Business development for recruitment agencies, run by an agent
PITCHING AT THE LONDON NIGHT ON 13 OCTOBER 2026
Recruitment agencies win clients by reaching a company the week it starts hiring, and finding that moment is slow, manual work squeezed between placements. Execue checks the market, the agency's own ATS and its network every morning, finds who is hiring in its niche, writes the outreach in the consultant's own words and books the meeting. Nothing goes out until the consultant presses send.
A recruitment consultant is paid to place people, but the placements only come after the business development, and that is where the day disappears: prospecting lists, a stack of disconnected tools, generic sequences that sound like nobody, and the moment a company starts hiring is usually missed. Off-the-shelf outreach tools force one workflow on a job that is different for every desk.
Execue runs the loop end to end. Its agent, Q, watches the market and the agency's own book for signals such as a champion changing jobs, a new executive hired or a spike in job posts, researches the way in, drafts the pitch in the consultant's voice and prepares the replies and follow-ups. The consultant decides, approves and shows up to the meeting. The same engine sources and screens candidates against a brief, so the whole desk runs from one place rather than a dozen tools held together by copy and paste.
These founders pitched at the same startup events. The room is usually the reason people find each other.