AIRPA The Webinar

OPENER Before we start›

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Question 1

How many years have you been in recruitment?

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Question 2

How much of your week goes on admin, not clients?

AUnder 20%B20 to 40%C40 to 60%DOver 60%

Question 3

True or false. I work harder than five years ago, for the same fees.

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PART 01 What is AI-RPA›

AI-RPA · AI Recruitment Process Automation

Think of AI-RPA as a business model, not a tool. The letters stand for
AI Recruitment Process Automation.

RAIM built it specifically for recruitment agencies, and it is powered by leading AI models.

Its purpose is simple. It moves your agency off the contingent treadmill and into retained and exclusive contracts.

A full AI workforce sits inside the tech stack you already use, and quietly runs the repetitive 80% of the work, so you have the capacity and the proof to win bigger mandates and the engine to deliver them.

Your recruiters spend their time where it counts, winning retained clients and keeping them.

The whole thing in one minute

What is it

An AI workforce that runs the repetitive 80% of a recruitment desk. Research, lead lists, outreach, CV formatting, candidate prep, interview booking and reporting, all handled.

Your people keep the 20% that matters, the relationships.

Why it was built

The contingent model is dying.

Fees race to zero, five agencies fight for every role, recruiters burn out on admin, and clients grow more AI savvy than the agencies serving them.

AI-RPA is the way out.

What it does

It runs the desk end to end. It wins the client, sets up the engagement, delivers the roles and retains them through a live transparency dashboard.

A team of 5 highly skilled AI-Recruitment agents, covering 5 phases, installed in your agency.

PART 02 About us›

About us

Built by people who have run the desk,
not just talked about it.

Founder · RAIM

Guy Last

10+ yrs

international recruitment and relocation agency

60+

remote staff built worldwide

30+

recruiters in South Africa embedded into client businesses

5 yrs

six figure a month retained RPO model

3,000+

AI agency founders coached

As featured in

Through a customized portal, clients can access real-time updates on their recruitment pipelines, while AI-driven tools optimize data management and candidate engagement.

Also in

Recognition

Global Business Excellence AwardsWinner

Service Industry & Sportech

Cofounder and CTO · RAIM

Daniel Mechea

Daniel holds an engineering degree from RMIT and 9+ years building production grade software, including AI systems at Elix Inc. in Tokyo across deep learning, computer vision and anomaly detection. He is a full stack developer across React, Node.js and Python, and he turns roadmap findings into working AI systems inside your agency workflows.

Launched January 2026

AI-Powered People and RAIM

Since launching, we have worked with businesses across sectors, from shipping companies in Germany to franchise consultancies in the Middle East and large marketing agencies. We're also proud that hundreds of recruitment consultants and agency owners have joined the RAIM platform.

PART 03 The opportunity›

The next 24 months

Agencies with AI embedded are 3.5 to 4.5 times more likely to have grown revenue, and less than 10% have it in place today.

Source · Bullhorn GRID 2026 Industry Trends

The prize is growing, and it recurs

$31B

retained market by 2033, more than double today

Roughly $14.5B today

3.5×

more likely to grow revenue with AI

~10%

of agencies have AI embedded

6×

what a retained, AI run agency sells for, versus 4× contingency

The AI empowered recruiter

78% of the fastest growing recruitment agencies
already have AI embedded across the desk.

Source · Bullhorn GRID 2026

PART 04 Who this is for›

Who this is for

Does any of this sound like you?

You only get paid when you place. No placement, no pay.

Every month you start from zero. Nothing recurring.

You are one of five agencies on every role, discounting to win it.

You want to innovate to beat your competitors, before they beat you.

AI is inevitable, but I don't know where to start.

If you just nodded, you are exactly who this was built for.

The breaking point

Recruiter burnout is forcing a rethink of admin work.

61%

of recruiters report burnout

45%

trace it directly to repetitive admin

SourceRecruiterflow, 12 Recruitment Trends Shaping 2026 · July 2026, citing its report AI Agents in Recruitment

PART 05 The AIRPA business model›

AIRPA · AI Recruitment Process Automation

This year 93% of recruiters will grow their AI use.

