Your Bench
5 seats, always filled · electrician, welder, plumber · within 30 mi of Houston, TX
Trade
Where they come from
Availability
Distance
5 mi30 mi50 mi
Filters reshape who lands in your 5 seats. They never change your bill.
What we did for your bench
97%
of days since February your seats have been full
Hires left this month4 of 5 left
This runs whether or not a seat changes hands. It is what the monthly buys.
What would more seats cost?
Bench of 5
$1,725/mo
$345 average per seat
1 seat2040 seats
Drag it to see the number. Nothing here changes your bill.
How the field bench is priced
You pay for seats. Nothing else. 1 seat is 1 hire a month.
Starts at 1 seat, $300 a month.
How do you pay him? Hourly, he goes here. On a salary, he goes on Key
personnel. A foreman is hourly, so he is here. An estimator is salaried, so he is not.
Rank does not decide it. Payroll does.
Your plan · flat monthly
Full Bench
$1,725/mo · 5 seats
Yours for as long as you want it.
Any month we do not fill a seat, you are not billed for that seat.
✓Partner-Verified · graduates of our partner schools and training centers
✓GridLink database · experienced hands who never went through a program
Paused. Your $1,725/mo rate is
held and you are billing $375 meanwhile. Cancel and both go the same day.
Every rule in the product
✓Seats bill. Hires never do. Not the month he starts, not ever.
✓Add a seat or drop one whenever you want. No term, no notice, no exit fee.
✓Pause instead of cancelling, at $75 a held seat, and your seats stay off the market.
✓No good match that month? You are not billed for it. You pay for seats we filled, not seats we left empty.
✓Nobody holds more than 20% of a trade in their radius. Your ceiling is on the right.
1 seat is 1 hire a month. Hire a man off a seat and a new man takes his
place the same day. You can hire that one on the 1st. Want 3 men in one month? Hold 3 seats.
Add seats · per seat, per month
Seats 1 to 2 · starter$300
Seats 3 to 10$375
Seats 11 to 20$330
Seats 21 to 35$290
Seats 36 to 49$255
Seat 50 and up$230 · floor
That is the whole price list. No setup fee,
no fee when a man starts, nothing per head. Hire 1 off this bench or hire 20 and the number above
does not move. Only you move it, by adding or dropping a seat.
Where you are today
1 seat$300
Just you, or you and a helper. 1 vetted hire a month, whenever you are ready for him.
3 seats$975
A small crew. Covering turnover without losing your Saturdays to it.
10 seats$3,600
Multiple jobs running. Hiring continuously, all year.
Start at 1 and move up when the work does. Same card, same rules, no
renegotiation. The first 2 seats are $300 because that is where a new shop starts.
Bench of 5
$1,725/mo
$345 average per seat
1 seat2040 seats
What you are paying an agency for the same man
Agencies employ the hand and bill you weekly at his rate times a markup. Put your own numbers in.
Your seats are your hiring speed
1 seat is 1 hire a month.
5 seats5 men in front of you, 5 hires this month
Hire 1That seat refills the same day
He quitsNew man in the seat, free
Busy monthAdd seats, drop them when it slows
Bench size 5
Why the field bench never charges you for a hire
Because you hire off it constantly. Pricing a hire here would mean asking you who you put to work every single month. A call you do not want and a bill to argue about later.
So you buy the bench instead. Hire 1 man off it or 20, the number does not move. Key personnel is the opposite, because you hire salaried people once in a while: nothing monthly, 1 price when somebody starts.
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Roster
Everybody working for you off this bench, hidden from every other
contractor in the network.
Field · hourly
| Name | Trade | Project | Hired | Credential status | Next renewal | Seen by others |
|---|
Key personnel · salaried
2 salaried, still on your payroll$0/mo
| Name | Role | Started | Charged for the hire | Search firm | Difference |
|---|
Nobody on this roster is charged per head.
Key personnel bills for seats and nothing else.
If one of them leaves
Written down before it happens. Same whether they quit, you let them go, or the job went away.
1You were billed once, the month
they started. That was the only charge and nothing else is coming.
2Nothing is billed when they go.
No clawback to argue about either. What you paid, you paid.
3Gone inside 6 months? The replacement
is free. Open the role again and hire off it, and that hire is not billed.
4After 6 months it is a new hire
at the normal price. They stayed and did the job, and this is you filling it again.
5If we got it badly wrong, call us.
A conversation, not a clause.
Worked through · Alicia starts, then leaves in month 2
Charged the month she started$9,500
Charged every month she worked$0
Charged when she left$0
Opening the role againfree
Charged when her replacement starts$0
Filling this job twice cost you$9,500
What a search firm keeps on the first hire$23,750
and they only replace free inside their own window too$23,750
If one of the field crew leaves
Written down before it happens. Nothing to unwind, because he was never on your invoice.
1Your bill does not move.
He was never a line on it.
2His seat refills free,
usually inside 2 days.
3His replacement is free too.
4 men through 1 seat this year reads the same every month.
4He goes back in the pool the day he tells us.
Your former employee, not our property.
5If we got it badly wrong, call us.
A conversation, not a clause.
⛨
Your hires come off the market
Marcus D. was on 4 other benches the morning you hired him. By that afternoon, none.
✓Removed the same day you mark the hire
✓Invisible in every other contractor's search
✓We never call your people while they work for you
✓No other account keeps their number
We get paid to keep your bench full, not to place the same welder 5 times.
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The 1 rule that is not yours
A man on your roster can put himself back out for short work when he is not working for you. His profile, his call. 1 is out right now.
✓Your bill does not move. He was never on it
✓You get the first call the day he is free
✓He stays hidden from every other contractor
✓He may not come back. We will not promise it
A platform that would hide an idle man to suit 1 shop would do it to your crew next month.
Open roles
The roles you have open and who we have put in front of you for each.
Open a role for free. Pay once, the month somebody starts.
Salaried billing
There is no monthly here. A line only shows up in a month somebody actually started. Salaried side alone · the card below adds both sides up.
| Invoice | Roles open | Somebody started | Total | Status |
|---|
Read the $0 rows
4 of these 6 months cost you nothing, and you had a role open in most of them. April and July were open all month and still billed $0. Somebody starting is the only thing that ever puts a number here.
Since joining
Salaried hires2
Charged for those hires$0
Months you paid us nothing3
Paid to GridLink, all in$14,000
That works out to, per hire$7,000
A search firm, same 2 hires$45,000
A search firm would have billed
$45,000 for these 2 people, on their start dates.
You paid $14,000, which is 69% less,
and $0 in the months you were not hiring.
August · Invoice
Total due Sep 1$3,800
Hires are the only line here. No monthly, no term, nothing to cancel. Hire nobody next month and this reads $0.
How salaried is priced
Open a role for free. Pay 1 time, the month somebody starts.
Never hire, never pay.
How do you pay him? On a salary, he goes here. Hourly, he goes on the
field bench. An estimator is salaried, so he is here. A foreman is hourly, so he is not.
Rank does not decide it. Payroll does.
1 rule, any job
Project manager, estimator, safety director, controller. Whatever you call the job, the price is the same rule.
5 roles open at a time. That is the only limit on
this side. Every role you open puts our people to work sourcing and checking, and that work is free to
you until somebody starts, so 5 is where we hold it. Close one and open another whenever you
want. There is no limit on hiring, ever.
Start to finish. Open a role, free. We put people
in front of you. Hire 1 and you are billed 10% of their pay, once. Need a different job filled?
Open another role, free again.
Hire as many as you want. The people you did not
take stay on the role and stay readable. Take a second one off the same search and it is
10% again, and nothing else. There is no cap, no gate and no fee for hiring faster.
We get paid when you hire, so we are never going to slow you down.
What it comes to against the alternative
You both get paid the same way, when somebody starts. The difference is what it costs.
| What you pay them | To open the role | You pay us | A search firm charges | You keep |
|---|
A search firm bills $32,500 the week your project
manager starts. We bill $13,000 on the same day. Same trigger, 40% of the money.
And if you never find the right person, neither one of us charges you anything.
Why you pay per hire here and not per month
Because you do not hire salaried people every month. Charging you a monthly for a project manager you look for twice in 5 years would be charging you to wait.
So the risk sits with us. We fill the role or we do not get paid. The field bench is the opposite, because you hire off it constantly: 1 flat monthly, and nobody is ever charged for a hire over there.
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Renewals
Every credential we verified at source, expiring across your bench and your roster, soonest first.
A lapsed card is a man who cannot badge in Monday.
