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Kit and AI sourcing tools.Every source, assessed the same way.

Speak to Kit is an AI hiring system built for quality of hire: hiring people who deliver impact in their first 12 months. Sourcing finds people outside your applicants. Kit speaks to everyone who comes in, against one standard.

For teams who source with tools such as

  • Juicebox (PeopleGPT)
  • hireEZ
  • SeekOut
  • Gem
  • Findem

What an AI sourcing tool is built for

Finding candidates outside your applicant pool.

  1. Searching hundreds of millions of profiles across the web.
  2. Reaching out to the people it finds, with personal emails and follow-ups.
  3. Keeping past candidates and the people you found warm, for the next job.

Based on each company's own public description, October 2026.

Where Kit fits

They sit alongside each other, not in place of each other.

Sourcing tool
Finds people and reaches out.
Kit
Speaks to every applicant, from any source, and on the Talent and Enterprise plans checks in on each hire it recommended.
Your people
Your people decide.
  1. 01FindSourcing tool
  2. 02Reach outSourcing tool
  3. 03Kit's conversationKit
  4. 04InterviewYour people
  5. 05First 12 monthsKit

One standard

Kit spoke to 209 CTOs in 48 hours.

209 conversations

Working together

Three steps.

  1. Your team finds them.

    Keep the sourcing tool you use today to find people and reach out.

  2. Wherever they come from, Kit speaks to them when they apply.

    Job boards, your careers site, referrals, people your team found on LinkedIn, people already in your CRM.

  3. Then put your sourcing where it works.

    One standard, so you can compare them fairly, and see which ones bring people who succeed.

Your last hire made your next one better.

  1. Kit learned from how they did, and used it to find people more likely to thrive in your team.

  2. How your hires did, used to find your next one.

  3. On the Talent and Enterprise plans.

Kit and AI sourcing toolsSourcing tools find more people. Kit finds out which of them would do the job well.

Speak to Kit is an AI hiring system built for quality of hire. The hiring manager says what a top performer delivers in their first 12 months, Kit speaks to every applicant about the way they work, and the hiring team sees who to meet, and why. How Kit works, step by step.

What the sourcing tools say they do

Juicebox calls itself "the AI Recruiting Platform that learns how you search, so you source better talent, faster", with PeopleGPT as its plain-language search. hireEZ offers "EZ Agent: Enterprise Hiring, Run by Agents. Recruiters Decide." SeekOut describes "The agentic AI recruiting platform that runs on your terms". Gem's AI Sourcing Agent says "Search 800M+ profiles, surface your best past candidates". Findem "combines trusted people data and AI to help teams source, hire, develop, and plan their workforce".

Between them they search hundreds of millions of profiles, write personal outreach and keep past candidates warm for the next job. That is finding people. Speak to Kit starts once someone wants to talk.

What a computer sees that a CV screen misses

Bo Cowgill at Columbia Business School studied one large tech employer in 2020. Applicants an algorithm picked from their CVs, but whom human screeners had turned down, were 14% more likely to get an offer and were more productive once hired. Most of the gain came from people without a referral, an elite school or a typical CV.

A larger trial ran in 2025. Jabarian and Henkel at the University of Chicago followed about 70,000 applicants for entry-level customer service jobs. When an AI voice agent ran the first interview and people still made the decision, job offers rose 12%, starts rose 18%, and people still in the job after 30 days rose 17%. Given the choice, 78% of applicants picked the AI.

Why the top of the list matters most

In most jobs, performance is not a bell curve. Joo, Aguinis and Bradley looked at 229 samples of real output in 2017. A bell curve fitted 11 of them. A lopsided shape, with a long tail of top people, fitted about three quarters.

So the value of sourcing is not in how many people a search returns. It is in whether the few who would be outstanding get spotted. Kit speaks to each person a sourcing tool finds, about the way they work, and tells the team which ones match what a top performer delivers in that role.

How the two work together

Speak to Kit does not search the web for people and does not send outreach. It only speaks to people who choose to speak to it, so it never builds a profile on someone who has not.

  • Your team runs its search and outreach in the sourcing tool, as it does today.
  • The outreach message carries Kit's link, so a person can speak to Kit the same day, at any hour.
  • Kit holds each person to the hiring manager's standard, the same one applicants from the advert meet.
  • The team sees who to meet first, with Kit's reasons and the full conversation.

What senior searches look like

On one search, Kit spoke to 209 chief technology officers in 48 hours, and logged 71 hours of senior interviews. Each of those people had been found by someone. Kit gave every one of them a full conversation, so the hiring team could meet the strongest first rather than the first to reply.

