Custom Recruitment & Staffing Platform Development — owned, integrated, not another $99/mo ATS subscription.

Fixed-price, phased. A scoping Discovery is $5-8k for 2-3 weeks and produces the data model, funnel map, integration plan, and a fixed-price Build statement of work. The Build itself is $15-40k to a live production platform — consultant sourcing funnel, custom ATS, application flow, talent CRM, and SEO/analytics instrumentation. Optional Run (hosting oversight, prompt refresh, support) is month-to-month. That sits right in the band the market already prices recruitment and staffing software builds at ($10k-$50k across agencies and cost guides), and because we re-point a proven recruitment-platform build rather than starting from a blank page, you're paying for your funnel — not for re-deriving the foundation.

Those are rented SaaS ATS: you pay per seat every month, your candidate data lives in their tenant, every firm runs the same screens, and your desk adapts to their fixed pipeline. We build you an owned platform — your source code, your database, your schema, your prompts — modeled around how your sourcing and screening actually run, living on your own domain inside your brand. No per-seat fee as your desk grows, no roadmap request to add custom screening logic, and a sourcing surface a senior candidate actually applies through because it's yours, not a generic jobs.yourfirm.recruiterflow.com subdomain. The honest trade-off: incumbents are faster to switch on; a custom build is the right call when you've outgrown off-the-shelf, want to differentiate on the candidate experience, and want to own the asset and the data.

Roughly 6 weeks from the day Build starts, after a 2-3 week Discovery. There's a deliberate milestone in the middle: the sourcing funnel and application flow go live on real roles before the full talent-CRM scope is finished, so you're sourcing while the rest is built. For reference, we took an enterprise IT consulting firm's integrated recruitment platform — senior consultant sourcing funnel, application flow, and talent CRM — from concept to live launch in about 6 weeks alongside a full CIO-grade brand refresh.

You own all of it — the source code, the database schema, the prompt set, the evaluation harness, and the runbooks — handed over at the end of Build with no license fee and no lock-in. Your candidate and talent-CRM data lives in your tenant with full history, exportable at any time. Run is month-to-month if you want us to keep operating and refreshing it; stop whenever, take it fully in-house or move it to your own team, and owe nothing further. The exit path is the default state, not a negotiation.

Yes — integration is scoped in Discovery against your actual stack, so the Build SoW is fixed-price with no surprise connectors. The platform can plug into an existing ATS or CRM (syncing candidates and stages rather than replacing them), post to or pull from job boards, and connect to your calendar for interview scheduling — or it can stand alone as your system of record if you're consolidating off scattered tools. Because you own the codebase, you're never blocked behind a vendor's integration marketplace or a higher pricing tier to connect a tool you already use.

You do. Candidate records, CVs, and talent-CRM data live in your database, in your tenant, exportable any time. PII handling is scoped in Discovery: role-based access enforced server-side so recruiters only see what their role permits, audit logging on candidate records, and retention and consent rules configured to your jurisdiction and policy. We design the control stack to be reviewable by your counsel before launch; we don't provide legal advice, and your team signs off on the data-handling configuration for your market.

All three, plus talent marketplaces. The common thread is firms that source their own senior talent and have outgrown a rented ATS or a bolted-on careers page: staffing agencies, executive and consultant search firms, talent marketplaces, and consulting houses sourcing their own senior bench. The platform we point to was built for exactly that last case — an enterprise IT consulting boutique with 90+ consultants across IT & SAP, cloud & infrastructure, and cybersecurity, sourcing senior consultants through an integrated funnel rather than manual recruiter outreach.

That's the reason to build rather than rent. Off-the-shelf ATS products force your desk onto fixed stages and fields; a custom build models your actual sourcing funnel, screening steps, talent-CRM stages, and the way your firm qualifies senior candidates. In Discovery we map each of those as they run today, build the normalized data model around them, and only then write the Build SoW. The platform fits your operation — not the other way around.

In-house, AI-augmented. The senior operators who scope your Discovery — model the data, plan the integrations, and design the funnel — are the ones who build and ship it, not an offshore body shop the strategy gets thrown over the wall to. The integrated recruitment platform we point to was delivered this way: one team, one shared data model, marketing-team-owned CMS at the end so non-engineers could keep shipping role and content pages.