Verified Business Case · Recruitment

Throwing more headcount at a choked pipeline doesn't scale growth, it scales chaos.

How we eliminated offshore processing costs and cut candidate triage from 14 days to 5 minutes.

Processing Time

< 5 Mins

Down from 14 days

Time-to-Contact

80% Faster

Instant prioritization

Annual Savings

$500K

Offshore costs eliminated

The Structural Flaw

A major recruitment firm was getting over 300 applications a day. To keep up, they leaned on a large offshore team to read, vet and route every resume to the right consultant. That setup quietly became the bottleneck. It was taking up to two weeks just to match a candidate to an open role, and by the time local recruiters made contact, the best people had already accepted offers somewhere else. When you're losing deals because your own pipeline is too slow, the first instinct is usually to hire more screeners. But throwing more people at a broken process doesn't fix it. It just makes the delay more expensive.

The Execution Engine

We didn't add headcount. We replaced the manual sorting layer with an automated execution engine. UiPath now intercepts every incoming resume and pulls out the core data: employment history, education, location. That data runs through a custom ML algorithm that scores the candidate and ranks their top 3 likely professions by confidence. Instead of waiting weeks for offshore triage, consultants open a single front-end portal and see a prioritised queue of the best candidates first. No waiting, no manual sorting, just work that's ready to action.

Deployed Stack

UiPath RPACustom ML Scoring AlgorithmAction Fabric Portal

Verified Outcomes

  • Processing time dropped from up to 2 weeks to under 5 minutes.
  • Around $350K to $500K in annual processing costs removed by cutting the offshore dependency.
  • Roughly 80% faster time-to-first-contact, so recruiters reach premium talent before competitors do.
  • Resumes are sorted and prioritised overnight, so the pipeline is ready before recruiters log in.

Stop guessing at scale.

Most consultancies want to sell you a 12-month transformation roadmap. We don't. Every engagement starts with a blunt 15-minute operational review directly with our VP of Growth. We look at your bottleneck, work out where it's actually breaking, and tell you if an AI execution path makes sense. No pitches. Just operator to operator.