For UK tech recruitment agencies

Stop drowning
in CVs.

Done-for-you AI screening for UK tech recruitment agencies. Get your 24 hours back.

No card. No commitment. 24 hours or it's free.
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Pipeline Snapshot
56 candidates screened across 11 active roles
56
Total
39
Strong
5
Shortlist
9
Screening
3
Reject
Recent candidates · 3 of 56
8.5
Alex Reid
Senior DevOps Engineer · 4 May
Strong
7.0
Chloe Davidson
Site Reliability Engineer · 19 Apr
Shortlist
0.0
Jane Jordan
Senior DevOps Engineer · 17 May
Reject
ICO-registered Companies House 17202099 GDPR & Data Act 2025 UK Limited Company
The problem

Your consultants shouldn't be
CV-readers.

Revolut got 1.6 million applications for 5,000 roles last year. The volume isn't an outlier any more. It's the new floor.

The first scan of a CV takes about 7.4 seconds. A quick eye-track over the headline, dates, and the first bullet. Nothing close to what a senior DevOps contractor needs.

Doing it properly takes 12 to 18 hours per role. Two working days, per brief. Multiply by every live spec on the desk and the maths gets brutal fast. The candidates you actually wanted are off the market in 48 hours. By the time your shortlist lands, the strongest profiles are in process elsewhere.

And then the punchline. 80% of CVs never make the shortlist. Your consultants still had to read every one to find out.

A dedicated resourcer fixes the bottleneck, at £28,000 a year before NI. For most agencies your size, that maths rarely works. So screening gets squeezed onto consultants who should be selling, or quietly skipped, and the top candidates get lost in the pile.

Astra reads every CV. The whole pile. You get a ranked shortlist back, in under 24 hours.

Sources: Revolut hiring data 2025. Ladders Eye-Tracking Study. UK Recruiter 2026 Benchmark. Industry-standard 75 CV / role ratio.

The method

Three steps.
Zero setup.

No software to install. No login to learn. No procurement conversation. You forward an email, we do the rest.

01
30 seconds

Forward the whole pile

Email the job spec and however many CV attachments you've got to screening@astratalentai.com. Subject line is the role. That's it.

02
Same day

We read every CV

Each candidate is scored against your spec by frontier AI, with a human review layer. Red flags, gaps, inflated claims, GitHub portfolio. All surfaced. Human oversight before any automated rejection, ICO Recruitment Rewired-compliant by design.

03
By tomorrow

Shortlist in your portal

A ranked, filterable shortlist with scores, recommendations, red flags and tailored interview questions. Inside one working day.

ICO Recruitment Rewired-compliant by design. Human oversight before any automated rejection. GDPR & Data Act 2025 by default. An audit trail, not a black box.

The deliverable

This is what lands
in your inbox.

Every shortlist is a real document. Not a black-box score. Not a one-line recommendation. A research note your consultants can act on in seconds.

Overall score out of 10, with a clear recommendation
Red flags, date overlaps, inflated titles, AI-written passages
Three interview questions tailored to the gaps we found
GitHub data for developers, repos, languages, recency

Candidate Report

Alex Reid
Senior DevOps Engineer · 4 May 2026
8.5/10 How it scored Skills match9.0 Years vs brief8.0 Contract fit9.0 GitHub signal7.5
Strong shortlist
Summary
8 years platform engineering at fintech and SaaS scale-ups. Led 2 Kubernetes migrations and an AWS → multi-cloud move. Clear contract-comfortable profile.
Strengths
Kubernetes · 5y Terraform AWS Solutions Architect CI/CD lead
Flags
2-month gap (mid-2024)i No Azure exposurei
Interview Q
"Walk us through the multi-cloud migration, what failure modes did you design for, and where did you have to compromise?"
GitHub
github.com/areid · 31 repos · Go 42% · Python 28% · HCL 18%
What you get

A complete shortlist.
Not just a score.

Six analytic layers per candidate. All in your portal. All inside 24 hours.

Score out of 10

A quantitative match against your job spec, skills, years, contract type, must-haves, nice-to-haves. No vibes-only ranking.

8.5
Strong shortlist

Red flag detection

Date overlaps, inflated job titles, unverifiable employers, AI-written passages.

Date overlap Inflated title AI-written

Tailored interview questions

Three role-specific questions per candidate, competency, gap probe, fraud probe.

GitHub pull

Repos, languages, recency, for developer roles.

Clear verdict

Strong / Shortlist / Screen / Reject. Colour-coded.

GDPR-by-design

180-day deletion. Audit log. Data Act 2025 ready.

How we stack up

The maths
most agencies never run.

Screening 100 CVs for one role. Four real options. What each one actually costs you in time, money, and risk.

Manual
Resourcer (£28k/yr)
Generic AI tool
Time per role
12–18 hrs
6–8 hrs (theirs)
Minutes, unreliable
Setup time
None
3 mo to hire
Days to learn
Human review
Yours
Theirs
Black box
Red flag detection
Manual catch
Manual catch
Limited
GDPR & Data Act 2025
Your job
Your job
Often unclear
Cost per role
15+ hrs of selling time
~£540 loaded
Software fee + hours
Loaded resourcer cost = £28,000 ÷ 52 weeks ÷ 38 hrs × 8 hrs (per role), plus NI and overhead
Maths makes sense? Send us your next role free
Built for

Small UK tech
recruitment agencies.

Optimised, narrowly and deliberately, for the agencies that feel this pain hardest.

