Why Breeze

How Breeze compares to alternatives.

Dedicated, full-time, AI-trained. Not freelancers.Freelancers juggle five clients and disappear. Recruiters charge $15K and walk away. BPOs give you a seat on someone else's floor. Breeze places a dedicated professional who works full 40-hour weeks only for you, AI-trained, vetted, and fully managed, at 60–70% less than a local hire.

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Speed

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Traditional Agencies
Time to first candidate
72 hours
Days–weeks
2–4 weeks
4–8 weeks
Onboarding time
3–5 days
DIY
1–2 weeks
2–4 weeks

Cost

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Average cost
$9–$35/hr all-in
$15–$80/hr + fees
$12–$40/hr + overhead
$30–$100/hr + markup
Hidden fees
none
Service fees 5–20%
HR + payroll add-ons
Placement fee + margin
One invoice covers everything

Quality & Vetting

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Vetted, AI-certified candidates
Skills testing before presentation
AI-matched to your brief, you interview every finalist
Replacement guarantee
2 weeks, no cost
none
varies
varies

Management

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Payroll fully managed
HR and compliance handled
Dedicated account manager
Growth & Enterprise
Enterprise only
IP ownership stays with client
varies

Flexibility

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Part-time options
Scale up or down
limited
Mix of roles under one account

vs. Freelance Platforms

  • Forces you to manually sift through hundreds of raw applicants yourself
  • No curated shortlists—you handle the heavy lifting instead of getting the 3 best matches
  • Completely unvetted talent pools with no verified technical or AI-operator expertise
  • Zero HR, compliance, or payroll management, leaving you with the legal overhead

vs. BPO Providers

  • Rigid minimum team size requirements built for enterprise, not flexible roles
  • Slow 2–4 week setup timelines before anyone actually begins working
  • Traditional skillsets lacking specialized, modern AI and automation capabilities
  • High overhead structures that don't scale gracefully for individual expert placements

vs. Traditional Agencies

  • Extremely markup-heavy with hidden 30–50% margins added to talent costs
  • Sluggish 4–8 week headhunting timelines instead of rapid, direct matching
  • Transactional 'placement-and-done' model with no ongoing infrastructure support
  • Rarely understand modern AI tools or how to vet specialized automation engineers

vs. Offshore Staffing Agencies

  • Typical matching takes 1–3 weeks of headhunting, we match in 72 hours
  • “AI-proficient” is often just a marketing line, every Breeze candidate passes a hands-on AI-tooling assessment and certification before joining the bench
  • Most gate pricing behind a sales call, our rates are published on every service page
  • Multi-role hiring is usually ad hoc, we offer productized Team Buildouts and Human + AI hybrid teams with one point of contact

Seven stages. Most applicants don't make it.

Every Breeze professional passes: application screen → role-specific skills test → hands-on AI-tooling assessment → live English & problem-solving interview → background and reference checks → AI-stack certification. We accept only a small fraction of applicants, and we pay top-of-market in their region, which is why they stay. And you're the final gate: you interview every finalist before anyone starts.

Lower cost. Not lower caliber.

The math is geography, not quality: top-of-market professional pay in Manila or Bogotá is 60–70% below Miami. We pay our people at the top of their local market, that's why our talent stays, and why your rate is a fraction of a US salary with zero compromise on the person.

Common questions

The riskiest version of this is a two-week trial.

Kick off your match today: 2–3 vetted, AI-trained candidates within 72 hours. You interview them, nobody starts, and nothing's owed, until you say yes. Month-to-month. 2-week replacement guarantee.

Matched in 72 hours
You interview before anyone starts
Month-to-month, no lock-in
Free replacement, 2-week guarantee