The AI talent network

The best AI builders.
Hand-picked for you.

Maya is an AI headhunter with an exclusive pool of vetted AI engineers, ML specialists, AI product designers, and AI-native builders. Brief her once — she finds, screens, and negotiates with the right ones, and delivers four introductions to your inbox in under two hours.

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Sourced from where real AI builders live
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Dribbble
GitHub
Wellfound
Naukri
Twitter / X
Product Hunt
Medium
+ more
Not another marketplace

An exclusive network of AI builders —
vetted by work, not by resume.

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Shipped, not claimed

Every builder in Maya's pool has a public trail of AI work shipped in production — GitHub commits, live products, case studies. Not a résumé bullet point.

02

AI-native by default

RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, fine-tuning, evals, MLOps, AI UX. Not "learned ChatGPT last month" — these are people who build AI for a living.

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Acceptance rate

We review GitHub contributions, shipped products, and portfolios before anyone enters Maya's pool. Under 12% of applicants make it in.

The story of one hire

Hiring an AI builder,
in four acts.

From a one-line brief to four finished introductions with vetted AI specialists — in under two hours.

MAYA · NEW PROJECT · LIVE
00:00:08
ACT I

A brief becomes an AI shortlist.

I'm looking for a Software Developer for my SaaS startup who can build an AI chatbot within a budget of ₹80K starting next week with a timeline of 2 months.
M
Maya is hand-picking from
LinkedIn
Behance · 12 found
Dribbble · 8 found
GitHub · 18 found
Wellfound
Twitter / X
Product Hunt
Medium
4 of 38 AI builders matched from Maya's exclusive pool
NA
Nihal Ahmad inGITHUB · 142 ⭐
AI Developer · 4 yrs · Shipped 3 production LLM chatbots
Shortlisted
AY
Akash Yadav inBEHANCE
AI Engineer · 3 yrs · Shipped agentic workflows with OpenAI + LangGraph
Shortlisted
SM
Sachin Manjarekar inDRIBBBLE
AI Product Engineer · 4 yrs · Ships end-to-end AI products, design to deploy
Shortlisted
SD
Siddharth D. WELLFOUND
RAG Engineer · 2 yrs · pgvector, Pinecone, and production retrieval systems
Shortlisted
ACT II

Maya reaches out, personally.

4 conversations running in parallel
NA
Nihal Ahmad REPLIED
"yeah sure, can you share more details"
AY
Akash Yadav REPLIED
"interested — what's the stack?"
SM
Sachin Manjarekar REPLIED
"free next week, tell me more"
SD
Siddharth D. AWAITING
Reached out · 2 min ago
Maya writes each message personalised to the freelancer's actual work and your project context. No templates. No spray-and-pray.
ACT III

Maya negotiates — never revealing your budget.

Negotiation summary
NIHAL'S QUOTE
₹85K₹75K
₹10,000 saved
Maya closed ₹5K under your budget of ₹80K — without ever sharing your number. She anchored on value, not price.
ACROSS ALL 4 CONVERSATIONS
₹37,000
Total negotiated off the table — before a single introduction was sent.
ACT IV

Four finished intros. Straight to your inbox.

INBOX · SAM@STUDIO.CO · 4 NEW FROM MAYA
Four vetted AI builders.
In under two hours.
TOTAL ELAPSED · 1H 47M · ₹37K UNDER BUDGET
Beyond hiring

Maya doesn't leave
after the intro. She ships the AI build with you.

Once you pick a builder, Maya becomes your technical AI project manager — tracking scope, QA-ing every milestone, and holding payments in escrow until you sign off.

01

Remembers every scope change

Maya logs every decision, every tweak, every "can you also add…" — and keeps both sides aligned on what was agreed, and what wasn't.

02

Milestone QA on every deliverable

Every AI deliverable — from prompt quality to model performance to retrieval accuracy — passes Maya's QA layer before it reaches you.

03

Iterations stay within scope

"Can you also fine-tune it on my data?" — Maya tells you when that's a bug fix and when it's extra scope that deserves more budget. She knows the difference.

04

Escrow-backed payments

Your payment sits safely with Maya. She releases it to the freelancer milestone by milestone — only after you've approved the work.

