Hermetik — AI Ops for recruiting & staffing agencies
Sourcing admin. ATS updates. Chasing follow-ups. Rebuilding the same report. Hermetik installs a monitored control layer on the stack you already run — Loxo, Bullhorn, LinkedIn, spreadsheets — so you get more placements out of the team you already have.
Where it leaks / N°01
Every agency runs an ATS, LinkedIn, a dialer, calendars, spreadsheets — and a dashboard somebody stopped trusting last quarter. The tools are fine. The gaps between them are where fees die.
A search sits three weeks without a submittal, and nobody flags it — the dashboard stayed green the whole time.
The candidate finished interviews. The client went quiet. Whoever was supposed to notice was busy recruiting.
The real work happened in LinkedIn DMs and email threads that never touched a timeline. Your system of record is a system of some records.
Whatever went wrong last week arrives at the pipeline meeting — a week after it was cheap to fix.
None of this is a discipline problem. It's a missing layer.
The lens / N°02
Above it: work that needs a human — client relationships, closing candidates, negotiating fees, reading a room. Below it: work that follows rules — logging, chasing, checking, formatting, copying between systems.
Your recruiters were hired for the work above the line. Most of their day sits below it.
Where's your line?
repeatable · rule-bound · scriptable → automate below
The system / N°03
Built on your real data. Exception cards, not chart walls: roles with no submittals in 14+ days, follow-ups past due, activity by recruiter — refreshed on a schedule, with proof it refreshed.
Stale candidates, quiet clients, and aging roles surface as a daily queue in front of the person who owns them.
LinkedIn conversations logged to the ATS automatically. Sourcing prep drafted for review. Every workflow monitored and logged — you'll know if something breaks before it costs you.
The evidence / N°04
This is a sanitized recruiting-ops sample built from real operating patterns: open roles, candidate activity, follow-up gaps, reporting drift, and stale search signals. Names, clients, URLs, and identifying details are removed. The point is not a logo. The point is the leak pattern and the control layer that catches it.
The source is sanitized. The leak patterns are real. The method is what you're buying.
The sample Findings Scoreboard shows the exact format a review produces — findings, fee math, a priced Fix Map, and the Method Note showing how every number was measured. Yours would have your numbers.
Sample Scoreboard coming nextThe review starts read-only: ATS/CRM, dashboards, spreadsheets, and existing automations. Nothing writes to your systems during the diagnostic.
Public code link withheld until clearedThe five leak checks the review runs — with instructions to eyeball each one in your own ATS in ten minutes. If you run them and find nothing, you don't need me.
Leak Checklist coming nextThe first step / N°05
Two weeks. Read-only. Your numbers, not a slide deck.
What gets inspected: your ATS/CRM, dashboards, spreadsheets, and existing automations — via read-only access or exports — plus an hour with you and thirty minutes with one recruiter.
Three or more concrete, costed leaks on your Scoreboard — or you don't pay.
Ten days, read-only, guaranteed findings.
$3,500
One leak closed per sprint. Fixed scope, review fee credited.
$7,500–$15,000
Monitoring, logs, alerts, and a monthly improvement. Unwatched automation is just future technical debt.
from $1,500/mo
Asked directly / N°06
Who have you done this for?
I run this class of work from inside recruiting operations: ATS mess, follow-up gaps, stale searches, reporting drift, and automations that need monitoring. Hermetik is the external practice built from those patterns. You are not buying a logo wall. You are buying a fixed-scope review, a visible deliverable, and a guarantee with the risk on my side.
Can I see real proof?
You can see the review format before paying: leak categories, Scoreboard structure, Fix Map, and Method Note. What I will not show you is raw private operations — client names, internal URLs, recruiter names, or proprietary screenshots. That is the standard you want: the next owner I talk to will not be seeing yours either.
Is this a side project?
It's a deliberately small practice — two engagements at a time, maximum, alongside the operating work that keeps my patterns current. Fixed scope, written response windows, in the agreement. If you need a 40-hour-a-week vendor, I'm the wrong fit and I'll say so on the call.
Why should I trust a sanitized sample?
You should not trust it because of a logo or a screenshot. You should trust what it proves: the leak pattern, the measurement method, the Scoreboard format, and the fact that the first paid step is read-only and guaranteed. What it cannot prove is what your operation looks like. That is what the review measures.
Book a 20-minute introThe operator / N°07
I work in revenue operations in recruiting and staffing — inside the ATS mess, the follow-up that slips, the dashboards nobody trusts. I'm not a developer who learned business. I'm an operator who got tired of watching the same work leak and learned to build the layer that catches it.
You will not see raw day-job systems on this site. They are not mine to parade. What you will see is the pattern: sanitized numbers, stripped identifiers, and the operating layer those numbers point to. If I will not parade their data, you already know how I will treat yours.
I take two engagements at a time. The first step is fixed-price, read-only, and guaranteed — because I'd rather prove it on your operation than claim it on this page.
— Brett Mammel · Hermetik
Send your stack List the tools you run — I'll reply with three concrete observations within two business days.No employer screenshots. No borrowed client logos. No hidden proof theater.
The public assets strip names, URLs, clients, and proprietary context. The signal stays; the private details do not.
Start with the review format. Then get your real numbers: two weeks, read-only — and if the review doesn't find three costed leaks, it's free.