Talk to your recruiting.
Describe the role in a conversation. Receive a shortlist where every profile comes with its case made, reviewed by a headhunter. The best candidates are approached on your behalf — every word signed off by a human.
Your search lives in a conversation.
Launch a search, ask where it stands, browse your shortlist, give your take on a profile — and trigger the approach on the candidates you approve. All by writing, from your browser or your phone. A-Player connects to Claude, your AI assistant: no dashboard to learn, no extra software.
Coming soon: the same conversation on WhatsApp — text your recruiting the way you text your team.
Your shortlist is ready — 6 profiles, each argued against your criteria. The strongest match:
8 yrs distributed systems · led a 40M-req/day platform migration · maintains a widely-used open-source tooling library.
Want me to walk you through the other five, or flag this one for approach?
Done — approach opened for M. D. Your headhunter is drafting a personal message; it goes out once a human has signed it off. I'll tell you here the moment he replies.
Three moves. Human judgment at every one.
Describe.
A conversation, not a form: paste the job description or explain the need in your own words. The right questions come to you, one at a time.
Receive.
Your shortlist arrives in hours, not weeks. Every profile comes with its why: the role's criteria verified one by one, evidence attached — plus a technical read of public work for engineering roles.
Meet.
On the profiles you approve, we open the approach: verified professional contact, a personal message written for that specific candidate, measured follow-ups. You receive engaged conversations, not a list of names.
At every step, a headhunter decides. The machinery prepares, searches, analyzes, drafts — a human reads, corrects, and signs. Nothing is delivered to you, and not a word goes out to a candidate, without human sign-off.
Meet the humansIt reasons before it searches.
Most sourcing tools start from the keywords in your job post. A-Player runs on a reasoning engine layered over the latest search technologies: it first turns your brief into a structured analysis — business goal, success criteria, failure risks, adjacent and transferable capabilities — and the search flows from that reasoning, not the other way around. That's how it finds the great operator whose job title doesn't match.
Evidence, not vibes.
Every step produces structured, verifiable output. Facts are always separated from inferences — you know what was observed and what was deduced. A raw chatbot never gives you that guarantee.
A real search plan, not suggestions.
For each role, the engine builds a concrete plan: which sources to query for this role and why, what signal quality to expect, and ready-to-run query families — executed across several specialized search engines working in concert.
Scoring that stays alive.
Candidate evaluation is never cached: every score is a fresh, up-to-date reasoning pass against your criteria. Only the market intelligence around the role is reused, for speed.
It learns — under control.
Real outcomes (interviews, offers, hires) feed back into the engine through explicit, bounded, reversible adjustments. No silent drift: every change is traceable — and a human signs off.
Two tiers. One standard.
The argued Shortlist.
Multi-channel sourcing, every profile analyzed against your criteria, ranked, human-reviewed, delivered by email and in conversation. One search = one role.
The mandated Approach.
We contact the profiles you approve, on your behalf: verified professional email, a "Personal & Confidential" message written on the candidate's actual work, controlled follow-ups, immediate stop at the first reply, GDPR-native compliance. Your candidates arrive as meetings.
A recent search, for real.
Role: Founding Engineer, infrastructure ecosystem. Within 48 hours: a shortlist of engineers behind reference open-source tooling, every profile argued criterion by criterion. First conversations engaged the same week.
Why this profile matches — your criteria, verified one by one:
- 5+ yrs backend at scale8 yrs, 2 platforms past 10M users
- Production GoPrimary language since 2021, public repos
- Event-driven architectureKafka migration, wrote the ADRs
- Based in / open to ParisParis-based, hybrid preferred
- Fluent EnglishSignals strong, to verify in first call
Hello,
Your shortlist for Founding Engineer is ready: 6 profiles, each reviewed by your headhunter and argued against your criteria.
Reply to this email with your feedback — it sharpens the next batch.
Headhunters, not robots.
Behind every search: partners with three decades of executive search between them, placing exceptional talent since 2018. They review every shortlist and sign off on every message before anything reaches you or a candidate.
Meet them
Currently by invitation.
A-Player is rolling out with a first circle of clients. Every search is scoped live, together — let's talk about your role.
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