Klose Recruit gives small and mid market recruitment agencies the capability they usually only see in enterprise platforms. Founder Simone Titus, with Commercial Director Zach, has built an Australian all in one ATS, CRM, revenue and financial insights and agentic AI platform, at under A$100 per user, with quality and support designed for agency owners and directors.
The problem will be familiar to anyone who has run a boutique or growing recruitment agency. Many owners still work across a patchwork of tools. Candidate records live in one place, client relationships in another, and the fees, forecast and margin in a spreadsheet that is only as current as the last time someone updated it. By the time the picture is clear, the month has often already closed. The simple questions an agency owner should be able to answer at the end of a busy week are sitting in three different systems. What was the pipeline really worth? What would this month’s margin look like? Which roles were actually going to close?
Klose Recruit was built to keep that picture live, in one system. It is an Australian platform for the owners and directors of small and mid market recruitment agencies, bringing an applicant tracking system, a CRM, revenue and financial insights, and agentic AI together in one product. The aim is straightforward: give those agencies the capability they usually only see in enterprise platforms, at under A$100 per user, with quality and support designed around how a boutique or growing firm actually works.
“I was spending as much time stitching tools together as I was recruiting,” Simone says. “I wanted one system that ran the desk and showed me the numbers. It did not exist in a way that made sense for agencies like ours, so we built it.”
Klose Recruit was founded by Simone Titus and Zach, the company’s Commercial Director. The pair are recruiters first. The product, they say, was designed from the frustrations of the desk rather than from a brief written at a distance.
The platform runs a seven stage pipeline, from sourced to placed, with automations at each stage. Owners can see a weighted forecast, model fees, and work from a suite of more than 30 reports. Recruiters can search their own database, and the product includes tools to rewrite, redact and brand CVs. Kip, the platform’s AI assistant, is designed to take on the planning and admin that eats a desk’s day, so consultants can spend their time on the calls that actually move a role.
For the HR and business leaders who hire through those agencies, that design has a practical effect. When a firm runs its desk, its client relationships and its forecast from the same system, updates, shortlists and progress on a role are easier to keep current. Hiring managers are not waiting on an admin trail that lives in a separate tool, and agency partners can speak to the live state of a brief rather than to a spreadsheet that may already be out of date.
Simone is careful about where AI belongs. “Agentic AI is useful when the process and the data underneath it are sound,” she says. “It can plan the day and take the admin. It should not replace the judgement of a good recruiter.”
That point of view comes from having done the job. Klose Recruit is Australian built and, the founders stress, built by recruiters. The company was self funded. Features are held to a simple test. If a change does not help a consultant fill a role, or help an owner see the health of the business, it does not go in.
Zach leads the commercial side, talking to agency owners and directors about how they work today and what they need the system to do tomorrow. Together, Simone and Zach have positioned Klose for recruitment agencies in any industry, and for teams that want one system rather than a stack of tools that do not speak to one another.
“Agency owners tell us the same thing every week. They are paying for a pile of tools that do not talk to each other, and they still cannot see their numbers,” Zach says. “We give them the capability of a big platform at a price a small or mid market agency can actually justify, and we pick up the phone when they need us.”
That same conversation matters for HR. As AI arrives on the recruitment desk, businesses that hire through agencies will want to know how that AI is being used. The Klose view is that it should sit on top of clean data and sound process, and that the judgement of a good recruiter should stay at the centre of a placement. For a hiring leader, the promise is not a less human process. It is an agency that spends more of its time on the work that actually fills a role.
The commercial offer is deliberately simple. Pricing sits under A$100 per user, with a standard of quality and support that owners of a small or mid market agency can rely on. If an agency can run its desk, see its pipeline and forecast, and use AI on top of clean data, without assembling a patchwork of systems, the product is doing the job it was built to do.
About Klose Recruit
Klose Recruit is an ATS, CRM and revenue intelligence platform for boutique and growing recruitment agencies, in any industry. It was founded by Australian recruiters. www.getkloserecruit.com
