Consent First, Always
No employee profile goes live without explicit opt-in consent. Employees are briefed on the program, understand how their information is used, and can withdraw at any time. Their dignity is non-negotiable.
Professional sports figured out a better way to move talent decades ago. We adapted it for the modern workplace.
In professional sports leagues like the NFL, NBA, and MLB, teams constantly face roster decisions. A player might be healthy and talented, but they don't fit the team's current direction. Maybe a team went young, changed their scheme, or got over the salary cap.
So instead of just releasing a player into the void, teams put them on waivers. Other teams can claim that player within a set window. The talent stays in the game. The releasing team avoids dead cap space limbo. Everyone moves forward faster.
It's elegant, efficient, and has worked for decades. And yet, in corporate America, we still hand out pink slips and watch great people scramble on LinkedIn.
The insight: Most layoffs aren't about performance. They're about fit, timing, or org structure. That means the talent is still good. It just needs a new team.
You've made a hard call. The goal now is to execute it well, protecting your people, your culture, and your employer brand all at once.
Join the waitlist and we'll set up your company account. We'll walk you through onboarding personally and have you live on the platform within a few days.
Tell the platform about the employees you're transitioning. AI generates a complete anonymized, skills-forward profile automatically. Personal identifiers are stripped, relevant skills are tagged, and the profile is formatted to attract the right hiring companies. The process takes minutes, not hours.
Profiles are published to verified hiring companies on the platform. You set the timeline, typically a 2–3 week window. Hiring companies can submit interest and requests to connect.
When a match is made, we introduce both parties and step back. The hiring company, your employee, and your team work out the details directly. The Wire is the handshake, not the contract.
Every successful transition teaches the platform something. Which skills transfer across industries, which roles clear fastest, which matches stick. The more companies use The Wire, the sharper it gets.
The Wire gives you access to pre-vetted, currently-employed talent before they hit the open market. No sifting through thousands of applications. No sourcing cold leads. Just warm, available talent.
Tell us what roles you're looking to fill, the skills you need, and your culture context. Our system surfaces the most relevant available talent automatically.
The platform automatically surfaces the most relevant available candidates based on your open roles, required skills, industry, and compensation range. You get a ranked shortlist, not a stack of profiles to sort through manually.
Submit interest on candidates you want to pursue. Before you commit, the platform shows you a fit score based on role requirements, company stage, and industry signals, so you're going in with better information. We make the introduction directly to the candidate. From there, you take it. Your conversation, your timeline, your offer.
Because candidates are already employed and actively in transition, timelines are compressed. You're working with motivated, available talent, not waiting on a cold pipeline. From intro to offer is often under two weeks.
Like any good league, The Waiver Wire runs on rules that protect everyone involved, especially the employees at the center of every transaction.
No employee profile goes live without explicit opt-in consent. Employees are briefed on the program, understand how their information is used, and can withdraw at any time. Their dignity is non-negotiable.
Profiles are skills-forward and anonymized until a verified match is confirmed. Personal identifiers (name, photo, LinkedIn) are only shared after both parties agree to move forward.
Each talent profile has a defined availability window, typically 2–3 weeks. If no claim is made during that window, the company and employee decide together on next steps. Nothing drags on indefinitely.
Every company on The Wire is verified. No ghost listings, no fake postings. Both releasing and hiring companies are screened before platform access is granted.
Employee profiles are built from information endorsed by the releasing company. Candidates can remove details they'd prefer not to share, but cannot add unendorsed credentials or experience. Every profile on The Wire reflects verified professional history.
The Waiver Wire facilitates connections, not contracts. Companies and individuals are responsible for their own employment agreements and compliance with applicable law. Think of us as the introduction, not the intermediary.
Once a match is made, both sides take it from there. Offer terms, start dates, agreements: that's between the companies and the individual. We don't sit in the room after the handshake.
Join the waitlist and be among the first companies on the platform. The best teams are already paying attention.