years of partnership
placement success rate
projects unblocked
For Novon Digital, a Dutch consultancy specializing in Azure, AI, and digital transformation, growing meant a painful paradox: more projects coming in but not enough senior engineers to support them. More and more projects were becoming blocked because the right talent simply wasn’t in place.
After being introduced to Peoply, Novon scaled their engineering capacity by adding more than 30 successful hires who are a great fit, help move projects forward, and truly understand Novon’s way of working and team culture.
Finding experienced Azure and AI engineers in the Dutch market is genuinely difficult. The profiles Novon needed – senior, independently operating, comfortable working directly with clients in a remote-first environment – don’t come cheap, and they don’t come fast.
Novon had already identified nearshoring as a potential answer. Central and Eastern Europe has strong technical depth, especially in exactly the cloud and AI stack Novon runs on. What they needed was a partner who understood both sides: the technical requirements and the team dynamics behind them.
That's where Peoply came in.
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The collaboration started with detailed discussions around Novon’s technologies, team structure, ways of working, and growth plans. We invested the time to understand not just the role requirements, but the kind of engineer who would actually work well within Novon's culture and client-facing environment.
The first successful placements helped build trust very quickly. Over four years, we placed more than 30 engineers at Novon with a 93% placement success rate. The three blocked projects got the capacity they needed to move forward.
The clear structure around costs, processes, and expectations made the collaboration feel straightforward throughout the growth, transforming it into a long-term partnership.
-Tom Knol, COO, Novon
We don’t just hand over a shortlist and step back. We manage sourcing, screening, and coordination end-to-end and continue supporting the team after placement through HR administration, contracts, invoicing, and team-building. For Novon, that meant senior engineers and leadership could stay focused on delivery, not on managing a recruitment process on the side.
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