Three ways to build with Squidgy

Pick a door.

Work IN the team. Build ON the platform. Or build a vertical brand WITH us. Three different shapes of relationship — three different prizes.

What we believe about building
  • We don't have a roadmap. We have a queue. The queue moves daily.
  • We use our own product to build our own product. If we wouldn't ship the agent, we don't ship the company.
  • Pay is competitive. Equity is real. Hierarchy is flat enough to fall off.
  • We don't measure hours. We measure shipped things and customer outcomes.
  • Strong opinions, written down, debated in PRs.
Door 1 — Build IN

Work for Squidgy.

Open roles below. Apply with proof of work — a repo, an essay, a launch, a real thing you shipped. CVs accepted, links preferred.

Partnerships lead

Hunt and close white-label deals, agency partners, and vertical exclusives. The pipeline already exists — you ship the contracts.

GTM / launch operator

Own activation, onboarding, and the path from waitlist → first agent shipped. Hands-on, founder-adjacent, no playbooks copied.

Growth hacker

Find non-obvious channels. Build the funnel, the loops, the experiments. SEO, AEO, embed, programmatic — wherever the leverage is.

Founding engineer

Ship the platform. Next.js, agent runtime, multi-tenant architecture, integrations. Senior judgement, junior workload.

AI agent platform engineer

Build the substrate other agents are built on. Workflow engine, MCP servers, evals, memory. If you've built agentic systems in production, talk to us.

Founding designer

Brand + product + marketing site, all of it. Squidgy already looks like Squidgy — your job is to keep it that way as we scale.

Open application

We don't have a role for you yet — propose one. If you can show the leverage, we'll find the budget.

Anti-pitch

We're not for everyone. Don't apply if:

  • You want a team of 200 and an HR business partner
  • You measure your output in hours logged
  • You want a thoroughly defined remit before you start moving
  • You think 'AI agents' is a bubble that's about to pop
  • You've never shipped a thing end-to-end without being told to

If most of those describe you, the team here will frustrate you and you'll frustrate the team. That's not a slight — it's a fit problem.

Apply — Build IN

Work for Squidgy.

We read every application. Reply within 5 working days.

Door 2 — Build ON

Don’t work for us. Make money on us.

The Squidgy Builder program. Build agents for clients in your niche on our platform. We send leads. You keep most of the revenue. Optional exclusivity by vertical.

You bring the niche

Coaches, real estate, legal admin, voice AI, fitness, ecommerce ops — pick your specialism. We don't compete with you in it.

We bring the platform

Agent runtime, marketplace storefront, billing, customer support tooling, white-label infra. You don't build the plumbing.

We split the revenue

You keep the majority on every dollar your agent earns. Volume tiers and agency wholesale rates available.

Who this is for
  • Solo agent builders who already build for clients
  • AI consultancies + agencies looking for a platform to build on
  • Domain experts who want their first agent and a route to revenue
  • Studios shipping prototypes that need a billing + hosting layer

The bar is something working. Send us a live agent, a demo video, a deployed project — anything we can poke at. Decks alone won’t cut it.

Apply — Build ON

Become a Squidgy Builder.

We read every application. Reply within 5 working days.

Door 3 — Build A

Build your own vertical brand on Squidgy.

Fanatiq (sports & hospitality), YEAA (real estate), Handled (marketing agencies) — each is a fully branded vertical platform on Squidgy infrastructure, owned by the operator who built it. Your turn could be next.

FAQ

Common questions.

Are you hiring right now?+

Yes — partnerships, GTM, growth, eng, design. Plus an open-application slot for people who can show leverage we hadn't thought of. Apply via the form below; we read every one and reply within 5 working days.

Where are you based?+

Distributed. The team works from London, San Francisco, the Bay, and elsewhere. We don't require relocation. We do require timezone overlap with the working day in either UK or US Pacific — pick one.

Can I work for Squidgy as a contractor?+

There are two contractor paths. (1) Pure contract eng / design / GTM if there's a project that fits — apply through the same form. (2) Squidgy Builder — you build agents on our platform for clients in your niche, we send leads via marketplace, you keep most of the revenue. That's the 'Build ON' door.

What's the deal with white-label vertical brands?+

Squidgy already powers Fanatiq (sports & hospitality), YEAA (real estate), and Handled (marketing agencies) as fully branded vertical platforms. Same Squidgy underneath, different brand on top. If you're a niche operator with reach, we partner on a new vertical brand — equity, ownership, and operational support. See /ventures for the structure.

How do you choose people?+

Proof of work over CVs. Show us a thing you built, an essay you wrote, a repo you maintain, a launch you ran. We'd rather see one shipped thing than ten roles you held. Bias to specifics; bias to people who already operate without permission.

What's the pay band?+

We publish bands once roles are firmed. Headline: competitive cash plus material equity. Squidgy is venture-backed, post-seed, building toward a real outcome — not a vibes startup.

I don't see myself in any of these doors.+

Use the open-application slot. If you can articulate the leverage you'd unlock, we'll talk. The worst case is we say not now. The best case we don't have a name for yet.

Still here? Pick a door.