Release 23.10

Introduction

We are excited to announce the launch of our AI Agenting, a groundbreaking step towards making recruitment smarter, faster, and more strategic. These intelligent agents are designed to work autonomously, handling research and operational tasks with precision, freeing recruiters to focus on building meaningful connections.This marks just the beginning of our AI Agenting journey, with many more innovations to come.

1. Smarter Recruitment AI Agents

We’ve introduced a new AI Agents screen where recruiters can access a suite of intelligent agents designed to automate and simplify daily recruitment tasks. From company insights and executive research to candidate sourcing, job retrieval, and profile submissions — each agent works in the background to save time, boost efficiency, and deliver stronger hiring outcomes. Recruiters can easily select and run the right agent for their need, ensuring faster, smarter, and more precise recruitment at every step.

2. Introducing AI Assistant – Your Intelligent Recruiting Copilot

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of AI Assistant a powerful new assistant designed to streamline your recruiting and sales workflows. Co-Pilot combines conversational AI, voice commands, and multilingual support to help you work smarter, faster, and with greater accuracy.

Key Highlights

• Voice Command Support
  Interact with the system hands-free using natural voice commands for faster actions.

• Multilingual Capabilities
  Engage with the Co-Pilot in major international languages, making it accessible for global teams.

• Prompt-Based Interaction with Context
  Co-Pilot understands both text and voice prompts, remembers previous conversations, and responds with context-aware answers.

• Secure Database Access
  To ensure privacy, Co-Pilot does not directly expose database access. Instead, it communicates through a secure interface that maintains full data protection.

• Validation Controls
  All business rules and validations already enforced in the UI also apply to prompts. For example, if your plan allows only 5 active jobs, Co-Pilot will prevent you from creating additional jobs via prompts.

• Permission Management
  All permissions are managed by Co-Pilot. If a user does not have permission to add a candidate, Co-Pilot will not allow them to do so.

Why This Matters

With AI Assistant, you gain a smart partner that:

• Reduces manual effort by automating routine tasks through natural conversations.

• Ensures compliance and data security while still providing powerful insights.

For more details, you can find it here: AI CoPilot Help Article

3. Company Insight Agent – Smarter Intelligence for Executive Search

We’re introducing the Company Insight Agent, a specialized Agent designed to deliver deep, recruiter-friendly intelligence on target companies. This feature empowers consultants, executive recruiters, and business developers with strategic insights that go far beyond basic company data.

What It Does

• Automatic Company Profiling
  Compiles structured company background information, including mission, culture, financials, leadership, and industry positioning.

• Strategic Insights
  Tracks recent shifts in strategy, ensuring recruiters stay ahead with the latest intelligence.

• Executive Narrative Support
  Highlights unique strengths that can be leveraged to craft compelling narratives for stakeholder meetings and executive-level pitches.

• Client-Ready Output
  Delivers an in-depth, structured research report that can be shared across your team.

Benefits

• Equips consultants with deeper intelligence for executive search and client meetings.

• Strengthens client positioning in competitive markets.

• Boosts win rates by enabling recruiters to walk into pitches with unmatched insights.

The Company Insight Agent presents a dedicated page where you can see all essential company details in one place — from business profile and leadership insights to hiring trends and growth signals. This consolidated view helps recruiters and executive search professionals quickly understand organizations and engage with sharper strategies.

For more details, you can find it here: Company Insight Agent Help Article

4. Competitor Insight Agent – Outsmart the Competition

The Competitor Insight Agent is designed to help recruiters and head hunters gain an edge by uncovering hidden talent in Talent Compet Competitors. By surfacing red flags and dissatisfaction indicators, it allows you to position your client as the superior career opportunity—even before making the first outreach.

What It Does

• Leadership & Org Structure Signals
  Identifies leadership turnover, management gaps, and organizational instability.

• Employee Sentiment Analysis
  Surfaces Glassdoor-driven dissatisfaction and cultural red flags that can influence executive career moves.

• Strategic Positioning
  Highlights competitor weaknesses to reinforce your client’s stability, growth, and attractiveness.

• Outreach Intelligence
  Suggests tailored outreach templates to maximize executive response rates when targeting talent at competitor companies.

Benefits

• Improves executive conversion rates by directly contrasting competitor weaknesses with client strengths.

• Equips recruiters with persuasive talking points for pitches and conversations.

• Helps consultants anticipate and outmaneuver competitors in executive hiring.

The History page of the Competitor Insight Agent displays leading competitor companies identified across industries or regions. You can track all past runs of the Competitor Insight Agent, including the companies analyzed and insights generated. 

