For UK recruitment founders

The recruitment team behind your desk.

Eleven AI specialists who learn your roles, your market and your clients — writing your specs, sourcing your longlists, drafting your outreach, and keeping every bit of it. From day one.

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The objection

“But I already use ChatGPT / Copilot / Claude.”

Those are one clever generalist you brief from scratch every time — and that forgets you the moment you close the tab. On a recruitment desk, Vela is different in three ways that actually matter:

It knows your desk.

Your roles, your clients, your niche, your market — remembered, and sharper every week. No re-briefing from zero every morning.

It's a team, not a text box.

Roman works the BD and outreach angle, Flux researches the market and candidates, Felix runs the numbers, Arden pulls it into one clear call. They hand off to each other — then hand you the answer.

It makes the work and keeps it.

Not an answer in a chat window you'll lose — a job spec, a Boolean string, a longlist with sources, an outreach sequence, produced as real files in your Studio.

And it won't make things up. Ask for candidates or companies in a patch and it searches the live web and cites it — or tells you straight when it can't verify something, instead of inventing a name. On a desk where your reputation rides on being right, that's the whole difference.

What it does

Most AI answers questions. Yours does the desk work.

Writes your specs and briefs.

A clean role brief or job ad out of a messy client call — in your tone.

Sources and researches.

Boolean strings, market maps, candidate and company research from the live web, cited — with the “I can't verify that” honesty built in.

Drafts your outreach.

InMail, candidate emails, client BD sequences that sound like you, ready to send.

Benchmarks the market.

Salary ranges, competitor and agency moves, talent availability in your niche.

Keeps all of it.

Every spec, list and sequence saved in your Studio, revisable by asking.

Preps you overnight.

You wake up to a morning brief: what moved in your market, what's worth chasing.

In the boardroom

What that looks like in practice.

A glimpse of an actual exchange inside a recruiter's boardroom.

Arden

CEO

Morning. FinCorp CFO search — week 3, 12 candidates contacted, 3 active conversations. Sarah Whitmore is the strongest lead but we haven't heard back since Tuesday.

Roman

Head of Sales

Drafted the BD email for FinCorp last night — pulled in your three CFO placements from the last 18 months as social proof. Lead with the £140k base + LTI angle? Ready to send.

Vera

Personal Assistant

Sarah's last reply was Tuesday — she said she'd revert by Thursday. Worth a chase before the FinCorp BD goes out, or it'll get muddled. I'll draft the nudge so it's ready for you.

Flux

Head of Intelligence

One signal — FinCorp just announced a £40M raise on LinkedIn this morning. Their hiring urgency is about to spike. We have 72 hours before three other agencies notice.

Felix

Head of Finance

On placement fee modelling — at £140k base with 22% fee, your margin after sourcing costs is £24.6k. If we drop to 18% to close fast, still £20k clear. Your call on urgency vs margin.

Arden

CEO

Vera, have the Sarah chase drafted for 11 AM. Roman, get the FinCorp BD ready for sign-off by 1 PM with the post-raise angle. Felix, hold 22% — we have the leverage this week. Flux, watch the competitors.

What your day looks like

Your funnel. Owned end to end.

Flux sources. Roman screens. Echo handles candidate experience. Felix models the offer. You close.

Sourced

24

Candidates identified, profile match scoring.

Screened

12

Initial calls, fit assessment complete.

Interviewed

6

Client interviews scheduled or completed.

Shortlisted

3

Client's choice — references checked.

Offer

1

Negotiation, offer modelling, close.

Illustrative — your actual numbers will reflect your real pipeline.

Your team

Four of your eleven agents, where they earn their keep first.

All eleven agents are active in your boardroom. These four do the heaviest lifting for a recruiter — Arden, Felix, Echo, Colt, Prue, and the rest are there when you need them.

Roman

Head of Sales

Drafts your client pitches and BD.

Roman writes the cold outreach, the BD follow-ups, the pitch documents for new client briefs, and the proposal emails. He pulls in your placement history and sector experience to make every pitch specific. You walk into the client meeting prepared — without spending the night before staring at a blank email.

Vera

Personal Assistant

Manages your pipeline and candidate flow.

Vera tracks every candidate, every client brief, every interview, every offer in flight. She tells you who needs a follow-up call today, who's gone quiet, what stage each role is at, and what to say next. Nothing slips because someone fell down the inbox.

Flux

Head of Intelligence

Watches your sectors.

Flux tracks salary benchmarks, competitor agencies, new entrants in your sectors, and movements at key clients. When a candidate asks about market rates, you have last week's data — not a guess from six months ago. When a client asks who else you're working with, Flux already knows.

Muse

Head of Creative

Runs your personal brand.

Recruitment is a personal-brand game. Muse drafts your LinkedIn posts, ghostwrites your sector commentary, scripts your video content, and keeps your presence visible to candidates and clients. Consistent thought leadership without you ever having to sit down and “do content”.

Honesty

A team that tells you the truth.

It cites its sources, says “I can't verify that” instead of inventing a candidate or a number, and never pretends it did something it didn't. You can put your name to what it hands you.

Straight with you

What's live, and what's coming.

Today your team makes the work and hands it to you to send. Connected tools — your email, LinkedIn, your CRM/ATS — so the team acts right inside your workflow are next on the roadmap. We'll always tell you what's live and what's coming.

Who it's for

Built for recruitment founders.

Vela is built for UK recruitment consultants running their own desk or small agency. Solo operators, two-to-five-person teams, or recruitment business owners who haven't made their first hire yet. Perm, contract, executive search, or a mix. Tech, finance, healthcare, engineering, legal, life sciences — sector-agnostic, because the operational patterns are the same.

What these recruiters share isn't a desk type — it's a problem. Recruitment is volume-driven, but the highest-value work is relationship-driven. Every hour spent on admin is an hour not spent on the calls that close deals. The ceiling on what you can bill is set by how much of your time you protect for the work only you can do.

Vela isn't a CRM. It doesn't replace Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder, or wherever your candidate database lives. It sits alongside your existing tools, handling the operational thinking and writing work that ATSes don't do.

Pricing

£149/month. Cancel anytime.

The Pro plan (£149/month) is built for recruitment founders. All eleven agents active, 1,500 interactions a month — enough headroom for a busy desk without watching the meter. There's a 14-day free trial. No card up-front.

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