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Industry · Recruitment · UK & Ireland · 20–500 consultants

More placements. Same recruiters.

Shortlists in minutes, not hours. Outreach that actually gets a reply. Right-to-Work and screening that doesn't bottleneck the offer. Fractional CTO, agency-aware managed IT, ISO 27001 readiness - and the change programme that ships it. We build it into Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder and Mercury - and we keep it running.

WHAT WE'VE SHIPPED IN RECRUITMENT
12 min
to shortlist (was 6 hrs)
+18%
placement rate, post-pilot
20+ hrs/wk
reclaimed per consultant
6 wks
RecAssist pilot to live
REC / APSCo · RTW & IR35 awareSee the case study →
The brief

Six things we hear on every agency first call.

We've shipped enough in recruitment that the brief writes itself. Recognise any?

CV matching eats consultant time
"Half the day reading CVs. We've got bench - we're just spending it on Outlook."
Outreach reply rates have collapsed
"We send 200 messages to get one call back. The boards don't work like they used to."
RTW is the bottleneck on the offer
"Candidate accepts Friday, can't start Monday because we're chasing documents."
Contract margin is leaking
"ETZ says one thing, the placement margin sheet says another. We've stopped trusting the dashboard."
Two forecasts, one MD
"Bullhorn says one number, the leadership team's spreadsheet says another. Both are wrong."
We can't out-spend the big agencies
"Recruiters keep leaving for higher salaries. We need a better way of working - not just better pay."
We've shipped against every one of these. Most inside 6–10 weeks.
What we ship for recruitment

Six practices we ship most. Plus whatever you bring us.

Each one outcome-priced, fixed scope, live in weeks. Pick one - or stack several with a fractional exec running point. If your problem isn't here, we'll still scope it.

FLAGSHIP · AI MATCHING

CV matching with RecAssist

Our recruitment AI screens CVs against the spec, surfaces the best candidates in seconds, drafts a shortlist with reasoning. Runs against your past placements in Bullhorn or Vincere - learns your patch, not the public web.

12 min
to shortlist (was 6 hrs)
From £18k
6-week pilot
OUTREACH

AI outreach & cadences

Personalised candidate and client messages drafted in your consultant's voice. Branching cadences, reply detection, calendar handoff. Pulls activity straight back into Bullhorn / Vincere so the desk sees what landed.

3-5x
reply rate uplift
8 hrs/wk
per consultant
RTW & SCREENING

Right-to-Work & screening automation

Home-Office-aligned RTW (digital and share-code), DBS, BPSS, SC pre-checks, sanctions and PEP screening. Single candidate portal, signed documents back into the ATS automatically. Defensible audit trail.

2 days → 2 hrs
RTW turnaround
100%
audit trail
CONTRACT

Contract margin & timesheet recon

Pulls ETZ / Tempaid / FirstChoice timesheets, reconciles them against placement margin, surfaces leakage per consultant per week. Margin-watch alerting before the invoice cycle, not after.

+4%
recovered GP
Weekly
leakage alerting
MI · FORECAST

Consultant MI & forecast

One number for NFI. Consultant league tables, pipeline health, deal-age decay, vacancy fill rates - pulled live from Bullhorn, your phone system and your job boards. The MD's spreadsheet finally gets retired.

1 number
for NFI
Live
from source
IT & CYBER

Fractional CTO & managed IT

IT leadership for agencies investing in product. Plus managed IT, cyber operations, Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001 readiness. UK engineers. Bullhorn / Vincere / Mercury admin and integrations included.

From £1k
per month
Sub-30 min
response
BESPOKE · OUTCOME-PRICED

Don't see your problem on the list?
We build what you need.

The six practices above are what we ship most. They're not all we ship. Bring the actual constraint - bench utilisation, vacancy decay, NFI forecast accuracy, RPO operating model - and we'll scope it the same way: fixed fee, fixed timeline, engineer-led, IP yours.

Plugs into your stack

We build into the systems you already run.

No "rip and replace". We integrate with the ATS, CRM, job-board, screening, timesheet and comms systems UK recruitment agencies run as standard.

Don't see yours? Ask us - chances are we've built against it.
Bullhorn
ATS · CRM
Vincere
ATS · CRM
JobAdder
ATS · CRM
Mercury
ATS · CRM
RDB Pro
ATS
Eploy
ATS
LinkedIn Recruiter
BOARDS
Indeed
BOARDS
Reed
BOARDS
CV-Library
BOARDS
SmartSearch
SCREENING
Onfido
SCREENING
ETZ Payments
TIMESHEETS
8x8 · Aircall
COMMS
Microsoft 365
CLOUD
+ many more
Featured case

Six weeks. RecAssist on the tech desk. 18% more placements without one extra hire.

