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Scout · AI sourcing agent

Turn Role Context Into a Better Candidate Search

Scout interprets skills, seniority, domain context, and career evidence to search ConnectDevs' published 800M+ public-profile talent graph—then gives recruiters the ranked evidence to review.

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Human-reviewed
Evidence-linked
Source to screen

From Approved Role Brief to Human-Reviewed Shortlist

Scout discovers candidates, Pilot runs approved outreach, and SAM gathers structured interview evidence. Your team reviews every handoff and owns every decision.

Start

Role Context Approved

Your team defines the role, constraints, and job-related evidence before any agent acts.

Discovery + engagement

Agents Move the Workflow Forward

Scout ranks candidate evidence while Pilot runs the outreach your team approved.

Scout

Discovery

Interpreting role context. Searching 800M+ public profiles. Ranking evidence for recruiter review.

SEARCH_ACTIVE
ACTIVE

Pilot

Engagement

Running approved outreach. Tracking campaign replies. Routing interested candidates to the next step.

SAM

Structured Screen

Human review

Conducting role-specific early interviews and compiling reviewable candidate evidence.

evidence = collect(responses); requestHumanReview(evidence);

Human review

You Review the Shortlist

Candidate evidence, campaign context, and SAM interview records arrive together for accountable review.

STATUS: READY FOR REVIEW

Evidence-Backed Shortlist

Discovery

Scout

Engagement

Pilot

Screening

SAM

AI sourcing agent

What an AI Sourcing Agent Should Do Before Outreach

An AI sourcing agent turns a role brief into a repeatable search, finds potentially relevant active and passive candidates, explains the evidence behind fit, and helps a recruiter refine criteria before anyone is contacted.

The value is not simply replacing a Boolean string with a prompt. A useful sourcing agent preserves the role's constraints, separates observed profile data from inferred fit, supports iterative refinement, and makes it easy to review why a person appeared.

From role brief to approved outreach list

StepScout supportsRecruiter verifiesOutput
DefineParse skills, scope, seniority, and contextJob relevance and must-havesApproved search brief
DiscoverSearch and rank profilesEvidence and exclusionsReviewed candidate batch
EnrichAdd selected profile contextProvenance and freshnessContactable candidate record
HandoffPrepare selected candidates for PilotAudience and messagingApproved outreach list

How is Scout different from keyword search?

Keyword search requires the recruiter to predict the exact terms candidates used. Scout can consider role meaning, adjacent skills, seniority, industry context, and career patterns, which can surface plausible candidates whose profiles do not mirror the job description.

What evidence should a recruiter inspect?

  • Current and prior role scope rather than title alone.
  • Projects, systems, or outcomes related to the hiring need.
  • Source and observation date for enriched profile fields.
  • Uncertainty, missing context, and reasons for the model's ranking.

When should Scout hand off to Pilot and SAM?

After a recruiter approves a candidate batch and outreach plan, Pilot can run the campaign. Interested candidates can then move to SAM when a structured early interview is appropriate. The same approved role context should inform all three stages.

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FAQ

Questions About AI sourcing agent

Direct answers about capabilities, control, evidence, and the role of human review.

Does agentic AI recruiting make the final hiring decision?

No. ConnectDevs supports sourcing, outreach, enrichment, and structured early screening. Hiring teams remain responsible for role criteria, candidate communication, evidence review, accommodations, legal compliance, and final decisions.

What is the ConnectDevs agent workflow?

Scout discovers and ranks candidates from role context, Pilot runs approved outreach and classifies campaign replies, and SAM conducts structured early interviews. The stages share context so recruiters can review a more coherent source-to-shortlist record.

Can teams use Scout, Pilot, or SAM separately?

Yes. Each stage can support a narrower workflow, while the strongest agentic pattern connects discovery, engagement, and structured screening with clear human checkpoints between them.

Can an AI sourcing agent replace recruiter judgment?

No. It can expand discovery and organize evidence, but recruiters should validate the brief, inspect why candidates were ranked, correct false matches, and approve who is contacted.

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