Executive Recruiting Engine
How we built an AI candidate sourcing system that found 30+ qualified C-suite candidates in 24 hours for a private equity recruiting firm.
What they were dealing with
A private equity recruiting firm needed operating partner candidates — CEOs, COOs, and GMs with $100M+ P&L experience in tech-enabled services, based in San Francisco. Their current process relied on manual LinkedIn searches and took weeks to surface a handful of qualified candidates. LinkedIn's built-in AI matching consistently returned irrelevant results that didn't understand the nuance of their search criteria.
The solution
We built a multi-source recruiting pipeline that searches across Apollo, LinkedIn (via Apify), and Google to identify candidates, then enriches every profile with full career histories, P&L estimations, and AI-powered fit scoring. The system understands the difference between VC and PE, reads career trajectories, and scores candidates against the firm's exact criteria — all delivered in a searchable, sortable dashboard with a shareable demo page.
Multi-Source Search
Apollo API + LinkedIn scraping + Google search to cast the widest net and find candidates traditional tools miss.
AI Career Analysis
Claude analyzes each candidate's full career path, estimates P&L ownership, and evaluates industry fit against specific criteria.
Smart Scoring Rubric
Custom 0-100 scoring based on title level, P&L size, consulting background, PE exposure, location match, and industry relevance.
Shareable Results Page
Branded web page with LinkedIn links, emails, career paths, and detailed fit analysis for each candidate — ready to share with the client.
What happened
- ✓92 candidates identified across multiple data sources in a single search
- ✓30+ qualified candidates scoring 50+ on the custom fit rubric
- ✓25 San Francisco-based candidates meeting all core criteria
- ✓Full career history, P&L estimation, and AI fit scoring for every candidate
- ✓Delivered in 24 hours — a process that previously took 2-3 weeks of manual work
- ✓Shareable, branded demo page delivered for internal client review
We spent hours researching just to find five quality candidates. This found 30 in a day — with better data than we'd ever seen from LinkedIn.
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