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AI recruitment tools for London's agencies, banks, tech firms and hospitality groups.

Our AI recruitment software development London clients commission tends to solve one of two problems: too many applicants for a recruiter to read, or too few of the right ones reaching the shortlist. We build candidate apps, matching engines, contractor workflows and recruiter dashboards for search firms in the City, financial employers in Canary Wharf, tech companies around Shoreditch and King's Cross, and hospitality operators hiring across the West End, with UK GDPR and equality law designed in from the start.

Codeeo has no London office. Our 80+ people are based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we work with London teams remotely, running discovery workshops, design reviews and release demos over video call so partners and recruiters can join from wherever they sit.

Built for
Specialist and volume agencies, executive search firms, regulated financial employers, scale ups and multi-venue hospitality and retail groups hiring in London.
Typical timeline
We agree milestones after discovery, once integrations, compliance sign off and the scope of the first London release are written down.
What you own
The code, trained models, scoring rules, candidate records and listings in the Apple and Google stores, all registered to your company.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What we build for London hiring

Features shaped by how London actually recruits.

Hiring in London has a few traits you rarely see elsewhere in the country at the same intensity. Candidates are often registered with several agencies at once, so the same CV can arrive three times from three firms. Financial services employers must collect regulatory references before certain appointments. Contractor markets in technology and finance run on day rate engagements where off payroll working rules decide who carries tax risk. Meanwhile restaurants, hotels and shops from Covent Garden to Westfield need dozens of shift workers at short notice.

The modules below address those realities. We pick the ones that remove the most recruiter time first, and every AI feature is explained to candidates and logged for review. Anything that touches a regulated decision, such as fitness and propriety, stays with a named person in your firm.

Explain your project
  • Duplicate candidate and ownership control

    Matching that recognises when the same person arrives through several agencies or job boards, merges the record and shows who introduced them first under your terms. In house teams stop paying twice for one candidate, and agencies avoid ownership disputes with clients that cost goodwill and fees.

    One record per person, with a clear introduction date.

  • Regulatory reference requests

    For banks, insurers and asset managers in the City and Canary Wharf, a workflow that requests regulatory references from previous employers covering the last six years, chases replies and flags gaps before a certified or senior manager role is offered. It supports your fitness and propriety assessment; your compliance team still makes the call.

    Reference gaps found before the offer, not after it.

  • Off payroll status workflow

    For contractor heavy teams, a step that records the status determination for each engagement under the off payroll working rules, shares the statement with the worker and the agency chain, and logs any disagreement for review. It keeps the evidence in one place for medium and large clients who carry that responsibility.

    Status decisions documented on every contract.

  • Skills based technical screening

    For engineering, data and product roles, structured take home tasks or short live exercises scored against a rubric the hiring manager writes. The AI drafts feedback and highlights the strongest submissions, while a human engineer confirms the scores. Candidates without a degree or a famous previous employer get judged on the work.

    Shortlists built on demonstrated skill rather than pedigree.

  • Shift hiring for venues

    A mobile app for bar, kitchen, front of house and retail floor staff that matches applicants to venue, shift pattern and travel time, then books a trial shift. Managers in Soho or at Canary Wharf can open a requisition at lunchtime and see candidates by the evening.

    Rotas filled faster across every site.

  • Multilingual candidate experience

    London applicants speak hundreds of languages at home. For roles where English at work is the requirement, we keep assessment in English while offering instructions, privacy notices and status updates in the languages your applicants use most, so nobody drops out because they misread a form.

    Fewer abandoned applications from capable people.

  • Right to work evidence capture

    Online share code checks for candidates with eVisas or settled status, identity service provider checks for British and Irish passport holders, and manual checks where needed, with evidence stored against the hire. Venue managers cannot confirm a start date until the check is complete. The check route used is recorded for every London hire.

    No one starts a shift before a valid check.

  • Pay and salary transparency

    Job adverts generated from a requisition with the pay band, location and working pattern filled in, plus a flag for roles your organisation has committed to paying at least the London Living Wage. Candidates filter by what matters to them and recruiters field fewer mismatched applications.

    Applicants who already know the role fits.

  • Recruiter co-pilot

    A drafting assistant inside the recruiter dashboard that writes outreach messages, interview summaries and rejection feedback from the notes already on file. Every draft is reviewed before it is sent, and nothing reaches a candidate in a recruiter's name without that person approving it. Consultants keep their own voice because the assistant learns from their past approved messages.

    Hours of admin returned to each consultant each week.

