P Y R I O N

The Revenue Operating System
for Human Capital.

Pyrion runs a staffing firm’s entire Deal-to-Cash lifecycle & beyond on one agentic platform, recovering ~$5.4M a year for a typical $200M firm in leakage, re-keys & trapped cash. Built for the underserved mid-market of the $230B US staffing market today — the complete revenue-management & human-capital platform for the decades ahead.

Investor Pitch · Seed Round · Live Demo to Follow

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The Landscape

A $230B market, built on broken plumbing.

US staffing — and the underserved mid-market center Pyrion is built for:

$230B
US Staffing Market

SIA 2025. Mid-market ($50M–$500M) holds the largest share of independent staffing revenue.

$45B
IT & Pro Staffing

IT contract alone — the most stitched, mixed-workforce, MSP-heavy slice. Pyrion’s primary wedge.

~3,400
Mid-Market Firms

$50M–$500M firms — the underserved center. Workday/SAP are enterprise-only; Crelate/PCRecruiter SMB-only.

$700M+
SAM (Subscription)

3,400 firms × ~$200K blended ACV at full penetration — before services, training & connector revenue.

42%
MSP-Managed Spend

Of US contingent labor now flows through a VMS/MSP — up from 28% in 2018 (SIA Buyer Survey).

~65 days
DSO Industry Avg

Mid-market staffing; net-60 terms plus VMS-portal & late-pay tail. MSP-managed books push 80–95.

4–8%
Avg EBITDA Margin

Thin — every basis point of leakage is a percentage point of profit at this scale.

$10B+
Staffing-Tech M&A

2021–24: Bullhorn $3B, Magnit $2B+, Beeline $1B+, VNDLY $510M, JobDiva ~$300M. Capital is flowing in.

Sources: Staffing Industry Analysts (US Market Forecast 2025; Buyer Survey; Financial Benchmarks); public mid-cap 10-Ks; announced M&A 2021–2024.

The Friction

The gaps in the mid-market stack.

A mid-sized firm runs Deal-to-Cash across 5–7 disconnected systems, stitched together by people re-keying data — the front office and the back office never share a source of truth:

5–7
Disconnected Systems

The front-office ATS/CRM never talks to the payroll & GL that fulfill the deal. The middle (onboarding, contracts, timecards, invoicing) is glued by hand — and postings, accruals, reconciliations, period close and reporting are ignored entirely.

42%
Spend Routed Through a VMS

Of staffing dollars now flow through a VMS — Fieldglass, Beeline, Magnit, VNDLY — yet most stacks can’t speak it. Only continuous, native feeds from every VMS/MSP collapse 7–8 disconnected systems into one source of truth.

200+
Manual Touches / Placement

Across seven systems — and 50–70% of back-office effort is moving data between them, not serving clients.

5+
Unowned Compliance Regimes

Multi-state tax, EDI 834, I-9/E-Verify, COIs & 1099s on checklists no single system owns — a standing audit risk.

3–5%
Invoice-Error Rate

Adds 5–10 days to DSO per dispute; >10% adds 20+ days — on payroll obligations that never wait.

The incumbents each made one box better. Nobody owns the wiring between them — the orchestration layer. Sources: SIA; AR/DSO benchmarks, CreditPulse / industry.

The Bleed

Six hidden taxes — ~$5.4M a year.

What running on stitched systems costs a typical $200M-revenue firm, every year — and it scales with revenue.

1–3%
Tax 1 · Margin Leakage

Of revenue, annually — pay/bill mismatches, unbilled OT, missed markups, expired rate cards. The silent EBITDA killer no dashboard surfaces in time.

10–50 FTEs
Tax 2 · Re-key Headcount

Moving data between ATS, VMS, payroll, AP, benefits & GL. Pyrion compresses this to 5–20 FTEs — a 50–70% structural cut.

80–110 days
Tax 3 · Deal-to-Cash Cycle

Signed contract to collected cash. A ~3–4 week unbilled lag (onboarding, first timecards, billing setup) sits ahead of an industry DSO of ~65 days — net-60 terms plus the VMS-portal & late-pay tail; MSP-managed books push 80–95. At $200M revenue, AR alone ties up ~$35M — and every 5 days shaved frees ≈ $2.7M of working capital.

