Recruitment SMART

Recruitment SMART is a London-based recruitment technology company founded in 2015 that develops AI-powered platforms for enterprise talent acquisition. Its flagship product, SniperAI, uses machine learning and natural language processing to analyse candidate CVs against job specifications, extracting structured skills, experience, and qualification data from both documents and producing a ranked, annotated shortlist that identifies the best-matching candidates from large application pools. The platform applies self-learning algorithms that improve their matching accuracy over time, and can be configured with role-specific weighting — distinguishing between essential and desirable requirements and applying consistent scoring criteria across entire candidate pools regardless of volume.

The core problem Recruitment SMART addresses is the bottleneck of initial CV screening. For enterprise HR teams managing multiple open roles simultaneously, manual screening of large application volumes is slow, inconsistent, and prone to quality degradation under fatigue. SniperAI removes this bottleneck by automating the initial screening pass entirely, allowing recruiters to focus on the smaller number of high-scoring candidates that genuinely merit detailed review. The platform integrates with major ATS (Applicant Tracking System) systems and has demonstrated improvements of 300% in recruitment process efficiency, 53% gains in productivity, and 57% reductions in time-to-hire across documented enterprise deployments in sectors including telecoms, oil and gas, retail, manufacturing, and aviation.

Recruitment SMART has expanded its product suite to include SourcieAI, a talent sourcing intelligence platform that gives recruiters access to over 500 million candidate profiles across more than 20 platforms, enabling outbound sourcing alongside the inbound screening capabilities of SniperAI. The company has raised funding from Future Fund and Blackfinch and is valued at approximately $16.1 million. It serves enterprise clients across six continents and continues to develop new AI-driven recruitment automation capabilities under the leadership of co-founders Pawan Lokwani and Yusuf Jazakallah.