Before you source another candidate, see who you've already got. Give ApplyForge a live vacancy and your existing candidate pool. We'll identify the candidates worth revisiting, explain why they match, highlight what's missing, and help you turn them into a client-ready shortlist.
No ATS migration · No credit card · 14-day agency pilot
Built for UK recruitment agencies that already have candidates — but don't have time to search every CV every time a new brief lands.
You've already spent time finding, speaking to and qualifying candidates.
Then another client brief arrives.
Meanwhile, the right candidate may already be sitting inside your database.
ApplyForge helps you search the talent you've already earned.
Drop in the CVs your agency already owns. ApplyForge builds a private, searchable talent pool from candidate skills, experience and role history.
Drop in the client's job description or brief. ApplyForge extracts the important requirements so your recruiter doesn't have to manually rebuild the role.
Your candidate pool is ranked against the role — with reasons, gaps, relevant experience, skill alignment, potential concerns, and areas to validate during screening.
The recruiter stays in control. Ask questions about a candidate, inspect their CV evidence, generate targeted screening questions and decide who deserves to move forward.
Move selected candidates into the role pipeline and create a polished shortlist your client can review — with per-candidate 👍 / 😐 / 👎 and comments back to the recruiter.
Role
London · £80,000–£95,000
47
candidates already in your database
ApplyForge reviews your existing pool and surfaces:
8 candidates worth revisiting
Before your recruiter opens LinkedIn.
James R.
Potential fit
92%
Gap: Terraform isn't demonstrated clearly in the CV.
Worth validating: Infrastructure ownership.
Suggested question
“Tell me about a production system where you owned the infrastructure or deployment process.”
Sarah M.
Potential fit
87%
Gap: Current compensation may exceed client budget.
ApplyForge is designed to help recruitment agencies get more value from the candidates and vacancies they already have. You don't need to move your entire operation on day one.
Start with:
live vacancy
existing candidates
and see what ApplyForge finds.
ApplyForge doesn't tell you who to hire. It helps your recruiters identify candidates worth reviewing. Every recommendation can show the reasoning behind it — including relevant skills, experience, gaps and evidence. Recruiter judgement stays in the loop.
Candidate discovery, CV understanding, screening questions and role analysis.
Recommendations trace back to candidate information rather than unexplained AI output.
Your team decides who progresses, who gets submitted and what reaches the client.
Open a candidate and ask questions in natural language. ApplyForge answers using the candidate's available profile, CV, experience and recruitment notes — while keeping the underlying evidence accessible.
Q:Has this candidate managed engineers before?
Q:Where have they used Kubernetes?
Q:Do they have financial-services experience?
Q:What should I challenge during screening?
Q:Are there any unexplained employment gaps?
Candidate looks good on paper? ApplyForge turns the gaps between the candidate and vacancy into targeted screening questions.
Instead of
“Tell me about yourself.”
Your recruiter can ask
“Your CV shows strong AWS experience, but Terraform isn't mentioned. How have you managed infrastructure-as-code in production?”
Turn your shortlist into a clean client-facing page. Your client can review shortlisted candidates, see relevant skills, respond to individual candidates, leave comments, and signal interest instantly. Your recruiter sees that feedback back inside the role.
James R.
Python · FastAPI · AWS
Less “Did you get my CVs?” · More “Which candidate should we move forward with?”
Once a candidate looks promising, move them into the role pipeline. Candidate notes and stage changes stay attached to the recruitment process, giving your team a clearer history of what happened and what needs to happen next.
A difficult vacancy isn't always a sourcing problem. Sometimes the salary is wrong. Sometimes the skill combination is unrealistic. Sometimes candidate supply is genuinely limited.
How the client's budget compares with available market data.
Whether the required skills exist inside your own talent pool.
Where demand is outpacing your existing candidate supply.
Where candidates are dropping out of your recruitment process.
So your recruiter can go back to the client with evidence — not just instinct.
During your pilot, track things that matter:
126
Candidates analysed
24
Rediscovered
13
Submitted
7
Client approvals
4
Interviews
1
Placements
ApplyForge should earn its place in your workflow. If it doesn't help your recruiters move real vacancies forward, you shouldn't pay for it.
Don't trial software.
The ApplyForge 14-Day Placement Sprint
Bring:
We'll help you set up your agency workspace and use ApplyForge against real recruitment work.
Candidate rediscovery
Role matching
Candidate intelligence
Screening questions
Recruitment pipeline
Client shortlisting
Client feedback
Market intelligence
No credit card · No ATS migration · No long-term commitment
Try ApplyForge on a Live VacancyApplyForge works best for specialist recruitment agencies with reusable candidate networks.
Your candidate network gets more valuable every time a new role arrives.
Recruitment data should not become a shared AI training ground. ApplyForge separates agency data so recruiters only work inside their own agency workspace.
Candidate information uploaded by one agency is not exposed to another agency. Your recruitment talent pool also remains separated from ApplyForge's job-seeker platform.
Aligned with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. We publish our lawful bases, retention periods and subject-rights process in the Privacy Policy.
Read about data & securityTenant isolation
Every record is agency-scoped through the API and DB layer.
UK GDPR aligned
Documented lawful bases, retention, and subject-rights process.
Encrypted in transit
TLS on every request; access tokens rotated on refresh.
No cross-agency training
Your CVs and notes are not used to train shared models.
Before you open LinkedIn for the next vacancy…
Give ApplyForge one real role and a handful of candidates. See whether your next shortlist is already sitting inside your database.
Start the 14-Day Placement SprintNo card required · No ATS migration · Set up around a real vacancy