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One platform for every candidate, RFP and compliance pack.

Recruitment and staffing teams juggle two parallel workstreams: finding and presenting the right candidates fast, and completing the endless compliance and onboarding questionnaires enterprise clients demand. Respond brings both under one platform.

Inbound pipeline · cvs@brightline.cognaire.com Live
Inbound email
From: alex@brightline.co
Subject: Jordan Marsh — Acme Platform Eng
Role: Senior Platform Eng
Client: Acme · Remote EU
Clearance: BPSS · Avail: 2 wks
jordan-marsh-cv.pdf · 142 KB
Branded profile

Jordan Marsh

Senior Platform Engineer · 9y

K8sAWSGo
+ indexed into talent pool · 18s
90%

Reduction in CV formatting time. AI-powered ingestion replaces manual reformatting and offshore services.

80%

Reduction in time to identify best-fit candidates. Semantic Match Search ranks your entire talent pool against the job brief instantly.

6hrs

Typical time saved when shortlisting and creating a client-ready candidate submission package.

CV Ingestion & Formatting

Every CV, branded and client-ready in minutes.

Agencies spend hours — or pay offshore services — to manually reformat CVs before client submission. Respond's ingestion pipeline does it automatically.

  • Dedicated inbound email
    Forward a CV (PDF or Word) to your team's address. A formatted document returns within minutes.
  • Standardised titles & skills
    AI standardises job titles and skills using industry taxonomies — no more "Sr. Dev" vs "Senior Software Engineer" drift.
  • Your brand, applied automatically
    Professional Word document with standardised sections and your agency branding. Multi-column source CVs handled.
  • Context from the email body
    Client name, target role, availability, clearance, location — extracted from the email and applied to the profile.
CV Ingestion · 24 processed today
Marsh_Jordan_CV.pdf
12 sections · 47 skills · 4 roles extracted
Formatted
PShah-resume-2026.docx
Multi-column layout · normalized
Formatted
Mateo_A.pdf
Extracting skills & certifications…
Processing
a-linden-sre.pdf
Queued · 2nd
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Searchable Talent Pool

Your CV database, turned into a searchable asset.

Every CV processed creates a permanent talent profile enriched with AI-extracted metadata: skills, years of experience, seniority, certifications, security clearance, location, work rights, last role, last employer. No manual data entry — 50 profiles or 100,000, instantly filterable.

Jordan Marsh
Senior Platform Engineer · Berlin · BPSS
94%
K8sAWSTerraformGo
Priya Shah
Infra Engineer · Dublin · SC-eligible
88%
K8sAWSPython
Mateo Álvarez
DevOps Lead · Madrid
82%
K8sGCPTerraform
Anna Linden
SRE · Remote EU
77%
ObservabilityAWSGo
Match & Analysis

Semantic matching. Structured scoring. Side-by-side comparison.

Keyword search misses candidates whose experience is described differently. Match Search uses semantic AI to rank your entire pool against the job brief. Then Analysis scores each candidate across multiple dimensions — with a scatter plot that instantly reveals who is strong on what.

  • Four-dimensional scoring
    Technical Fit, Domain Expertise, Experience Level, Deployment Readiness. Optional Hiring Manager Alignment.
  • Similar Search
    Found a strong match? Find more like them. Discover candidates keyword search would never surface.
  • Strengths, weaknesses, flags
    Each candidate gets a written recommendation with red flags surfaced — not buried in the CV.
6 shortlisted candidates · Acme Platform Eng Plot: Technical × Domain
Technical Fit → Domain Expertise →
JM
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MA
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LV
Strong fit (> 85) Shortlisted Compare up to 6 side by side
How it works

Format. Match. Submit.

Three steps your team can adopt in a day — not a quarter. The platform learns from every submission.

1Format CV

Ingest CVs and build your talent pool

Forward CVs to your dedicated inbound email address, with optional context in the email body — client name, role, availability, clearance. The AI extracts and formats each CV into a branded profile with rich, searchable metadata. Your pool grows automatically with every submission.

2Match

Match and shortlist against job briefs

Create a project with the role requirements, generate an AI-powered match query and rank your talent pool by relevance. Build shortlist collections and use Similar Search to expand your options. The AI scores each candidate across Technical Fit, Domain Expertise, Experience Level and Deployment Readiness.

3Submit

Create client-ready submission packs

Build a submission pack for your final 2–6 candidates, then use AI to review the pack as a whole. Run a Gap Analysis to find candidates who resolve coverage gaps. When ready, download all formatted CVs as a ZIP — optionally anonymised for blind shortlisting — with a drafted client email.

And also

RFPs, compliance packs and onboarding — same platform.

Recruitment teams also face a constant stream of compliance questionnaires, onboarding packs, panel tenders and security assessments. Respond automates these using the same platform.

RFP & Tender Automation

Import questions from Excel, Word or pasted text. The AI drafts complete answers from your governed corpus of policies, SOPs, WHS procedures, screening processes and compliance documentation — cited and reviewable.

Onboarding & Compliance Packs

Client onboarding forms, panel tenders, security assessments — one platform, one corpus. Your team answers once; the content is reused across every client.

Multi-office team collaboration

Consultants and leadership work simultaneously across questionnaires and recruitment workspaces. Assignment, progress tracking and real-time collaboration tools keep everyone aligned.

My Questions workspace

SMEs contribute to multiple questionnaires without navigating between documents. Their queue in one place. Your response times in check.

Analytics & visibility for leaders

Monitor CV ingestion status, talent pool growth and shortlist quality. Identify corpus content gaps and continuously improve reusable content.

Blind shortlisting & PII masking

Optional PII masking on export. Submit anonymised CVs to clients running blind shortlist processes — without re-editing every document.

FAQ

Your questions, answered.

How do you protect sensitive candidate and workforce data?

All data stays in your secure instance with strict access controls, encryption, audit trails and tenant isolation. Respond never uses your content to train external models or shares data between customers. Regional deployments are available to keep data in-jurisdiction.

How does the AI-powered CV formatting work?

Forward a PDF or Word CV to your dedicated inbound email address. The AI reads the document, extracts the content, standardises job titles and skills using industry taxonomies, and renders a professionally formatted Word document with your company branding — within minutes. Any context you include in the email body (client name, target role, availability, clearance) is automatically applied to the profile.

Can Respond match candidates to job briefs across a large talent pool?

Yes. Match Search uses semantic AI to rank your entire talent pool — whether it contains 100 or 100,000+ profiles — against the specific requirements of a job brief. The AI understands meaning and context, so candidates whose experience is described differently from your search terms are still surfaced. You can also use Similar Search to find candidates who resemble a known strong match.

Does Respond for Recruiters also include RFP questionnaire automation?

Yes. While Respond for Recruiters helps recruitment teams find, assess and submit the right candidates faster, it also includes the full RFP and questionnaire automation capabilities. That means reduced RFP effort and higher win rates alongside the pure recruitment capabilities.

Ready to transform how your team sources, packages and submits talent?

Bring a redacted job brief and a handful of CVs. We'll walk you through formatting, matching and a submission pack in the same call.