About Recruited
Built for one market, on purpose.
Recruited is recruitment software and a collaboration network for Australian recruitment agencies. Employers hiring direct brief those agencies through it, and candidates use it to control who represents them. Serving one market is what lets the product go deep enough to be worth changing systems for.
The problem
The work happens between the records.
Recruitment software is mostly good at storing what happened. The work of an agency is deciding what happens next: which candidate to chase, which client has gone quiet, which offer is about to fall over. That work lives in people’s heads, in their sent items, and in a spreadsheet somebody maintains on a Friday. Recruited is built around the sequence, not just the records.
Underneath it sits a second problem: an agency regularly has a role it cannot fill and a candidate it cannot place, while another agency has the opposite. Exchange gives that collaboration terms, a timer and a record, without either database being opened.
Why Australia only
A market is not a locale setting.
A global product treats Australia as a currency symbol, a date format and a timezone. Serving only Australia means the taxonomy matches how roles are described here, the commercial practices match how agencies here charge, verification is built on the ABN, privacy assumes the Australian Privacy Principles from the first table, and support is in your business hours.
Neutrality
A network only works if the operator is not a competitor with better seats.
Recruited is built by the team behind LINK, and LINK runs its own recruitment desk on the platform as an ordinary customer. That is answered in code rather than in a paragraph: LINK’s workspace has no privileged access to any other workspace. Scoping is decided in one module every endpoint uses, a member with no workspace fails closed, and there is a test that proves it.
The same reasoning shapes Exchange. Recruited is the platform and contract layer rather than the recruiter of record, and it does not hold the employer’s placement fee.
Principles
The five we are held to.
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Private workspaces
An agency’s records belong to that agency. The boundary is enforced on the server, in one place, and tested.
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Candidate agency
A person decides who represents them and which introductions happen. Nobody owns, sells or transfers a human being.
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Explainable software
A score with no reasoning, a summary with no source and a forecast with no evidence are the same failure. If it cannot show its work, it is not authoritative.
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Data portability
Full export, every plan, any time, including on the way out.
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Local accountability
Australian market, Australian assumptions, Australian support, and a person who answers when something is wrong.
About
Ask us the hard questions.
About the data boundary, the neutrality of Exchange, and how migration is handled. Those are the three we have thought hardest about.
We reply within one Australian business day.