Agentic Hire is a recruitment agency for Cheshire & the North West, powered by our own AI platform — every CV read in full, shortlists in days not weeks. And it costs a flat 8% of salary, with nothing to pay until we place someone.
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of CVs read in full — never keyword-skimmed
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to a pre-screened shortlist, not weeks
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flat fee of salary — any role, any level
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to pay until someone starts. No placement, no fee
How it works
No lengthy briefings, no chasing. Three steps between your vacancy and someone starting.
Upload your vacancy — or just attach the job spec — in two minutes. We'll email you within one working day to fill in any gaps and agree what a great hire looks like. Prefer to talk it through? Just say so and we'll schedule a call.
Every candidate in our talent pool — and every new applicant — is read in full by our own AI platform and scored against your role. Our recruiters pre-screen the best before you ever see a name: notice period, salary, right-to-work, availability.
You get a shortlist of genuinely suitable, pre-screened people — usually within days, not weeks. We arrange the interviews, manage the offers, and you pay nothing until someone starts.
Two minutes to upload. One working day to hear back from us.
Upload your vacancy →Why we're different
Most agencies skim. Job boards match on keywords. We are a recruitment agency that uses AI to read every CV in full and score it against your role — then a human shortlists. Every candidate scored with reasoning you can see, every shortlist pre-screened before it reaches you.
Not keyword-skimmed. Our platform reads each CV end to end — skills, experience, location, availability — and scores it against your role with reasoning we can show you.
Every role we take on is instantly matched against every candidate we've ever screened — including CVs that arrived overnight.
AI drafts the screening questions that matter — notice period, salary expectations, right-to-work — and our recruiters ask them before anyone reaches your shortlist.
Availability, working pattern and commute are built into the matching — part-time candidates don't end up on your full-time shortlist.
Screening 50 CVs by hand takes a day. Our platform does the reading in minutes, so our recruiters spend their time on judgement, not paperwork.
Shortlists arrive in a consistent, anonymised format — so you compare candidates on substance, not CV formatting.
Fees
Because our AI platform does the heavy lifting, our costs are a fraction of a traditional agency's — and so is our fee. 8% of salary, whatever the role, whatever the level. You pay nothing until your new hire actually starts.
On a £30,000 role, that's £2,400 — not £6,000+.
Upload your vacancy →Where we recruit
We're a North West agency — we know the local employers, commutes and salary expectations. Hiring across:
For candidates
Send us your CV once and you're matched against every role we take on — now and in the future. Our platform reads your CV in full, so your experience actually counts, even when it doesn't match the exact keywords. When there's a fit, a real person emails you.
One CV. Every role we ever work on.
Most agencies file your CV and forget it. Ours is re-matched automatically every time a new role comes in — so the right job can find you months after you applied.
Security & GDPR
CVs and vacancy details are personal, commercially sensitive data. Our platform was built GDPR-first from day one, so protecting it isn't a policy document — it's how the system actually works.
FAQ
A flat 8% of the successful candidate's salary — whatever the role, whatever the level. On a £30,000 salary that's £2,400, where a typical agency charging 15–25% would bill £4,500–£7,500. There are no retainers, no advertising costs and no hidden extras.
Exactly that: you pay nothing until someone we introduced actually starts in the role. Shortlists, screening calls, interview arranging — all free until the day your new hire walks in. If we don't fill the role, it costs you nothing.
We recruit across Cheshire and North West England — including Chester, Warrington, Crewe, Macclesfield, Northwich, Wilmslow, Stockport, Manchester, Liverpool, Preston and the surrounding areas.
We're a generalist agency for the region — office and administration, warehousing and industrial, engineering, logistics, hospitality, sales, finance and management roles, from entry level to senior hires. Our flat 8% fee applies to all of them. If you're unsure whether we can help, upload the vacancy and we'll tell you straight.
Usually within days, not weeks. Our AI platform matches your role against our entire talent pool the moment we take it on, and reads every new applicant's CV in full as it arrives — so our recruiters spend their time pre-screening the best people rather than sifting paperwork.
Job boards match keywords; our platform reads the whole CV — skills, experience, location, availability and working pattern — and scores every candidate against your specific role with plain-English reasoning. Then a human recruiter pre-screens the top matches (notice period, salary expectations, right to work) before anyone reaches your shortlist.
We'll email you within one working day to confirm the details of the role and agree what a great hire looks like — everything is handled by email, so there's a clear written record and nothing interrupts your day. If you'd rather talk anything through, just say and we'll schedule a call. Then we go to work: matching, screening and shortlisting, with one recruiter keeping you updated throughout.
Yes. CVs and job specs are encrypted at rest (AES-256), consent is recorded for every candidate, data is deleted automatically on a retention schedule, every access is audit-logged, and candidates can request erasure at any time. Your vacancy details are held confidentially and never shared beyond shortlisting.
Your CV joins our talent pool and is matched against every live role we're working on — and automatically re-matched whenever a new role comes in. When there's a genuine fit, a real person emails you directly on the address you gave us. No spam, no CV blasting; and you can ask us to delete your data at any time.
By email, from first contact to offer — so you always have a clear written record and nothing interrupts your day. If you'd prefer to talk anything through at any point, just ask and we'll schedule a call at a time that suits you.
Two minutes to tell us about it. One working day to hear back. Nothing to pay until someone starts.