Labor analytics at the pace of work is what buyers pay up for.
For 20 years labor analytics reported by department, late and after the fact. AI now reads the schedule and the skill together, at the level where work gets done: task by task, job by job. Here is the finding, the two deal drivers behind it, and a first look inside the full analyst briefing.
WFM Consolidates Into TI-Led Leaders.
Labor analytics at the pace of work is what buyers pay up for.
The 2 deal drivers from the WFMI briefing: who owns the work, who owns the worker, and where the value joins
Capital is buying the record of the work: scheduling, time and labor platforms are being rolled into bigger HCM and payroll stacks.
The worker intelligence layer clears software multiples. The schedule underneath it does not price the same way.
The market math
What’s inside the full briefing
Inside the briefing: a first look
$1–50M, North America. Investor-backed leaders below. Private and early-stage rankings, including yours, are in the briefing.
| 1 | Tapcheck | $50M |
| 2 | TabaPay | $41M |
| 3 | ZayZoon | $36M |
| 4 | Payactiv | $32M |
| 5 | Pinwheel | $19M |
| 6 | PayQuicker | $14M |
| 7 | Rain | $13M |
| 8 | Wingspan | $9M |
| 9 | Clair | $8M |
| 10 | Zeal | $5M |
| 1 | Homebase | $49M |
| 2 | Fingercheck | $40M |
| 3 | Assembled | $35M |
| 4 | Smartlinx | $34M |
| 5 | OnShift | $29M |
| 6 | Legion | $29M |
| 7 | One Model | $25M |
| 8 | Bridgit | $24M |
| 9 | Nowsta | $14M |
| 10 | Prodoscore | $7M |
6 deals in 20 months, 4 of them in 2026: four strategic buyers and two sponsor platforms.
| Date | Acquirer ← Target | The join |
|---|---|---|
| Feb25 | Phenom ← EDGE | Talent × workforce planning |
| Oct25 | Dayforce ← Agentnoon | Planning × org intelligence |
| Jan26 | Prometheus ← Webalo | Frontline work × intelligence |
| Jan26 | Resurgens ← OrgChart · sponsor | Org charts × planning |
| Sep26 | Main Capital ← Orgvue · sponsor | Org design × planning |
| Oct26 | Unit4 ← Napta | Projects × skills |
The join is the gap: what WFM, TI and WFM × TI clear on the same revenue.
Founder questions, answered
Workforce management intelligence joins two records: WFM, the record of the work (schedules, hours, coverage), and talent intelligence, the record of the worker (skills, performance, proficiency). AI now joins them at five levels: job, team, project, machine and floor.
Six category deals in 20 months: Phenom and EDGE, Dayforce and Agentnoon, Prometheus and Webalo, Resurgens and OrgChart, Main Capital and Orgvue, and Unit4 and Napta. Four buyers are strategic and two are sponsor platforms, and four of the deals closed in 2026.
Talent intelligence clears 6.0 to 8.2x revenue on disclosed deals (median 6.6x), and WFM clears 1.5 to 7.5x (median 5.4x). None of the six category deals disclosed a multiple. On $10M of revenue, schedule-only WFM is worth about $54M and the joined model about $82M (illustrative).
The briefing ranks two lanes of $1 to 50M North American firms. FinTech covers earned wage access and payroll payments, led by Tapcheck at $50M. HR covers firms moving into the work layer, led by Homebase at $49M. Few firms hold the join today, and the largest is under $80M.
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