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Kutbuddin Khan

Kutbuddin Khan

Interviewing 30 US & UK recruitment agency founders on manual ops and hiring workflow bottlenecks · Founder-led study · Apr–Jul 2026

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Co-Founder & AI Engineer @ Agentic Research & Kinetic Systems

For the next 90 days I'm running a founder-led study on how US and UK recruitment agencies handle the manual ops eating their week. The short version: most agencies are losing hours through gaps they've stopped noticing. The CRM that doesn't sync with the ATS. The client report pulled manually from three dashboards every Friday. The candidate who was "super promising" three weeks ago but no one remembered to follow up because the tracker is a shared Excel file. These don't show up as lost deals. They show up as "we just couldn't grow this quarter." The study: — 30 interviews with US and UK recruitment agency founders, managing directors, and ops leads — Boutique one-desk operations through to 50-headcount firms; contingent, retained, exec search, staffing — 20 minutes each, structured but conversational — April through July 2026 — No sales pitch, no product demo I'm asking about current intake and tracking channels, data reconciliation between tools, the manual work that was supposed to disappear when you bought the stack, and the one workflow owners would automate if they could wave a wand tomorrow. At the end I'll publish the findings openly, so agencies that couldn't join still get the takeaways. If you run a recruitment agency in the US or UK, send me a message. — — — Full disclosure: I'm a builder and co-founder of Agentic Research & Kinetic System, which ships AI automation for agencies. That's why this problem is on my desk. But the study is neutral — its job is to tell me what's actually happening inside recruitment agencies, not to sell anything. I'll say the same thing upfront when we speak.

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𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲. Not because the design is bad. Not because the charts are ugly. Because they 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮. Businesses do not really pay for dashboards. They pay for clarity. They pay for: • insights • recommendations • automated reporting • decisions made faster That is the shift AI is creating right now. A normal dashboard says: “𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝟱%.” An AI-powered operations dashboard says: “𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 25% 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘸-𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴. 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵.” That difference changes everything. It changes: → retention → pricing → recurring revenue → perceived value And the interesting part is this: You no longer need a massive engineering team to build systems like this. With AI workflows, background jobs, and modern cloud infrastructure, one builder can now create products that used to require an entire data team. That is a huge opportunity for: • agencies • consultants • freelancers • AI builders The future is not more dashboards. The future is automated decision-support systems. Curious: What niche would you build this for first? E-commerce? Marketing agencies? SaaS? Real estate? Something else?

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Starting something new this week. For the next 90 days, I’m speaking with 30 US & UK recruitment agency founders about something no one talks about: The work that didn’t disappear after buying an ATS, CRM, or “all-in-one” platform. Spoiler: it didn’t go away. It just got pushed into spreadsheets, Slack messages, and someone’s Friday evening. Here’s what I keep hearing: — Senior recruiters rebuilding client reports from 3+ dashboards — Ops teams fixing candidate data instead of engaging candidates — Pipelines managed in spreadsheets because the CRM doesn’t actually fit the workflow Somewhere between “automation” and reality… things broke. (And honestly, I’m starting to see the same pattern in other service businesses too.) If you run a recruitment agency in the US or UK, I’d love to understand how this shows up in your business. No pitch. No demo. Just a 20-minute conversation. I’ll share everything I learn publicly at the end. Comment or DM if you're open. #Recruitment #StaffingAgency #RecruitmentOps #HiringOperations #AIAutomation

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