Built by the people who lived the problem.
We ran a recruitment agency for seven years. Now we build the tools we wished we'd had.
From agency owners to agency enablers.
For seven years, we ran an education recruitment agency. We placed supply teachers into schools across the UK, finding, checking and booking them by phone, and dealt with the same broken processes every other agency faces.
We saw first-hand how the system fails both sides. Agencies waste hours chasing references that never come back. The people who can give the reference, a former headteacher, a line manager, another agency, are busy, so the chase drags for days. Candidates are stuck in the middle, waiting.
Mike, a former teacher himself, understood the school side. The rest of us knew the agency side inside out. Together we'd seen the full picture, and we knew it could be better.
Seven years making these calls ourselves. Now PassQ makes them for you.
PassQ is what came out of that. We built it to fix what we couldn't fix from inside an agency: chasing that runs itself, checks that don't slip through, and bookings, timesheets and pay on the same system. It started in education, where we lived it. The same system now runs care and healthcare too, because the job is the same everywhere: get good people cleared and working, fast.
Today we run our own placements on PassQ every day, and we build it for the agencies we used to compete with. We know what they need because we needed it too.
The people building for the industry we know.
Mike
Co-founder & CEO
Twelve years in schools as a teacher and senior leader, then seven running our agency with Raina and Dan. He knows both ends of every placement call.
Dan
Co-founder & COO
Co-founded and ran the agency with Mike and Raina, placing hundreds of teachers and support staff. Every part of PassQ fixes something he used to do by hand.
Raina
Brand ambassador
Co-founded and ran the agency with Mike and Dan for seven years. She sees care from the inside, and speaks for PassQ in both sectors.
Paul
Co-founder & CTO
Three-time CTO who has built the platforms behind education businesses. He designed and built PassQ, including the voice agent that makes our reference calls.
Garry
Advisor
Former SaaS CEO who raised institutional funding and took the company through several acquisitions. Brings the commercial lens to PassQ.