The People Who Can Actually Do the Work with AI.
Proven Before You Meet Them.
We recruit for the knowledge roles that now run on AI — marketing, HR, operations, finance. Every candidate we send you has already worked through a real task from your job using AI, and the system read it before you ever saw their name.
You pay nothing until you hire.
25+ Years Placing Talent
Every Candidate Proven on Real AI Work
Nationwide Search
Replacement Guarantee
The ProbleM
Everyone Says They're Good With AI.
Almost Nobody Can Show It.
Two years ago, a resume told you something. Today it was probably written with AI, the cover letter was written with AI, and so was the take-home assignment. The signals that used to separate a strong candidate from an average one became things anyone can produce on demand.
Meanwhile, the thing that matters most in a knowledge role has quietly changed. It is no longer whether someone has the skill. It is whether they can use AI to do that skill faster, deeper, and better than the person sitting next to them. That is the difference between a hire who compounds and a hire who costs.
Nothing in a normal hiring process measures it. An interview rewards the people who are good at interviewing. A resume rewards the people who are good at resumes. Neither one shows you who can put AI to work on the actual job.
What We Do
We Recruit for Knowledge Roles.
Every Candidate Is Screened for AI Proficiency.
We run the search, we find the people, and before any of them reach your calendar, each one completes an assessment built around the real work of your job. Not a puzzle, not a personality quiz — a task they would genuinely face in their first month, done with AI. The system then reads each candidate’s work the same way and gives us a short, plain evaluation of how they used AI to do it.
The result is a short list of people who have already proven they can do the work. You spend your time interviewing, not screening.
The Roles We Recruit for.
Any role where the work is thinking, writing, and analysis — the parts of a business AI actually touches. If the job produces judgment rather than transactions, AI proficiency shows up in the output within a week. These are also roles that travel: the skill is the skill, and the person can do it from anywhere.
We Recruit Nationwide,
and Most of These Roles Work Remote.
Marketing
Finance & Accounting
Customer Success
Operations & Project Management
HR & People
Strategy & Analysis
You Pay Nothing Until You Hire.
Then a percentage of their first-year base salary.
Replacement guarantee.
How it Works
Four Steps. The Same Every Time.
We Recruit
for Your Role.
Step 1
Marketing, HR, operations, finance, and the other roles that now run on AI. We build the search around your job and we find the candidates.
Step 2
Every Candidate
Takes the Assessment.
We write a real task from the job you are filling. Every candidate gets the same one.
They Do
It With AI.
Step 3
Candidates work through the task in Claude or ChatGPT, then send back the entire conversation — not just the finished answer. How they set the task up and how they pushed the AI when its first answer fell short is the part that cannot be faked.
You Meet
Only the Best.
Step 4
The system reads every conversation the same way and gives a short, plain evaluation of how each candidate worked with AI. You interview the people who did the work well.
Two Ways to Use It
We Find the People, or You Run It on Your Own.
Our AI proficiency assessment — the AI Proficiency Candidate Evaluation System, or AI/PCES — works two ways.
Path 1 · We Recruit
We Find the People for You
You need to hire. We recruit for the job, and every person we send you has already taken the assessment. The only people you interview are the ones who have proven they can do the work with AI.
You Pay Nothing Until You Hire.
Then a percentage of their first-year base salary. Replacement guarantee.
Path 2 · You Run It
Use It on Your Own Candidates
You already have candidates in your pipeline. We build the assessment around the job you are filling and hand it to you, ready to send to your finalists. Nothing for you to build, nothing to learn. $1,500 per role.
Or own the whole system outright and build unlimited assessments yourself, for every job you ever hire. We will walk you through both on a call.
Why Me
25 Years Placing Talent. Now I Do It for AI.
I'm Kevin Downey. I have spent more than 25 years in B2B sales, and I built a recruitment firm that placed talent for companies across the country. Finding the right person and putting them in the right seat is the work I have done my entire career.
AI is the single biggest shift I have seen in that time, and it broke the part of hiring I know best. So I built the thing that fixes it: a way to watch a candidate do the actual work, with AI, before anyone commits to anything.
My background is in philosophy — graduate work in logic and linguistics — which taught me to think in systems and ask better questions. That turns out to be exactly what AI rewards. Not credentials. Better thinking, applied to real problems.
I put my name on every person we send you.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
We're Not the Only Ones Seeing This.
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Everyone's resume says they're great with AI now. Being able to actually watch someone do the work with it, before you hire them, is a real edge — and honestly, it's where hiring has to go.
— Ed Doering
SCORE Mentor, Kansas City Chapter -
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The gap between someone who says they use AI and someone who genuinely gets results with it is enormous. As an owner, that's the difference I need to see before I make an offer, and I've never had a good way to see it.
— Blademir Hernandez,
Owner, MetroEdge Facility Services -
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I've known Kevin for quite some time, and he is one of the sharpest people I know at reading talent and cutting through hype to what actually matters. He has been early and right on AI. If he is building something here, pay attention.
— Ferre Vreysen,
AI Automation Specialist, Belgium
Contact Us
Get In Touch
Let's Find Your Person.
Book a free intro call. We will talk about the role you are filling, which path fits, and how quickly we can put proven people in front of you. No pitch deck, no pressure.
