Recruitment agency software
The fastest shortlist wins. Send yours first.
Search your own pool first, then the web, and send clients a brief in your agency’s brand, built from each candidate’s interview.
Tuesday, 11:00. A client opens the same role with three agencies.
The consultant knows the first strong shortlist wins the mandate. Call notes get retyped into candidate summaries, each recruiter judges differently, and the client skims summaries that only repeat the CV. By the time yours is ready, another agency has sent theirs.
Agency recruiting, before and with Firstview
56% of top-performing recruitment firms place candidates in under 10 days on average, and recruiters say searching for and screening candidates take up most of their day.
Source: Bullhorn, GRID 2026 Industry Trends Report| Today |  With Firstview | |
|---|---|---|
| Search | Job boards and LinkedIn, searched again for every mandate. | Your own pool searched first, then the web, from a plain-words brief. |
| Redeployment | Strong candidates from old mandates sit unused in the database. | Past candidates come back into play for every new mandate. |
| Intake | Intake call notes typed up by hand. | The Notetaker fills the Client Call Summary template from the call. |
| Screening | Screening calls take up the day. | CVs read against the mandate’s criteria, and first interviews run by AI. |
| Consistency | Each consultant judges candidates their own way. | The same interview, criteria and report for every consultant. |
| Client summaries | Retyped summaries that repeat the CV. | Briefs in your brand, built from the candidate’s own words. |
| Speed to submit | The firm that submits first wins, and summaries take hours. | Each brief fills itself from the interview. |
| Many clients | Every client in one database and one inbox. | One workspace per client. |
| Blind shortlists | CVs anonymized by hand. | An anonymous version of every brief. |
| Client reporting | No clear view to share on a mandate. | Live hiring data for each client and role. |
Your pool, your standard, your brand.
Your pool first
Past candidates come back into play for every new mandate.
Same standard across recruiters
Same interview, same criteria, same report.
Client calls written up
The Client Call Summary template turns intake calls into notes.
Briefs that show the candidate at their best
Evidence from the interview, in your brand or your client’s.
One mandate, from intake call to client brief.
Search your own pool first, then the web.
Describe the mandate in plain words. Firstview turns it into criteria, searches the people you already know, then the open web, and shows where each person has been before.
- Criteria from a plain-words mandate
- Your own pool searched before the web
- Past roles shown for every person
Briefs in your brand.
Build the brief template once with your logo and colors. Each brief fills itself from the candidate’s interview, with their own words as evidence.
- Your logo and colors on every brief
- Filled from the interview automatically
- Candidate quotes as evidence
Client calls, written up.
The Notetaker joins the intake call and fills the Client Call Summary template, so the brief starts from what the client asked for.
- Joins the intake call
- Fills the Client Call Summary template
- The brief starts from the client’s words
One standard for every consultant and client
Criteria come from the client’s own words on the intake call, are used to evaluate every CV and run through the AI interview, so every consultant judges candidates the same way.
Each brief shows the evidence behind every claim, and you can follow live hiring data on every mandate.
Questions from agencies
How can an agency screen candidates faster without losing quality?
Give every candidate the same AI interview, judged by criteria taken from the client’s intake call. Every consultant then judges the same way, nobody retypes call notes, and each brief shows the candidate’s own words as evidence.
Can each client have its own workspace?
Yes. Use one workspace per client, and choose which consultants can see it.
Can we send briefs in our brand or the client’s?
Yes. Build the brief template once, with your logo and colors or your client’s, and each brief fills itself from the interview.
Is a brief the same as a candidate submittal?
Yes. The brief is the submittal your client receives: one page per candidate in your brand, built from the interview, with the candidate’s own words as evidence.
Can we share a blind shortlist?
Yes. The anonymous version removes the candidate’s name.
Can we search candidates we already know?
Yes. Firstview searches your own pool first, from past mandates, uploads and the LinkedIn extension, then the open web.
Does it work for a solo consultant?
Yes. Firstview works the same for one consultant or a whole firm.