What we’ve beenworking on.

Every agency we work with gets asked the same question by their own people: why are we still doing this by hand? This is what we built for them when the answer was that nobody had got round to fixing it. Clients are kept anonymous. The work is not.

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Six desks, one approach.

We sit with the team, find the thing that costs them the most hours, and build against that.

A construction staffing agency

We did not automate a task. We rebuilt how the business runs.

This one started as a timesheet problem. It became seven systems, and it is still going. Nothing here replaced a consultant. All of it replaced the parts of their week that never needed one.

320hours a month back, and growing. Measured against the processes these systems replaced.

The Friday chase is over
Consultants used to spend the end of every week chasing paper timesheets across dozens of sites. Now a consultant fills in one daysheet. Every timesheet goes to the right person on its own, and the ones that do not come back get chased without anybody remembering to do it.
Compliance packs in one press
Every new starter used to mean building the AWR, CIS and KID paperwork by hand, one document at a time. It is now one press. The pack is generated, sent to the candidate, and recorded.
Nobody forgets the candidate
A job gets confirmed and the worker hears about it immediately, by text, without a consultant adding it to a list of things to do later.
Roles go live on their own
Vacancies reach the job boards without anyone pasting the same advert into four different sites.
A CRM built around how they actually work
They were paying for a system that did not fit them, so we built the one that does. Contacts, business development calls, companies and every site under them, a guided process for perm vacancies, a commission calculator, a client document library that sends in bulk, rate cards, account forms, and a written record of how the business runs. Note-taking is easy enough that consultants actually do it.
Two systems that finally agree
Their project board and their candidate database used to hold two different versions of the truth. They now stay in step, so nobody works from the wrong one.
Reaching the whole labour pool at once
Messaging hundreds of workers at a time, on the phone in their pocket, rather than one conversation at a time.

Everyone else.

Different desks, different problems, same approach. We sit with the team, find the thing that costs them the most hours, and build against that.

A rec-to-rec agency

Three systems covering the desk: finding people, reaching them, and paying the consultants who placed them.

3 systems

Sourcing that reaches past the search box

Finds the people a normal search will never surface, reads their background properly, scores them against the brief, and writes the shortlist straight into the system the consultant already works in. They start the day with a list to call.

Cold outreach that would survive a complaint

Most outreach tools ignore the law and hope. This one was built the other way round, on top of a full compliance file. A suppression list that never forgets, a slow warm-up, human gaps between messages, a personalisation floor enforced before a send is even allowed, and one-click unsubscribe that works properly in Gmail. Replies are read and categorised, and anything that looks like an opt-out suppresses itself.

Commission nobody has to argue about

Tiered quarterly commission, split and resourced deals credited correctly in real time, and dropout clawbacks calculated the right way rather than the convenient way. Every month it produces the branded payrun document accounts actually needs.

A multi-sector recruitment group

One system that runs the whole front end of a vacancy, from the brief to a scored shortlist. Built for this agency alone rather than sold to everyone.

5 systems

Describe the vacancy, it writes the test

Paste a brief or describe the role in plain English. It works out what actually matters for that job and turns it into the scoring criteria everything else gets measured against. The recruiter edits and approves that before anything goes out, so the standard is theirs, not the machine's.

The advert writes and posts itself

The job advert comes out of the same brief and goes live on its own. Nobody rewrites the same role four times for four different boards.

It checks who you already have first

Before it looks outside, it searches their own database against the criteria. Most agencies are sitting on people they placed, interviewed or spoke to two years ago and have since forgotten about.

Applications score themselves on arrival

As applications come in they are read, scored against the approved criteria, and ranked, with the reasoning written out next to each one. Nobody opens a CV to find out it was never a fit.

Still thin? It goes looking

If the shortlist is not strong enough, it goes out to LinkedIn and finds people who meet the same criteria, scored the same way, so the sourced candidates and the applicants sit on one ranked list.

A contractor compliance platform

A full product, not a directory. Contractors on one side, companies on the other, their own team running it in the middle, on the web and as real apps on both phones. For construction, utilities, rail, energy and infrastructure.

6 systems

A lapsed ticket never satisfies a requirement

Matching in this industry fails because a qualification either covers the job or it does not, and most platforms treat tickets as keywords. Both sides map onto one shared map of UK qualifications: the sectors, the awarding bodies, the families a ticket belongs to, the individual tickets, the client passports, the gateway credentials, and the rules for what genuinely counts as equivalent to what. A certificate that expired last month stops satisfying the requirement the day it expired, not whenever somebody notices.

The contractor's side

Build the profile once, add every ticket held with the certificate photographed as evidence, and then control who is allowed to see any of it. Each company is granted, pending or refused, so a contractor is never sitting in a database they did not agree to be in.

The company's side

Set up projects, post roles, and state exactly which qualifications each role requires. Search contractors against those requirements rather than against keywords, then message the ones who actually qualify without leaving the platform.

The console they run it from

Their own team reviews contractors, moderates what gets published, and maintains the qualifications map itself as awarding bodies change their schemes. The thing that makes the matching trustworthy is that somebody owns the taxonomy, so we built them the place to own it.

Real apps, not a website in a wrapper

Contractors are on a site, not at a desk. The same product ships as an app on iPhone and Android, using the phone's own camera to capture certificates where the work is happening and pushing a notification when a company wants them.

Free one side, subscription the other

Contractors pay nothing, which is the only way the contractor side ever fills up. Companies subscribe. Billing, phone verification and email all run through the platform.

An international headhunting firm

Their public face, rebuilt and translated.

1 system

Three markets, three languages

A rebuilt website and two further language editions, so the same firm presents properly in each of the countries it recruits in rather than asking half its market to read a second language.

And our own.

We run our agency on the same things we build for yours. If it is not good enough for us, we are not going to sell it to you.

Plucker

Describe who you want. Plucker finds people who never appear in a standard search, scores every one against your brief, and hands back a ranked shortlist inside the hour. Every agency gets its own isolated pool, so nobody else's usage can slow yours down or put your access at risk.

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The growth engine behind it

Plucker sells itself. An agent decides who to approach and when, and the tools it is allowed to use physically cannot contact a suppressed person or push an account past its limit. The guardrails are in the tools, not in the instructions.

This website

Every enquiry sent from it lands straight in front of the two of us, with the problem already written out, so nobody has to check a separate inbox to find out that someone asked for help.

Your bottleneck is probably on this page already.

And if it is not, it is the next one we build. Thirty minutes is enough for us to tell you which.

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