There is a part of this marketplace I don't think anyone outside it has understood yet — and it is not the part everybody talks about.
The obvious half, and the interesting half
When you post your contract needs on Automate America, you are reaching thousands of available independent professionals. That part is obvious. That is what a marketplace does.
That is not the interesting half.
You are also reaching the available employees at 1,294 automation service companies around the world. Tens of thousands of skilled people who are on the bench right now — between projects, available this week.
And who those people are matters
They are not looking for a way out. They are gainfully employed professionals with in-house jobs at companies they have no intention of leaving. They are good, they are loyal, and their employers value them enormously and have no intention of losing them or laying them off.
So when there is a three-week gap between projects, that employer applies their person to work posted here. Their employee. Their payroll. Their decision.
Watch what happens next, because nobody loses
The professional does not miss a beat. No gap, no layoff, no sitting at a desk waiting for the next job to land. They keep working, they stay sharp, and very often they are on something more interesting than what was on their own schedule that month — in an industry their own company does not serve.
Then they bring it home. Their employer gets an engineer back who has now watched a completely different industry solve a familiar problem. Food and beverage sequencing turning up in a battery plant. An aerospace fixture discipline landing in automotive. That is experience the company did not have to pay to acquire.
And the service company keeps its people. Bench time becomes billable time. Nobody gets laid off in a slow quarter and rebuilt at expense in the busy one. They keep control of who goes, when, for how long, and at what rate, and their own customer relationships stay entirely theirs.
What the customer actually gets
This is the part that surprises people. You are not getting somebody working alone and hoping it goes well.
You are getting a professional with their company standing behind them. Hardware. Software. Licences. Somebody senior to call when the job gets strange at 11pm.
That is the same support you would have gotten by calling that service company directly — because in every way that matters, you did. Exactly what you needed, when you needed it, for as long as you needed it.
Let me say the important part plainly
The service companies supplying their people here are not competing with us, and we are not competing with them. They are the ones with the talent — decades of it, built deliberately, at real expense, one hire and one hard project at a time.
We are not a supplier. We are the place the posting lives, so a bench and a job can find each other. It is free for the service company and free for the customer, and it always has been.
To the service company owners reading this
Keep your team billable. That is the whole offer, and there is no catch in it.
- If you run a service company, your available people can be applied to open work today, on your payroll, at your rate, under your name. See what is open right now.
- If you need capacity, one free posting reaches the independents and the bench at the same time. Post your work here, free.
Measured on our own platform on 12 August 2026: 8,699 registered professionals and 2,714 registered businesses, with 2,221 contracts posted in total. Founded in 2001; the marketplace opened in 2018. Free to post, free to apply, free to hire.
We are different, and I think this is the future of work: a labor pool that exists nowhere else, reachable with one free and fair posting.
Now tell me where I am wrong, and I want the hostile version: is there anywhere else where a single posting reaches the benches of a thousand companies at once? I do not know of one — and if I am missing it, I would rather hear it than not.
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Tony Wallace
Co-Founder, Automate America
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