Source · Bullhorn GRID 2026 · LinkedIn, The Future of Recruiting

Now picture your whole desk

Every one of these, handled for you. Every day. Without you in the room.

Winning new retained and exclusive clients6 hrs
Pitching and proving the model live3 hrs
Sourcing every role in hours, not weeks8 hrs
Screening every CV and ranking the best6 hrs
Nurturing candidates and booking the interviews4 hrs
Closing the offers and confirming the starts2 hrs
Reporting, renewing and growing every account2 hrs

0hrs

back on your desk, every single weekIllustrative week, per recruiter. We work out your real numbers on the call.

Your people keep the relationships. The engine runs the rest, at scale. This is the agency you have always wanted to own.

69%up from 51%

Your clients are moving

69% of HR professionals now use AI in recruiting, up from 51% a year earlier. 89% of them say it saves time.

Source · SHRM 2025 Talent Trends Survey

Your clients are building in-house capability fast. If your agency continues to work the same way it did two years ago, with no AI Operating System, you are becoming easier to replace.

PART 06 Your AI opportunity›

Take the next step

One install.
The whole AI agency,
done for you.

01

Agent 01 · New business

The New Business Agent

Finds your ideal clients, writes the outreach and fills your diary with booked calls. A cold market becomes a warm pipeline.

02

Agent 02 · Call preparation

The Call Preparation Agent

Researches every prospect before you walk in. The brief, the pain points and the pitch are ready, so you win the room.

03

Agent 03 · Setup

The Setup Agent

Turns a signed client into a live role in minutes. Intake, job spec, scorecard and campaign, all set up for you.

04

Agent 04 · Sourcing

The Sourcing Agent

Builds a screened candidate pool from inbound and outbound at once. Every CV scored and ranked in hours, not weeks.

05

Agent 05 · Delivery

The Delivery Agent

Qualifies, books and submits the best people, gets client sign off and confirms the start. Your client watches it all on their own live dashboard.

The whole engine

The complete AIRPA engine, embedded in your business

All five agents working as one system, built into the way your agency already runs. Your tools, your brand, your clients. It wins, sets up and delivers every day while your team focuses on the conversations that close deals. Every new agent we build is added as it lands.

Your next step

See the engine mapped to your agency

Book a call to discuss

Free strategy call with the founders
Built around your tools, brand and clients
No obligation, no hard sell

You are not doing this alone

A whole team stands behind your build.

The founders

Guy and Daniel, operators and engineers who have built, scaled and shipped this before.

The technical team

Full stack and AI engineers building and maintaining the agents inside your workflows.

3,000+

The coach network

Thousands of AI agency founders and AAA coaches in the network to lean on.

This is not for the next 90 days. It is the engine that runs your agency for the next 12 to 24 months, and it keeps evolving. We stay at the front of the innovation, taking traditional recruitment agencies into the AI era.

Free when you book the call

Everyone who joins the call walks away with this

Book your call and these are yours, free, whatever you decide next.

Free

The Recruiter AI Movement community

Free access to our private community, alongside recruiters building their agencies with AI every day.

Join the community

Free

Your AI-Desk setup, step by step

A free guided process to set up your AI-Desk, one clear step at a time, so you are running from day one.

Free

The Lead Builder skill

Access to the Lead Builder skill, so you can start building lists of your ideal clients straight away.

Book a call to discuss

Free strategy call with the founders. No obligation.

PART 07 Market research›

Verdict · evidence high

RPO and retained recruitment are growing strongly and accelerating, the defining structural shift in agency recruitment in 2026. Contingency revenue is eroding across every major staffing firm while RPO grows, AI is already the primary differentiator, and client demand for embedded partners is documented. AIRPA sits exactly at the convergence of the two accelerating trends, contingency to retained, and human only to AI augmented.⁴⁵⁶

