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The AI desk that works your admin, so your recruiters work the phones.

Desk Engine screens CVs, chases candidates and reports to you every Monday, so your team spends its day placing, not sifting.

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No CRM change. Live on a real role in two weeks.

Desk Engine · Candidate Review 3m 41s

Senior Backend Engineer, London

48 applicants ranked Awaiting your review

88SCORE

Jake Morrison

Evidence

“Owns payment processing service. ~2k req/s peak. 99.97% uptime.”

quoted verbatim · CV, p.1

Backing

6+ yrs commercial backend, payments and data infrastructure

Red flag

6-month tenure in 2018, reason for leaving unclear

Missing

No front-end or web-app work evidenced

Approve for shortlist Reject

Priya Sharma

Owns payments reconciliation, ~2M transactions a day

Hannah Weiss

Full-stack TypeScript and Node, React front end

Ryan Cole

5 yrs across Node, Python and Go, mostly contract

200 CVs, under 4 minutes

Read against the role while your team is still on the phones.

Every score, quoted

Backed by a line lifted straight out of the CV, never a paraphrase.

Two weeks to live

On one of your own vacancies, on your real CVs.

The squeeze

You don't have a placement problem. You have an admin problem.

Every hour spent sifting is an hour nobody billed for. The usual fixes are built for somebody else's agency.

Manual sifting

Hours per role reading CVs after the phones stop. That work never makes it onto a timesheet.

CRM AI add-ons

Per-seat fees for features nobody switched on, bolted onto a system your team already half-uses.

Enterprise platforms

Built and priced for 200-seat firms, with a six-month rollout and a budget a small agency can't justify.

Desk Engine is done for you, on the tools you already use, priced for an agency your size.

See it work

Watch it screen a real role

A live vacancy in one end. A ranked shortlist, with every score quoted out of the CV, out the other.

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Off your desk

What your Desk Engine handles

Screening

CV screening & ranking

Every applicant read against the role and ranked with quoted evidence, minutes after they apply.

Follow-up

Candidate reply & follow-up

Timely, on-brand follow-up sequences so no good candidate goes cold waiting to hear back.

Reactivation

Database reactivation

Finds matches for new roles in candidates you already own, so placements come from people already in your CRM.

Reporting

Monday-morning pipeline report

A plain-English summary of the week's pipeline in the owner's inbox before the first coffee.

Low risk

How it works

Three steps, in order, and you can stop after any of them.

STEP 01

15-minute call

A short, no-pressure call to see whether it fits your desk. We look at one real role together.

STEP 02

2-week paid pilot

We go live on one live role, on your real CVs, in two weeks. You see the shortlists and the time saved for yourself.

STEP 03

Monthly retainer

Roll it out across your workflow on a simple monthly retainer. Cancel any time, with no long lock-in.

Pricing

Start with a pilot, scale when it pays

No long contracts. Prove it on one role first.

Pilot

Prove the value on one live role, on your real CVs.

£750 fixed fee

One workflow · 2 weeks · live on your CVs

Book a pilot call

One workflow of your choice
Live in 2 weeks on a real role
DPIA template included

Recommended

Desk Engine

The full desk, across your workflow, month to month.

£1,500 setup + £900/mo

Full workflow menu · cancel any time

Book a 15-minute call

Full workflow menu
Monday-morning owner report
Audit log & UK-hosted data

The average UK agency fee is £4,500 per placement. One extra placement a month pays for Desk Engine several times over.

Month to month No lock-in Keep your CRM

Questions

Questions owners ask us

Will this replace my recruiters?

No. Desk Engine ranks candidates with evidence, but your recruiters approve every shortlist and make every client-facing call. Every decision is logged. It gives your team more hours on the phone, not fewer people.

Is it compliant?

Candidate data is hosted in the UK, every decision is written to an audit log, and a DPIA template is included. Human review is built in by design, so a person signs off every shortlist.

Do we have to change our CRM?

No. There's no rip-and-replace. Desk Engine works alongside the CRM you already use, and your team carries on in the system they know.

How fast is setup?

Live on a real role inside two weeks. During the pilot we go live on one of your own vacancies, so inside a fortnight you see it working on your real CVs, not on a demo.

See it screen your CVs before you decide anything.

A 15-minute call, one real role, and a two-week pilot. If it doesn't save your team hours, you walk away.

Book a 15-minute call

On the callOne of your real roles, looked at together.
In two weeksLive on your own CVs, not a demo.
After thatMonth to month. Cancel any time.