Your recruitment agency's outsourced AI engineering team, built and maintained by real recruiters and AI experts.

We take agencies running on legacy tech, or without the in-house technical skills to deploy and maintain multiple AI systems and MCP connections, and turn them into AI-native businesses. Then we stay: ongoing technical support, systems kept current, and someone on the end of the phone when something changes.

It lives inside Claude, connected to the tools your team already uses. We supply the recruiting skills a top biller works with, the data tools behind them, a governance layer with an audit trail, and a person who keeps it all running. For your recruiters that means more BD meetings, faster shortlists, and a candidate database that finally gets used.

Delivery

How it's delivered

01

AI Readiness Review

€1,500, credited against the install if you sign within 30 days.

A day on site watching how your recruiters actually work. Then a written report: what to automate first, what to leave to people, and where your current AI use sits against GDPR and the AI Act. The findings become the rules the install runs on.

02

Recruitment AI Desk Install

€3,500 for up to 10 recruiters, €250 per recruiter after that. Review fee credited.

We set up Claude itself: licences, the desktop app on each machine, and connections to the tools you already use from our supported list (Loxo, Bullhorn, Vincere, Outlook, Teams, Smartlead and others; anything outside the list is quoted separately). Then we connect your own Asterfield server, switch on the base skills, and name one or two of your people as the agency's Recruitment Engineer, our point of contact and the person who tunes your skills day to day. Your recruiters are using it before we leave.

One extra placement, or one BD meeting that turns into a client, pays for the install several times over.

03

Managed Recruitment AI

From €1,000 a month, with support levels to match the commitment you need.

Live skills, data agents, support and training, and custom development when you need it.

What's in the managed service

Live skills

Database search, sourcing, candidate replies, BD outreach, CV formatting, spec campaigns. Under every one sit two governance skills: one for how candidate and client data is handled, one for what the AI may do, what it must never do, and where a recruiter decides. Skills are served live, so updates arrive without anyone installing anything, and every skill can be downloaded into your own Claude library. They're yours to keep.

Data agents

Competitor radar, candidate search, enrichment. These run on our keys, with access, spending caps and logging enforced on our side. Metered per recruiter and priced on top. You set the limits and see the usage.

Support and training

Every plan includes platform and governance updates and regular training sessions for your recruiters, from onboarding new starters to what's changed when a model or skill is updated. You choose the level beyond that: from a weekly call with your Recruitment Engineer, through to a named Asterfield contact, agreed response times and regular on-site days. Agreed at install, changed as you need.

Custom development

A new connector, or an agent built for something specific to your agency? We design and build it. Charged by the hour, quoted before we start.
First win

Start with the database you already own

Before you pay for another candidate search, let AI search the one you've spent years building. Every established agency sits on thousands of candidates nobody looks at.

Connected properly, a recruiter asks Claude for five people in your book who fit a new Java contract, gets the matches with the reasons, and has outreach drafted for approval in a couple of minutes. That's the first thing we switch on, and it's the fastest return in the whole install.

Governance

On governance

We don't sell compliance. We sell governance built into the workflow. It starts with two custom skills we wrote for recruitment: a GDPR skill that governs how candidate and client personal data is handled in sourcing, enrichment, outreach and your CRM, and an AI Act skill that sets what the AI may do, what it must never do, and where a recruiter decides. Every other skill runs inside those two. Behind them sit hard limits enforced in the data gateway and a log of what was searched, who revealed what, and why. The framework is reviewed by a data-protection solicitor before your install, so when a client or the ERF asks how your AI use is governed, you have an answer and the evidence behind it.

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The question we get most

Why not just use Claude?

You should. That's the point. Claude is the best tool on the market and it keeps getting better. The problem isn't the tool, it's everything around it. Most agencies that try it alone stall at the setup: nothing connected to the ATS, no rules on what recruiters can do with it, a few paid-for AI tools nobody uses, and it ends up as a chatbot on a few laptops.

We run a recruitment agency on this setup every day. Nothing in the install is theory. It's how we place people.

We're the technical team you don't have in-house. Here's what that covers:

The plumbing

We understand how MCP servers, APIs and connectors actually work. We configure the supported ones properly and keep them working, and we build what's missing when your systems need it.

Keeping up with the models

New Claude models arrive every few months and behave differently. We test your skills and agents against each one, amend what needs amending, and move you across when it's ready.

Choosing what to use

The recruitment AI market is crowded and most of it is noise. We tell you what's worth switching on, what to leave alone, and what Claude already does for free.

Controlling the spend

One metered gateway for sourcing, enrichment and competitor intelligence. No separate vendor accounts, no API keys floating around the office, and caps per recruiter so one keen consultant can't burn the month's budget in a week.

Recruiting skills, not generic ones

Written by a recruiter placing at the top of the Irish market. They reflect how good recruiters actually work, and your own Recruitment Engineer can tune them.

Adoption and training

Tools fail in agencies because recruiters don't use them. Ongoing training sessions, the Recruitment Engineer and the weekly call exist to get the whole desk using it, not just the two people who like tech. New starters get the full setup on day one.

Governance built in

The GDPR and AI Act layer, the audit trail and the solicitor-reviewed framework. Nobody in a 20-person agency is going to write that themselves.

Someone to call

When your ATS changes a field, a connector breaks or a recruiter does something unexpected, you ring us. It gets fixed, and the fix goes to every agency we look after.
Results

What you'll see

We don't ask you to take the return on trust. From the first month you'll see recruiter hours saved, how much more your database is being worked, outreach sent and meetings booked, and whether it's showing up in placements.

And the exit is clean. Stop paying and you keep every skill you've downloaded and every process you've changed. You lose the live updates, the data agents, the training and us. No lock-in to argue about.

Fit

Who it's for

Owner-led recruitment agencies with 10 to 50 recruiters in Ireland and the UK, established candidate databases, and no internal engineering team. Recruitment groups with several brands by arrangement.

About

Who's behind it

Built and maintained by a recruiter and an engineer who run it on a live desk every day.

Chris Stewart, right, in a bow tie, with the ERF Contract Recruiter of the Year 2024 trophy at the ERF awards

Chris Stewart

Co-founder, recruitment and product

Fifteen years recruiting for companies including Oracle, Meta and Bank of America. Five consecutive years billing €500k a year at a leading Irish agency. ERF Contract Recruiter of the Year 2024.

Founded Submittd Talent in March 2026 and built it AI-native from day one. Chris knows where hiring breaks down, why client feedback stalls, and which parts of the desk a machine can take on.

Based in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

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Glenn Goggin

Co-founder, engineering and AI

Senior AI product engineer with 14 years building production systems. Most recently in Fidelity Investments' innovation lab in Ireland, building and validating next-generation financial systems in a startup-style team.

Before that, principal engineer on Fidelity's global fintech mobile app, senior product engineer at Hospitable, and fractional CTO at EuroComply, a data-protection company that went through the NDRC accelerator.

Chosen to represent Ireland on the US Department of State's YTILI Fellowship for young European entrepreneurs in 2019.

Glenn leads all engineering at Asterfield: the hosted server, AI workflows, automation and the multi-tenant infrastructure behind every agency's setup.

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Contract Recruiter of the Year 2024
Five straight years at €500k a year billed
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