The editorial series
Comparisons
Nobody else covers the whole agency economy, so nobody else can compare across it. One article per week, each built on the taxonomy data behind this site.
Cross-group
The Margin Map: net margins across 12 agency types, compared
Every agency sits in the middle and takes a cut. The size of the cut that survives as profit varies by a factor of ten. Here is the map.
StaffingLogistics
Staffing agency vs. freight brokerage: two middleman models, opposite economics
One rents out people, one matches loads to trucks. Both live in the middle. Almost nothing else about their businesses works the same way.
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Why executive search charges 30 percent and temp staffing charges 3
Insurance agencies and marketing agencies have the same business model (almost)
The agency types AI helps vs. the agency types AI threatens