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Agentic recruitment platform

Delegate the legwork. Keep the decisions.

Respond is an agentic recruitment platform. Its AI agent carries out several recruitment tasks from one instruction. The brief, assessments and candidate replies stay with the role, so you spend less time reconstructing progress and more time with candidates and clients.

No ATS replacement project required.

90%

Estimated reduction in CV formatting time versus manual reformatting.

80%

Estimated reduction in time to find strong-fit candidates.

6hrs

Typical time saved creating a client-ready submission pack.

Agentic recruitment

Do more with each instruction. Pick up every role where you left off.

Respond’s AI agent sits beside your workspace. Tell it what you need in plain language and it carries out the work, then shows you what it did and what needs your attention. You control candidate contact and client submissions.

Several tasks, one instruction

Give one instruction for several tasks. One request can run a match, analyse the strongest candidates, build the shortlist and draft outreach. Larger matching and analysis jobs run in the background while you keep working.

Context that stays with the role

The brief, candidate assessments and your screening notes are saved against the role, so you are not re-entering details or re-explaining the brief each time.

See what needs you next

Return to the role with the brief, assessments, replies and screening notes together. Candidate replies arrive with draft responses ready, and client feedback sits against the right submission.

Feature walkthrough

Watch Respond format CVs, search the talent pool and build a submission pack.

A four-minute walk-through of CV formatting, talent-pool match search, and the AI-assisted submission pack — narrated by the team.

Respond for Recruiters — product walkthrough poster

Respond for Recruiters — product walkthrough

~ 4 min
CV formatting

Send a CV. Get a branded profile.

Agencies spend hours reformatting CVs or waiting on offshore services before a candidate can be sent to a client. Respond does the formatting automatically.

  • Dedicated CV email address
    Forward a PDF or Word CV to your team address. A formatted Word profile comes back within minutes.
  • Consistent roles and skills
    Respond cleans up job titles and skill wording so similar candidates are easier to find later.
  • Your brand applied
    Every candidate profile uses your agency template, structure and presentation style.
  • Notes from the email captured
    Client, target role, availability, clearance and location details in the email can be added to the profile.
Inbound pipeline · cvs@brightline.cognaire.com Live
Inbound email
From: alex@brightline.co
Subject: Jordan Marsh — Acme Platform Eng
Role: Senior Platform Eng
Client: Acme · Remote EU
Clearance: BPSS · Avail: 2 wks
jordan-marsh-cv.pdf · 142 KB
Branded profile

Jordan Marsh

Senior Platform Engineer · 9y

K8sAWSGo
+ indexed into talent pool · 18s
CV Ingestion · 24 processed today
Marsh_Jordan_CV.pdf
12 sections · 47 skills · 4 roles extracted
Formatted
PShah-resume-2026.docx
Multi-column layout · normalized
Formatted
Mateo_A.pdf
Extracting skills & certifications…
Processing
a-linden-sre.pdf
Queued · 2nd
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Searchable talent pool

Turn your CV database into a usable asset.

Every formatted CV becomes a searchable candidate profile with skills, years of experience, seniority, certifications, clearance, location, work rights, last role and last employer. No manual data entry. Whether you have 50 profiles or 100,000, your team can filter and search the pool.

Jordan Marsh
Senior Platform Engineer · Berlin · BPSS
94%
K8sAWSTerraformGo
Priya Shah
Infra Engineer · Dublin · SC-eligible
88%
K8sAWSPython
Mateo Álvarez
DevOps Lead · Madrid
82%
K8sGCPTerraform
Anna Linden
SRE · Remote EU
77%
ObservabilityAWSGo
Matching and analysis

Find strong candidates even when CVs use different words.

Keyword search misses good people. Respond ranks candidates against the job brief by meaning and context, then helps your team compare strengths, gaps, readiness and fit before you build a shortlist. Ask the agent to run the match and analyse the strongest candidates, or run each step yourself.

