For UK tech recruitment agencies

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in CVs.

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

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Pipeline Snapshot
24 candidates screened across 4 active roles
24
Total
2
Strong
3
Shortlist
6
Screening
13
Doesn't meet criteria
Recent candidates · 3 of 24
8.5
Tomasz Wierzbicki
Senior Go Engineer · 24 Sep
Strong
7.5
Hannah Okafor
Senior Go Engineer · 24 Sep
Shortlist
3.0
Kieran Walsh
Security Engineer · 24 Sep
Doesn't meet criteria
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. That's normal now.

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 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

Every CV scored against your brief

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.

03
By tomorrow

Shortlist in your portal

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

Built around the ICO's automated-decision-making safeguards. Human oversight before any automated rejection.

The deliverable

This is what lands
in your portal.

Every shortlist is a proper document your consultants can act on in seconds: a score, the reasoning behind it, red flags and interview questions for every candidate.

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

What you
get back.

Everything below comes with every candidate, delivered to your portal.

Candidate Report
Alex Reid
Senior DevOps Engineer · 4 May 2026
Strong shortlist
8.5/10
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) No Azure exposure
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%
How we stack up

The maths
most agencies never run.

Screening 100 CVs for one role. Two ways to do it. What each one costs you in time, money, and risk.

Doing it manually
Astra Talent
Time per role
12-18 hrs of your team's time
Minutes to send, shortlist back in 24 hrs
Setup time
None
One email
Human review
Yours
Built in
Red flag detection
Manual catch
Automatic
GDPR & Data Act 2025
Your job
By design
Cost per role
15+ hrs of selling time
£249 · or first role free
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.
  • Five to twelve consultants. No dedicated resourcer. Founders still selling.
  • 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 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 · Portchester UK
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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 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
  • ✓ 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
  • Interview questions per candidate
  • GitHub pull for dev roles
  • Minimum 5 CVs
Start with a 5-pack
Most agencies start here
Per role

One Role

£249 / role · one-off
Every CV in the pile
  • Full ranked shortlist
  • 24-hour SLA
  • Portal access
  • 100% credited to first retainer month
Run my first role free
Micro retainer

Agency · 4

£899 / month
Up to 4 active roles
  • 24-hour SLA
  • WhatsApp support line
  • Extra roles £175 each
Pilot first, retainer later
Pilot fees credit 100% toward first retainer month.
Free First Role · Tier 0

Try your Free First Role.
On us.

Forward us one live role and every CV you've had for it. Within 24 hours you'll get back every CV scored and ranked, strongest first, each with the reasoning behind its score, any red flags, and interview questions aimed at their gaps, so you can start calling straight away.

Every CV you send
Delivered in 24 hours
Keep it or walk away
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24h
Miss the 24 hours and the role's free.
UK
UK-registered company. Companies House 17202099.
★
Founder-led. You get Bawan on WhatsApp, not a support queue.
FAQ

The questions
agencies ask.

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

We screen your first live role for free. Send us the job spec and the CVs you've had for it, and the ranked shortlist comes back within 24 hours. We don't ask for card details, and you're under no obligation to carry on.
Each CV is scored against the criteria in your brief, and every score comes with its reasoning, so you can check why a candidate ranked where they did. The final call on every candidate stays with you.
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, with a human pass before every shortlist is delivered, and GDPR and Data Act 2025 baked in. The pipeline is built and live. 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 reading, but the scoring framework, the red flags, the interview questions, the GitHub pull and the human pass are ours, built for tech CVs. You send CVs, the shortlist lands in your portal.
Every shortlist gets a human pass before delivery, and no candidate is rejected on an automated decision alone. We're registered with the ICO, built around the ICO's automated-decision-making safeguards, and we sign a Data Processing Agreement with every paying client.
It will sometimes, same as a human would. The difference is you can see why: every score shows its reasoning, so if a low scorer looks promising, you override it. And if a result feels off, we'll re-run it free.
We deliver every shortlist within 24 hours, not counting weekends and bank holidays. If we miss that for any reason within our control, the role's free. The only exception is genuine force majeure, like regulator intervention or a major internet outage.
No. The intake is an email address. The deliverable is a portal link. There's nothing to install or set up.
Encrypted in transit. If you want a candidate's data deleted, email us and we'll delete it.
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 and you'll have the ranked shortlist within 24 hours.
It's free, and we don't ask for card details.

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