Announcing the Liminal Pilot Programme

Recruitment is becoming a productivity game. Clients expect more speed. Competition between agencies is increasing. And firms need to deliver more without simply adding more recruiters.

But one of the biggest constraints on recruiter productivity is still remarkably manual: finding people. Recruiters spend an average of 14.6 hours a week searching for the right candidates. For a 10-person team, that's 146 hours every week. It's not just a capacity issue. Firms that automate candidate searching are 50% more likely to have an average placement time under 20 days.

This isn't just about time saved

The candidates you need aren't always sitting in your CRM or actively applying to jobs. Finding them means exploring more of the market, identifying who genuinely fits and giving them a reason to have a conversation.

That's traditionally meant recruiters spending hours every week searching databases, reviewing profiles and starting conversations one by one. AI changes the economics of this process. AI-powered search and match could save around 4.5 hours per recruiter per week. For a 10-person team, that's 45 hours of extra capacity every week.

Meaning more searches worked. More candidates reached. More conversations started. More briefs worked without adding another recruiter.

The firms embracing AI are pulling ahead: UK & Ireland agencies using AI at any stage of the recruitment process were 4 to 8 times more likely to have grown revenue in 2025.

This next generation of ai software won't replace recruiters. It's giving good recruiters significantly more capacity. That's why we're building Liminal.

Meet Liminal

An AI sourcing partner for recruitment firms. Give Liminal a brief. It works the search.

It finds, qualifies and engages candidates for you, building a ready-to-work pipeline while your recruiters focus on clients, candidates and closing.

Not another database. Not another search interface. A sourcing layer that does the work.

From brief to conversation

01. Give Liminal the brief

Tell Liminal what you're looking for: the role, company, experience, background and the signals that actually matter.

02. Liminal works the search

Liminal searches broadly across the market of millions of candidates to identify people who could be a genuine fit.

03. Liminal qualifies candidates

Candidates are assessed against the brief using experience, seniority, company background, skills and other relevant signals. Your recruiters get a prioritised pipeline, not a list of profiles.

04. Liminal starts the conversation

Relevant candidates are approached with personalised outreach and given a reason to engage. Liminal handles the repetitive work of getting the conversation started.

05. Your recruiter takes over

Once there's genuine interest, your recruiter takes the relationship forward. Your recruiters handle the relationships and the close. Liminal handles the sourcing.

What could more recruiter capacity be worth?

The point isn't cheaper recruiter hours. It's what those hours can generate. If a recruiter's time generates revenue through placements, giving them more capacity through the week creates potential revenue capacity, not a wage saving.

What if your existing team could generate more revenue without adding another recruiter?

The founding pilot

We're opening 5 founding partner places for recruitment firms that want to put autonomous AI sourcing to work on real, difficult searches.

Put your hardest searches to work.

Give Liminal up to three live briefs over two months. Liminal works the search from discovery through engagement, while your recruiters focus on the candidates who are ready to talk.

• £4,000
• 2 months
• Up to 3 live briefs
• Direct collaboration with the Liminal team
• Founder pricing: founding partners receive a preferential discount on Liminal's future pricing

You'll help shape the product as we build it around the realities of recruitment, while retaining preferential pricing as Liminal develops.

We're looking for our first founding partners

We're deliberately keeping this programme cohort small. We'll work closely with a handful of agencies to answer one question: can autonomous AI sourcing give a good recruiter significantly more capacity?

We'll work alongside you on real briefs, measure what Liminal finds, qualifies and engages, and learn where it creates the most value. If you're interested in testing what an AI sourcing partner could do for your team, apply for one of the five founding partner places.