Hundreds of new AI tools have emerged that claim to transform the recruiting process. But which ones can actually benefit a high-touch executive search?

We believe that any tool you use should align with your process and help you create immediate, ongoing value to your clients. PeopleGPT, Quil, and SourceWhale are 3 standout AI tools you can use with Clockwork to boost performance during key stages of executive search, including business development, research, outreach, and assessment.

Learn more about how each tool can help take your searches to the next level. