Who is Team Engine?

We're passionate about building great teams, serving local communities, and creating jobs.

Team Engine co-founders and employees at various social outings
silhouette of a blue-collar worker on the job

The Problem We're Solving

At Team Engine, we believe the biggest challenge facing businesses today isn’t sales or strategy; it’s talent. Demographic trends have permanently shifted the labor market, leaving a deep and growing gap between open roles and the workers available to fill them. For companies that rely on field and frontline employees, the stakes are especially high: unfilled roles lead to missed revenue, higher costs, safety risks, and customer dissatisfaction.

Filling roles with more applicants doesn’t solve the deeper issue. What matters most is hiring the right people, keeping them engaged, and creating an environment where employees feel respected, included, and committed for the long haul. Unfortunately, most solutions weren’t built for field-based teams, and executing a competitive talent strategy manually is costly, time-consuming, and unsustainable.

Team Engine exists to change that. Our software helps blue-collar businesses automate and coordinate key moments across the employee journey, making it easier to hire, communicate, and engage workers at scale. By meeting the workforce where they are (on their phones, in their language, and on the job) we help our customers become employers of choice in a tough labor market. Because when you invest in your people, they become your greatest competitive advantage.

What is Team Engine?

Team Engine is purpose-built software for companies with field-based, deskless, and multilingual workforces—especially in industries like landscaping, construction, manufacturing, janitorial services, and the trades. Our software helps these businesses overcome the unique challenges of hiring, communication, and employee engagement in environments where traditional HR tools fall short.

We simplify workforce management with a mobile-first platform that automates repetitive hiring tasks, surfaces the best candidates faster, and keeps teams informed through SMS, WhatsApp, and automated alerts. Our AI-powered tools help write more effective job postings, accelerate applicant screening, and ensure follow-up happens automatically—so nothing falls through the cracks.

Team Engine integrates seamlessly with leading HRIS and payroll systems to keep employee data up to date without double entry. Whether you're trying to fill roles quickly, improve retention, or reach every worker regardless of their language or location, we give you the tools to make it happen efficiently and at scale.

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How We Help Blue-Collar Businesses

Build Better Teams

Through targeted job postings, smart screening, and automated outreach via texting

Manage Teams
More Easily

Through on-demand and scheduled text-based announcements and group updates in multiple languages

Retain Teams Longer

With 1:1 messaging for confidential communication and surveys to gather input from the field

Who We Are

At Team Engine, we’re builders, storytellers and problem-solvers. We’re former teachers, band kids, veterans, engineers, and artists. We’re parents, pet lovers, gamers, and globe-trotters.

Some of us have degrees in marketing, sociology, mechanical engineering, and software development—others learned through life: by sailing the Mediterranean, fostering puppies, or designing cars in college. We have teammates in Brazil, Vermont, Colorado, and beyond, and though we all work remotely, we’ve found creative ways to stay close.

You’ll find us hiking national parks, white-water rafting, playing jazz drums, solving crossword puzzles, making sourdough from scratch, or rewatching “Shrek 2” for the 10th time. We’re big on dogs, board games, ramen, and building things—whether it’s a campfire, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, or a better hiring experience.

We’re unified by our curiosity and work ethic, our appreciation for a hard day’s work, and our belief in small businesses as the backbone of local communities. We lead with empathy, show up for each other, and bring a lot of personality to everything we do.

At the end of the day, we’re here to help you build and retain a team as amazing as ours.

Team Engine employees hanging out in Boulder, CO
Team Engine employees at a conference
Team Engine employees hanging out in Virginia
Team Engine employees at dinner in Boulder, Colorado
Team Engine employees at dinner in Boulder, Colorado
Team Engine employees on a hike during the 2024 team retreat in Boulder, CO
Team Engine employees on a hike during the 2024 team retreat in Boulder, CO
Team Engine employees on a hike during the 2024 team retreat in Boulder, CO

Customers Love Team Engine

We think of Team Engine as a communication tool, both with applicants and current employees. And it’s saved me so much time in that communication process.
Ellen Heuer
HR Business Partner – Operations
My distributed workforce is low-tech, but everyone knows how to text. For them to be able to have a private, secure conversation with HR has been critical in helping our field staff feel more connected to the company & our culture.
Sunny Holtz
HR Manager
Team Engine has revolutionized the way we recruit and has been a total game changer for us. It broadens our scope so much and is allowing us to find local workforce in other locations when we would have no way to reach those places in any other capacity.
Lara Beckemeier
Vice President of HR & Administration
Our favorite part of Team Engine has been the ability to text with our deskless employees. Team Engine's text automation & survey features have solved our onboarding and engagement issues, which has reduced turnover and increased visibility.
Ryan Campbell
Training Development Manager

Ready to Give Team Engine a Try?