Hobart sits in a regional context that genuinely changes the build. Connectivity assumptions, the rhythm of the working week, the proximity of your team to your customers - none of those are details our default AI recruiting template would catch.
AI candidate screening - wired into a Hobart workflow, not bolted on the side.
Our goal is to give Hobart businesses a three-day weekend, so people can spend more time with their families and the people they love :)
What AI recruiting actually does
Job ads written for SEEK, Trade Me, and LinkedIn. CVs screened against role criteria with reasoning. Phone screens done by voice AI - so shortlists land on your desk ready to interview.
- 01 Drafts compliant NZ job ads with realistic salary bands
- 02 Screens CVs and ranks by fit with written rationale
- 03 Voice AI runs first-round phone screens 24/7
- 04 Bias checks built in - flagged in the audit log
Built on: Claude Vapi Workable SEEK API Vercel
Without Koala Dynamics
With Koala Dynamics
What you actually get
Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. This is what is in the box.
- A working pilot, in productionNot a prototype on someone's laptop. The first slice of AI recruiting runs against real work within weeks.
- Your data stays yoursIt runs on your accounts and your tools. If we part ways you keep the system and everything in it.
- The workflow mapped before codeWe write down what good looks like for Hobart businesses first, so nobody is guessing at handover.
- Support after it landsThe people who built it stay reachable when the business changes shape around it.
How AI recruiting compares
The two things most businesses do instead, and where each one runs out.
| Hiring for it | An off-the-shelf tool | Koala Dynamics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fit to how you work | Fits perfectly, costs a salary | You bend your process to suit the tool | Built around the workflow you already run |
| Time to something useful | Immediate, and permanent | Quick to switch on, slow to make fit | A working slice in weeks, then hardened |
| Who owns the data | You do | The vendor, on the vendor's terms | You do, in your own accounts |
| When it breaks | That person sorts it, if they are in | A support queue and a ticket number | The people who built it |
| What it costs | A salary, every year, forever | Per seat, forever, used or not | Scoped and quoted up front |
What we keep seeing in Hobart.
- Hobart runs on tourism, aquaculture and a small but sharp professional services scene - AI here has to work for teams that don't have a big back office to absorb a bad tool.
- Salmon and seafood exports, a tourism season built around MONA and the wider arts scene, and a compact CBD professional layer. Hobart businesses need AI that's genuinely easy to run without dedicated IT staff.
We work with teams across Hobart: Hobart CBD · Battery Point · Glenorchy · Kingston · Sandy Bay · Moonah.
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How we build AI recruiting for a Hobart team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Hobart business, so value lands before the build is finished. AI candidate screening.
Talk to usHow the work runs
- Find the one workflowWe look for the job costing Hobart businesses the most hours or the most leads, and deliberately ignore the rest for now.
- Ship a working sliceA narrow version goes into production in weeks, against real work, so the value shows up before the build is finished.
- Prove it, then widenWe measure it against what the work cost before. If it does not pay for itself, we say so rather than scaling it.
- Harden and hand overLogging, fallbacks and a real handover, so it keeps running when we are not in the room.
The outcome for Hobart teams
The shape of the result for Hobart teams: Time-to-shortlist drops from 3 weeks to 4 days. Built on Claude, hardened with the rest of the stack as it scales.
Not your typical AI agency.
Honest about what AI can and cannot do
Ships the one workflow that pays for itself
Hours given back, never the size of the invoice
*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.
FAQ
How quickly can we see something running?
Week three for a clickable internal demo against real data. Week six for a slice your team can actually use. We hold ourselves to those numbers because they're what stops a project drifting into "endless discovery".
What's the smallest engagement you'd take on?
A two-week paid discovery for Hobart businesses that aren't sure whether the build is worth doing at all. You get a one-page write-up of what we'd build, what we'd skip, and what it would cost. About 30% of those discoveries end with us recommending you don't proceed.
Do you have proof this works for Hobart businesses?
Direct case study: Time-to-shortlist drops from 3 weeks to 4 days. Happy to walk you through full numbers on a call.
What tools do you build AI recruiting on?
For AI recruiting we usually reach for Claude, Vapi, Workable, SEEK API, Vercel. We're tool-agnostic at heart - we pick what your Hobart team can actually run after we hand the build over, not what looks good on a vendor sticker.
One reply, one direction.
We don't run sequences or follow-up automation. One useful answer, one decision on your side.
Talk to us about this
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it - no obligation.