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AI, AUTOMATION & CLAY FOR YOUR STAFFING BUSINESS

More clients. More placements. Zero extra headcount. We build the AI system that sources your candidates and books your client meetings, then we run it for you, train your team to run it, or embed a GTM engineer into your team to own it.

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Every build is custom to you. Free audit & roadmap if you qualify. Built inside your own ATS.

CERTIFIED IN THE TOOLS RECRUITERS ACTUALLY USE
YOU ARE PROBABLY HERE BECAUSE ONE OF THESE IS TRUE

THE 6 SENTENCES WE HEAR FROM EVERY RECRUITMENT AGENCY WE WORK WITH

01
“I'm not technical. I saw so many fancy AI tools like Clay on my LinkedIn feed and I know there's so much more we can do with AI. But where do I even start?”
WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT

You don't need to be technical. We start with a free audit: you show us how you work today, we create a whiteboard scoping what work you do manually, and hand you the two or three repetitive tasks worth automating first. Then we build them for you, or teach your team to run them.

02
“I've tried ChatGPT and we rolled out Copilot across our team. The emails it generated sounded like garbage.”
WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT

AI is great if you know how to use it. We create an AI company brain for your staffing agency, so that the AI scans all the past emails you wrote manually and so that it understands the wider context behind each email that is sent out. A human is always in the loop and in the early stages we have a human review each email before it is sent out. Once QA accuracy reaches around 98%, we automate sending for client acquisition.

03
“LinkedIn Recruiter costs me $4k every year and all I do is manual filtering of candidates there. It sucks.”
WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT

We automate the filtering. Drop in a job brief and we pull candidates from your ATS or CRM, then search databases with the same coverage as LinkedIn, so you no longer need LinkedIn Recruiter day to day. Clay or Claude Code then screens and ranks a shortlist straight into your ATS, applying every filter you used to apply by hand.

04
“Yeah, we use a fancy ATS called Loxo. But the candidates and clients switch jobs, so 20% of the CRM is outdated and I wish I could scan all my CRM & first-degree LinkedIn contacts for sales triggers so I know when to reach out to the right people at the right time.”
WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT

We keep your CRM or ATS fresh on a schedule, catching job changes, new emails and new titles amongst your past placements and past and existing clients. Then we scan every client and candidate for triggers like a promotion, a move or a hiring spike, and alert you the moment someone is worth calling.

05
“I just need all the different tools in my company to talk to each other. My ATS/CRM, my notetaker from calls with clients and candidates, the open roles from job portals like Indeed and Glassdoor and all the fancy sales triggers that are present in my best-fit accounts.”
WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT

We wire it all into one place. Call notes land on the right ATS record automatically, open roles from Indeed and Glassdoor are matched to your best-fit accounts, and every trigger shows up where your team already works. No more copying and pasting between tabs.

06
“I don't want to handpick each individual tool or software. I want someone that takes the guesswork away, sets everything up & teaches us how to use it.”
WHAT WE DO ABOUT IT

That's the job. We pick the tools for how you work and your budget, set it up end to end, and train your team on it with recorded walkthroughs and 1:1 calls to make sure that you know how to use the system.

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Every build is custom to you. Free audit & roadmap if you qualify. Built inside your own ATS.

THE PLAYS WE RUN

The plays behind placements for 20+ recruiters in the last 2 years

We catch the moment a company needs to hire, check it matches your niche, put your best candidates in front of the hiring manager and land you the client meeting. We prioritise automating what already works well manually for you and your team.

BUILT FOR HOW YOU WORK
Contingency
Retained & exec search
Temp & volume staffing
IT & tech
Boutique & niche
RPO & embedded
Step 1: Find the signal
Role still open after 30 days
92 FIT
Step 2: Qualify the role
In your niche, salary band and territory
Step 3: Match a candidate
Pull your best fit from your ATS or Clay and send an anonymised CV
Result
New client meeting booked
A few of the signals we run for clients right now

Signal stacking: one signal alone is not enough. We stack signals and score each company so you only call the ones that have the highest possibility of needing recruitment services.

01 · WIN CLIENTS
15 plays that put you in front of employers who are hiring now
THE STALE-ROLE PLAY

A role is still open 45 days later, or quietly taken down and reposted. They tried alone, the empty seat is costing them, and budget for an agency appears.

