[albedo]

Our company Lambda (http://getlambda.com) helps negotiate contract work for our freelancers. We often set up the following arrangement: the client pays in advance for a week or two of work, and we agree that "a week" contains X hours of developer time. If there are hours unused by the end of the contract, we refund the money. It's an elegant way to avoid most payment issues.

[yogo]

On your site it doesn't say whether or not you get a cut, but given the natural alignment of interests I think it's safe to say you won't have a problem with having to return unused hours, even an honest developer will simply maximize those hours.

[macarthy12]

How much work have you managed to get? Do you restrict where dev's are located (e.g. north america?)

[albedo]

We get about 15 qualified leads a month (on average, each project is worth about $25k). We're focused on the US and Canada only for the moment.

[mrfusion]

Do you guys need any Python or Django people?

[albedo]

Yes, we're currently looking for Rails, Django, js, and iOS.