How Generative AI Tripled Revenue with 85% fewer Recruiters for a
Contract Staffing Platform
Executive Summary
A U.S.-based contract staffing platform for bluecollar roles struggled with fragmented candidate data, manual vetting, and slow placements. Most job seekers lacked resumes or proper identification, making KYC validation and hiring painfully slow and costly.
A5E Consulting deployed a generative AI-powered system that digitized over 30,000 profiles, despite having minimal data on each candidate and their experience. It expanded KYC coverage 20x, cut placement cycles from two weeks to just 2–3 days, and a 30-member ops team was streamlined down to just four people. The company scaled placements rapidly while increasing revenue and strengthening customer trust.
Client Overview
Executive Summary
A U.S.-based contract staffing platform for bluecollar roles struggled with fragmented candidate data, manual vetting, and slow placements. Most job seekers lacked resumes or proper identification, making KYC validation and hiring painfully slow and costly.
A5E Consulting deployed a generative AI-powered system that digitized over 30,000 profiles, despite having minimal data on each candidate and their experience. It expanded KYC coverage 20x, cut placement cycles from two weeks to just 2–3 days, and a 30-member ops team was streamlined down to just four people. The company scaled placements rapidly while increasing revenue and strengthening customer trust.
Client Overview
The Business Challenge
Despite having a large, ready workforce, the client’s operations were bottlenecked by:
Unstructured, scattered data
Candidate details lived across call recordings, scanned documents, and informal notes
Inconsistent identities
Duplication and variations (e.g., “Jimmy Jackson,” “James Jackson III”) created record-matching challenges.
Manual placements
Hiring decisions took 7–15 days, frustrating employers and capping growth.
No resumes or IDs
Most workers had no formal work history or LinkedIn presence, making validation nearly impossible.
KYC gaps
With limited documentation, verifying even 70% of a candidate’s identity was difficult.
High background check costs
At scale, these costs became unsustainable for contract roles.
The company needed to quickly process large volumes of informal data into reliable, structured insights.
A5E’s Approach & Solution
A5E executed a four-phase generative AI implementation over 3 to 5 months, transforming the entire talent engine.
Custom Integrations Built
To process informal workforce data, A5E developed specialized data pipelines that pulled from city records, traffic systems, news organizations, various local events, and public databases. All inputs—calls, images, PDFs—were processed via GPT models, with Snowflake serving as the secure data backbone.
Accelerated Platform Adoption
This was a greenfield implementation with no legacy system constraints. A5E ensured rapid deployment, paired with focused training on unstructured data collection, AI-generated profiles, and the redesigned recruiter workflow, leading to quick adoption across teams. While AI agents were still in their infancy at the time, today’s far more capable agents can take over many of these tasks entirely.
Key Outcomes & Business Impact
Partnering with A5E enabled the client to scale faster, hire smarter, and reduce risk, turning a high-friction workflow into an intelligent, automated hiring engine.
Key Impact Metrics
The transition to SuccessFactors delivered powerful, measurable improvements:
| Metric | Before AI | After AI |
| Placement Time | 10–14 days | 1–3 days |
| Recruiter Efficiency | Manual screening | 3x improvement in efficiency 40% less time per hire |
| Operations team size | 30 recruiters | 4 recruiters (85%+ cost reduction) |
| KYC Coverage | ~4% verified | 80%+ verified |
| Data Usability | ~10% usable | 100% usable across 30,000+ profiles |
| Placement Accuracy | Low accuracy due to High mismatch risk | High accuracy from AI-driven trust scores & reference links |
With generative AI and custom-built data pipelines, A5E helped the client turn unstructured, low-trust candidate data into a scalable advantage. Employers gained instant access to trustworthy profiles, placements accelerated, and the hiring experience transformed from fragmented to frictionless. With cost savings and higher productivity on both sides, it was a win-win for everyone.
About A5E Consulting
A5E is a global consulting company partnering with clients to chart, build and deliver their Digital Transformation journey. We execute a blend of expert process consulting services and top-tier technology platforms at organizations making them more agile.
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