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Your Microsoft bench,
ready when you are.

365 Virtual Bench is the talent marketplace for the Microsoft ecosystem. Build a prequalified bench of Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure and Copilot specialists — then scale it up and down on demand, without carrying the cost of an idle team.

Full-time Contract Freelance Outcome-based

Specialists across the whole Microsoft stack

Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Business Central Customer Engagement / CRM Power Platform Power BI & Fabric Azure Infrastructure Azure Data & AI Copilot Studio Dataverse Microsoft 365 & Security D365 Field Service AX / NAV Legacy
The problem

Microsoft delivery gaps don't wait
for a hiring cycle.

A go-live slips. A consultant rolls off. A client signs sooner than planned. The work is there today — but the standard ways of finding people all take weeks you don't have.

01

Agencies are slow and expensive

Weeks of back-and-forth, CVs that don't match the brief, and a placement fee that lands somewhere north of 20% — for a contractor you may only need for six weeks.

02

Job boards give volume, not vetting

Post a D365 F&O role and you'll get two hundred applications, most of them nowhere near the skill set. Screening is now your problem.

03

A real bench costs real money

Partners carry consultants between projects to stay responsive. It works — right up until utilisation drops and the bench becomes the biggest line on the P&L.

What is a virtual bench?

All of the readiness.
None of the payroll.

A virtual bench is a pool of prequalified specialists who already match your criteria — your stack, your rate band, your regions, your security requirements — sitting ready before you need them.

When demand arrives you engage from the bench in days rather than weeks. When the project ends, you scale straight back down. You get the responsiveness of a permanent bench without paying for the idle time.

  • Prequalified up front — vetted against your criteria before the need lands
  • Elastic by design — scale up and down as the pipeline moves
  • Any length of engagement — two weeks or two years, same bench
  • No idle cost — you pay for the platform, not for people on standby
Build my bench →
How it works

From brief to booked,
in a working week.

1

Describe the need in plain English

"Senior F&O finance consultant, UK, available in three weeks, under £650 a day." Our AI search reads the brief and works the whole bench — no boolean strings, no filters to fight with.

2

Get a matched, ranked shortlist

Semantic matching across skills, project history and CVs returns the people who genuinely fit — with live availability, notice period and rate on every card.

3

Engage on your terms

Day rate, fixed term, or outcome-based delivery where you share the engagement and take a quote for the whole piece of work. Track everyone through your pipeline in one place.

AI talent search

Natural-language search over the entire bench, ranked by genuine fit rather than keyword overlap.

Live availability signals

See who is on the market right now, who's free from a date, and who has just updated their status.

Saved searches & match alerts

Save a brief once. When someone new matches it, the alert comes to you — no re-running searches.

Applicant pipeline

Every applicant, bid and shortlisted specialist tracked in one view from first contact to hired.

Market check

Live supply and demand across the ecosystem — which skills are scarce, and what they're going for.

Outcome-based delivery

Share the engagement and take a quote for the outcome, instead of defaulting to a daily rate.

For specialists

Get found for the work
you actually want.

Build one profile, set your availability, and let the work come to you. Companies search the bench in plain English — when your skills fit the brief, you surface.

  • Free to join — build a profile and appear in searches at no cost
  • You set the terms — day rate or outcome-based, your notice period, your regions
  • One tap availability — flip your status the day a contract ends
  • Bid for work — pitch directly on roles with your own proposed fee
  • Promote your profile — boost to rank higher when companies search the bench
Join the bench →
Plans

Simple, flat platform pricing.

No placement fees, no percentage of contract value. You pay for access to the bench — what you agree with the specialist stays between you and them.

Free

£0

Get set up and look around.

  • Company profile
  • Post roles to the job board
  • Browse the bench
Start free

Hire-a-Recruiter

£499/month

Billed annually. We run the process.

  • Everything in Self-Serve
  • A dedicated recruiter on your brief
  • Sourcing, screening & shortlisting
  • Priority matching
  • Market & rate benchmarking
Talk to us
Questions

The things everyone asks.

Is this only for Microsoft technology?

Yes, deliberately. Every specialist on the bench works somewhere in the Microsoft ecosystem — Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, Fabric, Copilot and Microsoft 365. A narrow bench is a better bench: matching is sharper and the vetting means something.

How is this different from a recruitment agency?

You are not paying a percentage of anyone's contract. It's a flat platform subscription, and you deal with the specialist directly. If you'd rather someone ran the process for you, the Hire-a-Recruiter plan gives you a dedicated recruiter without moving to a placement-fee model.

What does "outcome-based delivery" actually mean?

Instead of agreeing a day rate and counting days, you share the engagement — the scope and the result you need — and the specialist quotes for delivering it. Useful for well-defined pieces of work like a data migration, an integration or an upgrade.

How are specialists vetted?

Profiles are reviewed before they reach the bench, and CVs are parsed so that claimed skills line up with actual project history. Companies see availability, notice period and fee model up front so there are fewer wasted conversations.

Can I hire permanently, or only contract?

Both. The bench covers full-time, part-time, contract, freelance and outcome-based work — the specialist sets what they're open to, and you can filter on it.

When does it open?

The first cohort is forming now. Join the list below and we'll get you in as we open access, with founding-member terms locked in.

Early access

Be in the first cohort.

We're opening access in waves so the bench stays high quality on both sides. Tell us who you are and we'll bring you in with founding-member terms.

  • Founding-member terms, locked in for good
  • First pick of top Microsoft talent — and roles
  • Priority matching, ahead of everyone else

Join the waitlist

Be first through the door.

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