90 consultantsUK · Manchester & LondonPerm & contract · techBullhorn · ETZLive in 6 weeks
THE STARTING POSITION

A 90-consultant UK tech recruitment agency. Perm and contract, split roughly 60/40. Bullhorn was the source of truth - in theory. In practice, consultants spent 4–6 hours a day reading CVs and writing one-off outreach. Two prior 'AI recruitment' trials had ended in cancellation: one because the matching was no better than keyword search, one because the outreach sounded like a chatbot and burned client relationships.

WHAT WE SCOPED (WEEK 1)

A fixed-scope, fixed-fee 6-week RecAssist pilot at £18k to ship one workflow: CV matching and consultant-voiced outreach on the tech desk. The deal - if the desk lead said no, no rollout. If yes, we'd quote a fixed scope for the rest of the agency.

WHAT WE SHIPPED (WEEKS 2–6)

RecAssist trained on the agency's past two years of Bullhorn placements - learning what 'good' looked like on their patch, not the public web. Shortlists generated in 12 minutes from a vacancy brief, ranked with reasoning. AI outreach drafts in each consultant's voice, with branching cadences and reply detection. Activity flowed back into Bullhorn live. Privileged candidate data stayed in the agency's Azure tenant with zero retention against external models.

WHAT CHANGED (POST-LAUNCH)

The tech desk ran for five weeks before the agency signed a £58k rollout across financial services, healthcare and accounting desks. Six months in: placement rate per consultant up 18%, time-to-shortlist down from 6 hours to 12 minutes, outreach reply rate 4x higher. Consultants ran 22 open vacancies each (was 12). NFI per consultant added £18k a year. No one was made redundant - two senior consultants ran new desks the agency couldn't previously open.

IMPACT, 6 MONTHS POST-LAUNCH
+18%
placement rate
12 min
to shortlist (was 6 hrs)
4x
outreach reply rate
22 vs 12
open vacancies per consultant
+£18k
NFI per consultant per year
+2 desks
opened off the capacity

"Two earlier AI tools made our outreach sound like a chatbot and embarrassed senior consultants in front of clients. AssurePath trained it on our own placements and our own voice. Replies actually went up. That's the difference."

Managing Director
90-consultant UK tech recruitment agency
Read the full case study (PDF)
Compliance

Built for agencies auditors visit.

REC and APSCo members face client audits, Home Office checks, ICO scrutiny and insurer reviews. Everything we ship is built to make those reviews easier, not harder.

REC & APSCo aligned
Built around REC's Code of Professional Practice and APSCo's standards. Sits cleanly inside client compliance audits.
ISO 27001 advisor
Independent ISO 27001 consultancy. We deliver the ISMS, the SoA, the risk register and sit alongside you in Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits.
Home Office RTW
Right-to-Work automation aligned with current Home Office digital-share-code guidance and manual fallback. Defensible audit trail per candidate.
IR35 & SDS
Status determination workflow, SDS storage and audit trail, umbrella / PSC / PAYE routing. Integrates with Kingsbridge, IR35Pro and other SDS tools.
UK data residency
All deployments default to UK regions - Microsoft 365 UK, Azure UK South, AWS eu-west-2. Candidate data stays in your tenant by default.
Background-checked staff
Everyone touching candidate or client data is BS 7858 background-checked. DPAs signed before scoping. ICO-aligned by default.
FAQ

What agency MDs ask first.

Eight questions MDs, COOs and operations directors ask on every recruitment first call.

Yes. A meaningful share of our practice work is for UK recruitment agencies 20–500 consultants - perm, contract, temp, executive search and specialist boutiques. We've shipped CV matching pipelines (RecAssist), AI outreach, Right-to-Work and screening automation, contract margin reconciliation, MI dashboards and managed IT into Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder, Mercury, RDB Pro and Eploy.

Let's talk recruitment

Bring the desk.
We'll bring an agency-fluent engineer.

Free 30-minute working session with someone who's shipped this in your sector before. You bring the constraint - CV time, outreach reply rates, RTW bottleneck, margin leakage, whatever's eating the desk. We bring a fixed proposal in five working days.