Atlas - the Recruitment Platform

Atlas is an end-to-end recruitment platform built with AI at its core. By giving you perfect memory and automating all your low value tasks, Atlas fees up your consultants to do what they do best.

Less admin, more placements, more enjoyment.

Founder

Berg Search

Advisor

proSapient

Co-Founder

Founded the world's fastest-growing expert network and primary research platform. In just five years, we have grown to 300 colleagues and achieved revenues of c$40 million.

Let’s say that a private equity firm wants to acquire Mcdonald's. proSapient would find and schedule interviews with 10 former executives and 20 competitors in order for the PE firm to better understand the industry. They could also use proSapient to deliver a survey to 20,000 fast food eaters to better understand consumer habits. With these insights, the PE firm is well-placed to make a great investment decision.

proSapient has the most innovative and productive product team in the industry, and we delivered our entire technical stack spending the equivalent of what our largest competitor spends in just 6 months. More important, voluntary churn is sub-5 %! Some of the highlights include:

 - A vertical project management platform that optimizes our ability to service clients (making our teams significantly more productive than our closest competitors)
 - A world-leading categorization and search engine (Darwin), which automatically categorizes experts' industry experience, seniority and skills, standardizing data en-masse. When a colleague searches for an appropriate expert, the platform can curate the most important information from terabytes of data in less than a second.
 - A transcription platform which delivers perfect transcripts in just two hours (free of charge!)
 - Our commitment to client success extends to our "Bring your own expert" and multivendor offerings, allowing clients to create and use internal networks of experts and license our codebase to manage multiple vendors.

Chief Product & Strategy Officer

Chief Product Officer

Hire people that take your business from good to great

I've spent seven years building software that supercharges high-touch services.

As co-founder of proSapient, I was central to building end to end platform that allows proSapient consultants to generate 40% more revenue than its closest competitors.

I've now turned my focus to supporting executive search and professional search consultants achieve the same thing.

Jordan Shlosberg, CFA

We are hiring 2-3 sales people. Why? Because I took a look at our pipeline and jesus. Way too much inbound that my talented sales team is stretched.

As the founding team have given half their equity to the team, this will probably be the last job you need to do.

1. If you are a recruiter and you've had experience being sold to by an exceptional sales person, let me know. Theres £2.5k for you.
2. If you are a TOP BILLING recruiter and want a change to SaaS, let us know
3. If you have sold into recruitment agencies with continual top billing, let us know.
4. If we struggle after 4 weeks, we will onboard one Atlas recruitment agency to help us

Job below
https://lnkd.in/exApjWZg

An end-to-end recruitment platform powered by AI ✨ Do business, not admin

Can't sleep. Watching Atlas fill in all our clients BD admin work in real time. It's covered 35,000 prospects so far.

Busy researching every single prospect from every single client, outlining the entire story to date and indicating next steps as well as a close likelihood.

Honestly, of the many features I've had the pleasure of delivering. This must be one of the bigger ones.

Sean Anderson actually denied us from sponsoring Hoxo the first time I reached out to him.

Apparently, he'd been burned by platforms that over-promised and under-delivered.

But his approach to Linkedin marketing is awesome so we did a quid pro quo. I'd help them with implementing AI in their business, and he'd give me some markting chops.

Having served this market for 14 months, I've seen a lot of AI products enter and I've also seen how consumer products such as Chat GPT have evolved.

Claude, Chat GPT, these guys are way more powerful than people realise. They just do it conversationally. Unfamiliarly.

With so many tools now available and “gurus” popping up on LinkedIn daily, founders are drowning (drownAIng ?)

They keep buying AI tools but the outcome doesn't change.

So Sean and I are collaborating on a really exciting product, the AI Bootcamp for Recruiters.

And we’re launching it in January.

Here’s what it is:

A 6-week live intensive where we teach 20 recruitment founders to become operationally dangerous with ChatGPT (I've promised I will only mention Atlas - the Recruitment Platform once per day !)

