HireArt

HireArt is a New York-based company that sells an end-to-end platform for building and administering a contract workforce. Its modules cover employer of record (EOR) employment, on-demand sourcing and recruitment, vendor management, freelancer management with agent-of-record payment, worker classification checks, and program management services, all delivered through a single self-serve interface. The company positions itself as a modern human resources information system (HRIS) for W-2 contract workers, contrasting itself with staffing agencies, MSPs and VMS vendors that rely more heavily on manual service delivery.

Operationally, hiring managers can request workers, review curated candidate shortlists, schedule interviews, make offers, change pay rates, approve expenses and PTO, and pull rosters and reports from the platform. HireArt employs the workers itself as employer of record, absorbing responsibility for benefits, compliance guardrails against co-employment and misclassification, and indemnification on 1099 relationships. It also operates a staffing vendor network through which partner agencies submit candidates to client roles; HireArt employs those workers and shares revenue with the partner agency.

Published customers include Meta, Carta, Amazon-owned Zoox, Pony.ai and Via. Company-reported figures include a 77.3 contractor NPS, an 86.4 client NPS, average client cost savings of 16.6%, more than one million job seekers on the platform, a 93% offer acceptance rate, and over $212 million in payments projected to contractors in 2025.

Founding story

The company was started in 2012 by Dain Lewis, Eleonora Sharef and Nick Sedlet, whose prior roles were, respectively, senior business analyst at General Growth Properties, business analyst at McKinsey, and strategist at Goldman Sachs; one third-party profile additionally names Christopher Brower among the founders. The pivotal insight, described by Sedlet as an 'aha' moment, came when the founders saw clients hiring HireArt-screened candidates through staffing firms, indicating demand for its sourcing product in a market with attractive unit economics.

Business model

HireArt sells a combined software-and-services offering to employers, acting as the legal employer of record for their contract W-2 workers while also providing sourcing, vendor management and freelancer payment tooling. It goes to market much like a staffing agency and often competes with agencies for the same business, but also partners with them: agencies submit candidates to HireArt clients' open roles, HireArt employs the resulting workers, and revenue is shared with the staffing partner.

Revenue is tied to employing and administering client contract workers rather than to conventional staffing markups; the company frames its direct sourcing as a way for clients to fill roles without paying staffing firm markups and reports average client cost savings of 16.6%. Revenue is also shared with staffing partners who supply candidates through its vendor network. A third-party data provider estimates annual revenue of roughly $23.8 million, an estimate not confirmed by the company.

Traction

Company-published metrics include over $212 million projected to be paid to contractors in 2025, more than one million job seekers on the platform, a 93% offer acceptance rate, contractor NPS of 77.3 and client NPS of 86.4. Case studies report Zoox consolidating 88 contract workers under HireArt as sole EOR with 90% retention, and Via making 1,193 hires across 85 cities with 91% retention. Headcount was 82 at the July 2022 Series B, with a third-party profile citing 90 employees more recently and another estimating a 201-500 range.

Latest developments

The website, updated with a 2026 copyright, promotes an ebook on employer of record services and research reports on the MSP and VMS landscapes, and highlights freelancer management and embedded EOR/AOR within vendor management. A third-party profile states that Chris Forbes was recently announced as CEO and cites 90 employees as of 2026.