Staffing is changing fast. Your firm should look the part.
Type in your website. Within 24 hours a founder writes back with an honest evaluation: what candidates and clients see, and what to fix first.
Three reasons owners write to us.
Three founders who build for staffing & recruiting firms every day.
We started on a recruiting desk. Since 2016 we have built the software staffing agencies run on, and we founded the World Staffing Summit, the industry’s biggest online event.
Most of the people modernising this industry never sat on one. We design first, then build, and we stay for whether it works.
Reference check
- ✓Building staffing technology since 2016.
- ✓Y Combinator alumni.
- ✓Our software runs in staffing agencies across the US, UK and Europe.
- ✓First company Gustav, a collaborative marketplace, acquired in 2023.
- ✓World Staffing Summit: six editions, 334+ speakers.
Founders on every call.
The people you meet on the call design and run your build.
We run what we build.
Our own software runs in staffing agencies every day.
Staffing-native.
We speak ATS, splits, temp to perm and pay rates. No onboarding needed.
You own the outcome.
Fixed scope, fixed price, weekly progress, and it is yours when it ships.
Everything your firm is judged by. Everything it runs on.
One system, or one piece. We tell you what to do first.
§ 04Websites and Brand
Look like the firm you are becoming.
Your website is where candidates decide whether to reply and clients decide whether to call. We design it, brand it, and keep it working. Your jobs appear on it straight from your ATS, so nobody posts twice.
- Brand and identity, or a rebrand
- Launch site for a new agency, identity included
- Agency website with jobs from your ATS
- Job board, candidate portal and client portal, designed as one
- Care after launch: hosting, a monthly report, and being found by Google and by AI answers
Two design directions within a week. Two weeks to build a site. Longer for portals.
Everything candidates and clients see of your firm
01
They find you
Candidate: searches your name.
Client: checks you out before the call.
the site, the brand
02
They read
Candidate: the job, with the pay.
Client: who you place, and for whom.
job board, the site
03
They act
Candidate: applies in two minutes.
Client: sends a brief.
apply flow, brief form
04
They hear back
Candidate: status without chasing.
Client: the shortlist, in one place.
candidate portal, client portal
05
They come back
Candidate: refers a friend.
Client: renews.
automation, reporting
§ 05Tech Consultancy
Start with your team. Then the tools.
We run workshops with your team to learn how your firm works today. Then we show you what the market offers, what fits, and how to connect it into one workflow that runs your funnel with less manual work.
Where it starts
A workshop with your team
Founders and your people in one room. How work runs today, where it gets stuck, what to change first. A plan you keep. Credited if we build.
How we work with you
We learn your business
Workshops with your team: how your desk runs today, from first contact to placement, and where time gets lost.
We find the right tools
What the market offers for your firm, what fits, and what to leave out. Your ATS included.
We connect them into one workflow
Your tools linked end to end, so the repeat steps in your funnel run without anyone copying data.
We bring your team along
AI workshops with your recruiters: where AI helps on the desk, where it should not, and how they use it from Monday.
ATS migration, if you need one
If the answer is a new ATS, we move you without losing data. Audit, field map, dry run, cutover, after-care.
§ 06Custom Software
The software you need. Built for you.
AI agents, workflow automations, internal tools and apps for your team and your clients. We scope it, build it and hand it over. Fixed scope, fixed price, yours when it ships.
For firms with custom work and no developers of their own. We build staffing software every day, so your list becomes working software, not a hiring plan.
Things firms ask us to build
Dedupe the database without losing the history.
data · your ATS
An outbound agent that finds the leads and books the calls, so the partners take them.
AI agent · business development
Every sales call summarised and logged before the next one starts.
AI · business development
Job ads written from the intake call, in your firm’s voice.
AI · recruiting
Candidate questions about pay, shifts and documents, answered day and night.
AI assistant · candidate side
Compliance documents tracked, with a reminder before anything expires.
workflow automation · compliance
Payroll exceptions flagged before the pay run, not after.
workflow automation · payroll
Commission and gross profit per placement, without a spreadsheet.
internal tool · back office
Which clients are likely to hire again, read from your own placement history.
AI · sales
One view of placements, timesheets and invoices across the tools you run.
internal tool · integration
Some of it builds on the systems you already run. Some of it is new.
Things we built. Have a look.
No numbers, no logos. Open them and judge for yourself.
↗Agency website
A staffing site, the way we would build yours.
Brand, jobs, the apply flow, on a desktop and on a phone. Built as the reference for every website we make.
↗Staffing software, since 2016
The software staffing agencies run on.
Job boards, client and candidate portals, search on the agency's own database. This is the software company we founded.
Launching soon
Next product
One verified profile. Warm intros to employers who fit.
People create one profile, get verified and get introduced to employers when a role fits. Companies send a job brief and meet people who said yes.
Five steps. The same for a site, a migration or a build.
Call
45 minutes with a founder. You leave with a scope, a timeline and a price. Scope, timeline, price.
Brief
A written brief you sign off. Signed brief.
Plan
Two design directions, or a written roadmap. Within a week. Two directions.
Build
Two weeks for a site. Longer for systems. Weekly progress. Site live.
Care
Hosting, a monthly report, the next thing. Monthly report.
Timings for a site. Systems take longer; we tell you on the call.
Fair questions.
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hello@placeyard.com
Bring us your firm. Leave with a plan.
Book 45 minutes with a founder, or tell us what you need and we come back to you as soon as we can. You leave with a scope, a timeline and a price. If we are not the right people for it, we say so.
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