Every project, protected by escrow.

When you start a project, you deposit the fee into Maya's escrow. The freelancer knows the money is real. You know it stays safe until the work is delivered.

Maya releases each milestone only after your approval — so neither side ever holds the other hostage.

PROJECT ESCROW
₹75,000
● SECURED
✓
Milestone 1 · Discovery
₹18,750RELEASED
✓
Milestone 2 · Core build
₹26,250RELEASED
○
Milestone 3 · QA + handoff
₹30,000IN ESCROW
Pricing

One fee. One time.
When you win.

No subscriptions. No credit packs. No retainers. Maya's AI pool is free to search, free to screen, free to negotiate with — pay only when a project closes successfully.

ESCROW-SECURED PLATFORM FEE

Pay only when a project closes.

just 3.5%
of the project value, charged once — after the work is delivered, approved, and escrow releases the final milestone.
Unlimited briefs, searches & intros
Unlimited outreach across 20+ platforms
Full AI project management included
Milestone-based escrow on every project
QA & scope review on every deliverable
No subscription. No hidden charges.
Start your first project →
Free to try — Maya earns only when you hire.
Choose your side

Built for both sides
of the table.

Whether you're hiring or being hired — Maya works for you.

For Clients & Startups

Hire the right
AI builder, faster.

Skip the LinkedIn DMs and résumé roulette. Tell Maya once, and receive four introductions to vetted AI specialists — pre-screened, pre-negotiated, in your inbox within two hours.

  • Exclusive pool of AI engineers, ML specialists, and AI-native builders
  • Every builder vetted on shipped work — not on résumé claims
  • Maya runs the AI project end-to-end with escrow-secured payments
  • Pay only when the project closes successfully
Brief Maya now →
For AI Builders

Get found.
Skip the pitch.

Maya's network is invite-only — built for AI engineers, ML specialists, and AI-native builders who'd rather ship than pitch. Skip the proposals. Let well-funded projects come to your WhatsApp.

  • Invite-only network of AI builders — apply with your GitHub
  • Projects come to you — no proposals to write
  • Every brief is pre-qualified: clear scope, real budget, real client
  • Reply 1 if interested, 2 if not. Free forever.
Apply with your GitHub →
Questions

Everything
you'd ask.

The honest answers. If you don't see yours here, drop us a line at hello@heymaya.pro.

How is Maya different from Upwork or Fiverr?
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Marketplaces require you to post a brief, wait for applications, and sift through proposals. Maya flips that — she actively searches talent across 20+ platforms on your behalf, reaches out, screens, negotiates, and delivers finished introductions. Then she runs the project itself with escrow-backed payments. You never post, sift, or chase.
How much does Maya cost?
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A flat 3.5% of the project value, charged once — only after the project closes successfully. No subscriptions, no retainers, no credits. Unlimited use until then. Maya earns only when you win.
How long until I get my first introduction?
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Most briefs receive their first qualified introduction within two hours. A complete shortlist of four hand-picked, pre-negotiated introductions usually lands within the same day.
What if the freelancer doesn't deliver?
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Every payment sits in Maya's escrow — released only after you approve each milestone. If a freelancer fails to deliver, no funds are released, Maya flags it immediately, and helps you find a replacement at zero additional platform fee.
Can I approve freelancers before Maya reaches out?
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Yes. You can review Maya's shortlist before any outreach happens, approve specific profiles, or ask Maya to reach out to someone particular. You stay in the director's chair — Maya executes.
What kind of AI builders are in Maya's pool?
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AI/ML engineers, LLM application builders, RAG & retrieval specialists, AI product designers, prompt & evals engineers, MLOps, AI automation specialists, and AI-native full-stack developers. Every builder has shipped AI work in production — not just taken a course.
How does a builder get into Maya's pool?
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Every applicant is vetted on shipped work — GitHub contributions, live products, case studies, open-source contributions. Under 12% of applicants make it in. That's how we keep the bar high — so when Maya sends you four intros, they're the four best-matched AI builders in the world, not the four fastest to reply.
Ready when you are

Brief Maya once.
Meet the right AI builder
in two hours.

No dashboards. No demos to sit through. No credit cards up front. Just tell Maya what you need — she'll take it from there.

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