ATTENTION RECRUITMENT FIRMS

Source a full role in an hour, not a day.

Meet Hunter, the tireless head of research for your firm. He reads the brief, hunts every source you give him in parallel, verifies every candidate against two or three independent sources, and hands your team a tiered shortlist ready for your CRM.

H
Hunter
AI RESEARCH AGENT
at work
read brief · mapped role surface
89 found · every source, in parallel
77 verified · 2 sources each
tiered · T1 4 · T2 11 · T3 28
CSV delivered · audit trail filed
≈1h
per role
2-src
verified
24+
modes solved
01 · meet hunter

What is Hunter, exactly?

A senior research agent for recruitment firms, built on a disciplined sourcing methodology and run in production by our team. Hunter does the mechanical search and verify work. Your researchers do the judgement.

EVIDENCE-OBSESSED

Every claim sourced.

No line about a candidate without a URL to back it. Unsourceable facts are flagged or omitted.

IN PRODUCTION

Not a prototype.

Live since March 2026, running real roles, with 24+ failure modes already solved and codified.

RUN BY US

You never touch the tech.

We build, secure, run, and tune Hunter week over week. Your team just reviews the shortlists.

ROI-BACKED

A day to an hour.

A full day of sourcing compressed to about an hour of agent work and 25 minutes of review.

02 · the state of AI in 2026
95%

Of enterprise AI shows zero measurable return. Not low. Zero.

MIT Project Nanda ↗
80%

Of AI projects fail. Twice the rate of non-AI IT projects.

RAND Corporation ↗

AI dazzles in the demo. Then it dies before it reaches production.

01Tools bought, never wired into how roles actually run.
02No verification standard, so output looks clean but goes stale.
03Decks and strategy, nothing shipped to a live role.
04One-off prompts: no memory, no audit trail, no methodology.

Hunter is the opposite. He is already in production, running real roles, with a source on every claim.

03 · the problem

Sourcing is where the hours disappear.

A competent researcher burns 8 to 20 hours per role on discovery and verification before any judgement work begins. The mechanical search and stitch is most of that, and it compounds across every role.

8–20h

Time per role

Researcher labour on discovery and verification alone, before any judgement work begins.

Quality variance

Same brief, two researchers, different longlists. Invisible until it shows up downstream as wasted outreach.

6mo

Data freshness

LinkedIn, a verified email, and the firm site all disagree. Reconciling takes time; skipping it produces stale longlists.

6+

Tool fragmentation

LinkedIn, Brave, Exa, Apollo, Lusha, your ATS, and whatever else you run. The switching cost is paid every role.

04 · how it works

From brief to CRM-ready shortlist, in six steps.

You review and decide. Hunter does the searching and stitching.

01
I read the brief in full before I start.5 min · your time

Send it by Telegram, paste it, or pull it straight from your CRM. I read it end to end, extract the underlying role, and flag inconsistencies before I search.

02
I map the full surface area of the role.10–20 min · back and forth

Title variants, adjacent backgrounds, sector synonyms, firm-size band, trajectory signals. You confirm or correct me in chat. This is the first quality gate, and errors caught here are cheap.

03
I hunt across every source you've connected, in parallel.15–30 min · agent, async

Structured filters, semantic match, known-target firm sweeps, sector mapping. Six sources and counting in a typical setup, and the list grows with your stack. You end up with an 80 to 150 candidate longlist, each with a current role, firm, location, and source URL.

04
I confirm every candidate against two sources.10–20 min · agent

Each shortlisted candidate confirmed against two independent sources within 60 days. Tier 1 gets a verified work email and phone from a third source. I surface discrepancies, I never bury them.

05
I sort into three tiers, and I hold the line.5 min · agent

Tier 1 is the top 3 to 5, fully verified, each with a specific standout. If there are fewer than three genuine Tier 1s, I say so. I never promote a Tier 2 to fill the slot.

06
"Send the CSV," and I do.90 seconds

Delivered in your CRM's schema, with a top-10 preview dropped in chat and a full audit trail filed. Every candidate traceable to the search that surfaced them.

≈1h

A full day of researcher work, compressed to about an hour of Hunter's work and 25 minutes of your team's review. You review and decide. Hunter does the searching and stitching.

05 · the standard

Defensible to your client. Every time.

These are Hunter's standards. He enforces them on himself, every role, whether or not anyone is checking.

TWO-SOURCE RULE

Hunter confirms every shortlisted candidate against two independent public sources within 60 days. No exceptions.

SOURCE ON EVERY CLAIM

Hunter won't write a single line about a candidate without a URL to back it. Unsourceable facts are flagged or omitted.

ANTI-HALLUCINATION

No fabricated candidates, roles, or histories. He won't stitch fragments from different people into one. Uncertainty is surfaced, never hidden.

TIER INTEGRITY

Hunter never promotes a candidate to fill a slot. Fewer Tier 1s with strong evidence beats more with thin evidence.

