A specialist UK recruitment firm turned years of CVs, contacts and call notes into one searchable network it owns — then put agents to work on live mandates. 55,000 contacts consolidated. 44,000 scored. Hundreds qualified.
A specialist or boutique recruitment firm. Ten to fifty consultants. Years of hard-won intelligence — spread across inboxes, spreadsheets, notebooks and a CRM nobody quite trusts.
Every search starts at a blank bar. Every leaver takes a desk’s memory with them.
If that sounds familiar, here is what happened at a firm like yours.
The firm’s networks — years of CVs, placements and contacts across systems and inboxes — became one clean asset the firm owns. Every record scored and explained against the ideal candidate profile. Then the agents went to work on live mandates.
One night, for texture: 1,240 open-market profiles scanned. 86 met every must-have — scored and explained by 9am.
Weeks — not months — from first conversation to agents working live mandates.
Forget projections for a moment. Take your own payroll. Forty consultants, each losing about ninety minutes a day to notes, write-ups, CRM updates and searching.
You’re not deciding whether to pay for that capacity. You already do.
The only question is what it produces.
PRISM’s return shows up in two places: this year’s fees, and what the firm itself is worth.
Consultants get their hours back for the conversations that generate fees. And the firm keeps what they learn — candidate history, call notes, relationships and search decisions become structured records that stay useful as people join, move desks or leave.
A buyer pays for profit that repeats. They want to see a team that wins work, delivers searches and uses its database without relying on any one person’s memory. An owned, person-independent network makes that operating model visible — and repeatable.
Suppose the released time helps a 40-consultant team make just ten additional placements a year — one for every four consultants.
| Additional placements / year | Additional net fees |
|---|---|
| 5 | £125,000 |
| 10 | £250,000 |
| 20 | £500,000 |
Illustration, not a projection or a valuation. Assumes a £25,000 average net fee; your fees, costs and outcomes will differ. Targets are agreed per build and measured on live mandates.
Not one consultant’s habits. The firm’s.
It meets them where they already work. Every search opens with a ranked, explained list instead of a blank bar — and the time it gives back is theirs.
Yes. The network is owned by the firm, sourced from official registries and licensed market data, and GDPR-clean by design. It does not leave with anyone.
You see the expected payback, modelled on your own numbers, before you sign anything.
There is no price list, because no two firms are the same. PRISM is scoped per firm and built in phases you own — typically one desk and one workflow first. You commit phase by phase. Never to a grand programme.
Before you commit, we model the case on your own numbers: the hours being lost, the processes that can be automated, the revenue being missed. You see the expected payback before signing anything.
The test is simple. PRISM should create materially more value than it costs.
Thirty minutes on one desk. We’ll show you where time is being lost, what intelligence is being missed, and what can be measured. Reply to the email that brought you here.