Alexandra Wright
Building the trust layer for the future of work: ethical AI that matches verified workers to shifts based on skills, availability and development needs.
Project
Able
URL
Year founded
2025
Business stage
Seed
High-growth sectors
Digital and Technologies
Sector
Digital
Location
South East
Funding
Funded Award Winner
The problem and opportunity
The traditional cycle of job descriptions, applications and interviews breaks down when applied to temporary work. Businesses face chronic understaffing and struggle to trust who they’re booking, while workers must prove themselves from scratch with every new role and wait weeks to be paid for work completed in a day. Flexible workers deserve the same access to work, trust, recognition and development as permanent employees.
The solution and innovation
Able is the trust layer for flexible work: an AI-enhanced ethical staffing platform where verified workers are offered shifts matched to their skills, live availability and development goals. Matching is pseudonymised, and payment is held at the point of offer to enable same-day pay with zero worker fees. The Women in Innovation award will fund the next generation of Able’s verification and worker development capability.
Market and ambition
Able operates across hospitality and events, working with international and NHS healthcare partners. We are backed by the Mayor of London and the Government’s Connect to Work programme. Our ambition is to define the category as the world’s most efficient and trusted staffing platform, solving understaffing end to end.
Founder perspective
Alexandra Wright was previously Vice President of Corporate Strategy at BlackRock and Manager at Deloitte, delivering HR transformation for global clients. She founded Able after seeing brilliant, capable people shut out of good work by badly designed hiring processes. She is passionate about ethical AI that widens access to work.
Women in Innovation Award
Recipient of an Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award 2025/26, receiving funding, tailored business support, and access to specialist training and networks. View all winners and highly commended applicants from the Women in Innovation cohort 2025/2026.