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AI for Staffing and Recruiting Agencies
"I feel behind on AI, and there is no chance I can catch up." If that is the sentence in your head, you are exactly who I work with. I am not selling software or theory-based advice. I run my own ten person managed services business on Claude, I know the value it adds every week, and now I help owners do the same inside staffing and recruiting agencies like yours: your team trained, jobs automated, hours saved. Saying yes to starting puts you ahead of many of your competitors.
Experience, Not Theory
That is our first four automations at Stacks, across a ten person team. We took on more clients, and gross margin went from 26% to 56% in twelve months. AI was not the only driver. It was the biggest one. It also set a new standard for what my team sends out: the same bar for research, formatting, and finish on everything that leaves the building, no shortcuts.
Casey Templeton, Founder of Stacks. Nashville.
"In one week I went from a two-hour session with Casey to a brand new marketing site and firing the marketing firm I'd used for two years. If Casey wants to work with you, don't be a dummy. Just do it."
The Week
Your Week. I Know It.
Five jobs that eat the desk. This is the work an automation goes after first.
The intake call lives in a notebook. The job order goes up missing what the manager wants.
Every recruiter works the same req differently. Two candidates get asked two different sets of questions.
Submittals get written at nine at night. The client gets a resume and one thin sentence.
A contractor rolls off Friday with nothing next. Nobody works the bench until the job order is cold.
The owner rebuilds the fill rate report. Numbers get retyped out of the ATS every Monday.
Ghosting cuts both ways, and the follow up is the first thing to go on a busy desk.
Source: Bullhorn, September 2025.
The First Step
Two Sessions. Two Hours Each.
For most staffing and recruiting agencies, this is the first step. Homework first, then two sessions, two hours each. In person if you are near Nashville, or over Zoom. $1,950.
For the math: one person at $25 an hour who gets two hours a week back is worth about $2,600 a year. If the first automation does that for one employee, it pays for itself with room to spare. And if after our first session you do not see a job worth automating, you pay nothing.
An automation is a repeated piece of work you teach Claude once. Your team runs it every day, you own it and tune it, and it carries the work to 80 percent so your people finish the 20 that needs their judgment.
"Casey taught me how to actually put AI to work. I generate quotes faster, my workflow is smoother, and I'm making more money because of it. One of the best investments I've made in my business."
01
Homework
Before we ever meet, you pull real examples of the work that eats your week: actual documents, actual messages, nothing cleaned up for me.
02
Session One
Two hours. We map how your agency actually runs, get Claude set up for your team, and train you on how to operate it.
03
Session Two
Two hours. We start building your first automations and put together the training your team needs to run Claude every day.
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What You Leave With
Claude running for your team, your people trained on it, and one job automated and in use.
Five Automations We Could Build In Your Agency.
One page, no obligation. Proof of what we could build together, before we ever talk.
One email with the PDF. No newsletter, no drip campaign.
of the highest growth firms average under 10 days to place.
Source: Bullhorn, February 2026.
New York City's Local Law 144 requires a bias audit of automated tools that help decide who gets hired, so I build nothing that screens.
The Stack
Claude Sits In The Middle.
It works with the tools you already run. It reads from your applicant tracking system, your job boards, and your back office, and writes back where it can.
Start with one connection, not all of them. The first automation usually needs one export from your applicant tracking system, and that is the whole first step. Once it earns its keep, the next system comes in, then the one after that. Every automation gets sharper as it goes, because Claude can finally see the whole placement instead of one screen at a time.
The Numbers
The Numbers Recruiters Are Seeing.
That feeling of being behind is not in your head. Staffing and recruiting agencies have adopted AI widely but not deeply, and the candidates you need are already wary of it.
Have agentic AI across full workflow
Source: Bullhorn, February 2026.
Believe AI recruiting is more biased
Source: American Staffing Association, September 2023.
Questions
Questions, Answered.
I feel like I am already behind on AI. Is it too late?
No, and you are not as far behind as you think. The owners who feel furthest behind often move fastest once they start, because they have not spent a year on tools that did not stick. You do not need a strategy, a budget cycle, or a technical person on staff. You need four hours and one job that is costing you time every week. That is the whole first step.
Will this replace my staff?
No, and that is the whole design. An automation carries a job to 80 percent quickly and your recruiter takes the final 20 percent over the finish line. Efficiency goes up for everyone, the agency grows without the headcount it used to need, margins grow with it, and your people spend their time on hiring managers instead of typing.
Will it work with the software we already run?
Usually, whether that is Bullhorn, Crelate, JobDiva, or Avionté. Some systems give me an API, some give me a nightly export, and a few give me nothing but a screen to copy from. I tell you which one you have before I scope anything.
Is using AI in hiring going to get me sued?
Not for anything I build, because none of it screens candidates. New York City's Local Law 144 covers employers and employment agencies that use an automated employment decision tool, and it requires a bias audit within a year of use, public results, and notice to candidates. Nothing I build screens, scores, ranks, or rejects anybody, so it is not that kind of tool. The rules differ by city and state, and staying out of the screening business is how you stay clear of all of them.
Does any of this decide who gets the job?
No. Every automation hands you a draft, not a decision. An automation writes the job order, the interview guide, the submittal, and the follow up. It does not rank a slate, score a resume, or say who to pass on. Who moves forward is your recruiter's call.
What happens to candidate data?
Your applicant tracking system stays the system of record. Where a job can be done without names and contact details, I do it that way. Where it cannot, the data path gets written down and you approve it first. Messages send from your system, where opt outs already live.
How long before we see something working?
The first automation runs in weeks, not quarters. The two sessions scope it, I build it against your real job orders, and your team uses it while I refine it. One automation in production beats five in a plan.
Who owns what you build?
You own the automations and the documentation. They live in your account, written in plain language, so your recruiters can read them and change them. If you stop working with me, nothing walks out the door.
What if we get to the end and nothing is worth automating?
Then you pay nothing. If after our first session you do not see a job worth automating, the engagement ends there and there is no charge. The first session either surfaces a job worth the money or it does not, and that risk is mine, not yours.
Why $1,950?
Because the format is small on purpose. Homework, two working sessions of two hours each, and the setup work around them. For the math: one person at $25 an hour who gets two hours a week back is worth about $2,600 a year. If the first automation does that for one employee, it has paid for itself with room to spare. Every number in that sentence is yours to check.
Who You Will Be Working With
Casey Templeton.
Founder of Stacks, a ten person business in Nashville that runs on Claude. Both sessions are with him directly, and every message from this page lands in his inbox, not a queue.
Start Here
Start With A Conversation Between Two Small Business Owners.
Tell me about your agency. I take on two or three of these engagements a month. Every message comes to me and I answer it myself. The first conversation costs nothing.
Book A 15 Minute Call"A fear of not understanding AI had kept me from diving in. Casey's coaching changed that. It opened my eyes to a sea of possibilities and left me more confident to explore. Come open-minded, and see where your imagination takes you."
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