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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Starter — Lead Intelligence
- 50+ verified prospects/month
- ICP & market mapping
- No outreach included
- Monthly reporting
Growth — Sales-as-a-Service
- Everything in Starter
- Full outbound execution (email, LinkedIn, calls)
- Meetings booked on your calendar
- Dedicated account manager
- Weekly pipeline reviews
Enterprise — Dedicated Sales Pod
- 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.
Growth
- Sourcing, screening, submission
- ATS & VMS-ready workflows
- Weekly requisition reporting
Premium
- Everything in Growth, at scale
- Dedicated team lead & escalation path
- Multi-req parallel sourcing
- ~$1,500/recruiter equivalent cost
Custom Pod
- 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.
Pricing structure
- No hidden fees layered on top
- Markup scales down as headcount grows
- Full visibility into what you're paying for
What's included
- Sales, recruitment, ops, sourcing under one team
- Single point of accountability
- Quarterly business reviews
Best fit
- 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.
Starter
- Sourcing only, you screen & close
- Weekly candidate batches
Growth
- Pre-screened, verified candidates
- Faster turnaround per req
Premium
- Multiple concurrent reqs
- Dedicated sourcing lead
5. GCC Setup
Stand up your own Global Capability Center in India — your team, your processes, our infrastructure.
Growth
- Office, HR, payroll & compliance included
- Scale seats up or down monthly
Premium
- Custom-built dedicated space
- Your branding, your processes
Consulting
- 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.
Build
- Full legal incorporation
- No inflated setup markups
Operate
- You direct the work, we run the entity
- Full compliance ownership
Transfer
- Clean, documented transition
- No fee if you never transfer
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.
| Function | Typical in-house cost (US, fully loaded) | Escala model | Est. 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.
The case for partnering instead of building.
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.
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.
A working session
45–60 minutes with a growth advisor covering your current sales, hiring and delivery bottlenecks.
A custom blueprint
A written plan mapping which functions to keep in-house, which to offshore, and what it should cost.
A cost model
Your specific in-house-vs-partner cost comparison, sized to your headcount, geography and growth stage.
How companies like yours put each service to work.
Illustrative scenarios drawn from patterns across our engagements — not tied to any single named client.
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.
A mid-size IT staffing firm used a dedicated pod to break into new verticals without pulling account managers off existing clients.
A Toronto-based consulting firm needed US-market outreach on Eastern-time hours without opening a US sales office.
A London fintech vendor tested a new enterprise segment with a lean outbound pod before committing to a full sales hire.
A Bengaluru-based IT services firm used a dedicated pod to build outbound pipeline into the US market on US business hours.
A healthcare IT company facing a hiring freeze on headcount still needed six engineering reqs filled — recruitment was run as an operating expense instead.
A regional staffing agency added a dedicated offshore recruiter to clear a backlog of aging requisitions inside one quarter.
A German industrial software firm needed English-speaking technical recruiters to source across three EU markets at once.
A Vancouver retail-tech startup scaled from 2 to 5 open reqs without adding a full-time internal recruiter.
A Pune-based SaaS company used a dedicated recruiter to hire its own India delivery team while its founders stayed focused on product.
A growth-stage BFSI vendor consolidated three separate offshore vendors into a single Talent Partnership to simplify billing and accountability.
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.
A UK professional services firm standardized on one offshore partner across sales and back-office instead of managing separate vendor relationships.
A homegrown Indian staffing firm expanding into the US used the Talent Partnership model to add outbound sales capacity without opening a US office.
An in-house TA team kept their own screening process but outsourced the top-of-funnel sourcing that was eating 60% of their week.
A cloud infrastructure company used sourcing-only support to keep a lean internal team while hiring volume spiked.
A retail tech company needed seasonal-hire pipelines built two months ahead of peak, without expanding permanent TA headcount.
A Hyderabad product company kept its lean internal TA team while outsourcing top-of-funnel sourcing for a hiring surge.
A US SaaS company stood up its first India engineering pod on managed seats before deciding whether to build a dedicated office.
A European manufacturing tech firm ran a GCC feasibility study before committing capital to a dedicated facility.
A UK cloud consultancy scaled from a handful of managed seats to a dedicated branded space over 18 months.
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.
A Canadian fintech used the Build-Operate model to test India delivery without the legal and compliance lift of incorporating immediately.
A Spanish outdoor/consumer brand used a Build-Operate-Transfer structure to enter the India market as part of a broader international expansion.
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.
An operations leader used the free blueprint to build the internal business case for offshoring before presenting to their board.
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.
A healthcare IT company used the blueprint to sequence which function — sales, recruiting or ops — to offshore first.
An India-based IT services firm used the free session to build a case for launching a dedicated US outbound motion.
Representative engagement outcomes.
Reflects the kind of outcomes clients describe across our engagements.
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.
Tell us what you're trying to solve — we'll route you to the right person.
Sales & Business Development
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Recruitment & Sourcing
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GCC & Subsidiary Setup
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