yoko · an AI apprentice by Hikari

Your best recruiter, on every desk.

Yoko is an AI apprentice trained on one desk — yours. It learns how your best recruiter sources, screens and judges, then works that way across the team.

See it on one of your roles

Fifteen minutes. Bring a live role.

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the edge

Trained on one desk. Yours.

01

Trained on your desk

Your method, your instinct, your voice. Yoko learns from how your best recruiter works on live roles, not from a generic playbook.

02

Shows its reasoning

Every shortlist and every judgement call comes with the why. You can check it, challenge it and overrule it.

03

Your data stays yours

Set up where your team already works — the browser, the inbox, alongside your ATS (read-only). What it learns from your desk belongs to your firm.

04

Built by operators

Designed by people who have run recruitment desks, for the people who still do.

what it does

It does the groundwork.

  • A shortlist by morning

    Sourced and screened to your bar, with the reasoning behind every name.

  • Outreach in your voice

    Drafted the way you would write it. You read it, you press send.

  • Your dormant database, working again

    The candidates you have already paid to find, read again against today’s roles.

  • Write-ups and client updates, drafted

    Candidate write-ups and client updates, ready for you to check and send.

  • You keep the calls, the closes, the relationships

    Yoko drafts and informs. You decide, you send, you close.

yours to own

Unique to your firm.

Your method, your data and the edge they create are your IP — captured, documented and unique to your firm. It compounds as Yoko learns.

We build, run and maintain the engine. The advantage stays yours.

how it works

Audit, build, live.

  1. 01

    A two-day audit

    Two days with you and your best recruiter. We capture how the desk works — sourcing, screening, the judgement calls — and challenge it. You leave with a working prototype on your own roles and a scoped plan.

  2. 02

    The build

    We encode your desk into Yoko and set it up where you already work. Nothing to rip out.

  3. 03

    Live

    Yoko goes to work across the team. We host it, maintain it and keep it current as the models and your desk change, with a call every month.

Need something else built around your desk — an agent, a tool? We build those too. Tell us what it is →

built by operators

On the desks, not in a lab.

22 years recruiting for

Amazon · Google · Meta · BP · Shell · OMV

Engineering from

Apple

See it on one of your roles — fifteen minutes.

Bring a live role. We’ll show you what Yoko would do with it. No slides.

Book fifteen minutes

Or write to hello@hikari-ai.co.uk