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What we have learned putting AI screening in front of working recruiters — the arithmetic, the failure modes, and the parts that turned out not to matter.
Candidate data
Recruiter candidate notes: the small habit that protects relationships
Good candidate notes preserve context across a team. They help the next conversation feel informed and stop valuable relationship detail from living in one person's memory.
7 May 2026 · 2 min read
Candidate ranking
Candidate ranking: how to use scores without replacing recruiter judgement
Candidate ranking should organise attention and reveal the evidence behind a comparison. It should never become a silent final decision about a person's potential.
6 May 2026 · 2 min read
Recruitment economics
The cost of delay in recruitment: where agency revenue leaks
Delay costs more than recruiter hours. It changes candidate availability, client confidence, and the probability that an agency is first to a credible shortlist.
5 May 2026 · 2 min read
Agency growth
The recruitment agency competitive advantage clients can feel
An agency's advantage is felt in delivery: a sharper brief, faster credible contact, better candidate context, and recommendations that hold up under challenge.
4 May 2026 · 2 min read
Ethical AI
Ethical AI in recruitment: practical safeguards that work
Ethical AI recruitment is a set of operating choices: relevant criteria, evidence, human oversight, candidate visibility, and a path to challenge a conclusion.
3 May 2026 · 2 min read
Agency operations
A recruitment agency process that clients can see and trust
A visible recruitment process reassures clients that work is progressing for the right reasons. It should explain the decisions, not merely list the stages.
2 May 2026 · 2 min read
Candidate database
Candidate rediscovery: find value in your existing recruitment database
Candidate rediscovery works when an agency can search its records by relevant evidence and relationship context, not just a handful of job-title keywords.
1 May 2026 · 2 min read
Client feedback
How to get better client feedback on candidate submissions
Useful client feedback is specific enough to improve the next submission. Agencies get it by making the comparison easy and asking a focused question.
30 April 2026 · 2 min read
Conversion
Improve recruitment agency conversion rates by fixing the middle
Most agencies focus on sourcing volume or final offer negotiation. Conversion often improves faster by fixing the middle: screening, contact, submissions, and feedback.
29 April 2026 · 2 min read
The offer
See it on a role you are working today.
Twenty minutes, your own job description, your own CVs. You judge it on the shortlist it produces.
- 1Twenty minutesYou bring one live hiring workflow and the real inputs it uses. We look at it together—no deck or discovery questionnaire.
- 2Set up on the callWe configure the module you intend to buy and run the first real step with you while you watch.
- 3Then 7 days aloneYour team runs it on live work and judges the outcome you agreed upfront—not anything we said.