LeadingEdge Personnel

What LeadingEdge Personnel does

LeadingEdge Personnel is a privately held staffing agency founded in 1995 by Kelly Hudson and Patty Yarbrough, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas with a second office in Austin. The company provides temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire placement services across five verticals: legal, medical, accounting, customer service/call center, and clerical/administrative support, with the latter serving as its primary differentiator. Employer clients are mid-market businesses in the Austin and San Antonio metropolitan areas that require clerical and office support staff; job seekers engage via the company's Avionte-based online application portal or are placed from a pre-screened talent pool.

The company operates a sales-led inside sales model built around a 30-minute response guarantee to employer job requests, with all internal staff holding Certified Staffing Professional (CSP) credentials from the American Staffing Association. The technology stack is non-proprietary and consists of a third-party Avionte ATS (with the Sonar candidate-facing portal hosted at hire.myavionte.com/sonar), a web-based job board (mycompas.net/lep), and an internal employee portal for timesheets, pay, and W-2 access. There are no disclosed patents, proprietary platforms, APIs, or technology partnerships.

The business model is transaction-fee based: employers pay staffing fees for temporary placements, conversion fees when temps become permanent hires, and one-time placement fees for direct hire placements through the company's Professional Placement Division. Marketing is conducted primarily through an active blog and standard social media channels (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Glassdoor). Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is negotiated per engagement. The firm is independently owned with no external investors, no parent company, no funding rounds, no acquisitions, and no disclosed revenue figures.

Name

LeadingEdge Personnel

Legal name

LeadingEdge Personnel

Website

https://leadingedgepersonnel.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

LeadingEdge Personnel is a privately held, dual-metro (Austin and San Antonio) staffing agency founded in 1995 that places clerical, administrative, legal, medical, accounting, and customer service personnel on temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire bases for mid-market employers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Staffing Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Temporary Help Services (561320), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & Regional Generalist Staffing Agencies (BPACACAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Administrative, Clerical & Office Support Direct Hire (BPACAFAF), Legal & Compliance Direct Hire (BPACAFAJ)

Keywords

• Staffing services
• Temporary staffing
• Direct hire placement
• Clerical staffing
• Administrative staffing

Headquarters

HQ city

San Antonio

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Temporary Staffing Placement Fees: Revenue is generated from employer clients who pay staffing fees to fill temporary positions. The company places clerical, administrative, legal, medical, accounting, and customer service personnel on a temporary basis.
2. Temp-to-Hire Placement: Employers pay placement fees when a temporary worker is converted to a permanent hire after a trial period.
3. Direct Hire Placement: The company's Professional Placement Division fills direct hire positions for a one-time placement fee.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

LeadingEdge Personnel is a regional staffing agency that recruits, screens, and places clerical, administrative, legal, medical, accounting, and customer service personnel for employer clients in Austin and San Antonio, Texas. The company operates three core engagement models — Temporary Staffing, Temp-to-Hire, and Direct Hire — through its Professional Placement Division. All internal recruiters hold Certified Staffing Professional (CSP) credentials and the firm guarantees a 30-minute response to employer requests.

Product overview

LeadingEdge Personnel is a staffing agency offering temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire staffing services to employers in Austin and San Antonio, Texas. Their core services include placement across five specialty areas: Legal Staffing and Support, Medical Staffing and Support, Accounting Staffing and Support, Customer Service and Call Center Staffing, and Clerical and Administrative Staffing. The company provides employee benefits including health insurance, free training, paid holidays, and performance-based rewards. An internal Employee Portal allows workers to submit time and access pay information. The company emphasizes that all staff hold Certified Staffing Professional credentials from the American Staffing Association.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Temporary Staffing

Quantifiable outcome

• 99% average customer satisfaction rating
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Robert Half International: Robert Half is the largest U.S. specialty staffing firm with a dedicated administrative and office support division that directly competes with LeadingEdge's core clerical/administrative focus, while also operating finance, legal, and technology staffing lines. It serves major Texas markets including Austin and San Antonio, making it a direct local competitor with vastly greater scale and brand recognition.
• Express Employment Professionals: Express Employment Professionals is one of the largest U.S. privately held staffing franchises, offering temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire staffing across administrative, commercial, and professional roles. It has franchise locations throughout Texas and competes with LeadingEdge for the same clerical and administrative placement business.
• Insight Global: Insight Global is a large U.S. staffing firm with a dedicated administrative and customer service staffing practice that competes for the same clerical and back-office placement work in Texas. Its larger recruiter bench and broader employer relationships make it a meaningful incumbent competitor.
• Kelly Services: Kelly Services is a global staffing firm with a dedicated administrative and customer service practice competing directly with LeadingEdge's core verticals. Kelly has Texas offices serving Austin and San Antonio employers, and offers similar temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire engagement models.
• Adecco Staffing: Adecco is a global staffing leader with a large U.S. administrative and clerical staffing practice that serves enterprise employers in Austin, San Antonio, and across Texas. Its scale, employer relationships, and VMS/MSP program access position it as a major incumbent competing for the same employer clients as LeadingEdge.

Direct peers

• Burnett Specialists: Burnett Specialists is a Texas-based staffing agency headquartered in Houston that places clerical, administrative, accounting, legal, and customer service professionals. It operates across multiple Texas metros with a similar vertical-focused, relationship-driven model, making it one of LeadingEdge's closest direct competitors in the same geographic region.
• The Reserves Network: The Reserves Network is a regional staffing firm providing temporary, temp-to-hire, and direct hire staffing across administrative, clerical, light industrial, and professional roles. It competes with LeadingEdge for mid-market administrative staffing contracts in regional Sun Belt markets.
• PrideStaff: PrideStaff is a privately held staffing company operating through franchised and company-owned offices across the U.S., with a strong clerical and administrative staffing focus similar to LeadingEdge. It competes for the same mid-market employers and candidates in Texas and other Sun Belt markets.
• Snelling Staffing Services: Snelling Staffing is a national staffing franchise network with offices across Texas that places administrative, clerical, accounting, and customer service professionals. Its locally owned franchise model mirrors LeadingEdge's regional, relationship-driven approach in the same clerical niche.
• CornerStone Staffing: CornerStone Staffing is a Texas-based staffing agency with offices in Dallas-Fort Worth and other Texas metros that places administrative, clerical, accounting, and customer service professionals. It runs a similar relationship-driven, multi-vertical model to LeadingEdge.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/leading_edge1
• Facebookfacebook.com/LeadingEdgePersonnel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/leadingedge-personnel
• Instagraminstagram.com/leadingedgepersonnel

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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