About TalentBridge
TalentBridge started from a simple observation: the best freelance professionals existed, corporate teams needed them urgently, and the systems in between were failing both sides.
500+
Placements completed
1 in 8
Application acceptance rate
48h
Average time to first candidates
4.9/5
Average client satisfaction
Our Story
Our co-founders spent years on opposite sides of the freelance market. James managed contingent workforce programmes inside large corporations. Niamh built and scaled operational teams at venture-backed companies. Both experienced the same problem from different angles: when you need a senior professional for a defined project, the entire system works against you.
Traditional recruitment agencies move at the pace of permanent hiring. Their incentives are misaligned for project work. Job boards surface hundreds of applications with no quality filter. Internal HR processes designed for permanent employees are a poor fit for freelancers. The result is that companies either wait too long, accept candidates they would not have otherwise chosen, or quietly bypass procurement entirely.
TalentBridge was founded in 2022 to fix exactly this. We built a curated pool of pre-vetted senior freelancers, designed an end-to-end process that fits inside enterprise procurement workflows, and committed to a 48-hour matching standard. Every element of our operation is designed around one goal: getting the right senior professional in front of the right corporate team, fast.
Today we place talent across engineering, finance, marketing, design, operations, and legal. Our clients range from FTSE 250 companies running transformation programmes to Series B scale-ups that need deep functional expertise for defined projects. The common thread: they all needed excellent people quickly, and they could not afford to compromise on quality or compliance.
How We Work
We would rather send you three exceptional candidates than ten mediocre ones. Every person in our pool passed a multi-stage vetting process. We are curators, not aggregators.
48 hours is fast. But not at the cost of due diligence. We move quickly because we have done the vetting work upfront, not because we skip it.
Procurement teams should not have to fight their own systems to hire a freelancer. We build to enterprise standards from day one: contracts, compliance, background checks, and clean billing.
Every client gets a named account manager. We are not a self-serve marketplace. We are a team that learns your business and gets better at placing the right people over time.
Vetting Standards
Approximately 1 in 8 applicants makes it into our active pool. Here is what every accepted freelancer has passed.
We review work history, portfolio, and references for domain depth and corporate experience. We are specifically looking for people who have worked within structured corporate environments.
Every applicant completes a structured assessment designed for their discipline. Technical roles take live coding and systems design. Finance roles cover financial modelling. Design roles include critique and process evaluation.
We speak directly to two former managers or clients. We ask specific questions about reliability, communication, quality of output, and fit in corporate settings. Generic references are not accepted.
Identity verification, right to work, and criminal record check. Required for every freelancer in our pool, regardless of seniority or experience.
We collect structured feedback after every placement. Freelancers who consistently receive below-threshold feedback are removed from the active pool. Quality is not a one-time gate.
The Team
Co-Founder & CEO
Former head of contingent workforce at a FTSE 100 company. 12 years in talent strategy. Spent a decade watching great companies struggle to hire fast enough. Founded TalentBridge to fix that.
Co-Founder & COO
Built and scaled operational teams at three venture-backed companies. Expert in procurement, compliance, and workforce flexibility. Handles every contract, process, and client onboarding personally.
Head of Talent
Former technical recruiter at two elite engineering consultancies. Personally reviews every engineering and data applicant. Has interviewed over 2,000 freelance engineers in his career.
Submit a brief and receive your top 3 matched candidates within 48 hours. No commitment at this stage.