SAMPLE PLAN · Illustrative example, not a real client · Figures from public 2025-2026 staffing benchmarks
REGIONAL STAFFING CO.
A 90-person regional light-industrial staffing firm. 6 recruiters on the desk, no AI in use today.
recruiter-hrs / wk
given back across the 6-person desk
first-year value
hours returned plus recovered placements
quarter to payback
on the fuller picture, build cost cleared
The workflow we would automate first
Every weekday, inbound resumes land in a shared inbox and the job-board queue. Each recruiter opens them one by one, reads each resume, decides if the person clears the basics for the open order, then re-types the useful details into the ATS by hand before anyone can be submitted. The first agency to put a qualified person in front of the client usually wins the placement, so the hours lost reading and re-keying are not just admin. They are placements that walk to a faster competitor while the resume sits unread.
First-Submittal Shortlister
A quiet helper that watches the same inbox the team already uses. The moment resumes arrive, it reads each against the open order's real requirements and hands the recruiter a ranked shortlist worth a call, each with a one-line reason and the key fields already dropped into the ATS draft. The recruiter still makes every call. The AI system just removes the reading and re-typing.
- Recruiter time reading and re-keying
- ~12 hrs / recruiter / wk
- Time for a qualified candidate to surface
- 1 to 3 days
- Fillable orders lost each week to a slower first submittal
- ~2 / week
- Recruiter time reading and re-keying
- Recruiter-hours returned across the 6-person desk
- Time for a qualified candidate to surface
- minutes
- Lost orders recovered
On the recovered placements alone, the build pays for itself in under 10 months. Counting the ~48 recruiter-hours given back each week as well, first-year value lands near $108,000, so on the fuller picture the build clears its cost inside the first quarter.
Assumptions & sources
These figures are illustrative, not a real client's books, and held to the conservative end on purpose. Built from public 2025-2026 staffing benchmarks: recruiters spend ~52% of the week on admin; 8 to 10 hours to hand-screen ~200 resumes; teams report 10 to 15 hours per week saved per recruiter from screening automation (this sample claims only ~8); average recruiter cost ~$28/hr, taken to ~$35/hr fully loaded; light-industrial temp gross margin runs ~21 to 25%. Your real numbers replace every figure here on the call.





