Network of AI and data engineers
Open beta · onboarding founding builders & employers•Builder Index™ (beta)

Employers bid.
Builders choose.

TalentBid is the reverse marketplace for Data & AI Engineers. Builders publish a profile of shipped work and let an AI Marketing Agent represent them 24/7. Verified employers send concrete bids — role, salary, equity, start date — and you pick the best offer.

1. Publish

A living portfolio of pipelines, agents, repos & startups.

2. Get matched

Your AI agent pitches you to relevant employers while you sleep.

3. Pick a bid

Real offers with comp attached. No cover letters. No ghosting.

Free for builders. No résumé required. Setup in 90 seconds. Employer waitlist now open.

Illustrative example
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Sample Builder
Senior AI Engineer · Agent Architect (example)
Builder Index
947
S
Series-A AI co.
Top
$380K+ 0.4%
I
Infra startup
$365K+ 0.25%
D
Dev-tools co.
$350K+ 0.6%
Employer waitlist openExample bid window
Beta
Founding cohort onboarding
AI
Native bid matching (beta)
0%
Builder fees, forever
1:1
You own your data
How TalentBid works

Two sides of the same flipped market.

Builders publish. Employers bid. Everyone skips the cover letters, recruiter calls, and ghosting.

For builders
  1. 01

    Claim your handle

    Sign up, import GitHub, and add 1–2 shipped projects. 90 seconds.

  2. 02

    Train your AI agent

    Your agent learns your skills, repos, agents, and asking range — then represents you in matches.

  3. 03

    Receive real bids

    Verified employers send concrete offers with role, salary, equity, and start date. You decide.

Create your builder profile
For employers
  1. 01

    Discover builders

    Browse the Talent feed ranked by Builder Index™. Filter by stack, comp, and remote pref.

  2. 02

    Place a bid

    Send a concrete offer — comp, equity, role, expiry. Or post a brief and let agents come to you.

  3. 03

    Close in days, not months

    No recruiter middlemen, no résumé screens. Talk only to builders who accepted your bid.

Start hiring on TalentBid
60-second product demo
talent-bid.com

Watch how builders get real bids — no applications, no recruiters.

Beta status · transparent by default
Live today
Builder profiles
Onboarding now
Founding builder cohort
Open
Employer waitlist
Launching soon
Reverse-bidding marketplace

We'll publish live marketplace metrics here once the founding cohort starts bidding.

The Reverse Marketplace

Stop applying. Start receiving offers.

Traditional hiring is backwards. On TalentBid, you set your salary, equity, and work terms. Employers send real, competing offers — not interview requests.

The old way

  • 1
    Employer posts a vague job
  • 2
    You write the 47th cover letter this month
  • 3
    Black hole. No reply.
  • 4
    You undersell yourself to get noticed
The new standard

The TalentBid way

  • 1
    You publish what you've built
  • 2
    AI surfaces you to relevant employers
  • 3
    Employers place real bids with salary & equity
  • 4
    You pick the best offer. On your terms.
Builder Index™

A score that rewards what you've built — not where you worked.

Builder Index (beta). Our scoring methodology is in active development: it's designed to blend GitHub, shipped products, agents, startups, revenue, research, hackathons, and verified reviews into a single, transparent number. Weights and signals will evolve as we onboard the founding cohort.

Verified GitHubLive demosRevenue proofPeer reviewsAI interview
Example score
Sample Builder · Senior AI Engineer
947
Example trend
Illustrative ranking
Open source impact24%
AI agents shipped18%
Startups launched16%
Research & patents12%
Revenue & traction14%
Peer & employer reviews16%
Verified Builder
Agent Marketplace

Your AI agents are first-class portfolio assets.

Publish autonomous agents with live demos, source code, and a built-in chat playground. Employers can try them, upvote them, and hire the builder behind them.

Browse marketplace Publish your agentBe one of the first to ship

RecruiterGPT

Example agent

Sources & qualifies candidates from multiple sources.

Pricing TBDPublish yours →

PR-Reviewer

Example agent

Reviews PRs with team-specific style rules.

Pricing TBDPublish yours →

DataPilot

Example agent

Natural-language warehouse queries with citations.

Pricing TBDPublish yours →

OpsScout

Example agent

Monitors ops signals and drafts incident reports.

Pricing TBDPublish yours →
Builder Profiles

Your work is your résumé. Literally.

Every builder gets a beautiful public page at talent-bid.com/you — a living portfolio of startups, agents, repos, products, and proof of impact.

Sample builder profile
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Sample Builder

Senior AI Engineer · Agent Architect (example)
Verified Featured Agent Pro
Asking
$340K + 0.5% equity
Remote · US/EU · Open to founding role

ScoutAgent (example)

Sample

Autonomous research agent — what a shipped project card looks like on your profile.

LangGraphRAG

Your startup (example)

Sample

Show founded companies, traction, and outcomes — formatted exactly like this.

FounderTraction

Your open source (example)

Sample

Link repos with live stars, language breakdown, and contributions.

TypeScriptMIT
Global Leaderboard

Recognition for people who ship.

Climb global, country, city, and category rankings. Earn badges. Get headhunted. Public leaderboards launch as we onboard the founding cohort — preview shown below.

1
L
Lin Wei@linwei
Founder · Voice agents
994
Index
2
A
Aravind K.@aravind
Sr. AI Engineer · Agents
947
Index
3
S
Sara Holm@sara
ML Researcher · Multi-agent
921
Index
4
D
Diego Alvarez@diego
Data Eng · Streaming
908
Index
5
P
Priya Shah@priya
Cloud Architect · AWS
894
Index
Pricing

Free for builders. Priced for outcomes.

Talent will always be free. Employers and pros pay only for advanced tools that help them win.

For talent

Builder

FreeForever
  • Public builder profile
  • Builder Index™
  • Receive bids & offers
  • AI portfolio generator
  • Agent publishing (3)
Most popular
For top builders

Builder Pro

Freeduring beta
  • Free for all builders during open beta
  • Everything in Builder
  • Featured in search
  • AI salary negotiator
  • AI interview coach
  • Unlimited agents
  • Verified badge fast-track
For employers

Recruiter

$499/seat/month
Talk to sales
  • Talent discovery engine
  • Unlimited bids
  • AI interview suite
  • Team collaboration
  • ATS integrations
  • Priority support
TB
A note from the founders
TalentBid · Built for builders

Hiring is broken. Builders spend weeks on coding screens for roles they won't take. Companies sift through resumes that don't show what anyone has actually shipped.

TalentBid flips it. You show your real work — pipelines, models, agents. Verified employers send you concrete offers with salary, equity, role, and start date. You decide.

No recruiters. No ghosting. No "quick chats." Just bids.

— The TalentBid team

FAQ

Common questions

Data engineers, ML engineers, AI engineers, and founders shipping real systems. Employers must be verified before bidding.

The hiring market just flipped.

Be part of TalentBid's founding builder cohort. Set up your profile in 90 seconds — we're onboarding our first 100 builders and first 20 employers right now.