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The $1.3 Trillion Market Without a G2

Every major enterprise buying category gets its intelligence layer. The flexible workforce market—$1.3 trillion and growing—never got one. Until now.

Matthew MottolaMatthew MottolaJanuary 26, 20264 min read

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The Problem We Solve

Fortune 500 companies are drowning in flexible talent options. Staffing firms, freelance platforms, direct sourcing tools, managed service providers, SOW consultancies, talent marketplaces—hundreds of solutions, no standard way to evaluate them.

Procurement teams are making million-dollar decisions based on sales decks and RFP theater. They're comparing vendors who don't even belong in the same category. They're missing solutions that would fit perfectly because they didn't know they existed.

This is exactly where enterprise software was before G2: fragmented, confusing, and impossible to navigate without insider knowledge.

What Human Cloud Does

We built the intelligence layer for flexible talent solutions.

For Enterprises

Discover, compare, and evaluate every type of flexible workforce solution against standardized criteria. See which providers serve your industry, your geography, your compliance requirements. Make decisions based on verified data, not vendor claims.

For Solution Providers

Get discovered by the buyers actively searching for what you offer. Earn recognition through our merit and qualification system. Stop competing on who has the biggest sales team and start competing on who delivers the best outcomes.

Why Now

For a decade, this market has been in education mode. Enterprises were still learning what flexible talent even meant. Providers were still figuring out their positioning. The vocabulary didn't exist.

Thanks to our investments in media, research, and advisory, that work is done. The frameworks exist. Enterprises understand the category. Now they need a place to navigate it.

G2 didn't succeed because they invented software reviews. They succeeded because the market was finally ready for a systematic way to evaluate and compare. The flexible workforce market just hit that same moment.

The Platform the Industry Built

Human Cloud didn't parachute into this market. We've spent a decade in it—defining categories, establishing standards, educating enterprises on what good looks like. We built the frameworks the industry now uses.

Now we've built the platform where those frameworks come to life.

Key Takeaways

  • The $1.3T flexible workforce market has no standard intelligence layer—until now
  • Enterprises are making million-dollar decisions with no standardized way to evaluate solutions
  • Human Cloud built the frameworks this industry uses over the past decade
  • The market is finally ready for a systematic way to evaluate and compare—just like software was when G2 launched
Matthew Mottola

Matthew Mottola

CEO, Human Cloud

Matthew Mottola is the CEO of Human Cloud, the leading sourcing platform for companies to scale their future workforce. A serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and author of The Human Cloud book, published by HarperCollins; Matthew has been at the forefront of workforce tech for 15+ years. With an extended passport, Matthew has lived, led companies, and spoken across 50 international stages, while leading and advising global brands from Microsoft, to Novo Nordisk, to G7 Governments. On any given day you can find Matthew fighting his IDE in Singapore, San Francisco, or his hometown of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

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