With over four years of experience as a hacker and Senior Solutions Architect at Bugcrowd, the author aims to share trade secrets that keep hackers engaged. They've reviewed hundreds of engagements, observing good, bad, and confusing strategies. To combat this issue, they started a series guiding customers through choosing the right engagement type, writing a brief, and retaining hackers. The guide outlines 10 core values to help create a successful engagement that attracts and retains top hackers. It emphasizes respecting everyone's time, eliminating ambiguity, designing for flow, providing a personal touch, rich context, knowing the audience, structuring rewards thoughtfully, celebrating success, keeping it engaging, and maintaining and evolving the engagement. The guide is designed for those launching or running a bug bounty engagement, aiming to create a balance of valuing hackers, providing enticing scope and rewards, and consistently engaging with Bugcrowd to stay relevant.