  • Client portal for hiring managers

    A secure portal where hiring managers at client firms review shortlists, leave structured feedback, approve interview slots and see where each vacancy stands. Feedback is captured against criteria rather than free text, which speeds the next round and gives the agency evidence of why a candidate progressed or stopped.

    Client feedback in hours, recorded against agreed criteria.

Who this is for

Four kinds of London hiring team we build for.

London recruiters compete for the same candidates more fiercely than almost anywhere, and the cost of a slow process is a lost hire. Automation helps only when it makes the process faster and fairer at the same time. These are the situations that bring London organisations to us most often, and the way the product changes for each one. Across all four, the first release targets the step where candidates wait longest, because in this city a delay of a day can lose the hire to a competitor two streets away.

01

Specialist agencies and search firms

Boutique and mid sized firms around Liverpool Street, Mayfair and the Square Mile often run on a generic CRM and a lot of consultant memory. A custom AI recruitment software development London agencies can own outright lets them search their own database by skills and context rather than keywords, keep candidate ownership clear and produce shortlists clients trust. The tool becomes part of the firm's value, not a licence that could be switched off. Consultants can also see which clients have hired similar profiles before, which sharpens business development calls.

Your database stays yours, including the models trained on it.

02

Regulated financial employers

Banks, insurers, trading firms and fintechs hiring under FCA oversight need regulatory references, fitness and propriety records and certification tracking alongside normal recruitment. We connect those steps to screening so a candidate cannot reach offer stage with unchecked history. AI is used to organise and summarise, never to decide fitness, because that judgement belongs to your compliance function. Hiring managers in trading and risk teams see only the stage they need, and compliance keeps a full record for supervisory review. Where certification applies, renewal reminders follow each employee after they join.

03

Scale ups and tech employers

Product companies in Shoreditch, King's Cross and Old Street hire engineers, designers and data people in bursts after a funding round. They need structured technical assessment, fast scheduling across interview panels and good candidate communication, because strong engineers are holding several offers at once. We build tools that keep each loop to a few days without cutting corners on fairness. Offer approval runs inside the same tool, so a founder or head of engineering can sign off from a phone and the candidate hears the same day. Panel feedback is collected before anyone talks to each other, which reduces groupthink.

Structured scoring makes panel decisions easier to defend.

04

Hospitality and retail groups

Restaurant groups, hotels and retailers with many London sites hire constantly for hourly roles, often from applicants applying on a phone between shifts elsewhere. A short mobile application, location aware matching, trial shift booking and right to work evidence before day one matter more here than clever ranking. Area managers see vacancies and pipeline across every venue on one screen. Seasonal peaks, such as the run up to Christmas in Oxford Street shops, can be planned ahead with pre screened pools. Staff who leave on good terms can be invited back with one tap, keeping their previous checks on file where still valid.

How a London project moves from first call to live hiring.

  1. 01Discovery over videoWe interview recruiters, hiring managers and someone from compliance, trace each hiring route in your London operation and agree the first release, its owners and its success measures in writing.
  2. 02Risk and DPIA inputWe document what candidate data each feature uses, the lawful basis, retention and the automated decision safeguards, giving your data protection lead what they need to complete the impact assessment.
  3. 03Prototype with real usersClickable screens tested with a handful of your recruiters and recent applicants, including someone applying on a phone during a commute, so wording, steps and timing are fixed before anything is coded.
  4. 04Build in short sprintsTwo strands run together: the candidate and recruiter apps, and the matching and screening logic, each shown in a recorded demo your stakeholders can review. Feedback from each demo shapes the next sprint.
  5. 05Pilot one desk or venueA single agency desk, business unit or cluster of venues goes live first. We compare time to shortlist, drop out and stage pass rates against your old process before wider release.
  6. 06Expand and monitorFurther teams and venues join once the pilot holds up. Outcome monitoring by stage and group continues, with model reviews whenever your roles, salary bands or applicant pool change in a way that could shift results.

Technology

What we build this with.

We select frameworks, cloud hosting and AI models to match your security policies and data location needs, with UK hosting available. Models sit behind an interface of their own, so you can change provider later without rebuilding the apps. Our AI recruitment software developers London clients deal with explain each choice in writing, including what it means for your IT team after handover.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

What London recruiters ask us before they start.

It depends on integrations and the number of hiring routes, so we fix it after discovery.

A focused first release covering one route, such as hourly venue hiring or a single agency desk, moves much faster than a platform spanning permanent, contract and graduate hiring at once. Each connection to an ATS, CRM or payroll system adds build and testing time, and regulated employers need compliance review cycles. We set dates once those factors are written into the scope, and we share progress through recorded demos throughout.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

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