How this works
✓We watch the expiry dates on everything we verified at source and tell the tradesman and you at 90, 60 and 30 days.
✓Only things we verified at source appear here. We do not track drug screens, physicals or background checks, so they will never show up on this list.
✓We do not renew anything on anybody's behalf. Renewing is the tradesman's job and we just make sure nobody is surprised.
Turnarounds
Your outage windows, in one place, so nothing sneaks up on you.
!
These are your dates and your numbers. We do not plan, reserve or guarantee staffing
against them. Adding a window does not add seats and does not change your bill.
This is here for you to keep track of your own schedule.
Yours to fill in, yours to change, yours to act on.
Billing
1 line. The bench, every month. Field side alone · the card below adds both sides up.
| Invoice | Bench | Hires that month | Total | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 5 seats · $345 avg | 2 hired · $0 | $1,725 | Due Sep 1 |
| July 2026 | 5 seats · $345 avg | 2 hired · $0 | $1,725 | Paid |
| June 2026 | 5 seats · $345 avg | 1 hired · $0 | $1,725 | Paid |
| May 2026 | 5 seats · $345 avg | 2 hired · $0 | $1,725 | Paid |
| April 2026 | 3 seats · $325 avg | 1 hired · $0 | $975 | Paid |
| March 2026 | 3 seats · $325 avg | 1 hired · $0 | $975 | Paid |
If work slows down
Pausing is about holding your price, not saving the monthly.
Pause
Your rate is held
You keep the tiers you joined on.
✓Your seats stay yours and stay off the market
✓Back on in 1 click, nothing to set up again
✓Nothing is committed either way. Unpause or cancel whenever
✓History, filters and renewal tracking all keep running
Costs $125 a month · $75 for each seat you hold
Cancel
Your rate is released
Same day, seats with it. Nothing to undo next month.
×Your seats go back in the pool and another contractor can hold them
×Coming back is a new signup at that day's price
×You are back in line behind members for the people you wanted
×Bench history and saved filters close out
Costs $0 a month · and the rate you are on today
Pausing is $75 for every seat you are holding, so it moves with your bench
Same $75 a seat at every size.
Both stop you paying full price in a slow month.
Only 1 lets you come back at today's price.
Worth reading twice. Pausing keeps your $375 seat rate. That
protection is what you are buying. Cancel and the rate goes the same day, priced off the current card
when you come back. Our rates have moved before.
Since joining
Hires made9
Still on payroll8
Bench, 6 months$8,850
Charged for those 9 hires$0
Paid to GridLink$8,850
Agency markup, per month$12,456
That last line is a monthly, not a total. Renting your 8 hands costs $12,456 every month, forever. Your last 6 invoices came to $8,850 put together, less than 1 month of renting.
On your payroll from this bench
7 active hires$0/mo
Not 1 of them was ever charged for. Renting the same men runs $1,557 a month each, forever. You rent the bench that finds them, not the men.
August · Invoice
Total due Sep 1$1,040
Pausing holds your rate and your seats off the market, at $75 for each seat you hold. Cancel and seats and rate both go the same day.
How billing works
You pay for the bench. That is the whole invoice. Nothing is metered and nothing is charged for a hire. We never ask who you put to work, because it cannot change your bill.
1 seat, 1 hire a month. The only limit in the product. Need to hire again sooner, add seats.
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Payment method
Visa ending 4412 · expires 08/28
Billed on the 1st · net 30
Partner programs
Trade schools and training centers we work with directly. 1 of 4 ways people reach
your bench, not the only one.
Where the people on your bench actually come from
✓They find us themselves, off social media or the site.
✓A partner program sends them. The schools below. Credentials confirmed at the source. That is all Partner-Verified means.
✓Somebody already working refers them.
✓We go and find them where a trade is thin in your radius.
Every route ends the same: license checked against the registry, a real phone call,
a profile you can act on. The tag tells you which door they came in, not how closely we checked
them.
We do not print our partner programs by name. Ask on a call and we will tell you which ones sit inside your radius and what is coming out of them this term.
Where Partner-Verified comes from
✓We are in front of these students in person, all year. Most of them have never met anybody who does this for a living, and nobody has told them what the trades actually pay. We go and tell them.
✓They come out with a plan instead of a diploma and a shrug. A trade, a first employer worth having, and somebody who answers the phone in year 1.
