The IT talent you need is already employed. We make it visible.
BenchBee is a private marketplace where verified IT consultancies and IT recruitment agencies find each other. Consultancies list the consultants they have between projects and the roles they can't staff. Agencies post the jobs their clients need filled. Every deal is direct, business to business, with no commission.
Every IT consultancy is overstaffed and understaffed at the same time.
Projects come in waves. Permanent teams grow in a straight line. So a consultancy always has people on the bench in one skill and work it can't staff in another. The bench costs a full salary and bills nobody: Professional services firms, IT consultancies among them, billed 66.4% of available time in 2025, the lowest SPI Research has recorded, against the 75% SPI considers optimal. The gap costs projects, or a recruiter's margin to fill it. It isn't bad management. It's the shape of the industry.
Freelancers fill gaps. They don't fix them.
When you're short, the reflex is a freelancer or a recruiter. Freelancers come and go: you vet each one from scratch, you can't tell what they're worth until they've started, and next quarter they're gone. Recruiters take a margin on every day billed. What you really need is a supplier: a business with a track record, people it employs and stands behind, and a bench that refills.
Resource managers already had a fix. It was WhatsApp.
Before BenchBee, resource managers traded bench in WhatsApp groups: “anyone free on Power BI for three months?”. It worked if you knew the right people, and it never scaled past a phone's contact list. BenchBee is that network built properly.
So we built the marketplace between them.
Consultancies list their available consultants and post the roles they can't staff. Agencies post the IT jobs their clients need filled. BenchBee matches them, both sides say yes, and the two businesses deal directly. When you hire a consultant out, they stay your employee: you set the day rate, and your client stays your client.
See how it worksWhy we built it this way.
No commission.
A cut of every deal would give us a reason to push day rates up and put the most expensive profiles first. A flat price means we gain nothing from what you charge.
Verified companies only.
Every member is a registered company, checked against Companies House or its local registry, with an onboarding call. You deal with a business that has a name to protect.
Employed consultants only.
Every consultant has an employer who vouches for them and stays responsible for them. That's a track record no freelancer profile gives you, and a supplier you can come back to.
A private network.
Skills are visible, names are not, until both sides say yes. Your bench, your rates and your clients stay yours, and nobody gets cold-called.
Built by someone who has been on every side of the bench.
I'm Hassen Hattab, founder and CEO. I've worked in IT as an independent contractor, as a consultancy employee, as a programme manager, and on the client side buying from consultancies in UK public-sector IT. I've been the one waiting on the bench, and the one paying for it. BenchBee is what I wanted on every one of those sides.
The company is Benchbee Limited, registered in Ireland (CRO 769682). BenchBee is EU trade mark No 019231161.
In the press.
- TechRoundTechRound 100, 2025: BenchBee ranked 74thNov 2025
- Consultancy.ukTalent sharing in consulting: lessons from Whitehall's £18bn shared services reformJan 2026
- CFOtechConsulting's hidden workforce problem is bigger than bench timeNov 2025
- IT BriefConsulting's hidden workforce problem is bigger than bench timeNov 2025
- The AI JournalThe squiggly career is no longer a risk, it's the strategyApr 2026
- ME HR & LearningThe Gulf has a talent problem that money alone can't fixMay 2026