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Professional services · Recruiting firms

How do AI agents help a recruiting firm win more retained searches?

By working the asset recruiters sit on and rarely use: every placement is two future relationships, every req is a signal, and every candidate moves again in three years. Here is exactly what the agents do and what they cost.

The recruiting leak, specifically

Recruiting has the shortest memory in professional services. The placement closes, the invoice goes out, and two relationships go dormant: a hiring manager who now trusts you and a candidate who will be a hiring manager somewhere else within a few years. Multiply by every search you have ever run; that is your untapped market.

The demand signals are public, too. Job postings, funding rounds, and executive departures announce searches before firms get called. The firm that shows up with a relevant shortlist while competitors wait for the phone wins the retainer.

What the agents actually do

Flagship agent · in the meeting

Live Advisor

Recruiting is negotiated live: the intake call where the fee percentage gets conceded in the first five minutes, the exclusivity that never gets asked for, the candidate close that wobbles on counteroffer day. Live Advisor sits in those calls and coaches in real time: it surfaces the retained-versus-contingency framing when the client pushes, holds the fee line with the right language, and flags the closing signals on both sides of the search. The deals are won and lost on live calls; this puts your best negotiator in every one of them.

Pursuit agent

Req Signals

Watches postings, funding events, and leadership changes in your niches. Flags the searches forming now, scored by fit and fee potential, so you pitch before the engagement letter goes to someone else.

Pursuit agent

Pitch Drafting

Turns a target into a ready-to-review pitch: your track record in the niche, placement stats, relevant anonymized shortlist shape. You refine and send while the req is still warm.

Pursuit agent

Search Follow-Up

Keeps every live pursuit and every active search communicating: client updates on schedule, candidate care that protects your reputation, the silence that kills deals eliminated.

Pursuit agent

Placement Reactivation

Works both sides of your placement history: the hiring manager due for another search, and the candidate you placed three years ago who is now building a team of their own.

In productionPursuit agents run in production at GPM today, on the same platform behind deployments at IBM, Tanium, and Cohesity. Read the GPM story →
Example math — run your own numbers

What is one more retained search worth?

$0
a year in deals you were already quoting, at the settings above.
volume × value × lift, annualized. Illustrative arithmetic, not a promise: your real number is what the $9,500 audit finds.

Questions recruiting firms ask

How do AI agents help a recruiting firm win retained work instead of contingency scraps?

Retained work goes to the firm that arrives first with credibility. The signals agent spots searches forming from postings, funding, and exec moves; the pitch agent assembles your niche track record the same day; and the reactivation agent keeps every past hiring manager and placed candidate warm so you are the first call, not the fourth contingency firm on the req.

What does this cost for a recruiting firm my size?

Same prices as everyone: the Revenue Leak Audit is $9,500 fixed, guaranteed to find 10× its fee in annual leak or you don’t pay. Agent builds run $25,000 to $75,000 by scope, and the Scoot platform is $100 to $150 per seat per month. Prices are on the pricing page, the same way your price is on every quote you send.

Do I need to replace the software I already run?

No. The agents work alongside the tools you already use. The audit maps how work actually happens in your company before anything gets built.

Who owns the agents when you're done?

You do, for the long term: the agents, your customer conversation history, and the playbook. The monthly platform fee is run-cost, not rent; you own your trucks and still buy fuel. And we train your people to run and extend the system as your AI program grows.

Thirty minutes with Ed. Bring your numbers.

Tell us how you sell today. Leave with where we’d look for the leak in your business and what we’d build first. Prices are posted; no retainers, no surprises.

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