10–20 days
Tax 4 · Month-End Close

Calendar days from cut to close — roughly half spent reconciling stitched systems and chasing the manual GL accrual spreadsheet.

$50K–$200K
Tax 5 · Software Stack

Annual spend across seven point apps Pyrion replaces: ATS add-ons, timekeeping, AP automation, benefits, expense, AR collections, BI.

3–8% of WOs
Tax 6 · Audit Risk

Carry an undocumented override, missing compliance artifact, or mis-classified worker — SOC 2, ACA & DOL exposure no spreadsheet defends.

Figures for a $200M firm from published benchmarks (SIA, TechServe Alliance / ASA, industry AR/DSO studies). Pyrion seals all six at once.

The Opening

Three tailwinds, all blowing now.

The mid-market gap is widening as three structural forces converge — and Pyrion sits squarely at their intersection:

~36%
Workforce Now Contingent

~59M Americans freelance today; contingent labor heads toward ~50% by 2050 — more placements, more complexity to run.

87%
Adopting AI in Hiring

Recruiter productivity +60% and ~27% profit uplift where AI runs the admin — the agentic shift Pyrion is built on.

$1B+
Segment Software SAM

What ~3,400 mid-market & mid-enterprise firms will spend on the human-capital & revenue stack — growing double digits, Pyrion’s runway beyond its ~$700M staffing-OS core.

Current opportunity: own the orchestration layer for the ~3,400 mid-sized & mid-enterprise firms ($50M–$500M). Future opportunity: the full human-capital stack for all ~25,000 US firms and beyond.

Sources: SHRM State of AI in HR 2026; Bullhorn 2026 Trends; freelance/contingent data (Upwork, Statista, ASA); HCM market growing ~10% CAGR (Mordor, Fortune Business Insights, TBRC). Segment HCM spend = ~3,400 firms × Pyrion ACV (core ~$185K; higher as the platform deepens into full HCM).

The Answer

One platform, every gap closed.

That gap is exactly what Pyrion fills. One agentic operating system orchestrates — and now runs — every signed deal from contract to collected cash: 11 lifecycles, 13 modules, zero stitching. “Where talent ignites revenues.”

$5.4M+
Recovered a Year

At $200M revenue — leakage, re-keys & trapped cash, sealed.

3–5×
Operational ROI

Payback in under six months — the CFO math.

13
Modules, One Roar

Every facet of staffing operations, fused into one engine.

0
Direct Competitors

At the orchestration-architecture layer for mid-market staffing.

Where the ~$5.4M comes back, every year (at a $200M firm)
Recovered / yrHow Pyrion captures itAt $200M firm
Margin leakage sealedPay/bill matched, OT & markups billed, early-end caught$2.0–4.0M
Re-key labor redeployed50–70% of data-movement headcount onto clients$1.2–2.0M
Cash freed from DSOSame-cycle invoicing & automated collections$0.8–1.2M
Compliance & auditTax, COIs, EDI & 1099 locked into the cascade$0.3–0.6M
Stack consolidated5–7 point apps retired$0.2–0.5M
Total recoveredEvery year, scaling with revenue~$5.4M+

The Core

Everyone manages records. Pyrion orchestrates lifecycles.

Deal
Deploy
Pay
Monetize
Clear
Release
Cash
Balance
Recognize
Close

🎛️ Control Tower

The single command layer — nothing moves without its signal.

⚙️ Lifecycle Engine

Every flow — Deal-to-Cash, New-Hire-to-Retire, Procure-to-Pay — as one.

🔗 Integration Backbone

Binds every module natively — no middleware, no silos.

The Master Agent
Engagement Hub

One signal, ten reactions, zero re-keying. Stop it and every flow flatlines; pulse it and the whole firm beats in time.

10×
Deal→Cash
0
re-keys
1
source of truth
42%
MSP/VMS spend

⚡ Event Bus

One change ripples platform-wide — one signal, ten reactions.

🔮 Predictive Radar

Sees the miss while you can still prevent it — foresight, not forensics.

🛩️ Autopilot

Self-driving Work Orders — set policy, clear exceptions.

Without the Engagement Hub, you have a database. With it, you have Pyrion.

