Do you want to
become a pirate?
We're not hiring employees. We're recruiting a crew to take a category nobody has bothered to fight for — the ten minutes between an office needing something and an office having it.
"It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy."
Steve Jobs, 1983Four things that are actually true here.
Every company says it moves fast. Here's what the word means when your entire product promise is measured in minutes.
You will own a zone, not a ticket
Nobody here is handed a narrow slice of someone else's plan. You get a zone, a problem, or a number — and the authority to change how it works. If you need permission to fix something obvious, we've built the org wrong.
Shipping beats meeting about shipping
Our delivery promise is ten minutes. A company that takes three weeks to approve a decision cannot credibly sell that. We keep the loop between "this is broken" and "this is fixed" as short as the loop we sell to customers.
The warehouse floor is not beneath you
Engineers ride routes. Designers pick orders. Whoever writes the inventory logic has stood in a zone at 3pm when the chargers ran out. If you think operations is somebody else's department, this will be a miserable place to work.
We'd rather be wrong loudly than vague safely
Say the number. Make the call. Put your name on it. If it's wrong, we find out in days instead of quarters — and the person who was wrong is the one who gets to fix it, not the one who gets buried for it.
This is a bad job for a lot of very good people.
We would rather lose you now than in month four. Genuinely — if any of these describe what you want from work right now, that's a completely reasonable thing to want. It just isn't what this is.
- ✕You want a clearly defined role. Yours will change three times before it settles, and possibly after that.
- ✕You want to work on the interesting layer only. Some weeks the highest-value thing you can do is count stock or answer an angry admin's call.
- ✕You need the company to already be proven. We are pre-launch. The thesis may be wrong. You'd be joining to find out, not to be told.
- ✕You want to be the smartest person in the room. We hire people who argue with us, and we expect to lose some of those arguments.
- ✕You're optimising for title. Titles here are mostly a convenience for people outside the company.
Who we're looking for right now.
Pirate names are for fun. The real title is underneath, because you'll need it for your CV, your visa, and your parents.
Run the first zone end to end — stock, pickers, riders, and the ten-minute clock. You'll decide what we hold, how we hold it, and what breaks when volume triples.
Own the ordering stack, the admin dashboard, and the routing logic. Small team, no specialisation, and your code goes live the day you write it.
Win offices one building at a time. This is founder-adjacent selling — you'll be in the lobby, in the lift, and on the phone with the office manager who decides.
Design for two very different people: an admin who lives in spreadsheets and an employee who wants one tap. Both are on the same account.
None of the above, but you've read this far and you're still interested. Tell us what you'd do here and why. We read every one of these.
Three conversations. No riddles.
We don't do brainteasers, culture-fit ambushes, or six rounds that end in silence. You'll know where you stand after each step.
A real conversation
Thirty minutes. What you've built, what you want, what we're actually doing. You get to interrogate us just as hard.
A day of the actual job
Paid, and scoped to a real problem we currently have. Ride a route, ship a feature, or take apart our zone model and tell us what's wrong with it.
The offer, or a real reason
Within a week. If it's a no, you get specifics — not "we've decided to move forward with other candidates."
Still here? Then you're probably one of us.
Send whatever represents you best — a CV, a repo, a spreadsheet you're proud of, or three paragraphs on why our zone model is wrong. No cover letter template, please.