San Jose 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 recruiting that lives in your stack, not on a vendor's roadmap. Shipped from California.
Our goal is to give San Jose 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 Kiwi Dynamics
With Kiwi 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 San Jose 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 | Kiwi 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 |
The pattern across San Jose engagements we've shipped.
- San Jose sits in the middle of Silicon Valley, where the AI bar is set by the companies inventing it - AI here has to be genuinely production-grade, not a wrapper on a public API.
- The commercial and cultural centre of Silicon Valley, surrounded by the companies that build the models everyone else uses. San Jose businesses expect AI built with real engineering discipline, because they can tell when it isn't.
We work with teams across San Jose: Downtown San Jose · Santana Row · Willow Glen · North San Jose · Almaden Valley · Berryessa.
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How we build AI recruiting for a San Jose team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your San Jose 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 San Jose 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 San Jose teams
What changes for San Jose teams after this lands: the work that used to need a person stays done, the work that needs a person gets done with their attention undivided. Time-to-shortlist drops from 3 weeks to 4 days.
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 fast could we have AI recruiting in production?
Eight to ten weeks for most San Jose businesses. Faster if your data is in good shape and slower if we're untangling a legacy integration first. We'll give you a realistic number on the scoping call rather than the optimistic one.
What does AI recruiting cost for a San Jose?
Pilots start from a fixed scope priced to land a measurable result inside 6 weeks. Pricing depends on data volume, integration complexity, and whether you need us on managed services afterwards. We'll quote precisely after a 30-minute scoping call.
Do you have proof this works for San Jose 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 if our San Jose doesn't have any data ready?
Most don't. Getting the data into shape - ingestion, cleaning, the lightweight contracts you need before any model is useful - is part of the engagement. For AI recruiting specifically, we typically run that work on Claude, Vapi, Workable, SEEK API, Vercel and assume messy starting conditions from day one.
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Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it - no obligation.