The Fireplace

Run the whole firm from one screen.

The CEO Fireplace is where the numbers, the fire and the call all meet — a live operating screen for the CEO who runs the firm, not the one who reads about it three weeks later. Proof the platform is a running product, not a mockup.

Live, not rear-view

Real-time KPIs over a rolling four-year trend. You see whether the team hits target this month or quarter — while you can still act, not in a post-mortem three weeks later.

Numbers + fire + call

One screen for the CEO who runs the firm. Drill from any tile straight into the underlying lifecycle — the deals, Work Orders and records behind the number — in two clicks.

Beyond reporting

A live operating system, not a BI dashboard. It doesn’t summarize what happened — it runs what’s happening. Approve a deal, escalate an aging WO, redirect a CRO, and it fires back into the cascade immediately.

On the screen, live
A CFO closes the books. A CEO runs the fire. The Fireplace is where they run it from.

The Edge

They digitize tasks. Pyrion orchestrates the business.

  native   partial / via integration   absent or external
CapabilityWhat it doesBullhorn OneAviontéCEIPALJobDivaTempWorksPyrion
ATS & CRMApplicant Tracking + Customer Relationship Mgmt — out-of-scope; Pyrion integrates, not replaces
Unified Workforce EngineW-2, 1099 & C2C consultants on one Work Order; three economies, one engine
Native VMSWorks directly with Fieldglass, Beeline, Magnit and VNDLY, so rate limits and terms stay set on the Work Order
Vendor-Out EnginePays C2C subcontractors with 3-way match and committed vendor POs
Accrual EngineNative GL accruals post automatically at every cut; no spreadsheet bridge
Continuous CloseMonth-end drops from 10–20 days to mostly automatic
Automated ReconciliationVMS, HRMS and accounting auto-reconciled — line-by-line, every cycle
Engagement Cascade EngineOne Work Order save fires onboarding, payroll, invoicing, benefits, assets and GL
Unified LifecyclesAll 11 lifecycles, Deal to Cash, in one unbroken motion
Predictive RadarFires before the month is lost — foresight, not forensics
MSA Precedence + Audit TrailContract terms govern automatically, with a full override audit trail
EDI 834 Benefits EnrollmentAutomated carrier enrollment — Aetna, BCBS, Cigna
Live CEO FireplaceRun the firm from one live operating screen, not a BI dashboard

Source: public product docs, customer interviews & SIA buyer-evaluation guides, 2026. ATS/CRM is deliberately out-of-scope for Pyrion — it integrates with the incumbent rather than replacing it.

The Flywheel

Eight tiers. Linear on headcount.

Payrolled EmployeesBase / moPer-Emp / moConnectors / moTotal / moACV (annual)% of Cust. Spend
500$2,000$10.00$2,400$9,400$112,8000.23%
750$2,000$9.00$2,400$11,150$133,8000.18%
1,000$2,000$8.00$2,400$12,400$148,8000.15%
1,500$2,000$7.00$2,400$14,900$178,8000.12%
2,000$2,000$6.50$2,400$17,400$208,8000.10%
3,000$2,000$6.00$2,400$22,400$268,8000.09%
4,000$2,000$5.50$2,400$26,400$316,8000.08%
5,000$2,000$5.00$2,400$29,400$352,8000.07%
~80%
Gross Margin

Vertical-SaaS economics — cost scales far slower than ARR.

<0.25%
of Customer Revenue

High-value, low-friction — defensible in any CFO procurement.

>120%
Net Revenue Retention

Existing customers pay ~20% more each year as they grow — no new sales needed.

Base $2,000/mo + per-employee tier; connectors flat across tiers — MSP/VMS $1,200 · HRIS $600 · benefits $400 · accounting $200 ($2,400/mo). Source: Pyrion Subscription Revenue Model.

The Trajectory

146 logos. $27M ARR. $270M exit.

YearLogosRevenueYoYExit ARR
202725$1.6M$3.0M
202850$5.2M+225%$7.5M
202975$9.6M+85%$12.5M
2030111$15.4M+60%$20.0M
2031146$23.6M+53%$27.0M

Logos cumulative · revenue recognized · Exit ARR = end-of-year run-rate. Pyrion projections, illustrative; $270M base = 10× exit ARR.

