POPIA by design
Consent lifecycle, data retention, and right-of-access handling automated end to end.
FOR SOUTH AFRICAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES & RECRUITMENT FIRMS
Trevo replaces the spreadsheets, the manual compliance chasing, and the disconnected tools with one intelligent platform — AI-powered matching, built-in POPIA and B-BBEE compliance, and your whole workflow from brief to delivery in one place. Whether you run client engagements or place candidates, it's built for South African firms, and built for how you actually work.
30-minute personalised demo. Not a generic pitch — we use your industry, your data, your compliance requirements.
Trusted by professional services firms and recruitment agencies across South Africa.
The problem
You start the week with a plan. Then the admin arrives — compliance forms to chase, spreadsheets to reconcile, the same client and candidate details re-typed into a fifth system, an invoice stuck behind a timesheet nobody approved. By Friday, the work that actually grows your firm is the work that never got done.
It isn't you, and it isn't your team. It's a stack of tools that were never built to talk to each other, in a market with compliance rules most software simply ignores.
It's not a technology problem. It's a wrong-technology problem.
of your team's time lost to administration.
average annual cost of compliance failures for SA firms.
tools stitched together to do what one platform should.
Illustrative of typical SA firm pain points. Methodology available on request.
The platform
One intelligent platform that takes a brief from first contact all the way to delivery — with AI matching, native South African compliance, and your whole team working from a single source of truth.
saved per consultant, every month.
modelled first-year return on investment.
less time lost to manual administration.
to recover the cost of switching.
Conservative modelling with 25% haircut applied. We'd rather under-promise. Full ROI methodology available on request.
The workflow
Native compliance
Compliance in South Africa isn't a checkbox at the end — it's woven through every engagement and every placement. Trevo handles it in the background, so your team stays audit-ready without becoming compliance officers.
AI matching
Your talent pool has the right person for that brief. The problem is finding them before the client loses patience. Trevo's matching engine scores everyone across ten weighted dimensions — and shows you exactly why each person ranked where they did. No black box. No guesswork.
Pipeline
A visual pipeline that mirrors how your team actually works — drag an engagement or job from brief to close, and every action, note, and next step travels with it.
Resource profiles
Every consultant and contractor gets a single, always-current profile — skills, certifications, availability, rates, compliance status, and history — that updates as they work, not when someone remembers to.
Time & invoicing
RoadmapThe gap between "work done" and "invoice sent" is where revenue leaks. Trevo is closing that gap: digital timesheets with mobile submission, client approval workflows, and invoice generation that pulls from approved hours with the right rate cards and fee splits already applied.
On the roadmap
Reporting
Stop exporting five spreadsheets to answer one question. Trevo turns the data your team already creates into dashboards that are ready the moment you need them.
Under the hood
Most platforms call keyword search "AI." Trevo's matching engine genuinely scores every person across ten weighted dimensions, shows you exactly why each person ranked where they did, and is built to adjust based on real outcomes. Here's what it looks at:
Core and secondary skills matched against the shared taxonomy, with proficiency weighting.
How deeply each required skill is held — not just whether it's present.
Years of experience, sector exposure, and project complexity.
Relevant industry and domain background for the brief.
Working style, company-size fit, and team-context signals.
Cost against budget, target margin, and market benchmarks.
Geographic proximity, remote capability, and travel willingness.
Current utilisation, start date, notice period, and engagement window.
Required certifications held and current.
Contribution to the client's B-BBEE and Employment Equity goals.
Weights sum to 100%.
And the weights aren't fixed. Set defaults for your company, override per client, and fine-tune per individual job or engagement. Your business, your rules.
You see the reasoning, not just the ranking.
Matches surface the moment a new brief is created.
A banking client and a tech startup value different things.
Every outcome feeds back to sharpen future accuracy.
Partnership network
The biggest names in recruitment software — Bullhorn, Vincere — were built to keep every agency on its own island. Trevo is built the opposite way: your network of trusted partners becomes a shared advantage, not a closed door.
Share roles and talent with the partners you choose, track every fee split automatically, and fill more positions together than any single desk could alone — without losing control of your data or your client relationships.
SHARED PIPELINE
Local by design
Not localised as an afterthought — designed from the first line of code for the way South African firms actually operate.
Consent lifecycle, data retention, and right-of-access handling automated end to end.
Level tracking per client and per resource, with EE reporting ready to file.
Tax-directive management, PAYE/UIF/SDL contribution tracking, and SARS employer reporting.
AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit, with role-based access on every record.
SA-hosted enterprise cloud (AWS af-south-1), automated backups, disaster recovery.
Section 198A deemed-employee rules, COIDA and FICA status tracked per engagement.
Pricing
One platform, one per-user price. Licence and hosting included — no per-engagement or per-placement fees, no surprises.
Showing pricing for professional services firms. Indicative figures pending final sign-off.
Boutique · 1–2 users
Small team · 3–5 users
Mid-size · 6–15 users
Large · 16–40 users
All-inclusive — licence and hosting included. No per-engagement or per-placement fees. No hidden costs. Excludes VAT.
Need more than 40 users? Corporate tier with unlimited users and custom pricing available. Contact us.
Beta partners
Trevo is being shaped hands-on with a small group of South African professional services and recruitment firms. We only publish feedback our partners have actually given and agreed to share — their stories will appear here as the platform rolls out.
Integrations
RoadmapTrevo isn't a rip-and-replace. It's being built to connect to your accounting, payroll, job-board and calendar tools so data flows where it needs to without re-keying. Here's what's on the integration roadmap:
Xero, Sage, and QuickBooks — sync invoices and contributions without re-keying.
Post and sync openings across major boards from one place.
Automated checks and verification wired into your workflow.
Email, documents, and storage in the tools your team already uses.
Two-way interview scheduling that stays in sync.
Build your own connections to anything in your stack.
Available today: one-click export to PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint.
See Trevo run on your industry, your data, and your compliance requirements — not a generic demo. Thirty minutes, no slides for the sake of slides.
No credit card required. No lock-in. Free data migration.