No more tools.

No more overwhelm.

Just learn how to bill more using the one platform you’ve already signed up to.

We're covering

- Do much better BD by making everything hyper personalised
- How to become a thought partners to your clients 
- Sourcing beyond obvious keywords
- Candidate presentations that win

We ran the first version of this cours last month and Tom Hunter signed a new client 24 hours after our BD session.

Not bad for 1 hour of listening to me droooooone on about AI :D

To announce the programme, we’re hosting two exclusive launch events:

26th November - 9:00 AM UK (Europe/Australia-friendly)

9th December - 2 PM UK (US/Americas-friendly)

Live on Zoom, Sean and I will walk through:

- The full 6-week programme
- Live ChatGPT Q&A
- Real case studies from beta participants
- How to secure one of the 18 remaining spots in Cohort 1

Or if you can’t make the live events, you can watch the full 10-minute explainer video on-demand right now.

If you’d like an exclusive invite to one of the launch events OR access to the explainer video, comment “AIB” below and Sean will send you the link

This is the next industrial revolution.

You can either tinker around the edges…

Or you can be the first person in your market who actually knows what they’re doing.

Not a single person in Atlas - the Recruitment Platform has made a cold call.
because inbound leads have tripled in 6 months.

How did we do this?

Comment 'leads' and you'll have the pleasure of knowing that you commented leads on this content (unfortunately that's all I can share)

It's been a big weekend of work (second one). Focussing on the wholly grail of the Agentic Migration. 

One button click, all the customers data is transformed perfectly.

Customer queries, taken by the agent and solved.

This one's been a bit of a waiting game as we've needed to build our scripting capabilities to cover every single CRM but we're finally there. 

Thanks to a dedicated 5 person migration team (bigger than some people's product teams!!) all the pieces are in place.

Magic search 1.0 is nearly upon us

✅ Searches the resume
✅ Searches all notes
✅ Searches all phone calls
✅ Searches all video calls
✅ Searches all texts and whatsapps
✅ Searches all references
✅ Searches all social networks
✅ Researches companies
✅ Researches industries
❌ No Boolean needed
❌ No hands needed

We started thinking about search at the beginning of the year. We didn't want to make old fashion search with some AI sprinkled on top. 

We wanted to build something which had the outcome that recruiters have wanted for decades "Show me the perfect candidate in my DB based on everything my company has said, heard, read or wrote"

It's been two weeks of absolute hell!!! 

We successfully completed the first rip and replace of a module.

Our first attempt at business development was a little basic.

Second time around, we have unleashed the full power of AI, but not in a way that blasts 1,000 non descript emails to prospects, but rather to remove ALL the admin.

The most interesting discovery? If it is bloody difficult for a post-AI product to rip and replace one module....

..How can a pre-AI CRM rip and replace it's entire product?

Very excited to see how our customers use this new product. 

A lot more business is coming for Atlas agencies.

Yesterday a competitor made a thinly veiled dig at us, suggesting that because their entire team sits in one office, they can “execute faster”,  and that being distributed makes us slower......

If you’re early in your career, in-office is invaluable, which is why we've got offices in both Bosnia and Greece.

But at Atlas, we believe in hiring 10x people wherever they may be, not just from a mandated pool 30km around one office

These experienced people usually have families, lives outside of work. We trust them because they’ve earned that trust over a decade of shipping world-class software.

And here’s the real kicker that nobody talks about. The real reason why the team at Atlas have already delivered revenue growth that would make most blush.

In a typical Cc backed company, a $250m exit might sound huge, but non-founders  will walk away with ~$10m in cash, split across the entire company. That’s simply how dilution and options work.

If Atlas sold for $250m tomorrow, our team would receive $50–60m in cash because my co-founder and I have put our actual shares (not options) into trust for the team. (And that EXCLUDES the 10% option pool we have AS WELL)

So if in-office chest-thumping motivates you and convinces your team to work 14-hour days, you're a better sales person than I.