The Inflection

The window is open now.

Three forces make this the moment the orchestration layer gets built — and won by whoever moves first.

Agentic AI is ready

Software can finally run the cross-system cascade end-to-end, not just record it. 53% of organizations plan to increase AI use in hiring over two years.

Mid-market is stranded

Enterprise suites are too heavy; point tools solve one box. ~3,400 mid-market & mid-enterprise firms have no platform built for them — and the incumbents can’t scale down to serve them.

The work is exploding

A contingent workforce heading to ~50% means more placements, more compliance, more complexity — and more pain Pyrion removes.

First mover at the architecture layer sets the defaults the rest of the market inherits. Sources: SHRM 2026; ASA; Upwork/Statista.

The Thesis

Why this is the bet.

A category-defining wedge into a $230B market, a credible path to a $30B+ HCM platform, a real product live day one, and an entry priced at the floor — before the pilots prove it. The risk is structured out; the upside is structured in.

$13.5M
Floor Entry

Priced before pilot proof — the cheapest Pyrion will ever be.

0
Direct Rivals

No one owns the mid-market orchestration layer. A category to define.

13×
Base-Case Return

On the $270M base exit; 22× on the $465M upside.

Live
Product, Day One

Downside protected by a real, runnable platform — not a slide.

You’re buying a working product at pre-revenue pricing, in an uncontested category, with a decade-long expansion path — and, for the right partner, the platform’s own ROI on top.

The Round

$3.0M seed at $13.5M post.

Raising a $3.0M seed to fund the pilots, the integration build, and the first recurring revenue — the floor price, before pilot proof re-prices the next round upward. Here is where the capital goes.

45%
Pilots & Integrations

Build & ship the VMS / payroll / HRMS / GL connectors with the first firms.

25%
Go-to-Market

Land the first paying customers and the five charter partners.

20%
Team

Core engineering to harden the platform in production.

10%
Runway & Ops

~18 months to a milestone-gated, higher-priced Series A.

The Round
$3.0M

at a $13.5M post-money — and three ways to come in, on the next slide.

Your Seat

Three ways in. Invest, or partner.

The same $3.0M round, three ways to participate — each built for a different kind of backer. Be a strategic partner, the sole investor, or stage your conviction. One of these is yours.

A 5 seats

Charter Partner

Partner + Investor
$500K
one of five founding seats
  • Equity + warrant + founding commercial terms
  • Lifetime pricing lock & a voice on the roadmap
  • You also run the platform — return de-risked by real operating value
4.9×
Floor
13×
Base
22×
Upside
C Open

Tranched Strategic

Stage your conviction
$1.5M+$1.5M
second tranche on pilot milestone
  • SAFE — 20% discount, $13.5M cap
  • Capital gated on proof; co-invest allowed
  • Lowest-risk entry — flexible, milestone-protected
4.5×
Floor
12×
Base
20×
Upside

Multiples on the $270M base unless noted. The Charter seat adds the platform’s own operating ROI on top of the equity. Full terms in the “Three Ways In” options deck.

The Payoff

What the seed becomes.

On the lead position, at the same $13.5M entry. Three exit scenarios — and no scenario is a loss at this price.

Floor · $103M exit
4.9×

Even the downside returns nearly 5× at this entry.

Base · $270M exit
13×

The central case — a low-double-digit multiple.

Upside · $465M exit
22×

The category-winner case — before HCM + FCM expansion.

Illustrative; final pricing set at close. The Charter seat adds the platform’s operating ROI on top of the equity multiple.

Live Fire

The rest of this session
is live.

Everything in this pitch — the 14-step cascade, the thirteen modules, the CEO Fireplace command center — is a running product, not a mockup. The demo that follows shows it firing on real workflows.

13
modules, live
1
Work Order → 14 steps
$5.4M+
recovered / yr

Live demo · CEO Fireplace & the full Deal-to-Cash flow

The Invitation

Own the layer
everyone re-keys around.

A $230B market today, a $30B+ human-capital platform ahead, no rival at the architecture layer, all thirteen modules live day one, and a $3.0M seed priced at the floor.

“Where talent ignites revenues.

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