For boutique recruitment firms in Singapore
Your competitors are still opening CVs one by one. We configure Claude — Anthropic's AI — directly into your existing workflow. Paste a job description. Claude searches every CV by meaning, not keywords. Ranked shortlist in under 90 seconds, with a written reason for every candidate.
"As recruiters, we have far too many applicants. We search by keyword — if the candidate didn't use the right word, we miss them entirely. Even though they might have been suitable."
— Singapore headhunter, 30,000+ placements since 2009Every CV you've received is a candidate you've already done the work to find. When a new role comes in, most firms start from scratch — posting ads, paying job boards, sourcing fresh — while hundreds of perfectly qualified people sit in a folder no one searches properly.
Ctrl+F finds the word. It doesn't find the person. A candidate with six years in fintech operations won't surface in a search for "financial services." Your senior consultant knows that instinctively. Your folder search doesn't. That gap costs placements.
Enterprise agencies are deploying AI shortlisting now. A boutique firm that presents a shortlist a day later doesn't lose on quality — it loses on timing. menu9 closes that gap without the enterprise price tag or the six-month implementation.
This is not about replacing your consultants — it is about removing every step that doesn't earn a fee. The manual digging, the missed candidates, the time spent on admin instead of relationships.
Every CV your team adds is indexed automatically the moment it lands in your folder. A database that grows from 500 to 2,000 CVs doesn't just get bigger — it gets disproportionately more useful. Six months from now, roles you're sourcing fresh today will have strong candidates already waiting.
And when a client asks "how are you finding candidates so quickly?" — you have an honest, impressive answer.
No migration, no new database, no data transfer. We link Claude directly to wherever your CVs already live — Google Drive, Dropbox, a shared server, or any other storage your team uses. If you don't have a shared folder yet, we set one up for you in under an hour. Your original files are never touched or moved.
Works with Google Drive · Dropbox · local servers · moreWe run a one-time pass on your existing database so every CV is summarised and indexed by meaning. From that point on, every new CV your team adds is processed automatically within seconds. No manual steps, no admin overhead. Your candidate pool grows smarter with every file added.
One-time setup · fully automated from day oneWhen a new role comes in, your consultant opens Claude and uploads or pastes the job description. Claude reads it, asks four quick scoping questions to sharpen the brief — seniority, must-haves, sector preferences, any hard constraints — and then searches your entire CV database. The result: a ranked shortlist with a clear reason for every candidate. Ready to present. No manual digging.
Claude by Anthropic · plain English · no new interfaceYour consultants use Claude. We handle everything behind the scenes — keeping the setup optimised as your team grows, your sectors evolve, and your database expands. No IT team needed, no vendor support tickets, no annual contract renewals. If something needs adjusting, we handle it. That's what the retainer is for.
Monthly retainer · cancel anytime · no lock-inA 3-person boutique HR recruitment firm came to us with an urgent VP Finance mandate — SGD $144,000 base, placement fee on the line, hiring manager chasing weekly. They had 1,247 CVs in a shared Google Drive folder built up over four years of placements.
Their director spent 2.5 hours searching manually. Four candidates shortlisted. One was a stretch. Two weren't available. They were preparing to post on JobStreet.
We ran the same database through Claude. 68 seconds. Nine candidates — including four who had written "financial controller," "group finance manager," or "head of FP&A" instead of VP Finance. Invisible to Ctrl+F. One of the nine had sent in a CV seven months earlier for a different role and been saved into the wrong folder.
"He'd been in our own Drive for seven months. We placed him within 11 days. The client asked how we found someone that fast — we told them it was our process."
— Director, 3-person boutique HR recruitment firm, SingaporePlaced in 11 days. Fee: SGD $28,800. The winning candidate had been in their Drive for 7 months, filed under a different role. The client noticed the shortlist quality. They asked how it was put together.
We connect your storage, process your existing CV database, configure Claude with your firm's context — sectors, seniority levels, client preferences — and walk your team through it in a single session. You are live the same day you start.
One-time setup feeWe handle everything that keeps it running well — tuning as your needs evolve, quality checks on new CV processing, and workflow refinements as you grow. You focus on placements. We keep the engine sharp.
Monthly retainer · cancel anytimeThis runs entirely inside Claude and your existing storage. No procurement sign-off. No IT approval. No six-month implementation. No annual vendor contract. Just Claude, configured around your CV database, your sectors, and your shortlisting standards.
Built on Anthropic ClaudeWe run three live searches on your actual CV database at no cost. You see real candidates matched to real roles your team is working right now. If it does not show you something valuable immediately, there is nothing to discuss.
No obligation · no pitch deckConnect your storage, index your existing CV database, configure Claude with your firm's context — sectors, seniority levels, client preferences — and walk your team through it in a single session.
Ongoing maintenance, quality checks as your database grows, tuning as your sectors evolve, and workflow refinements as your team scales. You place. We keep it sharp.
Retainer scales with database size and team headcount — most 2–4 person firms are at the base rate. Less than the margin on one placement per month.
We don't build proprietary software. We configure Claude — built by Anthropic, one of the most trusted AI companies in the world — around your specific workflow, candidate database, and sector focus.
No vendor risk. No startup dependency. No lock-in. If you ever want to stop, your data and your storage stay exactly as they were. Nothing is taken hostage.
Three things, clearly separated: the AI is Claude's, the recruitment expertise is yours, the configuration and maintenance is ours.
No pitch deck. No commitment. We run three live searches on your actual CVs and show you what's been sitting there unnoticed.
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