For UK tech recruitment agencies

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in CVs.

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Pipeline Snapshot
56 candidates screened across 11 active roles
56
Total
39
Strong
5
Shortlist
9
Screening
3
Doesn't meet criteria
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
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 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

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 inbox.

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

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

What you actually
get back.

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

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

Interview questions for every candidate

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

GitHub pull

Repos, languages, recency, for developer roles.

Clear verdict

Strong / Shortlist / Screen / Doesn't meet criteria. Colour-coded.

GDPR-by-design

Built around UK data law, including the Data Act 2025.

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
AstraTalentAI
Time per role
12–18 hrs
6–8 hrs (theirs)
Minutes, unreliable
<24 hrs delivered
Setup time
None
3 mo to hire
Days to learn
One email
Human review
Yours
Theirs
Black box
Built in
Red flag detection
Manual catch
Manual catch
Limited
Automatic
GDPR & Data Act 2025
Your job
Your job
Often unclear
By design
Cost per role
15+ hrs of selling time
~£540 loaded
Software fee + hours
£249 · or first role free
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.
  • 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 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 · 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 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
  • ✓ 24 hours or it's free
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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 working hours
Keep it or walk away
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Miss the 24 hours and the role's free.
UK
UK-registered company. Companies House 17202099.
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Founder-led. You get Bawan on WhatsApp, not a support queue.
FAQ

The questions agencies
actually 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, 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 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, we send back a shortlist.
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.

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