Agentiv.md

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Manifesto

Recruiting should run itself, out loud

“The best recruiters spend their day with people. Everything else should run in the background, and show its work.”
Tony James, founder

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The work behind the work

Most of a recruiter's week goes to the work around hiring: searching, copying, chasing, scheduling, writing up. The judgement calls, the conversations and the trust are a small slice of the calendar. We think that ratio is upside down.

Agents that show their work

Agentiv's agents source, reach out, schedule and score. Every step they take is visible, reversible and explained, because a hiring decision is a decision about a person.

Built in the open

We ship most weeks and write down every change. This notebook is where that happens, in plain words and plain Markdown, for people and for the LLMs they ask.

What we believe

  1. People decide. Agents prepare, people choose.
  2. Show the reasoning, not a score.
  3. Fast is a feature, calm is a feature.
  4. Your data is yours: in, out and deleted when you say so.
  5. Write it down. If it shipped, it's in the changelog.