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Finance, sales, marketing, HR, operations and admin

Recruitment powered by AI.
Led by experienced recruiters.
A 10% fee.

Tell us who you're hiring. Sofee helps build the brief, finds candidates and works alongside an experienced recruiter through to offer.

Watch how Sofee works

No password needed. Your secure link opens a 15-minute conversation with Sofee.

Client outcome
"Compared to experiences I've had with other recruiters it was amazing."
Piers, Managing Director of Alpha Housing
Managing Director, Alpha Housing Hired a Finance Team Leader through Sofee
How it works

From 15 minutes on the phone to a human-approved shortlist.

No long form to fill in and nothing to install. Talk to Sofee about the role and the search starts.

Watch how Sofee works, from your first call to your hire. 75 seconds, no sound needed.

In short: a 15-minute call with Sofee starts the search, with or without a job description. You confirm the brief in your portal, and a named recruiter takes the role from there through to the offer. Sofee searches LinkedIn, job boards, specialist networks and people already known to us, contacts the people who fit and reviews every application, with your company name kept private until you say so. Your recruiter checks every candidate, speaks to the ones worth progressing and sends you the right few.

You choose who to meet. Candidates book straight into your calendar, and on video interviews Sofee can join and take the notes. Your recruiter speaks to candidates after each interview and handles the offer. You still decide who to hire.

Rarely needed, but available. The standard search contacts people who are already looking. If you want a recruiter proactively approaching people who aren't, for a confidential search or a hard-to-fill role, a headhunting upgrade is available on request.

About Sofee

Built on recruitment experience. Made for a different way of hiring.

Sofee was created by people who have spent years working in recruitment. We know how much time goes into finding the right candidates, and how much of that work can be made easier with the right technology.

We also know that finding someone who looks right on paper is only part of making a good hire.

1 Why

Why we built Sofee

Recruitment involves a lot of work before an employer ever sees a shortlist. Searching for candidates, reviewing CVs, checking experience, managing applications and keeping track of conversations all take time.

We began developing technology to handle more of that work, giving recruiters more time to focus on the people involved. That became Sofee.

2 What

What Sofee does

Today, Sofee uses AI to search for and match candidates across different sources, bringing potential matches together for an experienced recruiter to review.

Our recruiters check the results, consider candidates the technology may have missed and speak to people before recommending them to employers.

3 Who

The people behind Sofee

There's an experienced recruitment team behind Sofee, working alongside the technology on every search.

We believe technology can do more of the searching, organising and matching. Understanding what someone wants from their next job, recognising potential and having useful conversations still need a human touch.

We're a recruitment business that brought tech in. Not a tech business moving into recruitment. Twenty years of specialist hiring is what the AI is actually built on.
Nathan Connolly · Founder, Sofee & Consortia
Pricing

One price. Paid only when you hire.

No retainer, no subscription, no minimum. If we don't make the placement, you don't pay.

A typical agency charges 15% to 20% of salary and does the searching, screening and admin by hand. Sofee does that work with technology and keeps the recruiters for the conversations, which is why the fee is lower without the service being thinner.

Sofee · one fee
10% of the successful candidate's first-year base salary
Pay only when you hire.
  • A search that goes beyond the advert
  • Candidates matched to your role
  • A recruiter on every search
  • Candidates, interviews and notes in one place
  • Cancel a search any time
Start a search See how it works

15-minute call. No commitment.

One fee, whatever the role or level.

The standard search contacts people who are already looking. A headhunting upgrade, where a recruiter proactively approaches people who aren't, is available on request for confidential or hard-to-fill roles.

Who it's for

Hiring across the roles that keep a business running.

Finance, sales, marketing, HR, operations and administration. From your next administrator or executive assistant to a finance manager, marketing lead or head of operations, Sofee can run the search.

It suits businesses of around 20 to 200 people without a recruiter of their own, and in-house recruiters who want to hand over the roles they don't have time for.

Roles we hire for

Administration
Administrators, executive assistants, reception and office staff, customer service
Finance
Bookkeepers, accountants, finance managers
Sales
Sales executives, sales managers
Marketing
Marketing executives, marketing managers
HR
HR managers
Operations
Operations managers

Sofee is for you if:

  • You're spending hours on applications that were never close to what you asked for.
  • You've paid an agency fee before, and know you can get most of that outcome for less.
  • You want a wider search than one job board can give you.
  • You don't want it left to an algorithm. A recruiter puts together every shortlist before it reaches you.
  • You'd rather not hire under your own name. Sofee runs the advert and every reply, so candidates don't see your company until you choose.

Give Sofee a try

Run Sofee alongside your existing recruiter or process. If we find the hire, you've saved the difference. If we don't, you've spent nothing.

Start with one role
  • No fee unless we place. No retainer, no setup, no subscription. The only cost is your time on the 15-minute call.
  • A live benchmark. Run Sofee on a role an agency is already working and compare the shortlists side by side.
  • One role at a time. Each search stands on its own, with no commitment to keep going.
Built to be trusted

Built with the rules in mind.

24 months
In productionBuilt and proven inside Consortia before opening to clients. Live with paying clients across multiple sectors and salary bands.
DPIA-ready
Procurement-testedCandidates apply to Sofee, not into your stack. Data flows through Consortia as the employment agency. DPIA file shared on request.
EU AI Act
Human in the loop, by designA person reviews every candidate, including the ones the technology rates poorly. No fully automated hiring decisions. The reasoning behind each match is kept on file.
90 days
Automatic deletionCandidate data is deleted automatically after 90 days. Subject access requests handled as standard.
Common questions

Questions we get asked.

How long has this been running?

24 months in production inside Consortia before we opened it to clients. Currently live with paying clients across multiple sectors and salary bands.

What do your recruiters actually do?

They check every candidate that comes through, including the ones Sofee rates as a weak match, and decide who to put forward. They speak to candidates before and after each interview, write the approach when we contact someone directly, and step in on the offer. The conversations are still had by people.

Do we need to connect an ATS or install anything?

No. There is nothing to install or integrate. You talk to Sofee about the role, the search runs, and you see candidates, interviews and notes in the Sofee portal.

What about our data protection review?

Sofee is run by Consortia, an employment agency. Candidates apply to us, not into your stack. We share our DPIA file on request. Clients in regulated sectors have already taken Sofee through procurement and compliance review.

Will candidates know it's us hiring?

Not unless you want them to. Sofee advertises and contacts candidates under its own name, and every applicant is accepted or turned down through the Sofee portal. Your company isn't named until you decide to share it.

What if your AI gets it wrong?

It can. That's why a recruiter checks every candidate, and the reasoning behind each match, before anything reaches you. You can see why each candidate was put forward and ask about any decision.

What if a hire doesn't work out?

Sliding-scale rebate over 8 weeks. Credit applied to your next search. Standard terms shared on request.

Will it work for our niche or sensitive role?

The harder the role is to fill, the more the advert and the recruiter's conversations matter. We've placed across regulated financial services, restricted-sector marketing and roles that don't sound exciting on paper. Sofee drafts the advert from your call and a recruiter writes the approach to candidates. The fee is the same.

Ready when you are

Start with one role. Tell Sofee what you need.

Three quick fields. We'll email you a secure link. The portal opens a 15-minute call with Sofee. If it doesn't feel right on the first call, we won't start the search.

We'll email you a secure link. The portal opens a 15-minute call with Sofee.