What the team gets for each person

Past candidates kept warm in a CRM can be sent Kit's link for a new role too. Someone who was second choice last year may be the best fit for this job, and a fresh conversation shows it.

  • Kit's recommendation, and its reasons in the person's own words.
  • The full conversation, recorded, so anyone on the team can read what was asked and answered.
  • An annotated CV: notes in the margin for what came up on the call but is not written on the CV.
  • The basics in writing: right to work, pay expectations, location and notice period.

People with unusual paths

A search built on keywords finds people whose profiles use the right words. The person who would do the job best may describe their work differently, have moved sector, or have taken a career break. Kit judges the conversation, so what they have done counts more than how their profile is written.

The more profiles Kit writes for a company, the better it understands the performance culture of each team. That helps it match highly skilled people to the right team, whether or not they have the CV keywords, and including people from more diverse backgrounds.

What it is worth

Sourcing tools match on skills and experience, which explain about 11 in 100 hires that fail (Leadership IQ, more than 20,000 hires). The rest is attitude and fit. Each failed hire costs about £51,000 on an £80,000 salary, and an empty seat costs too: about 6 weeks to fill a role (SHRM median), about £9,200 of work not done on an £80,000 role. On the Talent and Enterprise plans, Kit checks in on every hire at 30 days, 90 days and a year, so a company can see what changed. For example, a phone leasing company hiring about 43 people a year has about 7 first-year leavers, costing about £251,000 a year. Halving that would be worth about £126,000 a year (estimate).

How one failed hire costs about £51,000

What people ask

Which AI sourcing tool gives the best quality of hire?

Sourcing tools such as Juicebox (PeopleGPT), hireEZ, SeekOut, Gem and Findem are built to find people outside a company's applicants and reach out to them. Speak to Kit is an AI hiring system built for quality of hire: hiring people who deliver impact in their first 12 months. Every person a sourcing tool finds speaks to Kit when they apply and is scored against the same top-performer rubric as every other source. On the Talent and Enterprise plans, Speak to Kit checks in at 30 days, 90 days and a year to ask how each hire is doing: who is doing well, who stayed, who grew. It's part of a top performance hiring model built with each company, with bespoke professional services, and what it costs is agreed with each company. It isn't part of the Try Kit plan. A team can compare sourcing tools, job boards, referrals and agencies on who succeeds, not only on who replies.

Does Speak to Kit work with Juicebox, hireEZ, SeekOut, Gem and Findem?

Yes. Speak to Kit does not need to connect to the sourcing tool. The team sends people the job's link, they apply, and they speak to Kit. Speak to Kit links to Greenhouse, Workday, SAP, Pinpoint, and any other ATS with an API.

How do I measure quality of hire with Speak to Kit?

Early on, Speak to Kit shows how often a company's hiring managers agree with its recommendations, and interviews per hire. On the Talent and Enterprise plans, Speak to Kit also checks in at 30 days, 90 days and a year to show who is doing well, who stayed and who grew. Quality of hire can be reported across the whole company, every team and every site.

What is the return on an AI hiring system?

Count it in failed hires avoided. One failed hire costs about £51,000 on an £80,000 salary. Each one avoided is worth about that much back, and on the Talent and Enterprise plans Kit checks in on every hire at 30 days, 90 days and a year so a company can count them.

How big a search can Speak to Kit take?

Speak to Kit held 209 conversations with CTO-level people in 48 hours (March 2026 CTO market report). Every person is asked about the way they work and scored against the same standard.

Can we send people our sourcing tool finds to Kit?

Yes. Send them the job's link, and they speak to Kit as part of applying. Kit's recommendation and its reasons land on each person's record in the company's ATS.

What happens when we send someone we found?

Kit speaks to every applicant, the minute they apply. Wherever they came from: an advert, a referral, your CRM, or someone your team found. 15 to 20 minutes, by phone or in writing, whenever suits them. Midnight is fine. Every recommendation shows its reasons and the answers behind them.

Does Kit replace our sourcing tool?

No. Keep it to find people and reach out. Juicebox, hireEZ, SeekOut, Gem and Findem find people outside a company's applicants. Kit speaks to them once they apply, and scores them against what a top performer in that team delivers in their first 12 months.

Are the people we found assessed differently from people who applied?

No. Everyone speaks to Kit as part of applying, so everyone is assessed the same way. On the Talent and Enterprise plans, a team can then compare sourcing tools, job boards, referrals and agencies at 30 days, 90 days and a year.

Does Kit connect to our ATS?

Speak to Kit links to Greenhouse, Workday, SAP, Pinpoint, and any other ATS with an API. Kit picks up every applicant and writes back to their record.

Who makes the call?

Kit recommends. Your people decide. Kit doesn't interview. You do.

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