The Atlas philosophy:
1. Hire the best people wherever they live. 
2. Give them trust. Give them ownership. 
3. Give them a real stake in the outcome. It's their work after all.

And this is the foundation that gives any business the best chance at success.

Atlas is packed so full of industry leading products that it can sometimes feel overwhelming. The sheee amount of things that AI can simply start doing. 

So we're redesigning the entire onboarding. The goal is to create wow within 5 minutes.

While you're going through the new onboarding, Atlas - the Recruitment Platform will actually create all of your prospects and grade them.

These were mine....

I mean there's platforms choosing .AI domain names....and then there's this

One weekend. A £20k bonus. One heavily demanded feature.

Let the hackathon commence!!!!!!

Manage your team performance through Atlas - the Recruitment Platform

1. Create a target for ANY metrics
2. Deploy that target across your company in a few clicks
3. Now you've got a visual representation on EVERYONES performance

Agentic migration update.....

Based on the amazing work of our 5 person migration team, we have built the MVP of our agentic migration.

Amusingly, the first time round, it struggled to pass a messy people table through QA, then read how the QA script work and spoofed the answers....

BUUUT 24 hours later, we got it to run an entire transformation end to end in just 30 minutes.

So now we get to look and see if it did the whole thing correctly!

Gorgeous new feature just released....Going to stifle the urge to share a video at 10pm at night. Stay tuned for tomorrow...

Oh and the HACKATHON feature... progressing nicely to full deployment.

What is it?

Now that would be telling.

Deliveries will be fast and furious until Xmas

Sometimes Pavel Vesnin is asleep when I'm working. Nice to know Cursor does a reasonable impression

Michael Blakley

Equitas

Creating faster, fairer hiring with Equitas. Our inclusive interview software and dynamic interview frameworks allow companies to run their interview and assessment process with a simple, intuitive and structured approach to interviewing, assessing and selecting candidates. 

We are changing the way people assess with a focus on reducing interviewer and assessor bias, improving accuracy and making the assessment process more efficient and cost-effective. Currently working with some of the biggest healthcare providers in Ireland and the UK.

Freedom Recruiting

Founded a recruitment agency in 2012 focusing on primary contract with ALDI as my first client. Worked on freelance contracts as an interview and assessment specialist with BSkyB, MOJ, Home Office & TFL. Completed over 10,000 interviews and assessments with both FTSE 100 companies and the Public sector. A selection of clients are listed below:


Ministry of Justice
 
•	Delivered high volume recruitment campaigns to help recruit over 7000 Prison Officers and over 1000 Probation Service Officers
•	Resourced, led and managed a team of 20 assessors across three HMP locations
•	Assessed complex role-plays using professional actors
•	Assessed and interviewed on HMP Graduate Fast Track Scheme
•	Lead assessor for HMP Graduate written and IT tests
•	Developed best practice guide for written test invigilation
•	Delivered and implemented a new IT system for HMP assessment centre
•	Trained both assessors and internal HMP staff on the new equipment and software
•	Compiled an IT manual for the recruitment department
•	IT integration resulted in a cost-saving of over £100,000 per year


BSkyB

•	Delivered hundreds of assessment centres and interviews for BSkyB for their high volume recruitment campaigns for call centres and engineering across UK
•	Executed quality assurance and materials training to over 15 BSkyB assessors, in order to promote continuous improvement of their recruitment process
•	Weekly updates with BSkyB leadership team to ensure their requirements are fully met and that each team exceed client expectations


ALDI Stores LTD

•	Formulated a recruitment strategy for ALDI NE region to meet their exponential growth strategy
•	Worked in partnership with ALDI to develop and deliver their attraction, telephone screening, open days, assessment centres, interviews, work trials, contract signing and exit interviews
•	Recruited over 100 new ALDI starters in one year
•	A retention rate of over 70% for new starters in the first year (previously 40%)

Havas People

Assessment Consultant with Havas People. Focused on high volume recruitment campaigns.

