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Active locum tenens, on demand

The modern sourcing platform for high-quality, pre-vetted locum tenens physicians.

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✓ Pay only on placement, no upfront fees

✓ In partnership with PracticeMatch and their 1.4m physicians

✓ Launching to a founding cohort of
agencies in July 2026

HOW MESSLY WORKS

Connect with locum tenens in three steps

We feed your recruiters detailed profiles of active pre-screened locum tenens candidates. Review their profiles, message them in two minutes and the physician books a call with you.

1 The profile

Everything you need, on one screen

Not a generic resume. A single, scannable profile built specifically for a locum tenens recruiter.

✓ CV overview: Experience, Board Certs, Qualifications
✓ State of principal license, IMLC status
✓ Specialties, availability, minimum pay and travel preferences
✓ Other agencies registered with, EMR/EHR systems, tax classification

2 The Recommended Feed

Your target candidates, on demand

We alert you to fresh, active candidates filtered by specialty, seniority and state. Profiles are added to your Recommended Feed as they pass screening. One click opens the full profile. Not another giant database of dormant candidates to dig through.

✓ Personalized alerts, set per recruiter
✓ Candidates added in real time as they are screened

Messly Recommended Feed showing screened locum candidate cards with specialty, state, availability and rate

3 Messaging

Easy messaging and call booking

Recruiters contact the candidate with a pitch. It takes two minutes, with templates and AI to keep it personal. The candidate books a time to speak with you directly. We send the calendar invite with their CV and contact details, and you import into your own CRM as normal.

✓ Reference specific assigments, with the option to anonymize client details
✓ Candidate self-schedules into your calendar

Messly messaging composer with AI assist alongside a candidate booking a call

QUALITY CANDIDATES

A unique sourcing model

Job boards and databases give you the same recycled pool of low intent candidates. Messly is a fresh supply of active, screened locum tenens candidates.

✓ With Messly

✓ Low volume, high quality

✓ Every candidate screened for eligibility and availability before they reach you

✓ Recruiters spend their time placing, not filtering

✓ A genuinely new source of candidates, to drive revenue growth

✓ We never work directly with hospitals

✓ Grow without adding headcount, and pay only on placement

× The alternatives

× High volume, low quality

× No screening for eligibility or availability

× The work of filtering is pushed onto your recruiters

× The same recycled pool everyone else is working

× Often run by your competitors

× To scale, you add headcount and cost

WHERE MESSLY CANDIDATES COME FROM

A pipeline of fresh locum talent for the US market

Messly is part of the global M3 Group. Our sister company PracticeMatch holds relationships with around 1.4 million US physicians. Hidden in that network are high-quality doctors who want locum tenens assignments. We find them, screen them, build their Messly profile and present them to you.

This is complemented by additional physicians who use Messly as a convenient and fast way to access locum tenens assignments, often for the first time.

The screening process

Every candidate is screened before they reach you

We exclude ineligible candidates who will waste your recruiters' time, so you can focus on quality, placeable physicians. Our goal is a 100% presentation rate.

Eligibility screening Before a profile is approved we screen for:

✓ Valid NPI number
✓ FSMB check
✓ Sanctions check (OIG / SAM exclusion list)
✓ Work authorization*
✓ Malpractice check*

Profile review We also review profiles to check for:

✓ Unrealistic pay expectations
✓ Unexplained work history gaps
✓ Short or distant availability
✓ Restrictive travel preferences

i Messly screens for eligibility and reviews profiles, but responsibility for credentialing stays with you and you run candidates through your established process as normal. *: Self-certified by the physician and reviewed by Messly team

New to the US, not new to locums

Our global track record 🇬🇧 🇦🇺

Since 2019, we've built the leading source of new locum tenens candidates in the UK, then repeated it in Australia. The model works globally: the best recruiters need qualified, available candidates to grow their business.

Top 15

UK agencies all work with Messly

50+

locum agency clients

45,000+

locum candidates worked with

All figures above are from our UK and Australia operations. We launch in the US in July 2026.

Pricing

No fees until placement

We don't charge setup fees, license fees, or per-seat fees. You pay only once the candidates are working with your clients.

Pay on placement

We only bill you once candidates are placed with your clients. No upfront commitment and no risk.

Revenue share

Our fees are calculated as a share of your gross revenues, and drop to zero after three years.

Aligned incentives

Our fees scale with yours, so we focus on physicians who'll work long-term, high-paying assignments.

Protect your cashflow

We only bill you once you have billed your client, protecting your cashflows.

FAQ and objections

Straight answers to the questions agencies ask

You have never operated in the US, why will this work here?
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We have spent seven years developing Messly in the UK and Australian markets. The core challenge does not change: if good recruiters have more high-quality, available candidates they will grow their billings. We have also spent the last 12 months learning the US market specifically, and our PracticeMatch partnership gives us access to a database of around 1.4 million US physicians from day one.

How is this different from LinkedIn, Doximity, or the job boards I already pay for?+

Those give you high volume at low quality, the same candidates everyone else is already working. Messly is the opposite: low volume, high quality, every candidate screened for eligibility and availability before they reach you, and a genuinely new source rather than the recycled pool you are already paying to fish in.

We already have a large database and multiple sourcing tools. What do you actually add?+

A new source of candidates you would not otherwise meet. We bring genuinely fresh locum candidates into the market by making it quick and low-hassle for physicians to find a great agency, growing the pool rather than recycling the same names everyone already has.

How many new candidates will be added per month? Will it be worth my recruiters' time?

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It is worth it precisely because no time is wasted. Your recruiters do not search, filter, or chase physicians who turn out to be unavailable or ineligible. We just alert them when a strong, screened candidate joins. About two minutes to send a personalized message, then the candidate books a call directly. Every one they place is upside on almost no effort.

What does it cost?+

Our pricing is 100% success-based. There is no setup fee, license fee, or per-seat fee, and we are paid only once our candidates are working with your clients. The fee runs for three years, then drops to zero. We will walk you through the exact commercial terms on a call.

Do you handle any of the credentialing or compliance, or is that all still on me?+

Not at launch. Credentialing and compliance stay with you, and you run candidates through your established process exactly as you do now. Messly sits upstream of that, getting screened, available candidates in front of your recruiters. Nothing changes in how you credential.

What is the lock-in if I want to leave, or if it does not work?+

There is no lock-in. You can leave whenever you like. The only ongoing commitment is the success fee on candidates already placed through Messly, which continues for their three-year window. Beyond that, there is nothing tying you in.

How much of my recruiters' time does this take to learn and run alongside our CRM?+

About two minutes per candidate. You are alerted when someone relevant joins, send a quick personalized message, and the call gets scheduled. Then you hand the candidate into your own CRM and processes as normal. Setup is same day once the Terms of Business are signed, and every recruiter gets a one-on-one training session.

Do you introduce candidates directly to hospitals or health systems?+

No, and we never will. Our Terms of Business directly preclude us from targeting any of your clients using the data you supply. We do not have an in-house credentialing capability or a sales team to target hospitals.

Why only 10 agencies, and what happens to my access when you scale up?+

We only add agencies as candidate supply grows to support them. Pack in too many and you would be competing for the same candidates, which does not grow anyone's revenue and leaves everyone unhappy. Keeping supply and demand in balance protects your access, which is exactly why we start small and grow deliberately.

Founding cohort

Limited to just 10 agencies

We are opening to a founding cohort of locum tenens agencies in July 2026.

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