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Automation for UK recruitment agencies

Your team should be placing candidates. Not reading CVs.

We build and run the automation for you. CV screening, candidate outreach and waking up the dormant records in your database. You keep doing the part that earns the fee.

Book a free 20-minute demo No long-term contract

The problem

Small agencies lose their best hours to admin.

3 to 4 hours per role

A consultant reads every application by hand. The good candidates sit in the inbox while that happens, and half of them are gone by the time you call.

Outreach nobody answers

The same templated message goes to everybody, so almost nobody replies. Good candidates assume it was sent by a machine, because it was.

Hundreds sat untouched

Your ATS is full of candidates you already paid to source and have not spoken to in two years. Some of them are looking right now.

01 / CV SCREENING

Every CV read, scored and ranked before you open your inbox.

Applications arrive by email and get assessed against the brief you gave us. You get a ranked list with the reasoning next to each name, so the first thing a consultant does is pick up the phone.

Works from your existing email inbox Scored against your brief, not a generic filter Reasons written out for every candidate
Senior Quantity Surveyor, Leeds 34 CVS · 6 MIN

J. Okafor

9 yrs main contractor side, NEC4, based 20 min from site

94

R. Haldane

7 yrs, fit-out heavy, no NEC4 experience listed

81

S. Whitcombe

Right sector, currently Manchester, salary above range

72

31 more

Scored below 70, reasons on file

Outreach sequence DAY 1 · 4 · 9

SENT DAY 1

Hi Jonah, you ran the commercial side on the Kirkstall Forge fit-out. We are hiring for a main contractor doing similar work in south Leeds, NEC4, up to £72k. Worth a ten minute call?

REPLY, 2 HOURS LATER

Interested. Free after 4pm most days this week.

Landed in your consultant's inbox Follow-ups stopped

02 / CANDIDATE OUTREACH

Every message written for the candidate reading it.

Each approach references the work that person has actually done and the role in front of them. Messages go out in sequence, get followed up on their own, and replies land straight with your consultant.

Written per candidate, sent from your domain Follow-ups stop the moment someone replies You approve the tone before anything goes out

03 / DATABASE RE-ENGAGEMENT

The candidates you already have, back in play.

We work through the dormant records in your ATS, find out who is open to moving, and hand you the ones worth a call. Placements out of a database you have already paid for.

Runs through the whole database in batches Updates each record as answers come back Flags the people who say they are looking
Dormant records, batch 3 412 CONTACTED

A. Mensah

Last contacted March 2023

Open to move

C. Bevan

Last contacted November 2022

Open to move

L. Farrant

Happy where she is, asked again in 6 months

Not now

D. Ashworth

Left the sector, record archived

Closed

How it works

Four steps. None of them yours.

01

A CV arrives by email.

02

The system reads and scores it.

03

A ranked shortlist appears.

04

Your consultant calls the top candidates.

Who it's for

Built for one kind of agency.

Independent UK contingency recruitment agencies

Teams of 5 to 20 staff

No long-term contract required

Pricing

Three stages. You stop at any of them.

1 INTRO CALL

Free intro call

No cost

No obligation either

Twenty minutes. We work out which of the three automations fit your agency, and tell you straight if none of them do.

RESULT

You know what is worth automating before you spend anything.

2 MOST AGENCIES START HERE

30-Day Pilot

From £500

Everything included

All three automations live 30 days of active support Cancel any time

RESULT

Proof it saves real hours before you commit further.

3 ONGOING

Ongoing

Quoted after the pilot

Setup, then a monthly fee

Only if you carry on past the pilot. We keep the automations running, fix what breaks and adjust them as your roles change.

RESULT

Automations run permanently in the background, managed by us.

Book a free 20-minute demo.

Bring one role you are working on now. We will show you what the shortlist would have looked like.

Book the call

No cost, no obligation. Twenty minutes.

shortlist.ai Automation for independent UK recruitment agencies