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AI Candidate Sourcing Agent

Build a stronger candidate pipeline around the criteria your team approved.

Find and organize potential candidates against a defined role brief, highlight evidence for the match, and keep recruiters in control of outreach, screening, and hiring decisions.

  • Less manual sourcing research
  • More consistent role matching
  • Traceable recruiter decisions

Starting at $300 USD/month

Starting price is $300 USD/month. We tailor the agent to your role briefs, approved sources, privacy rules, recruiter workflow, and outreach controls; the final proposal defines integrations, usage, and ongoing support.

  • Talent sourcing
  • Role matching
  • Recruiter review
Orange AI talent sourcing hub connecting candidate profile cards to an approved role brief with recruiter review

What is an AI candidate sourcing agent?

The AI Candidate Sourcing Agent helps recruiting teams turn an approved role brief into a focused, reviewable candidate pipeline. It searches the sources you authorize, compares evidence against job-related criteria, organizes candidate context, and flags uncertainty so recruiters can decide who to contact and how.

What it can support

Translate the role brief

Turn approved responsibilities, skills, experience, location, and work-authorization requirements into a sourcing checklist.

Find relevant candidate leads

Search the permitted talent sources and organize potential matches without treating a profile as a hiring decision.

Show job-related evidence

Summarize the public or authorized information that supports a potential match and link it back to the source.

Keep recruiters in control

Route uncertain profiles, sensitive cases, and outreach decisions to a human before contact or screening.

Where it can help

Specialist role sourcing

Build a focused shortlist for technical, operational, or hard-to-find roles using an agreed sourcing strategy.

Growing hiring teams

Give recruiters a consistent first pass when open roles outpace the time available for manual research.

Talent-pool refreshes

Revisit approved candidate sources and organize new leads around current role requirements without losing context.

How it works

A step-by-step workflow your team can review before launch.

  1. Define the role and guardrails

    Confirm the job-related criteria, approved sources, geography, outreach policy, and recruiter owner.

  2. Search authorized sources

    Collect candidate leads only from the sources and access scope approved for the engagement.

  3. Organize evidence

    Compare relevant experience and skills to the role brief, identify gaps, and preserve source links for review.

  4. Review before outreach

    Let the recruiter approve the shortlist, outreach, and next steps; record feedback for future sourcing work.

Built around your business

What we configure

  • Role briefs, skills, experience, and location criteria
  • Approved talent sources and search strategy
  • Candidate evidence format and recruiter workflow
  • Outreach templates, approval steps, and ownership
  • Privacy, retention, and sensitive-information handling

What we need from you

  • A current role brief with job-related criteria
  • Approved sourcing channels and access permissions
  • Recruiter owners, review steps, and outreach policy
  • Guidance for privacy, retention, and excluded information

Clear boundaries before launch

What it will not do

The agent does not make hiring decisions, rank people using protected or sensitive traits, infer personal characteristics, contact candidates without approval, or guarantee candidate quality. Recruiters remain responsible for screening, outreach, interviews, and employment decisions.

How success is measured

Success can be measured through qualified-lead rate, recruiter review time, source coverage, evidence completeness, outreach approval rate, and the proportion of leads requiring rework.

Frequently asked questions

What does the AI Candidate Sourcing Agent do?

It searches approved sources for potential candidate leads, organizes job-related evidence against a role brief, and prepares a reviewable pipeline for recruiters.

Does it make hiring decisions?

No. It does not decide who to hire, reject candidates, or replace recruiter judgment. Screening, outreach, interviews, and employment decisions remain with people.

What information does it use to match candidates?

It uses the job-related criteria and approved sources you define, such as skills, relevant experience, location, and work authorization where appropriate.

How do you handle sensitive candidate information?

We define permitted data, access, retention, and review rules before launch. The agent should not infer or use protected characteristics for sourcing decisions.

Can it contact candidates automatically?

Only if outreach is explicitly included and approved in the workflow. The default process routes a proposed shortlist and message to a recruiter first.

How much does it cost?

The starting price is $300 USD/month. A tailored proposal confirms role volume, sources, integrations, privacy rules, outreach controls, and support before implementation begins.

What do we need to provide to get started?

We need a current role brief, approved sourcing channels, recruiter owners and review steps, plus privacy, retention, and outreach guidance.

Build this agent around your process.

We will review your workflow, systems and rules, then provide a tailored proposal.

Starting at $300 USD/month

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