Associate Assessment Consultant

Hays

Recruiting on high volume, graduate campaigns through to director level.

Associate Assessment & Recruitment Consultant

Transport for London

Associate Recruitment & Assessment Consultant with TfL. Working on high volume recruitment campaigns. Delivering hundreds of high volume assessment centres.

Assessment Consultant

ALDI Stores

ALDI Graduate Area Manager Scheme

•	Managed 5 Stores and over 90 members of staff, with annual turnover of over £25m
•	Successfully trained, coached, motivated and mentored a team of 14 Managers
•	Involved with managing risks and delivering new products to market
•	Managed high volume recruitment campaign
•	Self-developed own business acumen, time management and prioritising workload
•	Responsible for sales increase of 42% resulting in 80% increase in staff
•	Developed and implemented weekly global diary organiser for over 80 Store Managers within North East region
•	Reduced inventory losses by 55%

Area Manager

Co-founder at Equitas | Interview intelligence software to ensure fair hiring

Co-founder of Equitas, inclusive interview intelligence software designed for fair hiring and helping companies build diverse teams. 

In a previous life I was a professional interview and assessment expert, designing and delivering recruitment, assessment, and interview campaigns for the likes of BSkyB, Aldi, TfL, and MoJ from entry-level hires through to C-suite. 

After 10,000+ interviews conducted across UK & Ireland, knew there had to be a better way, so set up Equitas. Working with the biggest employer in Ireland (HSE) and some incredible clients who are passionate about fair hiring, decentralised hiring, hybrid interviewing and DEI. 

Outside of work and HR tech startups talk to me about:

🏃‍♂️ Long-distance running

🥋  Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

♟  Chess

🦮  Guide Dogs

What a night for Equitas and Mitie at the British Recruitment Awards last night in London! 

Some of the biggest organisations in the world with their unbelievable TA and Recruitment teams in the room celebrating some amazing achievements. 

We were lucky enough to win: 

🥇 Gold for Recruitment Campaign of the Year. 

What we delivered with the Mitie team for Operational Prison roles hiring at HMP Millsike really is one of the best pieces of work we have ever done. An unreal candidate experience, impacting DEI and speed from the Equitas team that would make your eyes water! 


When I met Karen Hutchison Adão we hit it off immediately and she had one of the most complex and challenging projects to put together in the shortest possible time frames. The 3 keys for the win were:


1️⃣  Inclusive Interview Software - and the CS team supporting it

2️⃣  Expert pool of interviewers - interview-as-a-service was a game changer for ramping up the volume of interviews quickly

3️⃣  Proper partnership approach - the Mitie x Equitas teams were joined at the hip


On the Equitas side we couldn't have done it without Merilin Männamäe, Rachel Okungbowa, Javier Martinez, Barbara (Varvara) Marinakis, Karen Somal, Asil Choudhury, Lisa Kim MacLaren, Giulia Sciota 朱衡丽, Victoria Butler, Tom Bright, Kalpesh Baxi, Alex Elliott, Mick Steele, Adrian Colloby, Dan Awais-Dean and our unreal team of expert interviewers, actors and PEI. 

And on the Mitie team Lisette Saunders, Mike Walker, Willie Galloway, Karen Hutchison Adão, Samantha Pariser, Samantha Marriott, Jade Ward, Graeme Harper, Sarah Grady, Helen Scully, Audra Giles, Russell Trent, Kevin Reilly and the epic team of hiring managers. 

And finally a huge, huge thank you to all the partners who have helped us - Gaia, crooton, ThriveMap, David Clark, Emma Hubbard, Ben Keighley, Stephen Anderson, Siobhan Morgan, Christopher Platts, Nadia A., Maryam Lal, Eloise Ponting.... and many many more (sorry if I've missed you)!

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