  • UK-based tech or IT recruitment. SaaS, infra, data, AI, cyber, fintech.
  • Four to twelve consultants. No dedicated resourcer. Founders still selling.
  • Contract-heavy desks. 60%+ contract roles. Speed matters more than depth.
  • Five or more live roles. CV volume is breaking your weeks.
  • Losing top candidates to slow turnaround. The ones you wanted went elsewhere.
Bawan Rashid, founder of Astra Talent
BR
"I built this because I watched recruiters lose the candidates they actually wanted, not because the candidates went cold, but because there was nobody to read the CVs fast enough. This is the resourcer you can't afford to hire, on-demand."
Bawan Rashid · Founder · Astra Talent · Porchester UK
Connect on LinkedIn
The maths

About 3% on top of what you're already burning.

Most agencies your size are running around £37,000 a year in tools. ATS, job boards, LinkedIn Recruiter, CV formatters. Astra sits on top of that at about 3%. And it's the only line item that actually shortens your consultants' week.

Pricing

Start with your
Free First Role.

One live role, end to end, on us. Then pick what fits.

Tier 0 · The one we actually want you on first

Free First Role.

Send us one live role with however many CVs you've got. Full ranked shortlist back in 24 hours. Scores, red flags, interview questions, the lot. No card. No commitment. Keep it or walk away.

  • Send the whole pile, not the first fifty
  • Ranked shortlist in 24 hours
  • 180-day GDPR deletion
  • 24 hours or it's free
Try a Free First Role
Or, when you're ready, pay for it
Volume entry
Per CV
£24 / CV
25-pack · from £35 single
  • Score, flags & recommendation
  • Tailored interview questions
  • GitHub pull for dev roles
  • Minimum 5 CVs
Start with a 5-pack →
Micro retainer
Agency · 4
£899 / month
Up to 4 active roles
  • Priority 24-hour SLA
  • WhatsApp support line
  • Multi-user portal access
  • 4 to 6 consultants
Pilot first, retainer later →
Scale retainer
Agency · 10
£1,299 / month
Up to 10 active roles
  • Priority 24-hour SLA
  • Direct WhatsApp to founder
  • Multi-user portal & analytics
  • 7 to 12 consultants
Talk to the founder →
Pilot fees credit 100% toward first retainer month. Overage on retainers at £175 / role.
Free First Role · Tier 0

Try your Free First Role.
On us.

Forward us one live role with the whole pile, however many CVs you've got. By tomorrow morning, you get back 3 to 5 ranked candidates with scores, red flags, and tailored interview questions. Ready to call.

All of them, not the first fifty
Delivered in 24 working hours
180-day GDPR deletion
Keep it or walk away
Try a Free First Role
24h
Miss the SLA, role is free. No questions asked.
UK
UK-registered, ICO-compliant. Companies House 17202099.
Founder-led. You get Bawan on WhatsApp, not a support queue.
FAQ

Straight answers.
No fluff.

Still stuck? Email bawan@astratalentai.com and you'll hear from Bawan directly.

Your first live role, screened end to end, on us. Send one job spec and the CVs. Full ranked shortlist back in 24 hours, scores, red flags, interview questions. No card, no commitment. Keep it or walk away.
Human review before delivery, a bias audit trail in every output, and no candidate is ever rejected on an automated decision alone. Scoring runs on the criteria you set, not photos, names, or anything it shouldn't be looking at.
You define the spec through a structured brief: must-haves, nice-to-haves, contract type, the lot. It scores against your fields, not a free-text guess at what you meant.
No candidate is auto-rejected by a machine. You stay the human in the loop. Astra ranks and reasons, you make the call and have the conversation.
Fair question. Astra Talent is a UK Limited Company (Companies House 17202099), ICO-registered and ICO Recruitment Rewired-compliant by design, with GDPR and Data Act 2025 baked in. The pipeline is built, live, and stress-tested on real CV volume. We're deliberately small on the client list while we keep service quality high. The Free First Role is how you de-risk it: one role, no card, walk away if it's not for you.
Those are sourcing tools. We're a screening service. You keep your ATS, we work alongside it. Forward your CVs, get a ranked shortlist back.
No. Frontier AI does the heavy reading, but the scoring rubric, the red-flag taxonomy, the interview-question generator, the human-review layer, the audit trail, and the ICO-compliant guardrails are ours. You're not getting a chatbot, you're getting a screening service.
Compliant by design. Every submission is logged. Candidate data is auto-deleted after 180 days. We're registered with the ICO, ICO Recruitment Rewired-aligned, and operate under a written DPA.
Every shortlist gets a human review pass before delivery. We're a hybrid service, not a black box. If a result feels off, we'll re-run it free.
We deliver every shortlist within 24 working hours. If we miss that for any reason within our control, the role's free, no questions. The only exception is genuine force majeure: regulator intervention, major internet outages, that kind of thing. Anything within our control, you don't pay.
No. The intake is an email address. The deliverable is a portal link. Nothing to plug in, nothing to configure, nothing to learn.
Stored encrypted for 180 days then automatically purged. You can request earlier deletion at any time. Every action is logged for audit.
Email us anyway. The pipeline is tuned for UK tech right now, but the underlying model handles most roles. If we can serve you well, we'll say so. If not, we'll say that too.

Stop drowning.
Try a Free First Role.

Send us one live role. Ranked shortlist back by tomorrow morning.
No card. No commitment. 24 hours or it's free.

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