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For recruitment agencies

Every candidate, culture-matched.
Every recruiter, a talent architect.

Compono is an applicant tracking system (ATS) and recruitment CRM for agencies: smaller to mid-sized firms that win on placement quality. Every candidate is culture-matched against the client's best people, so you present evidence instead of instinct.

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Andrew Banks on the AI arms race in recruitment

Andrew Banks on the AI arms race

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Four things that go wrong for an agency

The placement falls over around month four

46%

of new hires fail within 18 months

SourceLeadership IQ, Why New Hires Fail

The arms race: AI resumes against AI screeners

74%

of job seekers in the United States use AI in their search

SourceGreenhouse, AI in Hiring Report 2025

The new recruiter the client does not trust yet

93%

of talent acquisition professionals say accurate skills assessment improves quality of hire

SourceLinkedIn, The Future of Recruiting 2025

You get compared on fee and turnaround

13%

of employers hiring in 2025 used a recruitment agency

SourceJobs and Skills Australia, REOS spotlight: methods and successful methods of recruitment, 2026

Everything a good system tracks.
And what only Compono finds.

Compono Hire

An applicant tracking system (ATS) that proves the match

  • Like any ATSPosting to SEEK and LinkedIn, candidates and stages
  • And what only Compono findsHow every candidate fits the client's best people

See how Compono Hire works 

Compono Engage

An employee engagement platform that maps the client's team

  • Like any engagement platformEngagement scores and response rates
  • And what only Compono findsHow the top performers work, and the team's strengths and gaps

See how Compono Engage works 

All recruitment companies could significantly increase their revenue line if they used Compono's culture-matching tech.

Andrew Banks

Andrew Banks, investor in Compono, founder of Morgan & Banks and co-founder of Talent2

The recruitment tool you run, plus the fit you couldn't see

Compono Hire · Candidate match
Senior account manager25 candidates
AOA. OkaforAccount manager88%Strong fit
Culture FitHigh · The organisation91
Job FitHigh · The role86
Work Personality FitHigh · The team90
Skills and qualsMedium · The CV74
Compono Hire · Pipeline
Senior accountantPipeline
Applied25
Shortlist8
Interview4
Offer2
Hired1
AOA. OkaforWork personality1 of 8Campaigner
Campaigner

Same type as five of the client’s top performers in this role. Two-sided, so the blind spots come with it.

Posting, candidates and pipeline, with culture-fit intelligence on every candidate

Ready to see the fit on your next brief?

Tell us the brief and the client. We will show you how a culture match runs inside Compono Hire, on a shortlist like yours.

Wherever you operate

Written for an agency in Sydney or Auckland, and it reads the same way when you place into Singapore or London.

What it isAustralia and New ZealandEverywhere else
Where your data sitsBuilt and hosted in Australia and New ZealandData stays hosted in Australia and New Zealand wherever you place
Where the roles goSEEK, LinkedIn and the major Australian and New Zealand job boards, from HireThe same posting flow covers the boards you already use in other markets
How clients see the evidenceA fit report per candidate that you can send ahead of the shortlist or present in the debriefThe same report, in every market you work
How it is pricedA flat platform fee plus a fee per recruiterThe same two-part price wherever your recruiters sit

What it costs

Agencies pay a flat platform fee plus a per-recruiter fee: under 10 recruiters is circa $3.5k to $8.5k AUD a year.

See pricing by size band 

One platform, one engine.

Hire, Engage, Develop and Assure run on one validated behavioural science engine, so the read you take on a candidate is the same read the client gets on the team that person joins. A culture profile you take once keeps working on the next brief, and the one after that. People decisions backed by behavioural science and AI.

See how the platform works 

Compono Hire

A. Okafor, senior account manager

Culture Fit91%
Job Fit86%

88% overall fit

Compono Engage

Delivery team, 16 of 16 responded

InnovativeRisk Averse
ResponsivePlanned
CurrentDesired2 of 12 shown

3 of 12 dimensions misaligned

Compono Develop

Site supervisor, 42 people in the role

Safety leadership88%
Coaching others44%

68% capability held

Compono Assure

Working at heights, 38 people hold it

Verified competency recordCurrent

Renewal due 14 Mar 2028

Four products, one behavioural science engine.

We can be your ATS. We're just more than that.

Tell us the briefs you are working on and where the placements fall over. We will show you the fit that used to be a vibe, for every candidate you place. Talk to a talent architect.

  • Fill in the form and pick a time that suits you.
  • A short video call with someone who knows agency recruitment.
  • We show you a culture match on a shortlist, and answer whatever you bring.
  • No deck. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.
Andrew Banks, investor in Compono

Andrew BanksInvestor in Compono. Founded Morgan & Banks, co-founded Talent2.

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Common questions

Yes. We can be your ATS. We're just more than that: every candidate you run through it is behaviourally profiled and culture-matched to your client, which is the part clients remember at renewal.

Smaller to mid-sized agencies that win on placement quality. If your pitch is better matches rather than more volume, this is the system that backs the pitch.

Most ATS platforms manage the hiring process. Compono does that and profiles the people in it. Lyre's used it to scale from 4 to 70 people across 5 continents in 2 years without losing quality or fit.

You send the client a link and ask their best people to complete a profile. It takes under ten minutes, and you end up holding a picture of how that business actually works. Every candidate for the role is compared against it at the top end of the funnel, before anyone screens a resume, so you can tell the client a candidate is a 93% fit to their best people and show them why.

No. The culture match sits before you screen a CV, so it runs while you are still sourcing. Candidates complete it online in a few minutes, and the ranking is waiting when you open the pipeline. What it does save is the hour you would spend arguing a shortlist through.

Agencies pay a flat platform fee plus a per-recruiter fee: under 10 recruiters is circa $3.5k to $8.5k AUD a year. Most agencies carry it inside the placement fee. The bands are published, so you see the same numbers everyone else sees.

See pricing 

Yes, as an option. Hey Compono gives every candidate AI interview prep as part of your placement service. They practise on their own time and you see who is ready before the client does.

See AI candidate prep for recruiters 

Want to sense-check if Compono fits?

Ask ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity to compare Compono with a standard ATS or recruitment CRM. One click, and the question is already written.

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Two-minute story

Hunch or evidence? See the fit before you read a CV.

Walk through how a recruiter builds the evidence for a hire: one link to the client's top performers, a benchmark built from how they work, and every applicant ranked against it.

Six screens, one quick pick, about two minutes. No email.

See how it works
Hunch or evidence? A two-minute story for recruiters, showing a ranked candidate shortlist

Every candidate, interview-ready

Add AI interview prep for every candidate.

A CV review and a five-minute pep call is all the prep most agencies can give at the volume they place. Hey Compono gives every candidate real interview coaching, delivered as part of your placement service.

They practise on their own time. You see who is ready. Better-prepared candidates land better placements, and fewer fall over.

See AI candidate prep

Hey Compono · Practice interview

JM
J. MercerSenior account manager · Question 3 of 8
ReadyCoach’s read
“Tell me about a client you lost, and what you did next.”

Coach feedback Clear structure. Say what the outcome was in numbers, and cut the preamble.