Craftpool

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About Craftpool

Craftpool is the B2B platform that enables craft businesses to lend each other staff on short notice. If a business has too little work at any given time, it can lend employees to another business facing an acute need for support—and vice versa. In this way, businesses balance out peaks and lulls in orders directly among themselves, entirely without temporary employment agencies and without the usual detours via personal contacts or coincidence. Depending on their current workload, every registered business can act both as a provider of staff and as a seeker. Payment is handled directly between the participating businesses, with Craftpool only receiving a tiered placement fee. The platform was founded by Constantin Pöttinger, 24, himself an electrician from Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, who knows the problem firsthand from his own day-to-day business. Craftpool is launching across Bavaria in mid-September 2026 and is bootstrapped, meaning it is entirely funded without external investors.

Our Mission

Craftpool makes staffing bottlenecks in the trades solvable by allowing businesses to help each other out with personnel directly and easily – without temp agencies, without detours.

Our Vision

In 5 years, Craftpool is the leading platform through which trade businesses across Europe help each other out with personnel – as natural as borrowing tools among colleagues, just digital and cross-border. What started as a Munich-first launch has evolved into a platform with enough active businesses per trade in every region to resolve a staff shortage within hours instead of days – from Germany across the DACH region and throughout Europe.

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