Ife OsakuadeChief Executive Officer
Formerly: Built finance & payroll products that unlocked 18m transactions per month at Entertainment partners.
Primebase is building an agent-to-agent network that takes staffing agencies and their clients from verified work to reconciled payment, without the endless back-and-forth.
Our mission
Make financial operations effortless, so businesses can focus on strategic growth.
Most staffing agencies still manually piece together timesheets, VMS exports, rate cards, invoices, and bank statements across spreadsheets and inboxes. Finance teams spend hours chasing approvals, sorting discrepancies and matching payments.
Tools for one side won’t end the chase. Our network connects policy-bound AI agents reconcile work records, resolve discrepancies, negotiate and execute payment schedules within the authority each business has granted.
14,000+UK business closures each year due to late payment, equivalent of 38 a day.
63%of UK staffing agencies invoices are paid late.
£11 bnThe cost of late payment on the UK economy.
£26bnUK businesses are owed in late payments at any given time
Leadership
Operators, engineers and finance leaders who have lived the problem.
- Prof. Stephen WestonChief Scientist & Advisor
Ex-Deloitte, Intel, JP Morgan. 25+ years in finance & tech, specialising in AI and multi agent systems.
- Peter KoladeSecurity & Risk Governance Advisor
Former Head of Technology & security risk oversight at Bank of England. 28+ years in cyber & technology risk.
Trust & security
Security is built into every layer of Primebase, not bolted on.
Bank-grade security
We partner with regulated payment providers.
Encryption
AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit for every byte.
Role-based access
Granular roles, SSO and SCIM so people see only what they need.
Audit trails
Every action is logged, timestamped and exportable.