[ 00 ] — Project engineering · Est. 2016
You identify the problem. We source the elite project engineer who solves it.
Sandbox Labs recruits elite project engineering talent against specific business problems — not headcount. Describe what's broken, attach your documentation, and meet us face to face. We come back with the engineer, the timeline and the budget. Obligation free.
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M/01
9 days
Median time from problem to matched engineer
M/02
3.1%
Of engineers pass our project bar
M/03
$0
Cost of the first face-to-face meeting
M/04
96%
Projects delivered to agreed scope
[ 02 ] — Problems we solve
Four disciplines.
One standard.
You don't need to know which discipline your problem belongs to — that's our job. Describe the outcome you need and we source the engineer whose track record matches the problem, for the length of the project and no longer.
D/01
Platform & Cloud
Migrations, cost blowouts and fragile infrastructure. Engineers who delete infrastructure as readily as they add it.
D/02
Data & AI
Broken pipelines, unusable reporting, AI features that need to actually work in production.
D/03
Product Engineering
A product, portal or internal tool that needs building end to end — from schema to shipped interface.
D/04
Security & Reliability
Outages, audit findings and incident load. Practitioners who make the problem stop recurring.
[ 03 ] — How it works
Specific engineers,
for specific problems.
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Four stages, drawn as a vertical schematic. Your problem enters at the top and leaves as a solution built by an engineer chosen specifically for it.
You identify → We meet → We source → They build
01
Problem / Definition
You Identify
You describe the problem in your own terms and attach whatever context exists — specs, diagrams, tickets, code. No need to know what kind of engineer you need.
02
Discovery / Face to Face
We Meet
We come to you in Sydney, obligation free. We interrogate the problem, agree what a solved outcome looks like, and sketch the timeline and budget envelope.
03
Sourcing / Match
We Source
We go find the specific engineer who has solved this exact class of problem before — from our network, not job boards — and stress test them against your context.
04
Proposal / Build
They Build
You receive a written proposal: named engineer, scope, timeline, fixed budget. Accept it and they build the solution. Decline it and you owe nothing.
[ 04 ] — Identify the problem
You bring the problem.
We source the engineer.
Answer three prompts about the problem you need solved and attach any supporting documentation — specs, diagrams, exports, code. Then book your obligation-free face-to-face meeting in the section below.
Reviewed within 48h → engineer sourced → proposal, obligation free
// describe the problem you need solved, attach any supporting docs, then submit.
> describe.the_problem()
e.g. our billing pipeline can't scale past 2M events/day
Provide 3 Bullet Points
Attach supporting documents (optional)
Suggested: PDF · DOC/DOCX · TXT · MD · CSV · JSON · YAML · XML · code (.rs .go .py .ts .js .java .rb .php .swift .kt .sh) · SQL · ZIP · TAR.GZ
[ 05 ] — Book a no-obligation meeting
Face to face. Obligation free.
Once you've submitted your problem statement above, add your details and pick a time to meet. We come to you across Sydney — no video calls — to discuss the problem, the timeline and the budget. You leave with a written proposal and zero obligation to proceed.
- Sydney — we come to you, in person only
- Tuesdays & Fridays · 10:00am / 1:00pm / 4:00pm