Recruitment for technology startups and scaleups, funded differently.

SUS finds and places permanent employees for startups and scaleups. Instead of a single recruitment fee charged as a percentage of annual salary at the point of hire, you pay an agreed monthly percentage of that employee's gross monthly salary for as long as they remain with you.

The person is employed directly by your business, on your contract. If the employment ends, the monthly billing ends too.

Startup Staffing exists to give ambitious technology startups and scaleups another way to access specialist recruitment, without concentrating the full recruitment cost at exactly the point they are also increasing payroll and building out their team.

A recruitment invoice tends to arrive at the point when a growing technology business is least able to absorb it: the same weeks as a new salary, onboarding, equipment and the ramp-up before the hire is fully productive. SUS exists to change the timing, and with it the shape of the risk.

International technology startups and scaleups — software, deep tech and other technically complex businesses — hiring specialist technical and engineering roles, from pre-seed through Series B+ and beyond, whether bootstrapped or funded. Funding stage is not a qualification requirement; what matters is the hire and the cash allocation decision around it.

It is not for everyone. If you would rather pay a conventional one-off fee, or you are hiring temporary or contract workers, another arrangement is likely to suit you better — we set that out openly.

When the full fee is earned on day one, a recruiter's commercial interest in a placement effectively ends the moment somebody starts. Under SUS our income continues only while the person we introduced is still with you.

That gives both sides the same interest: a hire who performs and stays. It also means we carry part of the risk if a placement does not last, rather than all of it sitting with you.

Being straight about the trade-off matters too. Over a long tenure, cumulative monthly payments can add up to more than a one-off fee. SUS is about cash flow, flexibility and shared risk — not a claim to be the cheapest option in every case.

SUS is operated by Humand Talent Solutions Limited (company number 12379847), registered in England and Wales, with its registered office at 1 Abbey Street, Eynsham, OX29 4TB, United Kingdom. Humand is a UK-registered recruitment business with a background in specialist technical recruitment, and its consultants run the search, assessment and introduction process behind every SUS placement for clients internationally.

Humand recruits across technically complex environments — software, AI/ML, data, cloud infrastructure, quantum and photonics, robotics and advanced engineering — with 50+ years of combined team experience across specialist recruitment across the team. Candidates are headhunted directly rather than sourced from advertising, which is why the same process suits hard-to-fill technical startup roles.

Startup Staffing and SUS are trading names of Humand Talent Solutions Limited.

Humand kept meeting technology startup founders who wanted proper specialist recruitment support and could not justify a five-figure invoice landing in the same month as a new salary.

Some of those companies hired alone, more slowly, and sometimes badly. Others paid the fee and felt the cash gap for months afterwards.

SUS was created so the recruitment cost follows the employment rather than arriving ahead of it — and so Humand only keeps earning while the hire is still there.