Built by an operating agency

Fill the shift. Approve the hours. Pay one invoice.

SmartRecruit Workforce is a staffing platform for light industrial work: warehouse, distribution, manufacturing and site labour. It is being built by SmartRecruit Pro, an agency that sources and places welders, fitters, pickers and general labour from 25+ countries today. On the platform you post a work order, we fill it from that same sourcing network, and the hours come back on a timesheet your supervisor has approved before it is invoiced. The bill rate arrives as three lines, so you can see what you are paying for before you pay it. The platform is in build; the sourcing network behind it is already operating.

Post a shift Find work

No fee is ever charged to the worker · Rates quoted line by line · The platform is in build, so every performance figure here is a target from our model, not a result

What one hour costs

Three lines on every work order and every invoice — the same three, every time.

Pay rateWhat the worker receives, in full. Set by the trade and the local rate for it.

69.9%

Statutory on-costEmployer taxes, holiday accrual, pension, workers' compensation. Passed through at what it costs us, with the calculation shown.

14.7%

Our margin22% of pay in the base case for employer-of-record work. Rated by occupation class, because a picker and a structural welder are not the same risk.

15.4%

Worked example, United States, 21% statutory employer burden: on $18.00 an hour pay the bill rate is $25.74. An agency running a 30% markup bills $23.40 and is cheaper than us; at 45% and above we are the cheaper side. UK on-costs run above 30% of pay — employer NI at 15% from the GBP 5,000 secondary threshold, 12.07% holiday accrual, 3% pension, 0.5% apprenticeship levy — so UK bill rates are higher and are quoted on their own arithmetic. We would rather show you the arithmetic than promise a discount that cannot exist.

22% of pay

Our margin when we are the employer of record — rated by occupation class, always on its own line

25+

Countries we source from today

Charged to the worker. Zero-fee sourcing, documented at each step so it can be audited.

Invoice per site, itemised by shift and worker

Pricing, honestly

We are not the cheapest line on your rate card

Anyone quoting an all-in 15% on pay is billing below burden, and a price below burden has to be recovered somewhere the buyer cannot see. So we price the three components openly and compete on the things that actually cost you money: shifts that get filled, hours that are agreed on the day, and a sourcing chain that survives an audit.

For employers

Fill the shift, not the paperwork

Post a shift and see confirmed workers, not a shortlist of CVs
Reliability scores built from real attendance, not self-reported skills
Payroll, taxes and deductions handled by the platform
Scale up for a peak week and back down without severance
Replace a no-show from the same screen that showed the booking

Learn more

For workers

Better pay, and you can see why

A larger share of the client rate reaches you, because the markup is smaller
Choose shifts by pay, distance and start time — no recruiter gatekeeping
Get paid daily, weekly or monthly, your choice
Build a rating that travels with you between employers
See the client rate and your rate on the same screen

Learn more

What makes it work

A marketplace only works if both sides can trust the data

Anyone can build a job board. The hard part is knowing, before the shift starts, whether the person will actually turn up.

Reliability score

Every worker carries a score built from confirmed attendance, punctuality and employer ratings across all their bookings — not from a CV they wrote themselves.

Skill-and-equipment matching

Matching runs on the specific machines, certifications and site types a worker has actually handled, so a booking fits the job rather than the job title.

Local rate intelligence

See what a role actually pays in that city this month, built from the bookings running on the platform right now.

Document control

Certifications and right-to-work documents are verified at onboarding and re-checked on expiry. An expired document blocks the booking automatically.

Timesheets that close themselves

Geofenced check-in and check-out produce the timesheet, the timesheet produces the invoice. Nobody retypes anything.

Favourites and re-booking

The crew that worked out last time is one tap away, which is what turns a marketplace into a workforce.

Common questions

Are you cheaper than my current agency?

Not always, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. On $18.00 an hour pay our bill rate is $25.74. If your supplier runs a 30% markup they bill $23.40, which makes us about 10% more expensive than them. At 40% the two are within a couple of percent. At 45% we come in 1.4% under, and at 55% we are nearly 8% under. Against a genuinely low-markup incumbent there is no price advantage here at all. Where we expect to earn the business is fill rate you can measure, hours approved before they are invoiced, and documentation your compliance team can actually use.

What is the price made of?

Three components, printed on the work order and again on the invoice. Pay rate, which the worker receives in full. Statutory on-cost, passed through at cost: employer taxes, holiday accrual, pension, workers' compensation. Then our margin, 22% of pay in the base case when we are the employer of record, which is a 43% markup on pay and a 15.4% gross margin. That sits inside the normal light-industrial band, not below it. There is no single markup for every job, because workers' compensation is rated by occupation class: a flat number is break-even on the safest trades and loss-making on the dangerous ones.

What do the workers pay to get these jobs?

Nothing, and we can prove it. In our corridor (India, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam) the standard sub-agent model extracts $1,000 to $4,000 from the worker, usually borrowed at interest. That is illegal under GCC labour law and prohibited by the ILO Employer Pays Principle and the Dhaka Principles. We recruit direct, we keep the evidence at each step of the chain, and we will put it in front of your audit team. Tier-1 buyers are now required to evidence this in their own supply chain and mostly cannot, because their suppliers do not know who their sub-agents are.

We are not the cheapest line on your rate card

Send us the roles and volumes you staff today. We will come back with a side-by-side of your current agency cost against platform pricing — on your actual figures, not a demo dataset.

Book a demo Pricing