Trusted since 2017 · 100+ companies scaled

Where talent meets scale — without the overhead of building it yourself.

Escala Manpower is the offshore-enabled growth partner for staffing, IT services and mid-market companies across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. We plug in sales pods, recruiters, GCC teams and back-office operations — priced, scoped and running in weeks, not quarters.

9 yrs
In market
8
Countries delivered in
100+
Companies served
7
Service lines, one partner
About Escala

A global delivery firm built for companies ready to scale offshore.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in India, Escala Manpower has spent nine years helping small and midsize companies across India, the US, Canada, Spain and Germany build high-performing teams and back-office engines without the cost or risk of doing it alone.

Who we are

A strategic talent and growth partner — not a staffing agency and not a generic BPO. We embed inside your go-to-market and delivery functions and run them like they're our own.

Our mission

To give growing businesses scalable, cost-effective, high-impact offshore solutions that drive real revenue and operational transformation, not just headcount.

How we work

Every engagement runs on one of three delivery models: a lightweight Bridge Model for quick starts, a 90-day PoC → MVP track to prove value fast, or a dedicated Pod Model for teams that need to scale continuously.

India — HQ & delivery centers United States Canada United Kingdom Spain Germany
Solutions

Seven ways to plug Escala into your growth engine.

Pick one service to start, or run several in parallel — every engagement is scoped, priced up front, and managed by a named point of contact.

Sales-as-a-Service

An outsourced BD pod that builds pipeline, books meetings and manages your funnel.

See pricing →

Recruitment & Staff Augmentation

Dedicated recruiters sourcing and closing candidates against your open roles.

See pricing →

Talent Partnership

A single offshore partner covering sales, recruitment and operations under one roof.

See pricing →

Free Growth Consulting

A custom growth blueprint for your business — usually $2,500, free right now.

Claim it free →

Sourcing-as-a-Service

Verified candidate pipelines delivered on a schedule, without a full recruiting build-out.

See pricing →

GCC Setup

Stand up your own Global Capability Center in India without building the entity yourself.

See pricing →

Subsidiary Setup / BOT

Build-Operate-Transfer: we build your legal entity and team, you take the keys when ready.

See pricing →

Not sure which model fits?

A 20-minute call maps it out — no pitch deck required.

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Industries

Built for teams that can't afford to get hiring or GTM wrong.

Escala's delivery playbooks are tuned to the compliance, talent scarcity and buying cycles of these industries specifically — not generic staffing templates.

BFSI

Banking, financial services & insurance — compliance-heavy hiring and vendor consolidation support.

Healthcare IT

HIPAA-aware delivery for health tech platforms, payers and provider-facing software teams.

SaaS & Technology

Engineering, sales and CS staffing for VC-backed and bootstrapped software companies.

Retail Tech

Commerce, supply chain and POS platform teams scaling around seasonal demand.

Cloud & Infrastructure

DevOps, SRE and cloud migration talent for teams modernizing their stack.

Staffing & IT Services Firms

We become the offshore delivery arm behind other staffing and consulting firms' client commitments.

Professional Services

Back-office, ops and support functions for consulting and advisory firms.

Manufacturing & Industrial Tech

Engineering and operations support for industrial software and hardware teams.

Services & Pricing

Transparent pricing. No "contact us for a quote" games.

Every tier below is a real, current price — not a floor for negotiation theater. Pick a tier, or tell us your goal on a free growth consulting call and we'll scope a custom mix.

1. Sales-as-a-Service

An outsourced business development pod — research, outreach, meetings booked, pipeline managed.

Monthly retainer

Starter — Lead Intelligence

$1,000/mo
ICP definition, lead gen & enrichment, market research
  • 50+ verified prospects/month
  • ICP & market mapping
  • No outreach included
  • Monthly reporting

Enterprise — Dedicated Sales Pod

$5,000/mo
A full-time offshore SDR/BDR running your funnel end-to-end
  • Everything in Growth
  • Dedicated full-time rep
  • CRM & sequence ownership
  • Runs without an in-house salesperson

2. Recruitment & Staff Augmentation

Dedicated recruiters sourcing, screening and closing candidates against your open roles.

Monthly retainer

Growth

$2,000/mo
One dedicated recruiter
  • Sourcing, screening, submission
  • ATS & VMS-ready workflows
  • Weekly requisition reporting

Custom Pod

Scoped/mo
For 5+ open reqs or specialty/technical hiring
  • Team sized to your req volume
  • Specialty sourcing (niche tech, clearance, licensure)
  • SLA-backed delivery timelines

3. Talent Partnership

Escala becomes your single offshore partner across sales, recruitment and operations — one relationship, one invoice.

