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Overview

AI-Native Tech Recruitment Agency

An end-to-end hiring pipeline that delivers qualified candidates without the agency placement fee. Flat fee per profile, nothing on hire.

Multi-channel sourcing and job distribution
Your role goes live across every major job board. Our AI sources beyond them, from live search and our own talent pool. Outreach is written for each candidate, which is what earns a reply.
Screening & scoring
Every profile is scored against a success rubric built from your role. Candidates who clear the bar go to a human-conducted screening interview, where their experience is verified claim by claim.
Pipeline management
We chase candidates who go quiet, book and rebook every interview, and hold the pipeline together until someone signs. Your team never sends a follow-up email.
Role-specific technical assessment
We generate an assessment from your actual stack and run it on our platform, capturing how the candidate solved it, not just whether they passed.
- Tests engineering ability against your real stack, not generic puzzles
- Tests how they direct AI tooling, which is now half the job
- Session-level behavioural tracking, with plagiarism risk flagged

Screening

Verified and interested.

We find the candidates, chase the replies and run the first interview. What reaches you is a shortlist of engineers who match your rubric and want the role.

AI sourcing across every channel
Our AI searches live across job boards, professional networks and our own talent pool, reaching engineers who are not scrolling job listings. Every message is written for that candidate and that role, and the follow-up cadence runs automatically until they reply or opt out.
Applicant scoring and ranking
Every profile is evaluated against a success rubric built from your role, then ranked against every other applicant before anyone spends time on a call.
Human-conducted screening interviews
AI books the call and writes the guide. A person runs it, because strong engineers disengage when a machine interviews them. AI scores the answers.

Technical assessment

Skills evidenced, not claimed.

Every shortlisted candidate completes a technical assessment generated from your role, on our platform. You see the working, not just the score.

AI-enabled coding assessment
AI is part of the job now, so we assess with it rather than around it. Candidates work in our online IDE alongside a coding agent, and the session shows whether they are directing the agent or being led by it.
Full session replay
The platform records the complete session, so you can review how the solution came together.
- Where they got stuck, and for how long
- What they tried before it worked
- How they brief, correct and review AI output
- Whether the work is demonstrably their own
matcher.pytest_matcher.py
src/matcher.pyscorer.pytests/test_matcher.pyconftest.py
1def rank(pool, role):2"""Rank candidates by fit against one role."""3scored = []4for c in pool:5depth = score_depth(c, role.stack)6if depth < 0.4:7continue8scored.append((depth, c))910ranked = sorted(scored, reverse=True)11return [c for _, c in ranked[:10]]1213def score_depth(c, stack):14hits = [s for s in stack if s in c.skills]15return len(hits) / len(stack)1617def shortlist(pool, role, limit=10):18"""Top matches for one role, best first."""19ranked = rank(pool, role)20return ranked[:limit]2122def explain(c, role):23hits = [s for s in role.stack if s in c.skills]24return ", ".join(hits)2526def to_row(c, role):27depth = score_depth(c, role.stack)28return {"id": c.id, "depth": round(depth, 2)}2930def report(pool, role):31for c in shortlist(pool, role):32row = to_row(c, role)33print(row["id"], row["depth"])3435def best(pool, role):36ranked = rank(pool, role)37return ranked[0] if ranked else None38
>rank() rescans every candidate. make it one passRead(matcher.py)58 linesUpdate(matcher.py)+12 -9Bash(pytest -q)4 passedSorted once up front, so the per-candidate scan is gone.>rank() rescans every candidate. make it one pass? for shortcutsclaude
Technical depth9/10AI fluency8/10Passed

Pricing

Flat fee. No placement fee.

$299 per candidate you unlock. No percentage of salary, no retainer, and nothing payable when you hire.

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Best Value
$299per candidate
- Flat fee per profile you unlock
- No placement fee, at any salary
- Sourced, interviewed and technically assessed before you see them
- Full contact details and the complete interview record included
- No contract, no retainer, cancel anytime
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Contingency & retained agencies
15% to 25%of first-year salary
$18,000 to $30,000 on a $120k hire
- Placement fee charged as a percentage of salary
- Retainer often payable upfront
- No technical validation beyond a CV screen and a phone call
- Manual sourcing, limited to one consultant's network
- Rebate periods, replacement windows and clawback terms

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Hand it over and we take it from there. Sourcing, outreach, follow-up, screening and technical assessment. You just meet the finalists.

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Technical hiring. Pay $299, not 20%.

AI-Native Tech Recruitment Agency

Multi-channel sourcing and job distribution

Screening & scoring

Pipeline management

Role-specific technical assessment

Verified and interested.

AI sourcing across every channel

Applicant scoring and ranking

Human-conducted screening interviews

Skills evidenced, not claimed.

AI-enabled coding assessment

Full session replay

Flat fee. No placement fee.

ElasticRecruiter

Contingency & retained agencies

Try us on one role.