California · Applied AI
AI recruiting in Oakland
AI recruiting that lives in your stack, not on a vendor's roadmap. Shipped from California.
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.
The reason we take on work in Oakland is that the businesses here tend to be sharper about what they want than the brief lets on. AI recruiting for a Oakland team almost always ends up looking different to AI recruiting for a downtown Auckland one.
- 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
Why Oakland businesses choose this
Oakland runs on logistics, healthcare and a wave of businesses priced out of San Francisco – AI here means Bay Area capability without Bay Area rent.
The pattern across Oakland engagements we've shipped.
One of the busiest container ports on the West Coast, a major hospital network, and a growing tech and creative scene that moved across the bay for the rent. Oakland businesses want the same AI rigor as San Francisco without the San Francisco price tag.
We work with teams across Oakland: Downtown Oakland · Jack London Square · Temescal · Fruitvale · Rockridge · West Oakland.
How we build AI recruiting for a Oakland team
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your Oakland business, so value lands before the build is finished. Every engagement starts with a short call and a paid discovery if the brief needs one.
AI candidate screening.
The outcome for Oakland teams
Time-to-shortlist drops from 3 weeks to 4 days. For Oakland teams, that almost always shows up as fewer interruptions and a calmer week, not a dashboard chart.
Time-to-shortlist drops from 3 weeks to 4 days.
AI recruiting in Oakland – common questions
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 Oakland 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.
Anyone else in this space using AI recruiting?
Plenty. Time-to-shortlist drops from 3 weeks to 4 days. The interesting question is rarely "does it work" – it's "is your team ready to use the output." That's what we'd scope on the 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 Oakland team can actually run after we hand the build over, not what looks good on a vendor sticker.
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We don't run sequences or follow-up automation. One useful answer, one decision on your side.
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