ROLE OPEN 45+ DAYS OR REPOSTED → MATCHED CANDIDATES SENT → NEW BRIEF
THE 5+ OPEN ROLES PLAY

Their in-house talent team is drowning, with 5+ open roles listed by the company. We also filter for roles still open after 20+ days, so you know they're open to recruiters.

5+ ROLES LIVE FOR 20+ DAYS → OFFER TO TAKE THE LOAD → MULTI-ROLE BRIEF
THE NEW-LEADER PLAY

A new Head of Talent or VP People just started. New leaders want quick wins and haven't picked their agencies yet.

NEW HEAD OF TALENT STARTS → WELCOME + CASE STUDY → INTRO CALL
THE HIRING-SURGE PLAY

Fresh funding or 3, 5, 10+ roles at once. We reach them within minutes of the post going live, because the first agency to the hiring manager usually wins.

FUNDING OR 3+ NEW ROLES → FIRST AGENCY TO CALL → BIGGER DEAL
THE HIRING-POST PLAY

A hiring manager posts "we're hiring" on LinkedIn. You call them the same day, with their own post as your opener.

“WE’RE HIRING” POST → SAME-DAY CALL USING THEIR POST → BRIEF
THE SIMILAR-JOB PLAY

One client gives you a role. We find every other company hiring for the same role and pitch them the shortlist you're already building. One search, many clients.

ONE LIVE ROLE → SAME ROLE AT OTHER COMPANIES → ONE SHORTLIST, NEW CLIENTS
THE LOOKALIKE PLAY

We find companies that look like your best past or existing clients, and lead with the placement you made for the one they resemble.

YOUR BEST CLIENTS → COMPANIES THAT MATCH THEM → LEAD WITH A PAST PLACEMENT
THE MPC PLAY

Your most placeable candidate, presented to the companies most likely to hire them. A real person beats "do you need a recruiter?" every time.

YOUR TOP CANDIDATE → COMPANIES MOST LIKELY TO HIRE → CANDIDATE-LED INTRO
CAREER PAGE ROLE PLAY

We pull new job listings from your target accounts' career pages and react in real time, with a personalised email or an alert for you to call, the day a role appears or when it's still open weeks later.

NEW CAREERS PAGE LISTING → INSTANT EMAIL OR CALL ALERT → BRIEF
THE PAST-PLACEMENT PLAY

Someone you placed, or a past client, moves to a new company. Warm intro, new account. We track your CRM contacts to make sure we know when to reach out to them in their new role.

CHAMPION MOVED → WARM MESSAGE → NEW CLIENT
THE PLACEMENT-FLYWHEEL PLAY

Upload a list of candidates you placed in the past and we track their job changes and promotions, creating a sales opening every time a past placement moves.

PAST PLACEMENT PROMOTED OR MOVES → CONGRATS MESSAGE → NEW HIRING MANAGER
THE CLIENT REACTIVATION PLAY

Dormant clients sitting in your ATS get re-contacted the moment they show a hiring signal again. The cheapest new business you'll ever win.

DORMANT CLIENT + NEW SIGNAL → CHECK-IN → NEW JOB ORDER
NICHE JOB BOARDS

There are hundreds of niche, specialised local job boards like NoFluffJobs, DevJobs and Profesia that we can scrape daily to pull new listings and auto-send personalised outreach to the hiring managers. These are the exact plays that generate placements for DevologyX.

NEW NICHE BOARD LISTING → HIRING MANAGER FOUND → PERSONALISED OUTREACH
EVENTS & CONFERENCES

We can pull a list of event attendees, speakers or companies that are sponsoring a relevant event, so that you can engage them in outreach.

ATTENDEES, SPEAKERS + SPONSORS → ENRICHED LIST → CALL + EMAIL
FOLLOWERS OF COMPETITORS

We auto-scrape each follower of a competitor recruitment firm, qualify them for your ICP & scan them for sales triggers like open roles, so that we can introduce your services when they are most needed.

COMPETITOR’S FOLLOWERS → ICP + OPEN ROLE CHECK → OUTREACH WHEN THEY’RE HIRING
02 · FIND CANDIDATES
Reach the people who aren't on the job boards
BRIEF TO SHORTLIST

Drop in a job brief. AI sources, screens and ranks a shortlist, and pushes it straight into your ATS.