$12.8–16.6B

2026 global RPO market size¹³

12–21%

CAGR, market at least doubles by ~2033¹²

+8% vs −2.3%

Randstad RPO fees grew while contingency fell, 2025⁶

3.5–4.5×

AI using firms more likely to have grown revenue⁴

69%

of RPO clients report positive ROI⁵

40–60%

lower cost per hire vs contingency¹¹

only 10%

of firms have AI embedded throughout, the open gap⁴

58%

of RPO buyers considering switching, execution matters⁵

The shift is real, contingency is eroding

Randstad 2025, organic revenue down 2.3% but RPO fees up 8%. Kelly Services' growth came "almost entirely" from RPO.⁶

Greg Savage, Feb 2026, "the contingent, multi listed perm market, that is over." One of the most respected voices in global recruitment.⁷

Recruiterflow 2026, "RPO, retained search and contract staffing are growing while pure contingent placement stays soft."⁶

Top quartile recruiters make 5.21 placements a year vs 1.38, the winning edge is quality, which the embedded model rewards.⁶

AI is the number one differentiator, already, not "future"

AI using firms are 3.5 to 4.5× more likely to have grown revenue, up to 6× for screening and recruiter ramp up.⁴

55% of top performers saw KPIs improve 25% plus from AI screening alone, AI cuts sourcing and screening time 26 to 75%.⁴

Only 10% of firms have AI embedded throughout, 2026 is the year of early adoption to full integration. Huge open gap.⁴

93% of recruiters plan to increase AI use in 2026, agentic AI now runs pipelines end to end (Hudson's Human Led Agentic AI framework).⁸¹²

Clients want embedded partners, not seat fillers

RPOA (n=998 employers), buyers want partners to "navigate AI disruption, combat candidate fraud, and deliver measurable business impact."⁵

Pin, 2026, "demand is clearly heading away from one off contingency placements and toward embedded recruiting partnerships."¹⁰

Internal TA teams were cut in 2024 to 2025 and cannot rebuild fast enough, driving structural RPO demand.¹¹

Modular, on demand RPO is the fastest growing segment (~17% CAGR), the exact door mid market agencies can walk through.¹

Value, high for both sides

Agency, recurring revenue, embedded and niche firms trade at 5.0 to 6.0× EBITDA at exit vs 4.0 to 4.5× for generalist contingency, defensible relationships, fatter margins via AI leverage.¹⁰⁴

Client, 69% positive ROI, 40 to 60% lower cost per hire, 80% more likely to call hiring "consistent", retained placement satisfaction 92% vs 76% for contingency.⁵¹¹¹⁵

Why more agencies should do this

The demand has flipped toward partnership. Clients now want retained, exclusive and RPO relationships, embedded partners who own the outcome, not agencies bidding on a one off placement. Modular, on demand RPO is the fastest growing segment (~17% CAGR) and the door is open now.⁵¹⁰¹

RPO revenue grew while recruitment declined. In 2025 Randstad's organic revenue fell 2.3% but its RPO fees rose 8%, and Kelly Services' growth came almost entirely from RPO. The money is moving out of contingency and into embedded partnerships in real time.⁶

AI lets a 3 person agency deliver what once took 10, mid market and on demand RPO that was previously only Cielo and AMS scale is now within reach.

The math, one £80k hire at 25% contingency is £20k once. A 12 month RPO at £5k a month plus £2k across 10 hires is £80k recurring plus upside.¹¹

Risks and honest counterpoints

58% of buyers are considering switching providers, tech gaps, support quality, provider knowledge. The promise of RPO is not the same as delivering it.⁵

Only 23% of RPO relationships reach transformational, transactional ones are 42% more likely to report neutral or negative ROI. Selling RPO but delivering contingency effort damages reputation.⁵

AI makes some things harder, AI written CVs, only 14% shortlist overlap when the same AI screens twice, deepfake interviews, an AIRPA must include verification layers.⁷

Data quality and security is the top blocker to AI adoption, retained models strain SME cash flow, ease in with a contingency plus (small retainer and placement fee) step.⁴

Sources

Full cited report, outputs/raim/airpo/research/2026-08-11_rpo-market-research.md. Analyst market size figures are commercial estimates, treat as directional.

AI-Recruitment Process Automation

Guy Last

Daniel Mechea

AI-Powered People and RAIM