Free tools

Run the numbers before you run the agency

Free calculators built from how staffing businesses actually make and lose money: margin, burden, payment terms and the cost of funding the gap.

Bill rate & gross margin calculator

Turn a pay rate and your true burden into a bill rate, a markup and a real gross margin — and see the weekly gross profit across your contractor book.

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Factoring cost calculator

Price invoice factoring against a bank line on the same drawn balance: cash released, monthly cost, and the effective annual rate.

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Staffing agency startup cost calculator

Setup costs, overhead runway and the payroll gap, added up honestly — with and without a funding line behind you.

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Investment readiness check

A scored diagnostic of how ready your agency is for an investor conversation, and what to fix first.

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Matching screener

Three answers on stage, sector and market, and we show the operator and investor pairing we would build.

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Embed these calculators on your own site

Free to embed on any staffing or recruitment site. Copy the snippet, drop it into your page, and the calculator runs live with a small attribution link back to LAUNCH.

Bill rate & gross margin

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Staffing agency startup cost

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Stay close to the money

The recruitment funding briefing

One email a month: funding terms we are seeing, margin benchmarks, and what buyers are paying for agencies. Written for founders, not for a mailing list.

The numbers tell you what. We tell you who.

Once you know the gap, the next question is who has closed one like it before. That is the whole job here.

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