These aren't marketing claims. They're enforced at the tool layer. Hunter literally cannot write a candidate to a CSV without a source URL.

06 · the four levels

The four levels of sourcing maturity.

Most firms stall at Tooled. Hunter moves your whole research function up the curve.

LEVEL 01

Manual.

Researchers source by hand across a few tabs. Every role starts from zero. Quality rides on who's free that week.

where most start
LEVEL 02

Tooled.

A LinkedIn seat, a scraper, maybe an LLM writing Booleans. Faster in spots, but nothing reconciles sources or holds a standard.

where most stall
LEVEL 03

Agent-run.

Hunter runs the mechanical sourcing end to end, verified and tiered, with an audit trail. Researchers move to judgement and client work.

Hunter lands you here by day 90
LEVEL 04

Compounding.

Hunter's methodology is tuned to your firm and improves every week. Throughput climbs, the standard holds, and your best researchers place more.

where you compound in year two
07 · proof

Live in production. Not a prototype.

A real role Hunter ran, anonymised at the client's request.

a role hunter ran · anonymised shipped
Role:Senior Associate · Corporate / Commercial · SE QLD + Nthn NSW
Brief:5–9 yrs PQE · firms 11–200 · 64-name exclusion list
Phase 1:Semantic map confirmed12 min
Phase 2:89 unique candidates · 6 sources22 min
Phase 3:77 verified · 3 flagged moved18 min
Phase 4:T1:4 T2:11 T3:28 · 34 excluded4 min
Phase 6:43-candidate CSV + audit trail90 sec
Agent work: 66 minResearcher: 25 minManual: a full day
Time per role
Minutes · agent run vs manual
66
25
~480
Agent
Review
Manual
"This is the v3. I'd have spent 6 hours getting here last year. Sending it to the client tomorrow."
Research lead, retained executive search firm · anonymised
08 · who Hunter is for

Hunter isn't for everyone.

GOOD FIT

This is you if

Firm: a retained, boutique, or contingent search firm running multiple roles at once.
Researchers: senior, with time too valuable to spend on mechanical search and stitch.
Volume: 5 to 30 roles per researcher, and sourcing is a real bottleneck.
Standards: you defend shortlists to clients and need a source on every claim.
How you work: you want a partner who builds and runs it alongside you.
NOT A FIT

This isn't you if

×You want to cut researchers, not amplify them. Hunter augments, he doesn't replace.
×You run one role a quarter. Do it by hand and save the retainer.
×You'll accept an unsourced longlist as long as it looks full.
×You want the cheapest scraper to wire up and run yourself.
×You think AI is a fad, or you want it to do your judgement for you.
09 · pricing

A managed service, not a one-off build.

2-WEEK ONBOARDING
Onboarding · one-time

Setup & calibration.

2-week setup: dedicated infrastructure, your data providers wired in, and your methodology, tier rules, and voice codified into Hunter. Live shadowing on 2–3 real roles before cutover.

Platform · monthly

Hunter, managed.

Hunter, running, tuned, and supported. New methodology rules codified live, no downtime. Throughput and quality reviewed monthly.

Data · passthrough

Provider credits.

You pay the data providers (Brave, Exa, Apollo, Lusha, and any others you add) directly per credit. Hunter reports every credit spent. No markup.

Scoped to your role volume · No lock-in Start with a discovery call ↗

You own your role data, your methodology document, and your workspace state. Stop anytime and take everything.

10 · FAQ

Your questions, answered.

No. Hunter absorbs the mechanical search and verify load, 60 to 80% of sourcing time, so your researchers spend their hours on judgement, candidate engagement, and client work. You hire researchers for the parts that need a human. Hunter isn't that.

Verified. Hunter confirms every shortlisted candidate against two independent sources within 60 days, with a URL on every claim. Tier 1 candidates get a verified work email and phone from a third source. He surfaces discrepancies rather than producing a clean-looking but stale list.

He surfaces the conflict instead of guessing. If LinkedIn, a verified email, and a firm site disagree, Hunter flags it, shows you what each source says, and won't assert a fact he can't back. Uncertainty is visible, never hidden.

Atlas/Recruit integrations are established (read-only). Bullhorn, Loxo, JobAdder, Vincere, or custom CRMs are a per-integration build, typically 3 to 5 days. If you'd rather not integrate, Hunter delivers CSV in any schema you need.

Every claim is sourced, so you can check anything in seconds. Beyond that, we maintain a live regression log: 24+ real failure modes already diagnosed and permanently prevented at the tool layer. Hunter gets more reliable the longer he runs, not less.

Hunter doesn't contact candidates, make hiring decisions, assess cultural fit, or move candidates between CRM stages. He produces verified, tiered, source-cited candidate data and hands it to your team. Outreach and judgement stay with your humans.

NEXT STEP

See Hunter run on one of your live roles.

Book a discovery call. Walk us through a real role, and we'll show you exactly what Hunter would surface, verify, and deliver, and how many researcher hours he gives back.

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