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Codeeo offers AI recruitment software development Manchester employers and agencies can use to handle graduate intakes, creative and digital hiring, and large volumes of shift work without losing sight of fairness. We build candidate apps, portfolio and skills screening, scheduling, and recruiter dashboards for organisations across the city centre, Salford Quays, Trafford Park and the airport, all designed to meet UK GDPR, the Equality Act 2010 and Home Office right to work rules.
We are not based in Manchester. Codeeo's team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and collaborates with Greater Manchester clients remotely. Discovery sessions, design reviews and launch planning all happen by video call, with recordings kept for anyone who misses one.
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Capabilities
Manchester's hiring mix is unusually broad for one city region. Three large universities, the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan and the University of Salford, feed a steady flow of graduates and part time student workers. MediaCityUK in Salford draws broadcasters, production companies and digital agencies that hire on portfolios and short contracts. Spinningfields and the streets around St Peter's Square house law, finance and professional services firms. Trafford Park and the airport depend on warehouse, ground handling and logistics staff working around the clock. Every AI feature is labelled so candidates know when software is involved.
Each of these hires differently, so the capabilities below are modules rather than one fixed product. We start with the hiring route that costs your recruiters the most time.
Application forms built around strengths and situational questions instead of degree classification alone, with AI grouping answers by theme for assessors to score. Large graduate schemes can move thousands of applications to assessment without anyone reading the same generic cover letter twice, while every scoring decision stays with a trained assessor.
Assessment centre places filled with better evidenced candidates.
For production, design and digital roles around Salford Quays, candidates submit links or uploads that the platform organises by discipline, credit and software used. Reviewers get a tagged gallery and can compare like with like, rather than opening dozens of tabs from an email inbox. Reviewers can score against criteria agreed before the role opened, and those scores travel with the candidate if they apply again.
Creative shortlists judged on the work itself.
Many part time applicants in Manchester hold Student visas, which usually limit working hours during term time. The platform records the permission confirmed in the right to work check, holds term dates you supply and warns rota managers before a shift would push someone over their limit.
Fewer accidental breaches of visa work conditions.
Matching for warehouse, ground handling and logistics roles that weighs shift pattern, start location and travel options for early and night starts, when public transport is thin. Candidates choose shifts they can actually reach, and dispatch and site managers see who is available for each pattern.
Fewer no shows on early and overnight shifts.
A referral route for candidates coming from colleges, training providers and Greater Manchester skills programmes, so their course record and the provider's contact sit with the application. Employers can track how referred candidates progress and give useful feedback back to the provider. Over time this shows which partnerships produce hires who stay.
Partnerships with training providers that are measurable.
A talent pool for freelancers who work project to project, recording availability windows, rates they have agreed with you previously and past credits. When a new production or campaign starts, producers search the pool and send booking requests in a few clicks, with consent for each contact recorded.
Crews assembled from people you already trust.
Online booking for group exercises, interviews and tests, whether you host them at your own Manchester offices or run them by video. Assessors are assigned automatically, candidates receive joining details and adjustment requests reach a coordinator before the day, so a candidate who needs extra time or a quiet room gets it without having to ask twice.
Assessment days that run to time with fewer gaps.
Share code checks through the Home Office online service, identity service provider checks for British and Irish passport holders, and manual checks with copies stored safely. Evidence is linked to the hire and expiry dates trigger follow up checks. Site managers see a simple cleared or pending flag.
Statutory excuse evidence ready for any inspection.
Stage by stage pass rates broken down by voluntarily disclosed characteristics, kept separate from the hiring decision, with alerts when a gap opens. Useful for employers signed up to the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter who want evidence that their hiring is open to everyone.
Evidence of fair hiring rather than a statement of intent.
Status updates, interview reminders and feedback sent by app notification, email or text, using templates the AI personalises from recruiter notes. Every message is approved by a person before it goes, and marketing style job alerts follow consent recorded under PECR. Rejections include short, specific feedback where your policy allows it.
Applicants who always know where they stand.
Who this is for
We see the strongest case for AI tools where an organisation in Greater Manchester faces high volumes, short notice or specialist judgement that recruiters struggle to apply consistently. The software takes over sorting and admin, and people keep the decisions. Here is what that looks like in four common settings, each built on the same core of fair screening, clear candidate communication and complete right to work records. What changes between them is the order in which modules are built and how much of the work the AI takes on.
Employers who recruit heavily from Manchester's universities run intense annual cycles: applications open in autumn, assessment runs through winter, and offers go out against competing schemes. A custom AI recruitment software development Manchester graduate teams can configure themselves lets them change questions each year, report on outcomes by university and background, and keep candidates engaged during the long gap between offer and start date. Assessors score inside the same system, so moderation meetings start from comparable evidence rather than notes. Offer holders receive updates, onboarding tasks and event invitations through the app until their first day, which cuts reneges in the summer months.
Configuration means no developer is needed for each new cycle.
Studios and production companies around MediaCityUK hire on credits, portfolios and personal networks, which can quietly narrow who gets considered. Structured portfolio review, a searchable freelancer pool and transparent criteria open roles to talent outside the usual circle, while still letting producers move quickly when a commission lands and a crew is needed within days. Credits and past bookings live with each freelancer's profile, and the studio decides who can view them. Rates stay out of the matching logic so that past pay does not decide future opportunity.
Operators at Trafford Park, the airport and the distribution sites around the M60 hire in large numbers for physically demanding shifts, often with peaks before Christmas. They need a short mobile application, quick right to work checks, shift matching and induction booking. Clever ranking matters far less than speed and reliability, so that is where we put the effort. Induction slots fill automatically, and site managers see who has completed checks before the first shift. Rehiring seasonal staff from last year takes a tap rather than a new application.
Speed to first shift is the measure that counts.
Manchester agencies often cover the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester and the towns beyond, filling temporary and permanent roles side by side. We build matching that understands commute and shift pattern, a consultant dashboard that keeps compliance steps visible, and client portals where hiring managers approve candidates without phone tag. The agency keeps control of its data and models. Temporary placements and permanent roles share one candidate record, so a good temp is easy to put forward for a permanent role. Compliance documents carry expiry reminders so nothing lapses between placements.
How we work together
Most Manchester organisations start with a fixed scope release for one hiring route and then move to a retainer covering monitoring, model reviews and features for the next season. Employers with big annual cycles, such as graduate recruiters, often time releases around their calendar so nothing changes mid campaign. Product companies building recruitment software for sale can take a dedicated team. As an AI recruitment software development company Manchester clients reach remotely, we keep everything in writing: scope, decisions, demos and handover notes. If your plans change halfway through a season, the written scope makes it easy to see what moves, what it affects and what stays fixed.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Frameworks, hosting and AI models are chosen around your security requirements and in house skills, with UK hosting available. Our AI recruitment software developers Manchester teams work with document the stack so your own IT staff or another supplier can maintain it later, and nothing in the build ties you to a single AI vendor.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Candidate apps, screening and matching, scheduling and recruiter dashboards, chosen to suit your hiring routes.
A graduate employer may need strengths based forms and assessor scoring tools, while a logistics operator needs shift matching and quick right to work checks. Creative studios usually want portfolio review and a freelancer pool. Discovery tells us which route costs you the most time, and that becomes the first release. The rest can follow once the first part is in use and producing results. Most Manchester clients begin with whichever route has the largest volume or the longest delay.
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