Built By an Engineer Who Treats Compliance and Security as Non-Negotiable
FreshStaff was founded by Ed Burtle, who spent 20+ years building and securing enterprise systems, then ran IT inside staffing agencies and saw the same software problems over and over. So he built the fix.
20+ years
Enterprise IT, networks & cybersecurity
CISSP
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
U.S. Air Force
Veteran
Inside agencies
IT consultant to staffing firms
Built By an Engineer, Not Guessed at By Software People
A branch adopts one tool for job orders, another for e-signatures, a spreadsheet for I-9s, and a fourth system for payroll. Every connection is another thing that breaks, and another bill. Here is how Ed came to fix that.
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Enterprise & government IT
Two decades building and securing large systems across government, military, and private-sector roles, where reliability and compliance are not optional.
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Built onboarding systems
Designed and built multiple employee onboarding systems, the paperwork-heavy first mile every staffing agency lives in.
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Inside staffing agencies
Ran IT for staffing agencies including 1st Choice Personnel and East Texas Staffing, and watched point tools get bolted together instead of engineered as one system.
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Built FreshStaff
One connected platform on the real applicant-to-placement-to-payroll lifecycle, at one transparent price.
The 4 Staffing Software Pain Points We Set Out to Solve
Each one is what happens when software was never engineered as one connected system in the first place.
Hidden fees & feature gating
Another invoice for another recruiter seat, an onboarding portal, or the module you actually needed.
One price, every feature, unlimited seats.
Fragmented systems
ATS, CRM, time tracking, compliance, and payroll in five tools, with the same candidate typed into each.
One platform, from first call to paid invoice.
Clunky candidate experience
Paper forms and onboarding flows that were never built for the phone in a candidate's pocket.
Mobile onboarding packets and a front-desk kiosk.
Slow speed-to-hire
Phone trees, buried document requests, and late compliance checks hand good workers to a faster competitor.
Reach every candidate at once, and see who's actually free.
Held to the Standard of the Systems Ed Spent His Career On
Staffing software holds Social Security numbers, bank details, and I-9 documents. FreshStaff is built with real encryption and audit logging underneath the payroll and compliance engine, not bolted on later.
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About the Founder
About the Author
Ed Burtle
Ed Burtle is the founder of FreshStaff. He's spent 20+ years in enterprise IT, network administration, and cybersecurity across government, military, and private-sector roles, including building multiple employee onboarding systems and consulting on IT infrastructure for staffing agencies like 1st Choice Personnel and East Texas Staffing. He holds a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) certification and is a U.S. Air Force veteran. That background, building and securing large-scale systems where reliability and compliance aren't optional for both government systems and the staffing agencies that actually run on this kind of software, shapes how FreshStaff is built: real encryption, real audit logging, and a payroll and compliance engine held to the same standard as the systems he's spent his career on, not bolted on as an afterthought.
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Our Pricing Promise
- No feature locks: ATS, CRM, onboarding, payroll, LMS, and portals are included on every account.
- No seat limits: recruiters, coordinators, and admins are unlimited and free.
- No setup or migration invoice, and nothing to pay until your first placement.
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