No free work.
Not as a test, not as a trial, not as a favor. If the output has value, it has a price.
The talent is the asset.Everything else is overhead.
A private network for the people who design, build, and ship the work. No free work. No spec work. Payment starts before the work starts.
Membership is open. Buy it at signup, with no application and no queue.
How it works
Brief in, slate out, client picks, money moves first
A company brings a scoped, budgeted brief. Pixel Syndicate hand selects three to five people from the roster who fit and presents them as a slate. The client chooses. Money moves before any work begins.
What we refuse
The terms are not negotiable
No spec work.
We do not compete by giving away the thing we sell. A pitch is paid or it does not happen.
No unpaid exercises.
If you need to see how we work, hire us for a day, and we will invoice you for the day.
Payment first.
A retainer or a deposit moves first, and the work follows the money.
Why we exist
A movement, not a club
Members pay dues, and the dues buy independence. Because members fund the network, the network answers to members. It does not answer to advertisers, and it does not answer to employers.
For companies
Bring a brief. Get a slate. Ship.
You want senior people who have shipped, without the pile of anonymous applicants and the exercise nobody wanted to assign. Send a scoped brief with a budget. You receive a short slate from the roster who fit. Work is paid, scope is written, money moves first.
This is not a complaint. It is a price list.
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