AI recruiting for solo recruiters and small firms.

Why the smallest desks gain the most

Big firms split the job across a team: researchers, sourcers, coordinators, someone who does the marketing. You are all of those people, plus the closer. Every hour you spend enriching contacts, chasing a scheduling thread, or rewriting the same follow-up email is an hour that came out of the only two activities that bill: talking to clients and closing candidates. That's the solo math. It's also why AI matters more on a one-person desk than anywhere else. You aren't automating a department. You're getting one.

The goal isn't a chat window that answers questions. It's a desk that runs itself: sourcing that happens while you're on the phone, a client campaign built from one resume, email triage finished before your coffee, and a memory that never forgets which client promised what. You stay the recruiter. The admin layer stops being your job.

What does an AI Chief of Staff do for a one-person desk?

It runs the cadence a good manager would, if you had one. At 7 AM the morning brief lands in Slack: email triage, your calendar, pipeline alerts, deals that haven't had a touch at 7 and 14 days, and one First Move Today so you start with the call that matters most. Before external meetings you get pre-meeting intel. At 5 PM it logs your daily wins. Friday brings the weekly roll-up: what you crushed, what you avoided, what to do Monday.

Underneath the cadence sits permanent memory of the whole desk: clients, fees, promises, patterns. And accountability with teeth. It names the outreach you've been avoiding, and the language escalates when the same item keeps slipping. On a team, somebody notices when you go quiet on a client. Solo, nobody does. That's the gap it fills.

Sourcing, campaigns, and real openings, without hiring anyone

The cadence keeps the desk moving. The production tools do the lifting. Describe a search in plain English and Candidate Intelligence returns a ranked shortlist from 400M+ professional profiles in about 90 seconds. Refine it conversationally ("drop the estimators", "tighten to 30 miles"), then enrich only the candidates you pick with verified emails plus direct and mobile phones. Nothing gets spent on people you never vetted.

Drop one strong resume into Slack with the word MPC and it finds 5-10 companies with live openings matching that skill set, identifies the right hiring manager at each, enriches them, and writes an anonymous 3-step outreach sequence: a business development campaign from a single candidate. Job Finder scrapes company career pages directly, so the openings are real, and flags two or more openings at one company as a BD signal worth a call.

Even the marketing seat gets covered. Every Monday morning the LinkedIn Engine hands you nine researched post ideas grounded in your niche; pick up to four and get two structurally different drafts of each. It never posts on your behalf. Email works the same way: drafts come in your own voice, learned from your real sent mail, and nothing sends until you type the exact confirmation phrase.

Don't you need an IT department for this?

No, and that's the point. Technical setup is what usually rules small firms out of serious AI, so we removed it. Setup is white-glove: a 30 minute discovery call, an onboarding call that goes deep on your desk, your clients, and your niche, then a remote install session where we drive and you watch. You're live within 48 hours and you never touch a terminal.

It also installs on your own machine, not our servers. Your memory, client profiles, conversation history, and candidate files live with you. Credentials sit in your machine's encrypted keychain, and RecruiterClaw operates no servers holding client data. For a small firm whose entire moat is its relationships, that matters. You own your data. We don't.

Your ATS is protected the same way. Loxo is included out of the box, other API-capable ATSes get wired during the install, and every write is additive: create, note, add-to-pipeline, update. Delete, merge, and archive are impossible by design. A solo recruiter's database is the business. Nothing in the product can hurt it.

What does it cost when there's no enterprise budget?

A flat rate. No credits for tasks, no token budgets, no per-seat meters. Every conversation, task, and scheduled automation is unlimited, which means you never ration your own Chief of Staff or hesitate to run one more search on a hunch. The only thing drawing from an allowance is candidate sourcing and contact enrichment, because verified contact data costs real money, and that allowance is sized generously.

Founding-client pricing is live now, and the bar we hold it to is simple: one placement more than covers the year. If you place superintendents at $28K fees, that math doesn't need a spreadsheet.

Proof over projection: Randee, a founding client, made two placements worth $40,000+ in her first month. One recruiter, one desk, a Chief of Staff underneath it. That's the story this whole product is built for.