar, research, and tooling at the speed of someone twice their cost.
Eval, retrieval, fine-tuning. Comfortable owning quality from prompt to production.
Run lifecycle, analytics, and internal automation. Fluent in n8n, Zapier, dbt, and a customer-facing LLM stack.
You see two or three candidates per search — each one we'd hire ourselves. No volume sourcing, no résumé spam, no recruiter commission stacked on a contractor markup.
We saw two candidates. We hired one in nine days. The other we kept warm. That has never happened to us before.
Still curious? Talk to our team — we'll tell you in the first call whether your search is one we can run well.
Founders and operators at funded US startups who need a senior, AI-native hire and can't afford the time cost of a bad one. We do not work with high-volume staffing buyers.
Recruiters get paid to introduce. We get paid only when a vetted operator clears our bar and you sign. Our funnel rejects roughly 99% of applicants — the candidate you meet is one of a small number we believe we'd hire ourselves.
A flat placement fee, paid on signing. Optional ongoing management retainer if you want us to handle performance reviews, escalations, and quarterly calibration.
We partner with Deel and Remote for the legal employer-of-record relationship. You get one invoice; the talent gets paid in USD on a clean monthly cycle.
Median time from intro call to signed offer is 14 days. We only run a search when we have a shortlist that already meets the bar.
30-day replacement window on every placement. If we don't find a second match that works, you get a full refund of the placement fee.