Kicklox Platform

Actionable staffing, scheduling, and utilization for consulting and recruiting teams
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Open Kicklox Platform and run your staffing like a playbook. Start by building a live inventory of your people and partners: import CVs, parse skills automatically, set roles, grades, locations, languages, certifications, and daily rates. Connect calendars to capture availability, holidays, and part-time schedules. Add tags for domains and technologies so searches are precise. Create assignment templates for common engagements (audit, data migration, product launch) with default durations, responsibilities, and required experience. With this foundation, anyone on your team can quickly find who’s free, qualified, and cost-aligned.

Turn incoming demand into concrete schedules without spreadsheets. For each opportunity or job request, define scope, target start date, budget, and mandatory skills. The matching engine suggests the top profiles and highlights trade-offs across seniority, cost, and proximity. Use scenario planning to simulate multiple team compositions, compare margins, and reserve placeholders while waiting for client sign-off. Drag and drop people onto timelines, set probability weights for tentative work, and let the system forecast utilization automatically. When priorities shift, reassign with one click; conflicts and overtime are flagged before they become problems.

Coordinate recruiting and delivery in one flow. If no internal resource fits, spin up an external search: post a brief to your private talent pool, shortlist candidates, request availability, and auto-generate offer letters with predefined rate cards and compliance clauses. Route approvals to practice leads and finance; margin controls ensure minimum thresholds are met. Collect IDs, NDAs, and certificates with expiry alerts. Confirm purchase orders, then push the plan to timesheets so hours, expenses, and milestones roll up to project status in real time. Bench views show who’s rolling off next; set reminders to line them up for the next engagement.

Track performance and adapt fast. Dashboards surface current and forecasted utilization, pipeline coverage by skill, staffing velocity, win rate by role, and projected revenue versus capacity. Drill into bottlenecks like recurring scarce skills or geographies with low bench. Export to CSV or sync with your CRM, ATS, HRIS, calendar, and messaging tools. Role-based permissions keep sensitive rates and margins visible only to the right people, with an audit trail for every change. New teams can start with a guided setup: import data, map skills, define rate cards, and publish a weekly staffing ritual that keeps everyone aligned.

Review Summary

Features

  • - Skill parsing and searchable talent profiles
  • - Availability calendars with conflict detection
  • - Scenario planning and team composition simulator
  • - AI-assisted matching by skills, rates, and location
  • - Drag-and-drop scheduling with probability weighting
  • - Rate cards, margin controls, and approval workflows
  • - External talent sourcing and shortlisting
  • - Document and compliance tracking with expiries
  • - Timesheets, expenses, and milestone tracking
  • - Real-time dashboards and forecasting analytics
  • - Integrations with CRM/ATS/HRIS/calendars/messaging
  • - Role-based access control and audit logs
  • - CSV export and API access

How It’s Used

  • - Staff a cloud migration project in 48 hours by matching skills, availability, and budget
  • - Prepare a client proposal with named CVs and margin-checked pricing
  • - Forecast Q3 utilization by practice and identify hiring gaps early
  • - Reduce bench time by auto-notifying PMs about soon-to-roll-off talent
  • - Backfill a critical role during unexpected leave with conflict-free scheduling
  • - Assemble a multi-country rollout team balancing language, travel, and cost
  • - Build a private marketplace of vetted freelancers for niche skills
  • - Centralize rate cards and enforce approval gates for discounts
  • - Run a weekly staffing meeting with live scenarios and instant what-ifs
  • - Export utilization and margin reports for leadership and finance

Plans & Pricing

Kicklox Manager (essential)

Custom

Talent profiles & job matching
Milestones & CRA
Access to Kicklox Services

Kicklox Whitelabel (growth)

Custom

Up to 1,000 MAU included
The Essential plan, plus:
Dedicated app & branding
Competency matrix

Kicklox Whitelabel (scale)

Custom

Up to 1,000 MAU included
The Growth plan, plus:
Addition of fields on Profiles, Offers and Matching
API access + 3000 third-party apps

Kicklox Whitelabel (enterprise)

Custom

The Scale plan, plus:
Custom forms and workflows
SSO access & specific development

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