For more details, you can find it here: Competitor Insight Agent Help Article

5. Export Submission Profile Agent – Elevating Executive Candidate Presentations

The Export Submission Profile Agent is designed to give recruiters and executive search consultants a powerful way to present shortlisted executive candidates to clients. Instead of manually compiling details, this AI-powered agent generates a professional, structured, and client-ready report that highlights candidate strengths with precision and credibility.

Tailored for the executive search domain, this agent ensures every submission reflects the high standards expected in senior-level hiring engagements—complete with leadership insights, behavioural analysis, and comparison tools that resonate with decision-makers.

Why This Matters for Executive Search

• Professional Client Delivery - Impress stakeholders with a polished, AI-curated report that reflects the premium nature of executive search.

• Decision-Making Confidence - DISC analysis and comparison tables help clients acssess leadership fit and cultural alignment more effectively.

• Efficiency with Impact - Save hours of manual formatting while delivering client-ready materials that strengthen trust and credibility.

• Enhanced Differentiation - Stand out from other firms by offering structured insights and value-added reporting in every submission.

• Seamless, Download-Ready Reports - AI-powered output is instantly generated and available to download in PDF formate, ensuring recruiters can share polished submissions with clients in minutes.

The History page for the Export Submission Profile Agent showcases previously generated candidate submission reports, giving recruiters quick access to polished, client-ready profiles. This ensures every shortlist is presented with clarity and professionalism, supporting faster and more impactful client decisions.

For more details, you can find it here: Export Submission Profile Agent Help Article

6. Job Retrieval AI Agent – your smart job-fetching assistant

We’re excited to introduce the Job Retrieval AI Agent — a powerful assistant that continuously scans the market to uncover fresh job opportunities. For sales teams, this means instant visibility into active openings to target for business development, helping you engage the right clients at the right time. For sales team members, it eliminates hours of manual job research by automatically retrieving and presenting relevant roles directly in your workspace. The result: more time spent building relationships, closing deals, and placing candidates, without getting buried in market research.

What’s New

• Smart Job Retrieval – Automatically fetches jobs based on job title, country, and city filters.

• Customizable Frequency – Choose how often Kathy runs: alternate day or weekly.

• Automated Notifications & Emails – Receive real-time updates via email when new jobs matching your criteria are found.

• One-Click Insights – Access detailed job information, employer profiles, and even run the Company Insight Agent instantly.

• Manage Blocked Companies – Stop receiving jobs from unwanted companies with ease.

Why This Matters

• Stay Proactive in Executive Search – Get early visibility into leadership roles and strategic openings across industries.

• Save Valuable Time – Eliminate manual job board searches with automated, AI-driven job discovery.

• High-Quality Leads – Surface the most relevant opportunities with filters and validations aligned to your business rules.

• Tailored Control – Limit campaigns per domain, restrict job titles per campaign, and manage blocked clients to refine results.

• Effortless Collaboration – Share results across your team or keep them private, depending on your workflow.

• Seamless Access – Job results are displayed in a clean, filterable table with quick links to job details and related company insights.

With the Job Retrieval AI Agent, executive recruiters gain a competitive edge by staying informed, discovering hidden opportunities, and aligning talent outreach with market shifts — all in real-time.

The History page for the Job Retrieval AI Agent provides quick access to the most recently retrieved job opportunities, all neatly organized in one place. It enables recruiters and sales teams to instantly review fresh openings and take timely action, ensuring no strategic opportunity is missed.

For more details, you can find it here: Job Retrieval Agent Help Article

7. Executive Research Agent

The Executive Research Agent empowers executive recruiters to move beyond surface-level data and create deep, persuasive profiles of senior leaders in minutes. By combining advanced data aggregation with AI-powered analysis, this agent accelerates shortlisting while boosting candidate engagement and fit quality.

 Key Highlights

• Rich Executive Profiles – Pulls together details from LinkedIn, media coverage, board roles, and thought leadership into one consolidated view.

• Leadership Style Prediction – Surfaces personality traits, motivators, and succession readiness for more informed client conversations.

• Personalised Pitch Generation – Auto-creates tailored, value-based outreach emails to boost response rates with senior talent.

 Why This Matters

• Accelerates Shortlisting – Cuts down hours of manual research into minutes.

• Boosts Engagement – Outreach is personalised, insight-driven, and value-focused, making it more compelling for senior executives.

• Improves Fit Quality – Recruiters can confidently position candidates by highlighting leadership style, cultural fit, and career trajectory.

• Executive Search Advantage – Purpose-built for executive domains where credibility, depth, and speed make the difference

How it is most important for Executive Search

With the Executive Research Agent, recruiters can elevate conversations from transactional to advisory—backed by intelligence that wins client trust and secures executive buy-in.

This is more than automation—it’s an edge in executive search, enabling you to deliver depth, credibility, and speed that rival even the most established global firms.

