AI for recruitment, inside the ATS you already run.
Candidate matching, CV parsing, outreach, screening, comms. We embed senior AI engineers in your agency or talent function and build the automations into the systems your consultants live in — not a parallel platform you have to teach them.
Most recruitment AI products are point tools that bolt onto your ATS and stop solving the problem once the candidate sits with a consultant. We are not a product. We embed senior AI engineers inside your agency or in-house talent team and build the automations into the systems your consultants already use every hour of every day.
We have spent the last three years rebuilding our own businesses around AI — with consultants, sales teams and operators of our own to support. We bring that same way of working into UK recruitment agencies and in-house talent functions, from boutique permanent desks to contract-heavy operations and high-volume in-house teams.
CV parsing and enrichment. Long-list build. Candidate matching. Outreach sequencing. Reference and right-to-work checks. Interview write-ups. Job-spec drafting. Pipeline reporting. Monthly retainer plus transparent hourly delivery; most engagements pay back inside the first quarter.
Candidates and conversations
Faster, fairer long-listing against your live database. Drafted outreach that sounds like the consultant who will own the relationship. Interview write-ups, summary notes and follow-ups without the end-of-day scramble.
Inside your ATS, not next to it
We integrate into the ATS and CRM your consultants live in — Bullhorn, JobAdder, Vincere, Salesforce, custom — with structured logs and a runbook your team owns. No parallel platform to learn, no rip-and-replace.
First-quarter pay-back
We start with the workflow that pays back fastest — usually CV parsing, long-list build or outreach. Most clients save more in the first quarter than the entire engagement costs.
Common questions.
Will the AI replace our consultants?
No. The best agencies use AI to remove the volume work that drowns their billing consultants — parsing, long-listing, comms, write-ups — so they spend more time on the conversations only a senior recruiter can have. The headcount question depends on you.
How do you handle candidate data and right-to-work?
We deploy inside your cloud and inside your existing controls. We sign NDAs and DPAs as standard and never train external models on your candidate data without an explicit written agreement. Audit logs on every prompt and output. Right-to-work and reference workflows keep the human-in-the-loop where the regulator expects them.
We use Bullhorn / JobAdder / Vincere / Salesforce / a custom ATS — will you work with that?
Yes. We integrate into the stack you already run. We do not move you onto a Moonlabs platform — we have no platform. The code, the integrations and the deployments live in your environment when we finish.
What kinds of recruitment businesses do you take on?
Boutique permanent desks, contract-heavy operations, mid-market agencies and in-house talent functions inside scale-ups and mid-market firms. From single-office independents to multi-office groups. RPO providers and embedded talent businesses are good fits too.
What does AI for a recruitment agency cost?
A monthly retainer reserves capacity and covers planning and oversight; delivery hours are billed transparently on top. Rate quoted on the first call once we have seen the desk shape and the ATS landscape.
The full Forward Deployment offer
How engagements work: diagnose, build, operate. Engagement structure, pricing, and the four UK bases on one page.
About James, Louis, Phil & Shivam
The operators behind the work. £5m+ raised for their own companies, ~£10m across their broader career, AI-native since the week ChatGPT shipped.
More Academy entry points.
The Academy is one course with many doors. Each of these pages is a different entry point into the same twelve weeks.
AI for the desk your consultants already run.
Tell us where the volume work is hurting most — parsing, long-listing, outreach, write-ups. If we’re a fit, we’ll come back inside the week with a build plan.
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