The development of Poach Prevent began nearly a decade ago when our founder was working his first day on the legal team of a large, multinational staffing agency. The morning began with a review of the company's standard contract terms and negotiating positions with their supervising attorney. When it came to reviewing non-solicit clauses, they asked the attorney how does the company manage compliance of these contract requirements. The answer was a bit of a shock. Essentially, staffing agencies do not do anything to actually manage non-solicit clauses.

This is in part because staffing agencies simply do not think they will be caught. Another big reason for the non-compliance is that there really was not a reasonable way for staffing agencies to actually monitor compliance. Staffing agencies previously had no way to make sure that they are not reaching out to their client's employees and recruiting them.

After negotiating hundreds of non-solicit clauses with clients ranging from small business or startups for nearly all of the Fortune 50 companies, it is clear that non-solicit clauses are important to clients. The answer was not to have clients auditing the staffing agencies recent candidates contacted list because no staffing agency is going to give their candidate list to their clients. A trusted third party auditor was the solution.

Poach Prevent was born out of the necessity for companies who use staffing agencies as vendors to be able to enforce their non-solicit clauses while also not being overly burdensome or an interference with their business relationships. Having come from the staffing agency world, Poach Prevent takes an empathetic approach towards working with staffing agencies and quickly potential non-solicit clause violations without being punitive. Our company serves as a third party auditor to ensure there are no contract violations on a monthly basis by looking at the staffing agency's recent candidate contacts and referencing those data against publicly available directory data about their client's employees.