VIGOLABS

Recruitment tools & process automation · built by recruiters

The recruitment stack, built by people who actually recruit.

30+ years combined on the desk, running our own successful agency. We've used every CRM and ATS going — and frankly, most are outdated and not fit for purpose. So we stopped hacking ours to fit our workflow, and built the tools we always wanted.

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  • 6 tools, one stack
  • MCP-native by design
  • AI-ready, not AI-dependent

The problem

You know the feeling.

Constantly bending your CRM to your workflow instead of the other way round — from systems that are generic, dated, and built by people who’ve never worked a desk.

And you’re sick of…

  • fighting one tool to make it fit the way you actually work
  • juggling a dozen disconnected tools, each with its own login and its own bill
  • being tied to a single AI provider, with no say over the model — or your data
  • long lock-in contracts that outlast the software’s usefulness

One stack. One login. Your AI, your terms. No lock-in.

Our AI stance

AI-ready.
Not AI-dependent.

Every provider in recruitment is pushing AI right now. Here's the flaw most won't mention: they bake a single AI model deep into their system. You don't get a choice of model. You don't know what happens to your data. And when the real cost of AI lands — or when that one model goes down — your workflows, your users, and your bill are all hostage to someone else's decision.

Every VigoLabs tool is built on an MCP layer — the open standard that lets any AI talk to your data, securely and on your terms. Point your favourite LLM at it, use our built-in models, or run both. The choice is yours, not ours.

Your favourite LLM orBuilt-in models orBoth

Portable

Swap models whenever you like — or run without one. You're never locked to a single provider, including ours.

Resilient

Your tools don't break when a model does. The stack keeps working; AI is a layer you control, not a dependency you're shackled to.

Private

Your data doesn't leave without your say-so. You choose the model, the terms, and what it's ever allowed to see.

The stack

Six tools. One system of record.

A tech stack that's bespoke to recruitment, because we built it for ourselves first. Everything hangs off VIGO CRM, every tool speaks MCP — one login, no juggling providers, no lock-in.

VIGO CRM

Live

The system of record, done right.

The spine of the stack. Candidates, jobs, signals, search and pipeline — built the way recruiters actually work, so you're navigating and searching the way your brain already does. Everything else plugs straight into it.

Recruiter-first workflows Built around how a desk actually runs
Every entity you work Candidates, contacts, companies, leads, jobs, placements, signals
Cross-entity relationships Everything linked, the way your market actually connects
CV parsing Drop a CV, get a working record
CV, note & activity vectoring Makes search run on steroids
Search, four ways Classic boolean, AI semantic, filters — or build it out in Claude via MCP
Geocoding Every record on the map, radius search that works
Rich profile links Don't just send a CV — send a detailed profile overview, with CTAs
Rich job links Jobs as shareable pages, not attachments
Applicant management Handle every applicant in one place
Inbound signals Capture and work every signal coming in
Job board integration Coming soon
API integration Plug the CRM into anything
MCP connector Your AI, wired straight into your data
VIGO CRM — candidates workspace with tabs, saved views, filters and global search

STRIX

Live

Analytics for recruiters.

Let's be honest — most built-in CRM analytics is, frankly, shit. Strix isn't. Build your own metrics and track them, filter by user, team or company, and read the room at a glance: stat cards with trends up or down, ratios, insights, leaderboards and records. Connect the MCP tool and ask Claude "did we have a good week? who hit target?" — and watch it unfold.

Custom metrics Track anything, straight from your CRM
Dashboards Your numbers, at a glance
Ratios What converts — and what doesn't
Trends Up or down, spotted early
Leaderboards Who's winning the week
Records Best-evers, waiting to be beaten
Funnel performance See exactly where deals fall out
MCP connector Ask your AI about your numbers
Filter by user Drill into any recruiter
Filter by team Great for managers
Filter by client Pinpoint effort vs reward
Strix dashboard — custom metric stat cards with targets and trends
Strix leaderboards — any metric, any timeframe, side by side

Free for VIGO CRM customers · Integrates with VIGO CRM · RecruiterFlow · more coming · Strix TV — soon

YOUR WEBSITE

Bespoke

Your front door should work for you.

Most recruitment websites are generic and, frankly, unfit for purpose — a brochure that just sits there. So ask yourself: does yours actually capture your audience and deliver revenue? When a client searches for a recruiter in your niche, where do you rank on Google — and do the major LLMs cite you as an authority? We built ours to do all three, with landing pages that push signals straight into the CRM. And guess what — it works.

