About Us
With over 25 years of collective experience managing large teams of freelancers for broadcasters, production companies, and VFX studios, we understand the challenges businesses face.
From handling fast-paced, last-minute productions to sourcing niche talent for intricate VFX shots, we know what it takes to scale operations and deliver when it matters most.
Our team is united by a single mission: making it simpler for busy businesses to connect with their skilled and available freelancers.
Based in the UK and working with clients worldwide, we’re here to help. Reach out or swing by for a chat – our coffee is second to none!
Managing teams of freelancers for a number of broadcast facilities using spreadsheets, SMS, email and lots of coffee!
We decided to embark on building a centralised booking platform to make things easier for everyone involved.
We build the first wireframes and get feedback from a number of companies on how they would want to use a platform to manage freelance requirements.
Go live with v1 of the product, running in GCP with a mobile browser version. Quickly scaling to 500 bookings made in the platform each month.
A number of UK facilities choose Hive to manage their freelancer workforce ahead of IR35 changes.
At this stage we are routinely managing over 2000 bookings each month and deploy a number of features aimed at making onboarding and booking talent far easier.
2024 V2 of Hive is deployed with expanded feature set aimed to support business that want to build their own private freelancer network.
Hive is trusted by a number of content owners, production companies and creative studios to onboard, schedule and pay their freelancers across the globe.