JOB BRIEF → SOURCE + SCREEN → SHORTLIST IN ATS
MPC / FLOAT / SPECCING

A new candidate is matched against every open role and pitched to the companies most likely to hire them. A new role is matched against everyone you already know.

NEW CANDIDATE OR ROLE → MATCHED BOTH WAYS → SUBMISSION
THE LAYOFF PLAY

A company announces layoffs. Everyone in your database who works there is flagged, so you call first.

LAYOFF NEWS → YOUR CANDIDATES FLAGGED → FIRST CALL
THE ITCHY-FEET PLAY

Candidates hitting a vesting cliff or 3+ years in the same seat get a timely, personal message.

TENURE / VESTING DATE → PASSIVE OUTREACH → INTERVIEW
THE QUIETLY-LOOKING PLAY

New certifications, 2+ years in a role with no promotion. Small signs someone is open to a move, caught before anyone else calls.

PROFILE + SKILL ACTIVITY → PERSONAL MESSAGE → CONVERSATION
THE BACKFILL PLAY

When a candidate leaves a company, the seat they left is a role to fill. We flag it and reach out to their hiring managers.

PERSON MOVED → BACKFILL ROLE → BD CALL
THE TALENT-POOL PLAY

Your ATS is full of people nobody has spoken to in years. We update it every month, so you spot job changes, promotions or new sales openings as soon as your previous champions change jobs.

OLD ATS RECORDS → REFRESHED + NURTURED → READY SHORTLIST
03 · RUN THE DESK
The admin between "role live" and "placement made", handled
THE INSTANT-SCREENING PLAY

Every application is acknowledged, scored against the brief and sorted the moment it lands. No candidate goes cold.

NEW APPLICATION → AI SCREEN → SHORTLISTED OR KINDLY CLOSED
THE INTERVIEW-BOOKING PLAY

Interviews booked across candidate and client calendars, without the email back-and-forth.

SHORTLIST APPROVED → BOOKING LINK → SYNCED TO ATS
THE NO-GHOSTING PLAY

Candidates and clients get a personal status update at every stage, pulled from your ATS and call notes. Fewer "any news?" calls.

STAGE CHANGE → UPDATE TO BOTH SIDES → HAPPIER CLIENTS
THE COMPLIANCE-CHASER PLAY

Right-to-work checks, references and documents requested and chased automatically until they're complete.

OFFER ACCEPTED → DOCUMENT REQUEST → REMINDERS UNTIL DONE
REDEPLOYMENT

Contractors and temps finishing an assignment are flagged weeks ahead and matched to open roles, so you fill the next job from people you already know.

CONTRACT END DATE → "WHAT'S NEXT?" + MATCHING ROLES → REDEPLOYED

Every play goes to the person who actually signs off, not the careers@ inbox. We map the real hiring manager and decision-maker on every account.

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BEYOND THE PLAYS

OTHER SYSTEMS WE BUILD FOR AGENCIES

Our plays win you clients and candidates. These systems run the rest of the agency, so nothing falls through the cracks.

OPERATIONS
MORNING BRIEFING SYSTEM

A daily digest pulled from your ATS, calendar, inbox and market signals. Wake up knowing exactly which candidates, clients and roles need you today.

CONTENT
CV ANONYMISATION

Anonymise a CV in one click, ready to send to your client.

BUSINESS DEV
SIGNAL-BASED BD WORKFLOW

Detect hiring signals, research the company and draft the outreach, all triggered automatically when an employer matches how you work.

RECRUITING
SOURCING AUTOMATION

A plain-English job brief in, a scored candidate shortlist out. Sourcing that used to eat your week runs overnight.

REPORTING
CLIENT REPORTING DASHBOARD

A live view of every role, submission and placement for each client. Share it weekly instead of building reports by hand.

KNOWLEDGE
KNOWLEDGE BASE BUILD

Your playbooks, past placements and client notes in one searchable place, so every consultant and AI agent works from the same knowledge.

INTEGRATION
ATS INTEGRATION LAYER

Your ATS, inbox, notetaker, job boards and Clay connected, so data flows both ways without copy-pasting.

CONTENT
TALENT & CLIENT NEWSLETTERS

Regular, personalised updates for candidates and clients, drafted from your live roles and recent placements.

THE INFRASTRUCTURE

YOUR ENTIRE TOOL STACK.
ONE AI BRAIN.