✓Credentials get verified at the source, against the registry, not self reported.
✓Those graduates land on contractor benches inside their own radius, tagged Partner-Verified. That tag is the whole of what it means.
Company
Your account, your radius, and who on your team can see the bench.
Account
- Company
- Rivera Industrial
- Type
- Industrial electrical & mechanical contractor
- Address
- 4120 Red Bluff Rd, Pasadena, TX 77503
- Field employees
- 140
- Member since
- February 2026
- Account owner
- Elena Rivera · elena@riveraindustrial.com
- Bench radius
- 30 miles of Houston, TX
- Trades on file
- Electrician, Welder, Plumber
| Team member | Role | Can see | Last active |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elena Rivera Owner | Account owner | Everything incl. billing | Today |
| Marcus Held General superintendent | Manager | Bench, crew, billing | Today |
| Dale Whitfield Field superintendent | Field, phone only | Bench and contact details. No billing. | Today |
| Priscilla Nwosu HR | Manager | Crew, credentials | Aug 20 |
| Denny Kovach Foreman, north crew | Viewer | Bench only | Aug 18 |
Notifications
Your radius
Rivera Industrial pulls from a 30 mile ring around Houston. That covers Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, Channelview and Texas City.
Widen it in the bench filters any time. It never changes your bill.
Data & security
2 people trust us with 2 different things. Here is what happens to each.
⛨
If you are the tradesmanYour profile, your contact information, your licenses
✓Never charged, never the product. Being on a bench is free. Your information is not sold or rented.
✓Your number is not public. Only a company holding the paid seat you sit in can see it. Never indexed.
✓License numbers stay hidden. A contractor sees verified and an expiry date. The number is encrypted and never shown.
✓You can only read your own record. Enforced in the database, not in app code a bug could bypass.
✓We never store your password. Google, Apple, or a 1 time link.
✓You can walk away any time, and your details stop being visible that day.
⛨
If you are the contractorYour bench, your roster, your billing
✓Your bench is yours alone. No other company sees your seats, your calls or your hires.
✓Your hires are locked out of the network the day they land on your Roster, and stay hidden for as long as they are on your payroll.
✓Your hiring activity is not sold. Your competitors never learn what trades you are short on.
✓Your people see only their part. Owner sees billing, foreman sees the bench. Set on the Company screen.
✓Multi-factor is required on every account that can see personal information. Cannot be turned off.
✓Crew credentials are yours to keep, and export any time you ask.
✓Cancel and your data leaves with you. No hostage clause.
Where the data actually lives
A managed database in a US cloud region
Every profile, credential and invoice in GridLink Workforce sits in an enterprise managed database run by a major cloud infrastructure provider. Nothing lives in a spreadsheet, a shared inbox, or somebody's laptop, and no part of it is homemade.
AES-256 at restEncrypted on disk. Tokens and keys get a second layer of application-level encryption before they are ever written.
TLS in transitEvery request between your phone, your browser and the database is encrypted end to end.
Row level access controlWho can read which record is enforced inside the database, not by the app. If our application code had a bug tomorrow, the database would still refuse to hand over your bench.
Daily backupsPlus point-in-time recovery, so a bad day never becomes a lost roster.
US data residencyHosted in a United States region. Your crew's information does not leave the country, and we will put that in writing.
Tested, not assumedRegular third-party penetration testing, continuous vulnerability scanning, and DDoS protection at the edge.
Certifications held by our infrastructure provider
SOC 2 Type 2ISO 27001HIPAA capable · BAAGDPR · DPA
Said plainly: those certifications belong to the provider we run on, not to GridLink Partners, and we are not going to let you assume otherwise. They secure the platform. We are responsible for the rules on top of it, which is why the access rules above live in the database and not in app code.
Ask and we will name the provider, hand over their audit reports, and sign a DPA and a mutual NDA with your security team. Same day.
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Questions we get asked
Can another contractor see that I am looking at this welder?No. Bench views are scoped per account and are not shared, aggregated, or resold.
What happens to a tradesman's information if he takes himself off the bench?His contact details stop being visible that day. His profile stays his, and he can come back whenever he wants.
Do you sell candidate lists?No. There is no version of this business where we sell the people. The seat is the product.
Can I get my data out?Yes. Ask and we export your bench history, roster and credential records. Cancelling does not hold anything hostage.
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