Cost-plus model

Pricing structure

Cost+ 25–45%
Transparent pass-through of delivery cost plus a fixed management markup
  • No hidden fees layered on top
  • Markup scales down as headcount grows
  • Full visibility into what you're paying for

What's included

All 7service lines
Bundled under one managed relationship
  • Sales, recruitment, ops, sourcing under one team
  • Single point of accountability
  • Quarterly business reviews

Best fit

Ongoingpartner
Companies planning sustained, multi-function offshore scale
  • Replaces piecemeal vendor sprawl
  • Scales with you, not around you

4. Sourcing-as-a-Service

A steady stream of pre-vetted, verified candidates delivered to your inbox — no full recruiting build-out required.

Monthly retainer

Starter

$500/mo
Light, ongoing candidate flow
  • Sourcing only, you screen & close
  • Weekly candidate batches

Premium

$2,500/mo
High-volume or specialty sourcing
  • Multiple concurrent reqs
  • Dedicated sourcing lead

5. GCC Setup

Stand up your own Global Capability Center in India — your team, your processes, our infrastructure.

Per-seat + setup

Growth

$1,000/seat/mo
Managed seats on existing infrastructure
  • Office, HR, payroll & compliance included
  • Scale seats up or down monthly

Consulting

$5,000/mo
Strategic GCC planning without a build commitment
  • Feasibility, structuring & roadmap
  • Vendor & location evaluation

6. Subsidiary Setup / Build-Operate-Transfer

We incorporate, staff and run your India entity — you take full ownership when you're ready.

Pass-through + margin

Build

At cost+ $500/seat
Entity setup at pass-through cost, fixed margin per seat
  • Full legal incorporation
  • No inflated setup markups

Transfer

10%success fee
Charged only at handover, when you take the entity in-house
  • Clean, documented transition
  • No fee if you never transfer
$2,500 — Free for a limited time

7. Free Growth Consulting

A custom growth blueprint scoped to your business — we normally charge $2,500 for this. Right now, it's free.

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Build vs. Partner

What it actually costs to build this in-house.

These are current 2026 US market benchmarks for fully-loaded employment cost — salary, benefits, payroll tax, tools and management overhead — compared against Escala's pricing for the equivalent function.

FunctionTypical in-house cost (US, fully loaded)Escala modelEst. savings
1 Sales / BD rep (SDR/BDR) $100,000 – $140,000/yr $27,000 – $40,000/yr
(Growth tier, $2,250–$3,300/mo)
~65–75%
1 Technical recruiter $95,000 – $150,000/yr $24,000/yr
(Growth tier, $2,000/mo)
~75–85%
3-person recruiting team + lead $300,000 – $450,000/yr $72,000/yr
(Premium tier, $6,000/mo)
~75–85%
Offshore GCC seat Entity setup, legal, HR & compliance build from scratch $1,000/seat/mo, infrastructure included ~40–70%

Figures are general 2026 US market benchmarks compiled from published staffing, HR and sales-operations industry sources, not a quote for your specific role, level or location. Your free growth consulting session will size these numbers to your actual business.

Why companies choose Escala

The case for partnering instead of building.

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Lower total cost

No base salary, bonus, equity or benefits stack — you pay one predictable monthly rate.

No employer liability

Payroll tax, statutory benefits, severance and labor-law compliance sit with us, not you.

Faster time to productivity

Pods are already trained and tooled — most start delivering inside 2–4 weeks, not the 3–6 months a new hire needs to ramp.

Scale up or down on demand

Add seats for a hiring surge, or scale back in a slow quarter — no severance, no layoffs to manage.

Lower hiring risk

If a rep or recruiter underperforms, we replace them — you're not carrying a bad hire for a year.

Built-in continuity

Sick days, attrition and vacations are covered inside the pod — your pipeline never goes dark.

Specialized talent access

Sourcing, tooling and market knowledge that would take years to build internally, available from day one.

One partner, one invoice

Consolidate vendor sprawl — sales, recruiting and ops under a single relationship and reporting line.

Stay focused on your core business

Your leadership team spends time on product and customers, not on recruiting talent.

Free Growth Consulting

We usually charge $2,500 for this. Right now, it's free.

One working session with our team, followed by a written growth blueprint built specifically for your business — no obligation to buy anything after.

1

A working session

45–60 minutes with a growth advisor covering your current sales, hiring and delivery bottlenecks.

2

A custom blueprint

A written plan mapping which functions to keep in-house, which to offshore, and what it should cost.

3

A cost model

Your specific in-house-vs-partner cost comparison, sized to your headcount, geography and growth stage.

$2,500 standard engagement fee — waived

Claim your free growth consulting session

No credit card, no commitment. Limited slots per month.

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Use case library

How companies like yours put each service to work.

Illustrative scenarios drawn from patterns across our engagements — not tied to any single named client.

US
Sales-as-a-Service

A Series A SaaS company needed outbound pipeline without hiring a VP of Sales yet — an offshore pod ran ICP research and outreach while the founder closed.

US
Sales-as-a-Service

A mid-size IT staffing firm used a dedicated pod to break into new verticals without pulling account managers off existing clients.

Canada
Sales-as-a-Service

A Toronto-based consulting firm needed US-market outreach on Eastern-time hours without opening a US sales office.

