HIKARI
Private testing · Black Star AI
An AI-powered talent intelligence platform.

You're a better judge
than any AI.

So we built one that learns from you — instead of trying to replace you.

Hikari Light: a side panel in Chrome, beside the system you already use. Human-led, AI-supported.

See it working

A minute on a sample vacancy: the job read from the page, twenty CVs ranked, one candidate opened, the report sent and the client's answer. Press Watch it, or click around yourself.

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Built by a team of recruiters, engineers and executives from:

Google·Meta·Amazon·Shell·BP·Reuters·Apple·Diageo·Dr Martens·H&M
RecruitersGoogle, Meta, Amazon, Shell, BP and Reuters — plus agency desks and executive search.
EngineersApple.
ExecutivesDiageo, Dr Martens and H&M.

Four camps who agreed on nothing — except that a tool should make a great recruiter faster, not pretend to be one.

Every AI tool gives you a score. Only you know if it's right.

So Hikari doesn't overrule you. It shows you what your client has actually done.

Every yes, every no and every reason your client gives is kept. Before you send the next candidate, you see who they've said yes to, the lowest score they've ever progressed, the most they've paid and why they usually pass. Nothing estimated. Nobody else holds it.

That's the difference between AI that replaces you and AI that compounds you.

It hands the decision back. Every single time.

It informs — it never sends, rejects or actions anything on its own. Below the evidence, it says “not yet” instead of faking a confident number. Change a brief and it flags the affected scores rather than quietly re-running them behind your back.

A tool that decides for you is a tool you have to double-check. This one just makes you faster at the thing you're already good at.

Everything we crossed out

The one thing nobody else can see.

Plenty of your rejections have nothing to do with whether the person could do the job — salary, notice, someone already at final stage. Those aren't scoring failures. They're briefing failures, and they're the expensive ones.

Because Hikari holds the score, your score, and the client's decision on the same candidate, it's the only thing that can tell them apart — and hand you the words to go back to your client with.

Join the waitlist.

We're letting agencies in a few at a time. Leave your email and a person will come back to you when there's a place.

When you're in, your first 3 jobs are free. Put live vacancies through it, send a real shortlist to a real hiring manager, and see what comes back. After that, Hikari Light is £49 per recruiter a month.

One reply, from a person. No sequence, no webinar.
Right — you're on the list. We'll come back to you when there's a place. In the meantime, see it working.