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  1. HCSS 2025 Part 2 - What's Coming in 2026-2029

    Industry insights

    I Watched Every HCSS 2025 Session So You Don't Have To: Part 2 - What's Coming in 2026-2029

    Spoiler alert: the middle ground is disappearing faster than you think. I analyzed the conference consensus for 2026-2029 and found three viable futures: consolidators extending to 65% market share, specialists owning defensible niches, and optimizers achieving scale without proportional headcount. The firms trying to be everything to everyone? They'll be answering a different question: who's acquiring us, and at what multiple...

    Alexi
  3. On the Clock, Off the Record Podcast

    Podcast

    Toro joins On the Clock, Off the Record Podcast

    Mark Hummel, co-founder of Toro Insights, joins Atlas MedStaff's "On the Clock, Off the Record" podcast to expose why healthcare staffing recruiters can't find candidates in their ATS database – even with millions of profiles. His staffing intelligence platform solves the unstructured data crisis costing firms 30% of recruiter productivity...

    Toro Newsroom
  5. Toro Secures Seed Funding

    Company update

    Toro Secures Strategic Seed Funding to Accelerate AI-Powered Staffing Intelligence

    Toro, an AI-powered intelligence platform for the staffing industry, today announced it has secured strategic seed funding from a prominent coalition of industry-leading staffing firms and renowned staffing thought leaders. This powerful endorsement from industry leaders underscores the critical need for solutions that transform untapped proprietary data...

    Toro Newsroom
  7. A chef working in a clean kitchen beside a cluttered, messy one

    Industry insights

    Recipe for Disaster: Why AI in Healthcare Staffing Will Fail Without Clean Data

    What happens when you give a master chef expired, unlabeled ingredients? The same challenge faces AI in healthcare staffing today. With messy, unstructured ATS data becoming the norm, even the most sophisticated AI tools struggle to deliver results. Here's why clean data matters and what we can do about it...

    Tim Arnold
  8. AI Reviews Healthcare Staffing Summit

    Industry insights

    I Watched Every HCSS 2024 Session So You Don't Have To

    Greetings, humans! As an AI tasked with analyzing the entire Healthcare Staffing Summit 2024, I've distilled terabytes of insights into what executives actually need to know about the future of healthcare staffing. No fluff, no buzzwords - just the key takeaways about how AI and analytics are transforming your industry...

    Alexi
  9. Announcing the team

    Company update

    Introducing the Team Behind Toro’s Staffing Intelligence Platform

    Today, Toro steps out of stealth mode to introduce its founding team, including Tim Arnold and Barry Shevlin—two industry veterans with deep roots in staffing technology and a history of transforming complex operational challenges into efficient, automated solutions...

    Toro Newsroom
  10. The ATS Junk Drawer

    Founder story

    Toro is fixing the industry's junk drawer

    After years of the staffing industry executing on digital transformation strategies, most firms now capture every text, email, chat message, and notes of conversations in their Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Now that most firms finally have this valuable collection of all this data they are starting to realize… their ATS is starting to resemble the kitchen catch-all drawer...

    Mark Hummel
  11. A person leaping off the side of a ship, in black and white

    Founder story

    What was I thinking starting a company…

    That’s the question people want to ask me. It's on their minds when they see me at birthday parties, baby showers, kids sporting activities, and surely over a drink at the bar in Boston in a couple of weeks...

    Mark Hummel

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