244 applications. One good read each, or a skim.
Skimmed, the quiet strong candidate goes unread.
WHAT IT COSTSThe best person in the pile is the one nobody reached.
Bespoke AI built around your desk — so you place more, in less time. Recruitment is all we do. Human-led, always.
Our recruiting pedigree.
Engineering from Apple and Amazon.
applications a role now. Up 111% since 2022.
a role, just reading them. Before anyone picks up the phone.
of admin per role. About £17,000 a recruiter, a year.
Greenhouse, The Hire Standard, March 2026; Totaljobs, 2025.
Skimmed, the quiet strong candidate goes unread.
WHAT IT COSTSThe best person in the pile is the one nobody reached.
People you already paid to find, never searched against today’s brief.
WHAT IT COSTSYou pay again to find someone you already had.
Reading, scheduling, writing up.
WHAT IT COSTSAbout £17,000 a recruiter, a year, spent not recruiting.
Around your briefs, your pile, your clients. Hikari Lite is the way in.
Our off-the-shelf product, customised to your needs. CV ranking with the evidence, beside your ATS. The fastest way to see what we do.
The film: two and a half minutes. A fictional agency, fictional candidates, the real product.
Two customisations a year, built for your desk alone: things no other agency has. And a partner who keeps you current as AI moves. Recruitment is all we do, so what we build, we build for recruiters only.
Per agency, on a yearly plan, each up to two days of build. Bigger work is quoted first.
We sit with how you actually work — the roles, the pile, where the hours go. No slides.
Where AI would earn its keep, where it wouldn’t, and the first thing we’d build. If it’s not for you, we say so.
It goes on beside your ATS in a day. Nothing to install. Thirty days free.
Your first bespoke tool, built around your desk. Yours — no other agency has it.
Measured against real work: time back, placements, what the client decided. Data, not a feeling.
A monthly call, and as AI moves, we build the next thing. You never fall behind.
We recruited at Google, Meta, AWS, Shell, BP, NES Fircroft and Norman Broadbent. Our engineer came from Apple and Amazon. We worked the desks first — the highs, the lows, the Friday afternoons. So we built the thing we always wanted.
We run a bias check every week and publish the results, including the ones that went wrong. We don’t call it bias-free. The page says what we test, and what we can’t.
How we test →Hikari is in private testing with a handful of agencies. The first case studies are being written with the agencies themselves. We’ll publish them when they say we can.
We look at how your desk works, find where AI would earn its keep, and build it with you. Hikari Lite, our off-the-shelf product customised to your needs, is usually where it starts. What comes next depends on your desk.
We quote once we know your desk, because no two agencies need the same thing. Most start with a free pilot of Hikari Lite on their own live roles, before any contract.
No. It reads every CV against your brief and ranks it with the evidence. It never rejects anyone. A person decides, every time.
No. It works alongside the ATS you already use. Nothing is installed on it.
CVs are stored in the EU and deleted after 90 days. They are never used to train AI.
We run a bias check every week and publish the results, including the ones that went wrong. We don’t call it bias-free. How we test says what we check, and what we can’t.
The first conversation about your desk takes an hour, with no slides. Hikari Lite goes on beside your ATS in a day.
Recruiters who did the job, and an engineer who came from Apple and Amazon. Recruitment is all we do.
An hour on how your desk actually works. No slides, no contract.
We set each agency up by hand, so we take a few at a time.
Built around you.