The external workforce platform
your external workers and colleagues will
actually love

Most companies have a system for their permanent team (an HRIS) but nothing for everyone who isn't an employee. Worksome is that system: one place to source, engage, classify, and pay contractors, freelancers, consultants, and the external talent you bring in through staffing agencies. It's built for mid-market and enterprise programs, typically 25 to 10,000 contractors, across procurement, talent, finance, and workforce teams.

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Two models, and you pick the one that fits your program. Either a percentage of your total contractor spend, or a flat annual subscription. There are no per-contractor licenses, no per-seat fees, and no surprise charges layered on top. Final pricing depends on your contractor volume, the countries you operate in, and which add-ons you switch on, so every quote is tailored, not pulled off a rate card.

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Spend-based works best when your contractor volume moves month to month, or when you're scaling fast and don't want to commit to a flat fee that may not match where your program lands. Fixed subscriptions work better at scale, when volume is predictable and finance wants budget certainty for the year. Most teams know which one they are within the first conversation, and you can move between them as your program matures.

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No. Internal seats and the number of contractors in your talent pools are unlimited, with role-based permissions for your whole organisation. Bringing more hiring managers, finance approvers, or program admins onto Worksome never costs you more. You pay for the model you chose, spend or subscription, not for seats and headcount inside the platform.

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Everything you need to run a program day-to-day is in the core platform: sourcing and private talent pools, built-in compliance and worker classification, global payments, vendor and agency management, reporting, the API and integrations, and Worksome Intelligence (our AI layer) is included, not upsold. Everything you need to start managing your external workforce smarter and faster.

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Add-ons are the heavier, situational capabilities: Agent of Record, Employer of Record, Extended Compliance, Prepay & Factoring, Advanced Approval Workflows, Multi-Entity Management, and Premium Support. You only pay for the add-ons you actually turn on.

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Either, depending on where you are. Plenty of customers retire a legacy VMS and run everything on Worksome; others keep an existing VMS for parts of the program and use Worksome for the direct talent their VMS was never built to handle. We're happy to do both, and we'll tell you honestly which makes sense for your setup rather than pushing a rip-and-replace you don't need.

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Where traditional VMS earns its place is managing a large staffing-agency supply chain: requisition distribution to a vetted agency panel, rate-card enforcement, tiered submittals, and consolidated invoicing across vendors. If your external workforce program is mostly agency-supplied temp labour at high volume, that machinery does a real job.

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Where Worksome pulls ahead is everything beyond the agency channel. We give you direct sourcing and private talent pools, built-in worker classification and compliance with indemnification, and global payments to 150+ countries and all 50 US states, all in one platform. You still get Vendor Management, agency broadcasting, attribution, and automated payouts when you need them, so you're not losing VMS capability with Worksome, you're adding the direct-engagement, compliance, and payments layers a classic VMS treats as someone else's problem.

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Worksome can also integrate with most VMS platforms so you don't have to disrupt existing configurations.

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Payments reach 150+ countries and all 50 US states, gross or via payroll, with invoicing and approvals handled in one flow. If cash timing is a constraint, Prepay & Factoring lets contractors get paid in as little as 0 to 45 days while you settle on your own terms. Payments are core to the platform, not a bolt-on you integrate later.

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Payroll is built into our EOR service, so when you employ talent through Worksome EOR you get full payroll, tax remittance, and statutory benefits as part of one per-employee price. We offer EOR globally and collaborate with a highly vetted network of partners to ensure the best solution. For independent contractors globally, our Agent of Record (AOR) covers compliant engagement and indemnification in 150+ countries.

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Worksome is built for the AI-era and AI is Included on every plan. Our AI runs through the workflow: assistants for your team and your contractors, AI-generated job descriptions, and real-time spend and workforce insights. We don't gate it behind a premium tier or charge for it as an upsell, because it's core to how the platform works.

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Worksome also has ritch API and MCP capabilities and connects to your ATS, HRIS, ERP, and procurement stack, so external workforce data flows where your team already works instead of living in another silo. Use our public API to build whatever your program needs, trigger workflows with webhooks, and keep access secure with SSO and SAML. And because the platform ships with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, your AI agents and assistants can query and act on your workforce data directly, not just read a dashboard.

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Yes, we charge an implementation fee to ensure you are setup for success from day one. Implementation fees are always agreed up front so there's nothing hidden. Contract terms are set in your tailored quote and flex with the pricing model you choose; we'll talk through commitment alongside price, not after you've signed.

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Yes. Add-ons can be switched on at any time and start billing from their activation date, so you don't renegotiate your whole contract to add EOR for one hire or turn on Prepay for a project. To get a real number, tell us your contractor volume, the markets you operate in, and what you need beyond the core platform, and we'll come back with a tailored quote. Most customers are live and productive within days, not months.