Unbench's answer

Our primary audience includes growing companies, scaleups, and SMEs that need to hire tech talent quickly and cost-effectively.

Hiring Managers & HR Teams looking for pre-vetted candidates without spending weeks on sourcing and negotiations.
Tech Companies & Startups scaling their teams with full-time employees, contractors, or subcontractors. Founders & Business Leaders who need a fast, flexible hiring solution without long-term commitments or high agency fees.

Unbench is built for companies that want top talent, fast—without the hassle and high costs of traditional recruiting.

Better Stack's answer:

Engineering teams of all sizes – from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Unbench's answer

One Request, Multiple Agencies – Instead of working with one recruiting agency at a time, Unbench connects you with 20+ vetted agencies at once, delivering pre-screened candidates faster and more efficiently.

Fixed-Fee Hiring – Unlike traditional agencies that charge a percentage of salary, Unbench offers a clear, fixed-fee model, helping companies save up to 40% on hiring costs without hidden fees or unexpected expenses.

Full-Time & Subcontracting in One Place – Whether you need permanent employees or short-term specialists, Unbench helps you hire for direct roles, contract positions, or subcontracting solutions—all in one platform.

Faster Time-to-Hire – By leveraging our network of agencies and pre-vetted talent pools, Unbench significantly reduces time-to-hire, ensuring businesses get top candidates in days, not weeks.

Better Stack's answer:

Better Stack is a modern observability tool that leverages eBPF and OpenTelemetry to make tracing work for you.

Unbench's answer

Unbench was born out of a real hiring problem—companies needed skilled tech talent fast, but traditional hiring processes were slow, expensive, and inefficient.

Many businesses struggled to find the right recruiting agencies, negotiate fair terms, and get quality candidates without long hiring cycles. At the same time, many top-tier specialists sat on the bench in outsourcing companies, waiting for their next project.

Better Stack's answer:

We are software builders at Better Stack.

CEO is a software engineer, COO is a software engineer and you guessed it; CTO is an engineer, too.

We’re helping developers ship higher quality software faster.

Unbench's answer

Unbench offers a faster, more cost-effective way to hire by connecting you with 20+ vetted recruiting agencies through a single request. Unlike traditional agencies, we provide pre-screened candidates at a fixed fee, saving you up to 40% on hiring costs with no hidden fees or long-term commitments. Whether you need full-time hires or subcontractors, Unbench delivers top talent in days, not weeks.

Better Stack's answer:

You get an unrivaled price-to-performance ratio. Forget sampling and ingest all your data, or decrease your costs by 30x.

Better Stack's answer:

The primary technologies used to build Better Stack are eBPF for low-level, high-performance instrumentation and ClickHouse for storing and querying large volumes of observability data efficiently.