Oct 20, 2022

Utmost Software, established four years ago by sector veteran Annrai O'Toole and others, has been acquired by Beeline in Florida. Beeline bills itself as a leading technology solution provider for managing the global extended workforce, and Utmost is in the same space. O’Toole (57), one of the founders of Iona Technologies in the 1990s, established Utmost in 2018 with former Workday colleague Dan Beck, along with Paddy Benson, formerly with Groupon. Most of Utmost’s commercial activity has been in San Francisco. Utmost technology enables customers to view both employee and non-employee workforces by location and reporting structure. The Utmost ‘Front Door’ provides a single place for managers to request workers or work to be done across every channel of sourcing, and the platform supports staff augmentation, service providers, freelancers, SOW, consultants etc. in a single module. Beeline bills itself as a leading technology solution provider for managing the global extended workforce Utmost Connect provides more than 1,000 pre-built connectors to accelerate enterprise and third-party application integrations. O’Toole commented: “Beeline shares our vision of using technology to bring extended workforce management to every level of the organisation and value to every stakeholder of the contingent workforce ecosystem. “Beeline's innovation is not only centred on current workforce challenges but is driving the optimisation of tomorrow's workforce.” Beeline CEO Doug Leeby stated: “The future of work is powered by technology that unlocks the potential of every worker, regardless of classification. “We have a disciplined history of only acquiring companies that are rightful technology leaders that will deliver further value to our customers. The Utmost acquisition is particularly exciting in that it complements and accelerates our strategic roadmap and delivers clever and unique solutions to our customers on day one.” Leeby expects that integrating Utmost will allow smaller and mid-size Beeline customers to better customise the management of their extended workforces, as well as allow enterprises and partners to tailor contingent workforce management for internal divisions and new markets. In 2021, Beeline acquired JoinedUp , which helps employers manage shift work. The company says it has customers in 120 countries. Photo (l-r): Dan Beck, Annrai OToole and Paddy Benson