  • SEO & LLM authority
  • Landing pages → CRM signals
  • Full control
  • Bespoke build

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ECHO

Live

Record & transcribe calls on any platform.

WhatsApp, FaceTime, Teams — if the call happens on your computer, Echo captures it. Set your own call types (candidate, qualification, BD, client discovery), auto-summarise, and log the notes straight back to your CRM. Hit record, hit finish, done. What it unlocks: hours of admin saved, real consistency, coaching tailored to each recruiter, market sentiment and intel — and any lead uncovered mid-call fires straight into your CRM. Cool, eh?

Record any call Windows or Mac — if it happens on your computer, Echo captures it
Transcription Every word, captured
Call categoriser Your own call types, auto-applied
Call summaries Never miss the key information again
Push to CRM Summaries land in notes or activities, automatically
Lead generation Leads uncovered mid-call fire straight into your CRM
Update custom fields Keep CRM fields current from the call itself
Custom prompts Use ours, or make your own
Listen back Replay your calls — or your team’s
AI coaching Tailored to each recruiter, from their real calls
Relationship summaries Analyse your last five calls with any candidate or client
Market sentiment & intel What’s going on across the markets you work, business-wide
Echo call detail — summary and searchable transcript, with push to CRM and follow-up email actions
Echo My Calls — recorded calls with types, durations and processed status

Integrates with VIGO CRM · RecruiterFlow · more to follow

SMARTHIRE

Live

Market intelligence with teeth.

Like LinkedIn Talent Insights — if it had a baby with John Wick. See where talent actually sits, how it's moving, and who's hiring, losing and promoting across your market. Put every candidate in your patch on a map, learn what really makes the market tick, and walk into client meetings with genuine gravitas — real insight, not guesswork. We built it for BMS & Smart Buildings; you'd run it across your market, fed from your own data.

Live talent mapping Where talent actually is
Movement tracking How talent is moving
Competitor insight Who you're up against
Company deep dives Inside individual employers
Market analytics What the market is doing

414+ verified moves tracked in our own market across 24 months — proof it works before you point it at yours.

SmartHire movers overview — total movements, promotions and top companies joined and left
SmartHire year-on-year movement trends and cumulative movers
SmartHire talent map — every candidate in your patch, mapped

Integrates with VIGO CRM · RecruiterFlow · more coming

VIGO OS

Live · Whitelabel

The operational layer, done for you.

Forecasting, cashflow, revenue, marketing — for most agencies it's death by spreadsheet. VIGO OS is the home for the operational side of your business, whitelabelled to your brand. No more scattered tabs and formulas held together with hope. It just works.

Monthly mission One team-wide goal, every month
Brand HQ Values, vision, purpose, content pillars & your UVP — visible to everyone in the business
SOP catalogue How your business runs, in one place
Marketing Manage LinkedIn content across all staff, from one place
Intel Everything happening across the markets you work
Boardroom Forecasting, cashflow, revenue & placements, contractor management, contracts
Bespoke Shaped around your business needs

VIGO REACH

Coming soon

Multichannel sequencing.

WhatsApp campaigns, LinkedIn DMs and connection requests at scale — outreach that runs in the background while you work the desk. One sequence, every channel, no tab-juggling.

  • WhatsApp campaigns
  • LinkedIn DMs
  • Connections at scale

Consultancy & process automation

We don't just sell you tools.
We build around your desk.

The done-for-you arm of VigoLabs. Buy the stack, or have us build and automate around you — usually both. Sold as bespoke projects, scoped founder-to-founder.

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Process automation Bespoke workflows and custom agentic workflows composed over your MCP surface: capture inbound, mine the database, draft outreach — with the CRM staying the source of truth. Because the stack is MCP-native, automation means composing agents over real data, not brittle plumbing.
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Bespoke websites SEO and LLM-authority built in, with landing pages that feed signals straight into your CRM. Your front door, finally working for you.
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Whitelabelled ops — VIGO OS The operational layer — forecasting, cashflow, revenue, marketing — built for your business and whitelabelled to your brand.
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Custom builds If you can describe the workflow, we can build it. If it doesn't exist yet, that's usually the reason to talk to us.

Let’s talk

Sick of fighting your tools?

We're rolling this out to a handful of agencies first. If you run a desk and you're done hacking your CRM to make it behave, we'd love to show you what we built.

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