Credential verification. Portable skills passports. AI-enhanced matching.
Built for the EU AI Act and EUDI Wallet era.
Women in Innovation
Temporary share of staffing revenueUK 77%EU 86%US 89%SIA UK 2024 · WEC 2024 · ASA/PGC 2024
Lead times. High costs. Broken system.
Searchable, verified, bookable candidates. Able is the trust layer.
Verified profile. Skills, availability, video bio, credentials 🔒, bookable calendars.
Skills, availability, distance. No name, photo, or demographic.
Direct offer. Accept or decline. Multi-team and multi-shift.
Same-day pay. Workers 0%. Venues 8%. Three subscription tiers.
One worker. Multiple skills. Every sector.
Able sees all of you.
Skills-first matching for shift work became possible 24 months ago.
81% of employers use skills-based hiring · up from 56% in 2022.TestGorilla 2024
W3C VC 2.0 reached Recommendation status May 2025. EU AI Act high-risk recruitment obligations from 2 August 2026. EUDI Wallet mandatory across 27 EU Member States by 31 December 2026.
15–45% margins. Days–weeks to fill. Structurally untenable.
UK Employment Rights Bill, NHS reducing agency spend and Connect to Work programme, EU Platform Work Directive. Compliant by design wins.NHS Long Term Workforce Plan
SIA · WEC · REC · Beauhurst · Carta. Full workings in the investor memo.
"What you've just described doesn't exist."
— Ray Eitel-Porter, former Global Head of Responsible AI, Accenture
Credential verification today is manual, employer-by-employer, profession-by-profession. There is no functioning market to size — which is why we're building it. A standards-based credential infrastructure that touches every regulated profession: E.g. healthcare, energy/utilities, transportation, finance, security, construction.
Build funded · standards set · deadline dated.
One stack · all sectors · multiple geographies · margin compounds with scale.
Per-shift fee on every booking. Worker pays 0%. Migrating to Yapily Open Banking reduces payment cost to 0.3%. Savings accrue to Able.
£49 / £149 / £2,000+ per month. Tiered access for venues.
Permanent conversions from shift workers. £700 weighted average.
Coming FY29.
Coming FY 29, HR/finance services.
Agentic ethical AI as architecture.
Skills first by design.
Independently licensable SaaS / white-label. Portable skills passport across employers and borders.
Low autonomy AI. Algorithm sees skills, availability, distance only. Open-source ethics framework. Human oversight and ultimate decision maker. Compliant with EU AI Act high-risk recruitment requirements.
Compliant-by-design across data, identity, AI governance, information security.
Same-day pay at no cost to the worker. Algorithmic throttle so opportunity is shared.
Recognition triggers training (no star ratings). AI-enhanced career coaching. Trial-to-Hire from shift to permanent.
Live availability. Book a shift in seconds.
| Able | Indeed Flex | Stint | Coople | Temper | Instawork | Wonolo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operational | |||||||
| Time to fill | Minutes | Hours–days | Hours–days | Hours–days | Hours–days | Hours | Hours–days |
| Time to pay worker | Same day | Weekly | Weekly | Weekly | 14–30 days | Weekly | 1–5 days |
| Cost to venue | 8% | 15% | ~25% | 25–45% | 20–30% | 25–40% | 35–45% |
| Architecture | |||||||
| Credential verification engine | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Pseudonymised matching | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Training & development enabled AI | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Bookable calendars | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Global compliance preparedness | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
Architecture creates the differentiation. Incumbents would have to rebuild from the floor. Same-day pay at 100% with no worker fee is unique to Able. Source data audited May 2026.
Solopreneur · £50k angel · contracted backend lead · part-time intern.
Workers and hiring managers
Verified worker profiles
4 paid bookings · repeat customers · PAYG live since March 2026
Operational system in live use
Women in Innovation 2025/26 · awarded 29 April 2026
Two continents · three countries · eighteen months.
Disruptive infrastructure wins by deploying both sides at once. Uber and Airbnb earned trust through users. Able earns it through institutions.
Optimising for worker dignity and system fairness; Alexandra is proving workforce infrastructure can be efficient and profitable in an ethical, safe AI environment. As a VP at BlackRock in corporate strategy she worked with the BlackRock board including M&A, trading and compliance; as a fixed income business manager, she lead Aladdin implementation, organisation design, fund rationalisation and product improvement - so brings a deep understanding of institutional grade systems thinking, risk and technical reality of global organisations.
As a Manager at Deloitte consulting, Alexandra was a global lead on Fortune 100 (Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, DuPont) HR ERP transformations; building systems and writing policies so has unparalleled understanding of how HR is delivered at the local level.
King's College London alumna.
Cambridge MPhil · Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Authors Able's open-source ethics framework.
Senior engineering hire (CTO-track) — in active conversation.
Fractional COO · scale-up adviser · NED. Ex Microsoft, Meta, Expedia.