Stackologists · vet both sides
Vet the client the way you vet the developer
Stackologists will not send a developer a technology list the team will never use. That sentence is the company.
Most staffing funnels treat the client as the buyer and the developer as the inventory. The job post is taken as true. The interview is a performance. The placement is a filled week. Six weeks later the “Kubernetes plus GraphQL plus three clouds” posting has produced a person who is writing stored procedures.
We turned the funnel around. Before we review a person, we ask which technologies will ship in the next increment. If the posting and the increment disagree, the posting loses. That conversation is short. It is meant to stop a long engagement against the wrong stack list.
The match is for both of you
We still review the developer. That part is ordinary, even if the review is stricter than a résumé screen. The part most firms skip is showing you the fit and being willing to let it be weak. A weak match is information. Talking past it is how duds get made.
No match is a finished outcome
If we cannot pair you, we stop. That is not a failed sale. It is the product working. The alternative is a relationship nobody should have been in, billed by the week until someone gets tired.
What this costs you
Time, up front, on a conversation about the real stack. What it avoids is a long engagement managing a person hired against fiction.
Notes after start are how we keep that honesty once invoices begin. If the work drifts off the stack we matched, we write that down instead of pretending the original match still holds.