AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
The peak of agentic
External Workforce Management
Backed by the best
Classify to Pay, run by agents
Every phase of an external engagement, run by agents end to end.
- 01Autonomous
Intake & Classification
Your hiring managers submit requests however they want: Slack, email, Teams, or voice. sherpa captures the intent, classifies the engagement, and kicks off the work. No training required.
- 02Collaborative
Scope & Collaboration
Agents draft the scope of work, role definition, and budget, then refine it with your team right where they already work, until everyone is aligned.
- 03Autonomous
Sourcing
Rates benchmarked against the market. Candidates and suppliers matched from your approved panels and ranked by fit, in minutes, not weeks.
- 04Coordinated
Interviewing
sherpa runs the screening interviews itself, asking role-specific questions and scoring every answer against a weighted rubric, on top of scheduling and coordination. Your team meets only the scored shortlist worth their time.
- 05Autonomous
Hiring & Onboarding
Documents collected, background and compliance checks cleared, contracts signed, downstream systems provisioned, and ID badges and hardware shipped. Onboarding is run end to end so the engagement goes live without procurement bottlenecks.
- 06Outcome verified
Active Management and Payment
A dedicated PM agent helps workers file timesheets, gives managers a live view of spend, and sits in on calls to capture risks and feedback. Payments run flexibly: auto-approved, consolidated for working capital, and paid out to freelancers whenever they want, once outcomes are verified.
Time to hire
Faster
Stand up an engagement in hours, not the weeks a VMS needs.
Every euro counts
Further
Make every euro go further: free up budget for more output, speed, and capital deployment without spending more.
Time to go live
Sooner
Go live in days, not a 6–12 month implementation.
The Platform
One platform, every worker type
One platform across every worker type, fully autonomous from intake and classification to sourcing, contracting, onboarding, billing and payment. Rate intelligence, compliance management and analytics are built in.
Contingent Labor
Source, engage and manage temporary workers end to end, with built-in direct sourcing and autonomous interview coordination. Agents run equal pay, pay increments and billing on their own.
Freelancer / IC
Engage independent professionals compliantly, with a built-in Agent of Record and an autonomous compliance check that keeps every assignment clean as it runs, customizable to your own process.
SOW / Services
Manage supplier-delivered projects across all indirect services categories, with full scope and milestone tracking. sherpa redlines every SOW and its agents monitor delivery with proactive alerts.
AI Agents
Coming soonGovern, scope, and pay for autonomous AI systems performing work, the next worker type enterprises will need to manage.
The difference
From high friction & slow progressto an autonomous & fast delivery
The external workforce program infrastructure, collapsed into a single AI operating layer.
Characteristics
Legacy VMS & MSP
End-to-end process
High friction, static forms, and human coordination
Autonomous, proactive agents running end-to-end
Program cost
On average 2–3% of spend under management
A fraction, customized to your business case
Spend coverage
Staff augmentation & independent contractors
All human and agentic labor & services
Compliance
Manual checks and static reporting
Continuous, autonomous, and collaborative
Adoption
Low: heavy change management, users go around it
High: meets users where they are, acts like a co-worker
Time to engage
Takes weeks
Takes days
Analytics
Descriptive, static, and delayed reporting
Real-time, intuitive, dynamic, tailored to your needs
Time to go live
6–12 months
Only weeks to go live
