Gear Partners

What Gear Partners does

Gear Partners is a private, remote-first professional services firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina that specializes exclusively in Bullhorn software for the staffing and recruitment industry. The company sells four service lines: Consulting (independent reviews of Bullhorn usage, adoption, and ROI risk), Implementation Services (end-to-end deployment of Bullhorn ATS/CRM, Back Office, Automation, Analytics, VMS Sync, Onboarding, and Career Portal), Bullhorn Training & Optimization (adoption assessment plus a structured 2-day optimization workshop that includes SWOT analysis and AI integration evaluation), and Project and Program Management Staff Augmentation Services (contract PM/PMO resourcing for client implementations). Its underlying technology is the Bullhorn ATS/CRM platform itself rather than proprietary code; differentiation rests on Bullhorn-specialist configuration, customizations, and operational know-how built across 400+ implementations over 10+ years.

The business operates as a boutique consulting firm rather than a SaaS or product company, with revenue generated through project-based professional services contracts plus contract and contract-to-hire staff augmentation engagements. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is structured quote-by-quote based on scope and duration, with job postings referencing individual project budgets up to $1M and engagements lasting 6+ months. Go-to-market is consultative and low-noise, relying on the Gear Partners website, Bullhorn Marketplace partner visibility, direct client relationships, and client referrals; the firm states it serves 15 industries and markets itself to mid-market and enterprise staffing firms.

The company was co-founded by two former staffing executives, with Dan Royle serving as Managing Partner and Maria Papadopoulos as Strategic Implementation Partner. The founding team's combined 30+ years of staffing operations experience (including prior VP-level roles at a large staffing firm) is the primary source of differentiation. Gear Partners is privately held with no disclosed investors, parent entity, subsidiaries, or acquisition history, and operates with a small remote delivery team as indicated by its limited current job postings.

Name

Gear Partners

Legal name

Gear Partners

Website

https://gearpartners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Gear Partners is a remote-first professional services firm that implements, optimizes, and provides training for Bullhorn ATS/CRM exclusively for staffing and recruitment companies, with 400+ implementations completed over 10+ years.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Charlotte

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Consulting: Consulting services to assess client usage, adoption, and efficiency around Bullhorn investment. Includes independent reviews, health/risk assessments, and recommendations for improvement.
2. Implementation Services: Full Bullhorn implementation services including ATS/CRM, Back Office, Onboarding, Automation, Analytics, VMS Sync, Career Portal, and data migration. Project-based or contract work.
3. Bullhorn Training & Optimization: Training services for new release features, ongoing application management, and adoption optimization. Includes GP Optimization 2 Day Workshop.
4. Staff Augmentation Services: Project and program management staff augmentation to support clients during software implementations and daily operations. Contract-based staffing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Gear Partners is a professional services firm that implements, optimizes, and supports Bullhorn ATS/CRM and related Bullhorn products (Automation, Analytics, VMS Sync, Onboarding, Back Office, Career Portal) for staffing and recruitment companies. The firm delivers consulting, end-to-end implementation, data migration, training, and project management staff augmentation services as a Bullhorn Marketplace partner with over 10 years of specialization and more than 400 implementations completed.

Product overview

Gear Partners is a consulting and professional services firm that provides specialized Bullhorn staffing software implementation, training, optimization, and project management services. The company's offerings include Consulting (independent review of Bullhorn usage and efficiency), Implementation Services (full deployment of Bullhorn ATS/CRM, Onboarding, Back Office, Automation, Analytics, VMS Sync, and Career Portal), Bullhorn Training & Optimization (adoption assessment and optimization workshops), and Project and Program Management Staff Augmentation. Gear Partners is a Bullhorn Marketplace partner with over 10 years of experience and more than 400 implementations delivered.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Consulting Independent review of a staffing company's usage, adoption, and efficiency around their Bullhorn investment, evaluating overall health, risk profile, and customer satisfaction, and providing recommendations for improvement. Targeted at staffing companies seeking to optimize their existing Bullhorn deployment.
• Implementation Services End-to-end staffing software implementation services covering Bullhorn ATS/CRM, recruiting and sales/data migration, Bullhorn Onboarding, Bullhorn Back Office (time, expense, invoicing), Bullhorn Automation, Career Portal, VMS Sync, and Bullhorn Analytics. Designed for staffing companies deploying or upgrading their Bullhorn platform.

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• BullhorncoreTechnology or IntegrationGear Partners is a Bullhorn Marketplace partner and the market leader in recruitment software. Gear Partners specializes in implementing and optimizing Bullhorn products including ATS/CRM, Automation, Analytics, VMS Sync, Onboarding, and Back Office. They collaborate with Bullhorn's Professional Services and Senior Architects to deliver comprehensive solutions to clients.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Workable: Mid-market ATS/CRM platform competing with Bullhorn; large Workable wins among staffing firms would represent lost addressable market for Gear Partners.
• Cielo: Global RPO and talent acquisition consulting firm that, like Gear Partners, sells implementation and optimization services to large employers—but at much greater scale and with multi-vendor technology practices.
• Greenhouse: Leading ATS/CRM platform competing with Bullhorn across mid-market and enterprise staffing and recruiting organizations; represents a substitution risk for any current or prospective Gear Partners client.
• Bullhorn: The vendor of the ATS/CRM platform that Gear Partners exclusively implements. Bullhorn operates its own Professional Services team that competes for the same clients and is the structural anchor of Gear Partners' entire service portfolio.
• iCIMS: Major enterprise talent acquisition platform that competes with Bullhorn and therefore defines the alternative-vendor landscape in which Gear Partners' clients might choose to standardize, affecting Bullhorn partner demand.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm with a talent acquisition technology practice that competes for the same enterprise staffing and HR transformation consulting dollars as Gear Partners.
• Accenture: Global consulting firm whose HR transformation and talent acquisition technology practices serve enterprise staffing clients on multi-vendor implementations, including Bullhorn.
• Randstad: Global staffing firm with proprietary technology and internal consulting capabilities; competes for the same enterprise staffing-software transformation engagements and represents a potential in-house alternative to engaging Gear Partners.
• Lever: Talent acquisition suite (ATS + CRM + sourcing) directly competing with Bullhorn in the staffing and recruiting market where Gear Partners sells implementation services.
• Deloitte: Big Four advisory firm with HR technology implementation practices that compete for large, multi-workstream Bullhorn and competitor ATS deployments in the staffing industry.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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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