Stop Losing Billable Hours to Manual Recruiting Reclaim Your Time with Custom AI Automation
Consulting firms waste an average of 15-20 hours per week on sourcing and screening candidates, diverting partners from high-value client engagements. Our tailored recruiting automation delivers 3x faster hires and 40% cost savings, building efficiency into your core workflow.
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The "Talent Acquisition" Problem
Endless Manual Sourcing of Strategy Consultants Drains Billable Hours from Client Engagements
Inconsistent Screening Overlooks Certified PMP Talent in Project Management Roles
Delayed Interviews Disrupt Project Staffing Timelines
High Contingency Agency Fees for Specialized Advisory Roles Erode Margins on Fixed-Fee Engagements
Siloed Data Hinders Relationship-Driven Hiring Decisions
Siloed CRM Data Hinders Relationship-Driven Hiring for Long-Term Client Advisory Teams
AIQ Labs Builds Custom Recruiting Automation Tailored to Your Consulting Workflow
With over a decade of experience engineering AI for expertise-driven firms, we've helped consulting practices like yours eliminate recruiting bottlenecks and own their hiring systems.
Why Choose Us
We don't deploy off-the-shelf tools that force your processes into rigid boxes. Instead, AIQ Labs architects a bespoke recruiting engine from the ground up, integrating seamlessly with your CRM, project management platforms, and client databases. This enterprise-grade system uses advanced AI to source candidates who match your niche expertise needs—think strategy consultants with sector-specific experience—while automating the tedious tasks that pull your team from billable work. The result? A unified, scalable solution that evolves with your firm's growth, delivering measurable ROI through time savings and precise talent acquisition.
What Makes Us Different:
Unlock Quantifiable Gains in Efficiency and ROI
Save 15+ Hours Weekly on Sourcing
Save 15+ Hours Weekly on Sourcing Strategy and Operations Consultants: Manual searches for candidates with Big Four experience scatter your team's focus amid client deliverables. Our automation scours LinkedIn, alumni networks from top MBAs, and specialized databases in minutes, not days, freeing partners to nurture key relationships. Firms achieve a 50% reduction in time-to-source, translating to $10,000+ in annual billable recovery per recruiter, directly boosting utilization rates.
Achieve 3x Faster Time-to-Hire with Precision Matching
Achieve 3x Faster Time-to-Hire with Precision Matching for Sector-Specific Expertise: In management consulting, mismatched hires lacking industry casework can derail multimillion-dollar projects. Our AI screens resumes against your exact criteria—such as CFA certifications, prior M&A advisory experience, or sector-specific case studies—ensuring only top 10% candidates advance. This boosts hire quality while cutting recruitment cycles from 60 days to 20, enhancing project continuity, client retention, and overall firm profitability.
Reduce Costs by 40% Through Internal Ownership
Reduce Costs by 40% Through Internal Ownership of Custom Recruitment Tools: Eliminate expensive contingency fees from executive search agencies and fragmented ATS subscriptions tailored to consulting workflows. Our custom system, built on your existing CRM integrations, replaces them with a one-time implementation you fully own, yielding ROI in under six months via streamlined internal processes. Consultants report slashing external spend by $50,000 yearly on roles like senior advisors, redirecting savings to strategic growth initiatives while maintaining control over sensitive client-aligned hiring data.
What Clients Say
"Before AIQ Labs, our partners were spending Fridays buried in resumes for digital transformation specialists instead of prepping for Monday client strategy sessions. Now, the system flags perfect fits for our fintech practice—candidates with prior Bain experience—in under four hours, and we've hired three senior strategists in the last quarter without any overtime, improving our bench strength for peak demand."
Elena Vasquez
Director of Talent Acquisition, Apex Strategy Partners (a boutique management consulting firm specializing in financial services)
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Mark Thompson
Managing Partner, Insight Consulting Group (a mid-sized firm focused on healthcare and life sciences advisory)
"The beauty is how it learns from our past hires in boutique advisory—now it prioritizes candidates with similar McKinsey alumni backgrounds and client relationship management skills. We've cut agency costs in half, from $75K to $37K annually, and filled two director-level roles in under two weeks during our Q4 busy season. No more reactive scrambling for seasonal surges in demand."
