TempGuru's answer

Event organizers and venue operators who need reliable temporary staffing for stadiums, arenas, conventions, concerts, festivals, and corporate events. This includes production companies, live entertainment promoters, sports venues, convention centers, and enterprise clients who need scalable, compliant staffing across multiple markets without managing individual agency relationships.

Split Fee's answer:

UK recruitment agencies; from boutique firms with a handful of consultants to mid-sized agencies with specialist sector coverage. Any agency that has either strong candidates without the right vacancies, or client vacancies they can't fill from their own candidate pool. Split Fee turns those dormant assets into placements.

TempGuru's answer

Competitors like Instawork and Qwick operate as gig economy platforms using 1099 contractor models, which exposes event organizers to worker misclassification liability. TAG removes that risk entirely. Clients get pre-negotiated rates, a 99% fill rate across 2,500+ events, confirmation within 24–48 hours in most markets, and coverage in 275+ cities — all managed through one platform instead of juggling contracts with dozens of local agencies. TAG handles the complexity so organizers don't have to.

Split Fee's answer:

Most "split fee networks" are just directories or social groups where agencies post and hope someone responds. Split Fee is an actual matching engine. It scores candidate-vacancy pairs, handles the legal agreements (non-circumvention, self-billing), automates invoicing and fee splits, and manages the entire placement lifecycle from match to payment. Everything that normally requires trust, phone calls, and spreadsheets is handled by the platform.

TempGuru's answer

TAG (Temporary Assistance Guru) is the only event staffing platform that connects event organizers with a vetted network of 200+ local, W-2 compliant staffing agencies across 275+ markets in the U.S. and Canada — all through a single point of contact. Unlike gig economy platforms that classify workers as 1099 independent contractors, TAG ensures full labor law compliance by partnering exclusively with agencies that employ their workers as W-2 employees. This eliminates misclassification risk for clients while supporting ethical staffing practices.

Split Fee's answer:

Split Fee is the first purpose-built platform for split fee recruitment in the UK. Instead of relying on LinkedIn groups, WhatsApp messages, and manual agreements, agencies upload their candidates and vacancies and the platform automatically matches them across agencies.

Candidate identities are revealed gradually; anonymised at first, then progressively disclosed as both sides accept, so agencies can collaborate without the risk of circumvention.

TempGuru's answer

Founder and CEO Megan Hayward spent 14+ years in the staffing industry, starting in 2012 and eventually running her own agency that staffed major venues including MLB stadiums and NFL events. She saw firsthand how fragmented event staffing was — venues managing 10–12 different agency contracts for a single event, workers confused about who employed them, and no centralized system to streamline it all. She founded TAG in 2018 to solve that problem by building a technology platform that aggregates vetted local agencies into one network, giving clients nationwide coverage with a single point of contact.

Split Fee's answer:

Abbie, our founder, knew that although split fee arrangements have existed in recruitment for decades, the process has always been manual: find a partner agency, negotiate terms, trust them with your candidate data, chase invoices. Most agencies avoid it because the overhead and risk outweigh the reward. Abbie built Split Fee to remove that friction entirely, with automated matching, progressive identity disclosure, built-in legal agreements, and automated billing, making split placements as straightforward as direct ones.

Split Fee's answer:

A next-generation serverless platform, built for AWS.