Executive Briefing
Traditional talent channels aren’t enough.
What your business teams say…
- Too slow:
- by the time the req is filled, we no longer need that person
- Too inflexible:
- we can’t adapt fast because we’re stuck navigating severance
- Not AI native:
- traditional talent processes work against our AI strategy, not with it
We know a better way: flexible talent
Our Executive Briefing breaks down the stats, solutions, and frameworks leading organizations are using to embrace flexible talent.
- Freelance
- FMS
- Direct sourcing
- Independent workforce
Schedule your Executive Briefing
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We’re Human Cloud. We help organizations navigate their future workforce. From freelance, to fractional, to the agentic workforce, work is undergoing a seismic change. We help companies go from chaos to clarity, with Executive Briefings as the start.
“With the power of the Human Cloud you can create, innovate, and invent whole new products and markets for your ideas.”
Preview the briefing
Whether a G7 government or the largest burger chain, you’ll walk away with the right questions, the right answers, and the start of the right strategy.
Typical Agenda
45 MINUTES
- 01What we hear from the business sideTraditional talent channels are falling short5 min
- 02DefinitionsFlexible, direct, freelance — what’s the difference?5 min
- 03State of flexible talent72.9M individuals, 3k+ solutions10 min
- 04State of AI & talentTraditional talent is neutral to negative, flexible talent growing over 20%10 min
- 05What leading organizations are doingA Talent Access Strategy & The Three Horizon Framework10 min
- 06Q&A5 min
What your peers have said
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 F500Executive Briefing attendee, September 2026Your insights and knowledge have been invaluable to our learning!
Brandon LeeAssistant Chief Executive, Workforce SingaporeHuman 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 MossmanProduct Lead, Generative AI & Talent Marketplaces
Inside the deck
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The deck
30 SLIDES
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Who runs it
From Industrial to Pharmaceuticals, there isn't an industry we haven't helped.
Matthew Mottola
CEO, Human Cloud
Leads working team adoptionBuilt Microsoft’s signature freelance product, founded and exited a venture-backed workforce SaaS company, and wrote the book that named the category.
- Author, The Human Cloud — HarperCollins
- Built Microsoft’s first freelance talent product
- Founder, Venture L (venture-backed, exited)
Tony Buffum
Chief Strategy Officer, Human Cloud
Leads executive strategyTwenty years as an HR leader inside public companies, then head of HR client strategy at the largest freelance marketplace in the world.
- Former CHRO, FLIR Systems (public company)
- Former VP, HR — Stanley Black & Decker
- Former VP, HR Client Strategy — Upwork
Organizations we’ve helped
Published by HarperCollins
We wrote the book on flexible work
In 2019 — before LLMs — we predicted how AI and talent platforms would produce the flexible workforce.
Grab your copyThe Human Cloud Market Map
We’ve mapped this industry since 2012
Every quarter we publish the Human Cloud Market Map — 300+ solutions across 30+ countries, sorted by what they actually do. This is the current edition.
Explore the rankings behind it
Who should be in the room
This decision is never one person’s. Bring the six who own it.
CFO
40–80%
lower talent cost, with a shift from fixed to variable cost
CHRO
1M+
forward-deployed skillsets, reachable without opening a req
Head of Procurement
60%
of talent spend is deemed “rogue”, with a material chunk of this being flexible talent
CTO
5 days
to the exact, specialized individual you need
CMO
3x
output per marketer, with the headcount line held flat
Digital Transformation
100x
productivity gains by embedding agentic talent models across your organization
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