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Human Cloud’s Market Map

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Powering The Human Cloud

Market Map cuts thousands of flexible talent vendors down to the top 5% of every segment. It is explicitly flexible talent solutions, defined as platform first, with flexible engagement terms, not traditional talent channels like staffing or professional services.

Top 5%

Of every segment

3,040

Explicitly flexible talent solutions

What’s inside

  • Every category your business units are already buying. Marketing, development, product, finance, legal, HR, medical, industrial, events and more, plus gig marketplaces, internal marketplaces and outcomes as a service.

  • What each layer actually costs. Talent platforms run 10 to 35% markup or a placement fee. Talent providers run 5 to 18%, or $50 to $800 per hire monthly. Walk into the negotiation with the benchmark already in hand.

  • The compliance and infrastructure layer. FMS, EOR and VMS providers, including EORs specialized by healthcare, tech, retail, professional services and marketplaces. The part that decides whether a program scales or stalls in legal review.

  • Board-ready, print resolution. One image, no watermark. Brief your leadership team with it, or drop it straight into the business case.

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Sourcing

Talent Platforms + Marketplaces

Finds, vets and matches the people, specialized by focus area.

1,429 solutions

Scaling

EORs + Payroll + More

Employs, pays and keeps you compliant.

1,867 solutions

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In their words

We turn the complexity into calm.

That was an awesome conversation. I am actively emailing my procurement team to see if they can join and start having these conversations with different IC experts and solution builders.

Industrial F500

Executive Briefing attendee, September 2026

Product Lead, Generative AI & Talent Marketplaces
Human Cloud saved us months of trial and error by helping us understand how to structure our program, manage change, increase adoption, and better understand risks.
Preston Mossman

Preston Mossman

Product Lead, Generative AI & Talent Marketplaces

Human Cloud was integral in designing and building our “borrow” strategy. They helped us understand how flexible talent could solve our unique company challenges, including the business case, the risk concerns, and the infrastructure required to get started. Thanks to Human Cloud, we have the capabilities to compliantly source thousands of freelancers from multiple talent platforms, and every hiring manager has a seamless experience along with white glove support if needed.

APAC HR Lead

Top 3 Global Food & Beverage Company

Microsoft’s First Ever Freelance PM
Human Cloud possesses a rare ability to combine flexible talent expertise, with startup speed & creativity, all while understanding the unique needs of the enterprise.
Liane Scult

Liane Scult

Microsoft’s First Ever Freelance PM

Assistant Chief Executive, Workforce Singapore
Your insights and knowledge have been invaluable to our learning!
Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee

Assistant Chief Executive, Workforce Singapore

COO, Public Grid
Human Cloud helps us future proof for however the next decade plus could turn out. The rapidly changing work landscape has been a source of fear for me. It’s tough to know what to prepare for when I don’t know what’s coming. I also made the book a required reading for my team so we can put together a game plan and make sure we thrive in this ever changing game we call work.
Joseph Robbins

Joseph Robbins

COO, Public Grid

Head of Operations, Puroast Coffee
Human Cloud transformed the way we approach hiring. As a nationwide coffee company in the US, they showed us a better way to manage growth by pairing us with talent from all around the world. For example, an animation freelancer transformed our branding and communications with their stellar work.
Alex Sachs

Alex Sachs

Head of Operations, Puroast Coffee

Microsoft
Matthew consistently delivers outstanding results. His contributions to the Microsoft Gig community have been exceptional, and we’re all eager to collaborate with him again in the future!

GM, Microsoft’s Gig Program

Microsoft

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Only the top 5% within each segment.

Sourcing

Talent Platforms + Marketplaces

Finds, vets and matches the people, specialized by focus area.

1,429 solutions

Scaling

EORs + Payroll + More

Employs, pays and keeps you compliant.

1,867 solutions

More than a map

From the map to a running program.

Market Map is your first step in building your future workforce. Here's how the world's best companies work with Human Cloud.

  1. 1

    Step 1

    45 to 90 min

    Set up an executive briefing

    Your leadership team leaves agreeing on one plan, with the number attached.

    Book the briefingor email
    Executive briefing deck, cover: How Leading Organizations Are Rethinking Flexible Talent

    30 slides. Reveal three on the briefing page. The rest we reveal in the room.

    What changes

    • Fixed cost becomes variable, and you know by how much.
    • Every function has an answer: keep, augment with flexible talent, or automate.
    • The first function to move is named, and its RFP is already scoped.
    “That was an awesome conversation. I am actively emailing my procurement team to see if they can join and start having these conversations with different IC experts and solution builders.”
    Industrial F500 · Executive Briefing attendee, September 2026
  2. 2

    Step 2

    5 days

    Run an RFP

    A decision you can defend in five days: three priced options for your exact problem.

    Start an RFP
  3. 3

    Step 3

    Same day

    Deploy to your cloud

    The next hire takes an afternoon, not a quarter.

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We provide forward-deployed talent transformation. All three steps, implemented with you, in 10 weeks.

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