  • Fit scores recruiters can use
    Each candidate is scored on technical skills, industry experience, seniority, and practical fit for the role — location, clearance and work rights as stated on the CV. Add the hiring manager’s preferences for an optional extra score.
  • Find more like this
    Found a strong candidate? Search for similar profiles across the pool without guessing the right keywords.
  • Strengths, gaps and red flags
    Each candidate gets a plain-English recommendation with issues surfaced before client submission.
6 analysed candidates · Acme Platform Eng Plot: Technical × Domain
Technical Fit → Domain Expertise →
JM
PS
MA
AL
SO
LV
Strong fit (> 85) Shortlisted Compare up to 6 side by side
How it works

From brief to client submission.

Three steps your team can adopt quickly. Work through them yourself or ask the agent to carry them forward. No ATS replacement project required.

1Find and assess

Set the brief and build a shortlist

Paste the job brief or describe the role to the agent. Respond searches your talent pool against the brief and assesses the strongest matches, so you can shortlist with evidence.

2Engage and screen

Start conversations and screen

The agent drafts outreach for your shortlist, which you review and send. Replies arrive as tasks with draft responses ready. Respond prepares a brief for each screening call; record your screening notes and the candidate’s permission to represent them.

3Submit and follow through

Present candidates and follow through

Respond uses the confirmed screening details to prepare the client submission. Record client feedback against the right submission and draft candidate updates. Optional masking supports blind shortlisting where the client requires it.

Bonus capability

Also automates the RFPs and tenders that come with the territory.

Most agencies answer panel tenders, preferred supplier lists and client onboarding forms alongside their candidate work. Respond handles that from the same platform — no separate tool required.

RFP & Tender Responses

Import questions from Excel, Word or pasted text. Respond generates answers from your approved procedures, policies and compliance documents.

Onboarding & Compliance Packs

Reuse approved answers across client onboarding forms and security assessments without rebuilding content from scratch.

Assigned review queues

Coordinators work from focused queues of assigned questions instead of jumping between documents and inboxes.

Leader visibility

Monitor CV formatting status, talent pool growth, shortlist quality and submission progress.

Blind shortlisting

Mask candidate names and contact details on export when clients require anonymised first-round review.

FAQ

Your questions, answered.

What does “agentic” mean in Respond?

Respond’s AI agent doesn’t just answer questions — it does recruitment work. Ask for an outcome, such as “analyse the top six candidates, shortlist the strongest three and prepare outreach for my review”, and it completes those steps in your workspace, then tells you what it did and what needs your attention.

What can the agent do autonomously?

When you ask it to, the agent can create and update job briefs, run matching, analyse and shortlist candidates, draft outreach and replies, prepare screening call briefs, prepare client submissions and pick out client feedback from emails. You choose how much it does before checking in with you. It carries out the work you delegate and checks in when it needs your input or approval.

Where does the recruiter review or approve work?

You preview and approve every outreach email, reply, client submission and candidate update before it is sent. A candidate goes to a client only after you record your screening decision and the candidate’s permission to represent them, and you confirm client feedback before candidates are updated. You decide whom to put forward, with the candidate’s permission.

How do you protect sensitive candidate and workforce data?

Respond protects candidate data with strict access controls, encryption, audit trails and tenant isolation. Your content is not used to train external models. Regional deployments can be arranged when data needs to stay in a specific jurisdiction — ask us about available options.

How does the AI-powered CV formatting work?

Send a PDF or Word CV to your dedicated Respond email address. The system reads the document, extracts the candidate content, applies your agency template, and returns a professionally formatted Word profile within minutes.

Can Respond match candidates to job briefs across a large talent pool?

Yes. Respond can rank large talent pools against a specific job brief and surface candidates whose experience fits the role even when their CV uses different wording from your search terms.

Does Respond for Recruiters also include RFP questionnaire automation?

Yes. Recruitment teams can use Respond for CV formatting, candidate matching and submission packs, and also for RFPs, panel tenders, onboarding forms and compliance questionnaires.

See Respond’s agent work on one of your roles.

Bring a redacted job brief and a handful of CVs. We will run matching and draft outreach live, then use prepared records to show how screening notes flow into a client submission.