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Case study · Candidate sourcing

Time-to-shortlist from 3 weeks to 8 days.

A 5-recruiter Austin tech boutique stopped losing candidates to faster competitors. We took over sourcing on three roles.

Client
Boutique tech recruiting firm
5 recruiters · Austin, TX
Vertical
Software engineering
Senior + staff engineering
Service used
Candidate sourcing
3 active roles
Engagement length
Ongoing
Started Q4 2025
The challenge

Founder doing all the sourcing. Candidates slipping away.

The firm was winning retained work but losing candidates. The founder sourced every search herself. Recruiters were full on interviews. "Role open" to "first shortlist" stretched to 3 weeks. By then the best candidates were interviewing elsewhere.

A US sourcer meant $95K + three months of ramp. Offshore VAs delivered bulk-scraped names that didn't convert. She needed sourcing that was fast, hand-vetted, and loaded into Greenhouse same-day.

What Montazzo did

Three reqs. One sourcer. Weekly delivery cadence.

A dedicated sourcer with US tech recruiting experience embedded in their Greenhouse. LinkedIn Recruiter, hireEZ, Apollo. Three roles in parallel.

01

3 parallel roles

Senior Backend, Staff iOS, Engineering Manager. Each with its own target map and brief.

02

Contact + confirm interest

First-touch outreach before any Greenhouse load. Only confirmed-interested made the shortlist.

03

Weekly delivery

3–5 per role weekly into Greenhouse with scorecards. 9–15 warm candidates a week.

04

QA & calibration

Senior QA on every submission. Weekly sync to tighten briefs from interview feedback.

The outcome

Cycle time cut by more than half.

8 days
Avg time to first shortlist (from 3 weeks)
60%
Reduction in search cycle time
4
Placements closed in first quarter
$1,200
Monthly cost (3 roles)

"I was drowning in sourcing and losing candidates every week. Within 10 days of kickoff, Montazzo had loaded 11 warm candidates into Greenhouse across my three searches. Two of them are in final-round interviews now. This should have been obvious. I just didn't know a service like this existed."

Founder, boutique tech recruiting firm

Why it worked

Hand-vetted quality. Daily operating rhythm.

Speed wasn't the only difference. Quality was. Every candidate was researched, scored, and confirmed interested before the founder saw them. Recruiters skipped re-screening and went straight to outreach.

Three reqs for $1,200/month, a fraction of one US sourcer. Working in the first week, not the first quarter.

Send us one role. See the work.

Free trial on your first role. Strong list, we move to retainer. Not strong, you walk. Zero cost.