Sittin' Pretty

Squeeze systems, not people

AI automation for search firms

The future is agents talking to agents. Most search firms still run on spreadsheets and whoever remembers.

For search firms without a tech team, we're the one partner that finds what's slowing you down and fixes your system, end to end.

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Falling behind is quiet. Nothing breaks.

The pitch goes to the agency with the newer demo. The MD spends Thursday afternoon on the phone to a vendor. The tools you pay for sit half used. The team is three hard weeks from burnout, and everyone can feel it except the spreadsheet.

We advertise a digital approach to executive search. When you scale that back quite bluntly, I don't know if we're really doing anything that digital.

An MD, executive search

What it costs

A search firm with its own tech can

  • search every interview it ever recorded
  • bring back the candidates who went quiet
  • screen before the first call
  • send a shortlist a client reads on a phone
  • call a prospect with a reason

None of that needs a tech team on payroll. It needs one partner who has built it before.

What changes

Two more problems we fix

Two more

You don't need to teach us how recruitment works.

We have sat inside recruitment teams. We know what a Friday shortlist looks like at four o'clock and why the database has three people called Jack.

Product and engineering in one team, so nothing gets lost in the handover between the person who understands the problem and the person who builds the fix.

And we know where recruitment is heading, and what's worth building now. What we build this quarter still makes sense next year.

Why us

Nine engines, one login

What the engines have done

Figures

50+ (2x increase) live searches at peak this quarter at one executive search firm, against a normal peak of about 25, with the same team

The story

14 days to 5 time to placement at one education staffing group, from fourteen days to five

The story

107 of 5,651 dormant candidates re-engaged in one wave at one staffing group; 49 placed or booked

The story

Almost 5,000 interviews searchable in plain English at one staffing group

The story

Every number on this site carries the method it was counted by.

Book a call about the bottlenecks you don't have time to think about.

Thirty minutes. No deck. You leave with a written note of what we would fix first.

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Nothing you do this week will feel like falling behind. That is the problem with it.

FAQ

Questions

Do we need a new CRM?

No. Every engine reads from and writes to the system of record you already run. If you later decide to replace it, the engines and the intelligence database come with you, because you own both.

What happens to our candidate data when an AI reads it?

The database lives in your own store, in your own region, and nothing is uploaded wholesale to a model provider. A query sends the model one question's worth of retrieved text, never the whole database, and every answer links back to its source. We are a processor of your data and say so in writing.