AI automation for executive search firms
You place people. The judgement on who fits, and the relationships behind it, is the whole job and not something to hand to software.
The scaffolding around it is another story: longlist research and market maps, chasing candidates, keeping clients updated, scheduling, keeping the CRM honest. At most boutiques that quietly eats a day or two per consultant per week. ellul.ai builds private AI systems that take that scaffolding on.
Assessment and advocacy stay yours. Research, chasing and reporting are what we automate.
The scaffolding around every search
- Longlist research and market mapping rebuilt from scratch each mandate
- Candidate outreach follow-ups that stall without constant chasing
- Weekly client progress updates compiled by hand
- Interview scheduling across three diaries and two time zones
- The CRM decaying the moment a search gets busy
- References and reports formatted late on Sunday evenings
What we automate
Research at machine speed
Market maps and longlists assembled and refreshed automatically from your criteria, giving consultants a running start on every mandate.
Follow-ups that never stall
Candidate and client chasing handled automatically in your firm's tone, with every response logged and the search always moving.
Reporting without the evenings
Client updates, status reports and CRM records generated automatically from the real activity of the search.
Each of these maps to the studio's core services: workflow automation, agents and operators, and front desk AI, scoped to your firm.
Engineered, not improvised
You own it
Real, versioned, monitored software on accounts you control, with full IP assignment. Not a no-code flow rented from a platform.
Guardrails by default
Sandboxing, approval gates and a full audit log ship as standard, built on patent-pending work in AI-agent security.
Measured against a number
Every engagement starts by agreeing the KPI it will move: hours saved, response time, error rate. The pilot proves it before you roll out.
The proof is AI systems running in production today. See the work.
Common questions
Search is confidential by definition. How is that handled?
Everything runs on infrastructure you own with audit logs standard. Candidate and client data never leaves your control and never trains anything.
Will candidates know they are talking to software?
The AI drafts and chases in your voice under rules you set, and a human is pulled in the moment judgement is needed. Nothing goes out you would not send.
What is the entry point?
A free 30-minute consultation with the engineer who would build it: which parts of your search process are worth automating, and which are not.
Start with a straight answer
A free 30-minute consultation with the engineer who would build it: what is worth automating for search partners, what is not, and where to start. Or scope it instantly with the AI on the homepage.