Sarah Lin
Head of Human Resources, Vanguard Advisors (an independent advisory firm serving private equity clients)
Simple 3-Step Process
Discovery and Workflow Mapping
We audit your current recruiting process, from client project needs to candidate onboarding, to identify exact pain points. This ensures our solution aligns perfectly with your consulting cadence.
Custom AI Design and Build
Our engineers craft your system using advanced frameworks, training models on your data for precise sourcing and screening tailored to professional services expertise.
Integration, Testing, and Launch
We connect it to your existing tools, run rigorous tests on real scenarios, and train your team for seamless adoption, delivering a production-ready asset you own outright.
Why We're Different
What's Included
Common Questions
How does your recruiting automation differ from tools like LinkedIn Recruiter?
Unlike LinkedIn's generic platform, which requires manual oversight and racks up per-search fees, our custom solution is built specifically for consulting firms. It integrates directly with your project management tools to source candidates aligned with ongoing engagements—say, experts in regulatory compliance for a finance project. We train the AI on your historical data for 85% match accuracy, saving 15 hours weekly while avoiding subscription traps. The result is a owned system that evolves with your needs, not a rented tool dictating your workflow. Firms using our builds report 40% lower costs and hires that stick longer, because it's tailored to the expertise-driven nature of professional services.
What kind of time savings can a mid-sized consulting firm expect?
Based on our deployments, firms with 50-200 employees typically reclaim 15-25 hours per week per recruiter. This comes from automating sourcing (down from 10 hours to 1), screening (from 8 hours to automated), and scheduling (from 5 hours to instant). For a partner billing at $300/hour, that's $234,000 in annual value. We focus on your bottlenecks—like filling roles for time-sensitive client pitches—ensuring the system prioritizes high-impact tasks. One client, a strategy firm, reduced their time-to-hire from 50 days to 18, directly boosting project utilization without adding headcount.
Is the system secure for handling sensitive candidate and client data?
Absolutely. We build with enterprise-grade security from the start, including end-to-end encryption, role-based access controls, and compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 standards—critical for professional services dealing with confidential client info. Unlike cloud-based assemblers prone to breaches, our custom code runs on your infrastructure or secure AWS setups with audit trails. We've audited systems for firms in regulated sectors like healthcare consulting, ensuring no data leaks during sourcing or screening. Your talent pipeline stays protected, allowing focus on relationships without compliance worries.
How long does it take to implement custom recruiting automation?
Implementation typically spans 8-12 weeks, customized to your firm's complexity. Week 1-2: Deep dive into your workflows. Weeks 3-6: Design and build the AI core, integrating with existing tools. Weeks 7-8: Testing with real candidate data and team training. Post-launch, we provide 4 weeks of support for tweaks. This phased approach minimizes disruption—unlike rushed no-code setups that fail under load. A boutique consulting client went live in 9 weeks, automating 80% of their process and seeing ROI in month three through faster hires for a major RFP.
Can this scale as our firm grows or hires seasonally?
Yes, our architecture is designed for scalability, handling everything from 10 hires yearly to 100 during peak seasons like Q4 project ramps. We use modular frameworks that expand without rework—add features like bulk sourcing for multiple practices effortlessly. For a growing firm, this means no performance dips as your talent needs evolve. We've scaled systems for clients doubling in size, maintaining 99% uptime and adapting AI models to new expertise areas, like adding sustainability specialists. It's built to grow with you, ensuring consistent efficiency amid fluctuating demands.
What if we already use recruiting software—will it integrate?
Seamlessly. We specialize in deep, two-way integrations with platforms like Bullhorn, Greenhouse, or even custom CRMs, pulling in data without manual exports. For consulting firms, this means syncing candidate profiles with client project requirements in real-time—e.g., matching a hire's availability to an urgent engagement. Our approach resolves the 'integration nightmares' of brittle APIs, creating a single source of truth. A client migrating from Lever saw zero data loss and 30% faster processing, as our custom connectors handle nuances like skill tagging for niche sectors that generic tools miss.
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