We connect every tool your agency already uses to one central brain: Clay for your data, enrichment and signals, or Claude Code for AI agents that read, write and act across your whole stack. We pick the right one for each job, so everything finally talks to everything.

HOW IT WORKS

THREE PHASES. ONE WORKING SYSTEM.

We run on a weekly build cadence. Every week: a call to align, focused build time in between, and a handover when it's ready. Repeat, play by play, until your whole system is live.

01
DISCOVERY & REVERSE DEMO
Call 1 · 45 min

You tell us whether to prioritise client acquisition, candidate sourcing or both. We reverse-demo how you work today, pick the plays that fit best, and send you a custom proposal.

45 min
DISCOVERY CALL
02
EXPERT BUILD
Between calls · 5-7 days per play

Our team builds everything inside Clay and your ATS: the plays, AI agents, integrations, testing and documentation. It’s production-ready, not a prototype, and you can see the work in progress the whole time.

5-7 days
DONE FOR YOU BUILD
03
HANDOVER & LAUNCH
Call 2 · 45 min

We walk your team through everything: how to use it, change it and extend it. You get a recorded walkthrough, written docs and a troubleshooting guide. The system is yours, with no dependency on us.

45 min
HANDOVER CALL

WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH

YOUR OWN AI AGENTS

Custom-built agents in your own environment

PLAYS RUNNING 24/7

Automations that work even when your computer is switched off.

FULL DOCUMENTATION

Written docs so your team can maintain everything

RECORDED WALKTHROUGH

A video guide to every system we build for you

30-DAY SUPPORT

Questions after launch? We have you covered

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BUILT AROUND YOU

EVERY RECRUITMENT BUILD IS CUSTOM

Plays picked for your niche: contingency, retained, temp, IT, boutique or RPO

Wired into the ATS you already use, whether that's Loxo, Bullhorn, Vincere or something else

Messaging written in your voice, for your market, in your language

VERIFIED REVIEWS

RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ALREADY LOVING IT

Don't take our word for it. Here's what agency founders and recruiters say after working with us.

Verified Review

"Unlock GTME have been fantastic to work with! They are not only extremely knowledgeable but also patient, approachable, and genuinely invested in helping us succeed. The team takes the time to understand my needs, explains things clearly, and goes above and beyond to make sure I'm getting the most out of Clay. Unlock GTME's support has made a huge difference in how quickly I was able to get up and running."

Verified Review

"Unlock GTME is hands-down the most incredible Clay team I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Their Clay course is an absolute game-changer: they break down complex techniques into crystal-clear, easy-to-understand lessons that make learning feel like a breeze. Currently, we're collaborating on several side projects, and the team's commitment is nothing short of extraordinary. They consistently push boundaries, deliver exceptional results, and bring an unparalleled level of creativity and precision to every challenge. I've learned more from Unlock GTME in a few months than I thought possible, and their dedication to going above and beyond is something truly special that sets them apart from anyone else in the field. I will definitely be working with them again and am excited about our future projects."

Verified Review

"Unlock GTME automated 80%+ of our backend operations that were done by humans before. From the free automation alone we saved over $1k a month and Unlock GTME overdelivered every step of the service delivery."

Verified Review

"Unlock GTME has been a great facilitator. The system they set up with us has been a great asset to how my colleagues and I work. We are able to have full scope of live vacancies across London and the UK, giving us better insight into what is happening across the wider market. It is also massively helpful when communicating with candidates, as we are able to search for a specific specialism, and it will show opportunities without spending hours trawling through company pages and job boards. All of this contributes to making us more effective consultants and lets us focus on speaking with our clients and customers rather than on admin."

Verified Review

"Unlock GTME is able to break down the complexity of Clay into simple, actionable steps, and with the prompts and templates, I've never seen anything as complete as this for staffing agencies that want to implement Clay."

Verified Review

"Unlock GTME generated us £50k+ in revenue in 43 days. The LinkedIn outbound system that they set up for us meant that we were flooded with leads and we even had to pause the campaign as we couldn't catch up with the requests for our services coming in."

Verified Review

"After just 59 sent emails, we already booked in a call with a big bank that fits our ideal client profile. The best part is that they set up evergreen campaigns, meaning we don’t have to top up lead lists as they get auto-updated inside of Clay. The Unlock GTME team even built us custom scrapers, so we auto-react to new role openings on niche tech job websites like Devjobs and NoFluffJobs that most recruiters skip otherwise..."

