DepUp Information

We're building a future where professional labor will be decentralized while maintaining quality, flexibility, and ease-of-utilization. Large companies can afford full-time, expertly staffed technology, marketing, and HR departments. Medium and small businesses divide this work by giving employees multiple roles. Or, they will outsource it to various contractors and consultants. Problematically, contractors have high hourly rates, are difficult to vet when those hiring them lack domain expertise, and refuse to work cohesively with other contractors or consultants. DepUp is proposing a model to split the costs of full-time, expertly staffed departments among multiple client companies. For a fixed monthly fee, clients of DepUp purchase a specified number of hours from DepUp's three departments- technology, marketing, and HR. At the beginning of every month, an account manager consults with DepUp's clients to allocate that month's hours among DepUp's departments. This model, which DepUp calls departments-as-a-service, targets growing companies who cannot yet afford to fully staff and downsizing firms that are cutting extraneous labor costs.