For recruitment agencies
Less screening. More placing.
Practical AI automation for recruitment agencies and in-house talent teams. Built around the systems you already use, live in weeks, and measured in hours given back to candidates and clients.
The problem
Sound familiar?
The day-to-day drag in a busy desk rarely comes from placing candidates. It comes from everything that has to happen before that call.
CVs screened one by one
Every CV read, matched and shortlisted by hand, at 25–30 minutes a candidate before a single call is even made.
Sourcing takes longer every year
Candidate shortages and lower response rates mean more time spent searching, messaging and chasing on LinkedIn and job boards for the same result.
Interviews juggled by email
Diary availability chased back and forth between candidates and clients by email, with reschedules eating into the working week.
Compliance and onboarding paperwork chased by hand
Right to work checks, references and onboarding paperwork tracked on spreadsheets and chased manually before a candidate can start.
None of this needs more staff, and most of it doesn’t need new software. It needs the systems you already have connected up and working for you.
Why this, why now
AI must be scalable, not scattered.
AI is moving faster than most operations can absorb. Pilots that never connect to everyday work stall out, and the gap between early movers and everyone else widens every month.
Up to £7,000 of lost value per team, every month — just 20 hours a week of manual admin, at typical rates, adds up to £3,000–£7,000 a month in lost value.
Capacity to scale
Enough delivery bandwidth to apply AI repeatedly across the business, not just once.
Capability to deliver
The skills and operating model to turn AI intent into working, everyday solutions.
Readiness to compete
Moving early enough that the efficiency gap doesn’t quietly close against you.
Webol’s AI Delivery Framework gives you all three without the cost or risk of building it in-house.
Illustrative example
What this looks like on a busy desk.
A typical first three months for a recruitment agency — the kind of result our discovery sprint is designed to size and prove for your desks before you commit.
a week of retyping removed between CV screening, the ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and client updates
from shortlist to interviews booked — down from several days of back and forth
to pull a complete right to work and compliance file — not an afternoon of chasing
*Numbers calculated from Webol’s typical first-phase automation outcomes in other sectors.
Scope
Where the hours go back.
Automation across the parts of the business that carry the paperwork.
CV screening
CVs matched and ranked against the role automatically, so time goes on the shortlist, not the read-through.
Candidate sourcing
Sourcing and outreach run automatically across your existing channels, keeping the pipeline moving without manual searching.
Interview scheduling
Availability matched and interviews booked automatically between candidates and clients, no more email tennis.
Compliance & onboarding
Right to work checks, references and onboarding paperwork tracked automatically and filed audit-ready.
Clients & vacancies
Vacancy requests and progress updates answered instantly, day or night, in your agency’s voice.
Delivery framework
From discovery to delivery.
Every engagement starts the same way, then scales through whichever tier fits your ambition.
Step one
Discovery Sprint
A focused sprint to map your priority use cases, engage the right stakeholders, and define a clear 90-day roadmap tailored to your operation — before you commit to anything. There’s a Lite and a Full version, depending on how much detail you need up front.
- Lite — one week, for fast clarity and a prioritised roadmap.
- Full — two weeks, adds a complete solution blueprint and a board-ready pack.
Once the discovery sprint is complete, we move straight into building AI into the area that needs it most, via one of the three tiers below.
Create momentum fast
AI Accelerator
Quick, high-impact automations that reduce manual effort and prove value early, without disrupting what already works.
- Live improvements in weeks, not months
- Automates the repetitive, high-friction stuff
- Clear proof it works before you scale
Embed AI into operations
AI Enablement Layer
A modular AI layer connecting your data, tools and workflows into one repeatable, organisation-wide capability.
- A shared platform across teams and systems
- Secure links between your data and approved AI models
- Reusable copilots, search and reporting
Extend and evolve safely
Innovation Lab
A private, governed environment for advanced use cases, once you’re ready to go further.
- Fine-tuned models aligned to your data
- Full governance, controls and compliance
- Built for long-term scale, not experiments
Whichever tier you start with, AI stops being a side project — it becomes part of how your business gets more effective, month after month.
Investment
Pricing.
Rolling monthly engagements, priced by delivery capacity — not per feature or per use case.
Getting started
AI Accelerator
Your first automations, live and paying back.
£3,000 / £5,000 / £7,500 pm
30–75 hrs/month · 3-month minimum
Building it in
AI Enablement Layer
A shared AI layer across your operation — assistants, search and reporting on your own data.
£6,000 / £9,000 / £15,000 pm
60–150 hrs/month · 6-month minimum
Owning it
Innovation Lab
A private AI environment for larger operators with data or compliance demands.
From £15,000 pm
150+ hrs/month · 12-month minimum
Credibility
Why us.
We run our own business on this.
Webol delivers more work today than two years ago, with half the team — using exactly the approach we’d build for you. We sell what we live.
UK-led, sensibly priced.
Product ownership and accountability in the UK, engineering in our own team in India — senior delivery without the agency day-rate.
No big-bang projects.
Weekly releases, runbooks for everything we ship, and nothing that disrupts the systems your operation depends on.
Optional depth
For your technical lead.
Optional depth for your technical lead. If anyone else wants to find out more about how we work, please book in a call to talk it through.
How the automations are built
Where your data goes
Systems we commonly connect
- ATS & CRM — Bullhorn, JobAdder, Vincere, or your platform of choice
- Job boards & sourcing — LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, or your existing channels
- Spreadsheets and shared drives — if a process still runs from one of these, we’ll connect it rather than force you onto something new
What happens if we stop
Bring us your next shortlist.
One 15-minute call, free and no obligation. We’ll tell you whether it’s automatable and whether we’re the right people to build it. If we’re not, we’ll say so.
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