By combining hard data with leadership insights, the Executive Research Agent transforms how executive recruiters shortlist, engage, and position senior talent—making every search a smarter, faster, and more compelling story.

In a domain where influence and precision matter most, this agent gives you the strategic intelligence to stand out, win mandates, and place leaders who truly fit.

The History page for the Executive Research Agent provides quick access to previously generated executive profiles, showcasing candidate experience, leadership roles, and affiliations in a consolidated view. This allows recruiters to revisit insights instantly and support informed, high-level hiring decisions with ease.

For more details, you can find it here: Executive Research Agent Help Article

8. Sourcing Agent - Works as Sourcing Recruiter 

The Sourcing Agent is designed to help recruiters find top talent across multiple channels in a single click. From internal talent pools to external competitor searches, it ensures that no candidate is missed.

Channels of Candidate Sourcing

The Sourcing Agent uses a multi-pronged AI strategy:

1. Database Matchmaking – AI scans your ATS/CRM to surface silver medalists, passive talent, and previous applicants.

2. X-Ray Search on LinkedIn, Xing, GitHub, StackOverflow, Dribbble, X (Twitter) – via Google-powered boolean queries.

3. Competitor Company Mapping – Identify ideal candidates in competitor firms for direct sourcing.

4. Referral Campaigns – AI finds potential referrers in your network and automates outreach with incentive details.

Why This Matters

All-in-One Sourcing – Replace scattered sourcing tools with a single AI-driven agent.
Smarter Matches – Prioritize candidates who already know your brand (database silver medalists).
Expand Reach – Tap into public profiles and competitor orgs for hidden talent.
Boost Referrals – Engage passive referrers with AI-drafted campaigns and incentives.
Save Time – Automates sourcing logic and outreach, freeing recruiters for high-value tasks.

With the Recruiter & Sourcing Agents, recruiters gain an always-on, multi-channel sourcing machine that turns hours of manual searching into minutes of AI-powered results. This is a game-changer for agencies and executive search firms competing for top talent.

The History page for the Sourcing Agent lets you review previously sourced candidates from web searches, referrals, and your internal database—all in one place. From here, you can easily revisit profiles and assign top talent to open roles, streamlining your hiring process with speed and precision.

For more details, you can find it here: Sourcing Agent Help Article

9. Agent Activity History – New View

We’ve added an Agent Activity History tab, giving recruiters complete visibility into all AI agent activities in one place. You can now:

• Track which agents (e.g., Sourcing Agent, Job Retrieval Agent, Export Submission Profile Agent) have run.

• See who executed them, when they were run, and their status (Completed, In Progress, No Credit).

• Quickly review agent results with a single click using the action icons.

This enhancement ensures recruiters and teams can monitor, manage, and validate AI agent performance effortlessly, boosting transparency and control over recruitment automation.

10. AI Features Token Credit

At iSmartRecruit, we want every client to experience the power of AI. That’s why we provide free AI token credits every month so you can explore and enhance your recruitment process at no extra cost.

Need more? You can easily unlock additional credits to scale your AI-driven hiring and stay ahead of the competition. Simply reach out to us at [email protected]. Our team will be happy to help you maximize the benefits.

Each user can also track their available credits directly in the Agent Listing screen, as shown in the screenshot below.

11. AI Matching Enhancements - Smarter Logic & Better Transparency

We’ve further upgraded our AI Matching engine to refine how candidate matches are calculated and displayed. These improvements make results more accurate, logical, and easier to understand ensuring recruiters can trust the system’s recommendations.

What’s New

1. Improved Matching Logic

• Refined the “Should” vs “Must” logic to improve the accuracy of matches.

• Essential skills and criteria are now prioritized correctly, while still considering flexible attributes.

2. Language & Proficiency Integration

• Utilization of language and proficiency fields in candidate profiles.

• Matching engines now consider language skills more effectively when evaluating candidate-job compatibility.

• Ensures recruiters see candidates who not only meet technical requirements but also align with communication needs of the job.

3. New Tooltip for Transparency

• A tooltip now explains why a candidate is matched when you hover over their score.

• Provides clear visibility into the skills, experience, and criteria contributing to the match.

12. New Enhancement: Smarter Similar Candidates Matching

Conclusion:

Every feature in this release has been carefully crafted to streamline your workflow, elevate candidate engagement, and empower you with greater control—from smarter content tools and enriched profiling to seamless integrations and AI-powered automation. Our goal is simple: to help you recruit faster, smarter, and with unmatched precision, so you can focus on what matters most building high-performing teams.

Thank you for being a valued part of the iSmartRecruit journey. Together, we’re not just keeping pace with the future of recruitment we’re defining it.