Verified Review

"Unlock GTME went above and beyond with their Clay implementations. After working together, we have a steady pipeline of prospects, with a fully documented process that was handed back over to our team. I would recommend the Unlock GTME team to anyone looking to implement Clay into their staffing agency."

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BEFORE YOU BOOK

THE FOUR QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK ON THE FIRST CALL

01
What does the audit cost?

Nothing. It is 30 minutes on a call and a reverse demo of how you work today, then a written roadmap within 48 hours: we tell you where your consultants lose time, and which plays we would automate first. If we can't help, we tell you. If we can help, we show you how and tell you the pricing, deliverables and timeline. As a ballpark, builds run about $1,300 for one play, $2,500 for two, $3,200 for three and $5,000 for five, but every scope is custom. Teams of 3+ pay $150/hr for the reverse demos and any troubleshooting, quoted upfront.

02
Do you replace our recruiters or our ATS?

No. We build around the team and the ATS you already have, whether that's Loxo, Bullhorn, Vincere or something else, or we can set up an ATS for you from scratch. Your consultants keep the relationships and the phone time. The system takes the sourcing, research, admin and everything else that used to be slow and manual.

03
Who owns what you build?

You do, from day one, with documentation. Everything is built in your own Clay workspace and ATS. There is no per-seat licence and no platform you cannot leave. If you stop working with us, nothing switches off.

04
Where are you, and when are you around?

A distributed team working UK hours, which also covers the US East Coast morning. We work with recruitment agencies across the UK, Europe and the US, and our team communicates in clear, fluent English, written and spoken.

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Every build is custom to you. Free audit & roadmap if you qualify. Built inside your own ATS.

HOW THE FREE AUDIT WORKS

YOUR AI, AUTOMATION & GTM ROADMAP. FREE. ZERO RISK.

You don't pay to find out what's worth automating. You walk away with the roadmap either way. The only catch: fill in a short form so we can check you qualify.

STEP 01
Free
Pick your main focus

Candidate sourcing or client acquisition. One focus first, so the first play pays for itself fast.

STEP 02
Free for teams under 3
Show us how you do it today

We call it a reverse demo: instead of us demoing software to you, you show us how you do your job. You drive, we watch. Filter in LinkedIn Recruiter, switch tabs, copy into the spreadsheet, check the ATS, exactly as you do it now. A free click recorder (like Scribe or Tango) captures every step, and we map it on a whiteboard.

Teams of 3+: we run a reverse demo with each person who does the work, billed at $150/hr. With one executive search firm, two consultants' sessions showed three completely different prospecting paths (past placements, conference speaker lists, companies in the news), none of them written down anywhere.

STEP 03
Free for teams under 3
Get your scoping board
A whiteboard showing which of your manual, repetitive tasks can be automated.
  • What you do by hand today
  • Where AI and automation can take it over
  • Where your work is human and shouldn't be automated
STEP 04
Free
We prescribe your plays

The exact plays to run, the tools to use (and the ones to cancel), the automations to wire and where AI earns its keep. We are straight talkers, so expect us to be straight to the point.

STEP 05
You choose: done for you, or do it yourself

We build it for you, with a DIY layer that teaches your team to run and extend it in-house. Or take the roadmap and build it yourself with Unlock GTME's training resources. Your choice.

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GOT QUESTIONS? GOOD.

I don't want another tool to manage

You won't get one. Everything lands in the ATS, inbox and Slack/Teams you already use. There's no new dashboard to learn, and often your stack gets smaller, not bigger.

We tried automation before and it didn't work

Most failed builds fail for the same three reasons: no clear target, bad data, and nobody who owns it afterwards. We start with a free audit, build one play at a time, and everything lives in your own Clay and ATS, so you can see every step.

This sounds overwhelming

It's meant to feel simple on your side. You give us a reverse demo of how you work today, we hand you a short roadmap, and we build the first play for you. You only approve and review.

What if it doesn't work for our niche?

We build for contingency, retained, temp and volume, IT, boutique and RPO desks. If your niche isn't a fit, the free audit will tell you straight, before you spend a penny.

I've been burned by agencies before

You own every table, workflow and login from day one. There's no lock-in, and you get recorded walkthroughs so you can run everything without us. Nobody walks away with your data.

We're too busy to implement something new

That's the point. A reverse demo and a short review call are all we need from you. Your consultants keep billing while we build.

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