The agency that submits firstwith the strongest candidate — wins the placement.
Your clients aren't waiting. The moment a brief lands, the clock starts - and so does every other agency on the same mandate. iRankr gives your consultants a ranked, explainable shortlist in minutes so you're first to submit, and your submission is good enough to close the conversation before anyone else gets a look in.
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Your revenue depends on the quality and speed of every submission. Manual screening is a ceiling on both.
More competition, tighter TATs
Most mid-market clients send mandates to two or three agencies simultaneously. Exclusivity is rare, and getting rarer. In a multi-agency brief, the first strong submission often determines which agency gets the introductions - and the fee. The agencies losing placements they should be winning aren't losing on candidate quality. They're losing on turnaround time.
One weak submission is remembered longer than ten strong ones
Clients expect every shortlisted candidate to be genuinely suitable - not a covering-of-bases. A consultant who sends five CVs hoping two are relevant is not adding value. They're creating work for the hiring manager and eroding the agency's credibility with every pass. The quality bar for each submission is higher than most agencies' current screening process can consistently deliver.
Your best candidate for a new brief is probably already in your database
Every placement you've made, every candidate you've ever spoken to, every CV that came in for a role two years ago - all of it is sitting in your database, undisturbed. When a new brief comes in that matches a profile you've seen before, most consultants start sourcing fresh rather than searching what they already have. That means slower turnaround and higher sourcing cost, while hidden gems stay ignored in old folders.
Screening bandwidth caps revenue opportunities
A good consultant can manage 6 to 8 active mandates simultaneously - but only if they're not spending their mornings reading CVs. Every hour a consultant spends on first-pass screening is an hour not spent on client calls, candidate conversations, or the relationship work that actually generates the next brief.
Brief received. Shortlist ready. Submitted before your competition has started reading.
Move faster, submit stronger, and build the kind of client relationships that generate the next brief.
Candidate Rediscovery
Your database isn't an archive - it's your fastest path to the strongest shortlist
Every time a new client brief comes in, you can use iRankr to automatically search your full historical database and surface the candidates who fit best - ranked and explained. Candidates you've already spoken to. Candidates whose ambitions and availability you already have context on. Candidates your competition has never heard of because they're not on the job boards. Agencies with two or more years of history can turn their database into a goldmine using rediscovery.
Fitment Score
Because "we think this is a strong candidate" stopped being a sufficient submission a long time ago
Every shortlisted candidate comes with a Fitment Score and a structured brief - what they bring, where the gaps are, and the reasoning behind the score. When your consultant submits a candidate with an 87% fitment score and a two-paragraph explanation of why they fit the brief, two things happen: the client's evaluation time drops, and their confidence in your agency goes up. Both of those outcomes lead to the same place - increased trust, and more mandates.
Industry Match Score
For mandates where sector experience is what the client is actually paying for
Your FMCG client doesn't want a strong sales candidate who has only sold software. Your financial services client needs someone who understands the regulatory environment, not just the product category. The Industry Match Score evaluates domain relevance independently from role-specific fit, so your consultant catches sector mismatches before the client does - and before they start questioning your understanding of the brief.
Explainable Strengths & Gaps
For the client conversation that happens after the submission
When a client comes back with a question about a candidate, or pushes back on the shortlist, your consultant needs more than instinct to respond convincingly. iRankr's per-candidate gap analysis tells you exactly where the candidate falls short against the brief - so your team can address the objection directly, suggest a relevant workaround, or recommend a better-matched alternative without hesitation.
Bulk Upload & Auto-Inbox
For consultants who source at volume and can't afford a CV admin bottleneck
When a brief requires fresh sourcing, upload all incoming CVs at once or connect your recruitment inbox to process every application automatically. No manual downloads, no attachment-hunting in email threads, no consultant spending two hours reading CVs before they can start the actual recruitment work of talking to people.
Private Deployment Option
For agencies where the candidate database is the business
Your database - every candidate relationship, every screened profile, every previous placement - is your most commercially valuable and competitively sensitive asset. iRankr can be deployed privately on your own infrastructure if you require it, meaning your candidate data never sits in a shared cloud environment. Your database stays yours, with no third-party access, ever.
What recruitment agencies see within the first month.
shortlists on mandates where the right candidate is already in your database - measured in hours, not days
mandates per consultant handled simultaneously without turnaround time or submission quality degrading
client conversion on submissions that arrive with structured fitment scores and candidate briefs - fewer "can you explain why you sent me this" responses
strong candidates overlooked from your historical database - surface best fits from your database for every new mandate using rediscovery
What recruitment agency owners typically want to know.
We work across multiple sectors - tech, finance, sales, operations. Can iRankr handle that breadth without mixing up what good looks like across different roles?
Yes. Every brief gets its own evaluation rubric extracted from the client's JD. A CFO search for a manufacturing company and a Head of Growth search for a SaaS startup are evaluated entirely independently - the AI draws its criteria from each specific brief, not from a generic template. There is no bleed between mandates or sectors.