UK
Sales-as-a-Service

A London fintech vendor tested a new enterprise segment with a lean outbound pod before committing to a full sales hire.

India
Sales-as-a-Service

A Bengaluru-based IT services firm used a dedicated pod to build outbound pipeline into the US market on US business hours.

US
Recruitment

A healthcare IT company facing a hiring freeze on headcount still needed six engineering reqs filled — recruitment was run as an operating expense instead.

US
Recruitment

A regional staffing agency added a dedicated offshore recruiter to clear a backlog of aging requisitions inside one quarter.

Europe
Recruitment

A German industrial software firm needed English-speaking technical recruiters to source across three EU markets at once.

Canada
Recruitment

A Vancouver retail-tech startup scaled from 2 to 5 open reqs without adding a full-time internal recruiter.

India
Recruitment

A Pune-based SaaS company used a dedicated recruiter to hire its own India delivery team while its founders stayed focused on product.

US
Talent Partnership

A growth-stage BFSI vendor consolidated three separate offshore vendors into a single Talent Partnership to simplify billing and accountability.

US
Talent Partnership

An MSP-focused staffing firm used the Talent Partnership model to add sales, recruiting and delivery capacity in one motion ahead of an enterprise RFP push.

UK
Talent Partnership

A UK professional services firm standardized on one offshore partner across sales and back-office instead of managing separate vendor relationships.

India
Talent Partnership

A homegrown Indian staffing firm expanding into the US used the Talent Partnership model to add outbound sales capacity without opening a US office.

US
Sourcing-as-a-Service

An in-house TA team kept their own screening process but outsourced the top-of-funnel sourcing that was eating 60% of their week.

Canada
Sourcing-as-a-Service

A cloud infrastructure company used sourcing-only support to keep a lean internal team while hiring volume spiked.

US
Sourcing-as-a-Service

A retail tech company needed seasonal-hire pipelines built two months ahead of peak, without expanding permanent TA headcount.

India
Sourcing-as-a-Service

A Hyderabad product company kept its lean internal TA team while outsourcing top-of-funnel sourcing for a hiring surge.

US
GCC Setup

A US SaaS company stood up its first India engineering pod on managed seats before deciding whether to build a dedicated office.

Europe
GCC Setup

A European manufacturing tech firm ran a GCC feasibility study before committing capital to a dedicated facility.

UK
GCC Setup

A UK cloud consultancy scaled from a handful of managed seats to a dedicated branded space over 18 months.

US
Subsidiary Setup / BOT

A US-based professional services firm had Escala incorporate and run its India entity for two years before transferring it in-house once the team proved itself.

Canada
Subsidiary Setup / BOT

A Canadian fintech used the Build-Operate model to test India delivery without the legal and compliance lift of incorporating immediately.

Europe
Subsidiary Setup / BOT

A Spanish outdoor/consumer brand used a Build-Operate-Transfer structure to enter the India market as part of a broader international expansion.

US
Growth Consulting

A founder used a free growth session to decide between hiring a VP of Sales or running Sales-as-a-Service for another year of runway.

UK
Growth Consulting

An operations leader used the free blueprint to build the internal business case for offshoring before presenting to their board.

US
Growth Consulting

A staffing firm owner used the session to model the true cost of an in-house BD hire against an outsourced pod before budgeting season.

Canada
Growth Consulting

A healthcare IT company used the blueprint to sequence which function — sales, recruiting or ops — to offshore first.

India
Growth Consulting

An India-based IT services firm used the free session to build a case for launching a dedicated US outbound motion.

What partnering with Escala looks like

Representative engagement outcomes.

Reflects the kind of outcomes clients describe across our engagements.

"We were about to hire our first in-house SDR at close to $100K fully loaded. Running the Growth pod instead let us test three outbound motions in parallel for less than one salary."
VP of Sales · Series A SaaS company · United States
"Recruiting was the bottleneck on every delivery review. Adding a dedicated offshore recruiter closed our backlog in one quarter without adding permanent headcount."
Director of Talent Acquisition · Healthcare IT firm · United States
"The free growth session paid for itself before we spent a dollar — it gave us the cost model we needed to make the case to our board."
Head of Operations · Mid-market staffing firm · Canada
"We didn't want three separate vendors for sales, recruiting and back-office. Consolidating under one Talent Partnership meant one invoice and one point of accountability."
COO · IT services firm · United Kingdom

Get your free growth blueprint — a $2,500 engagement, on us.

No obligation, no credit card. One conversation, one written plan, sized to your business.

Talk to an expert

Tell us what you're trying to solve — we'll route you to the right person.

Sales & Business Development

For Sales-as-a-Service & Talent Partnership questions

Book time with our BD team to scope an outbound pod or a multi-function partnership.

Recruitment & Sourcing

For staffing, sourcing & recruitment questions

Talk through your open reqs, hiring volume, and the right recruiting model for your team.

GCC & Subsidiary Setup

For offshore entity & expansion questions

Map out a GCC or Build-Operate-Transfer plan with someone who's structured these before.

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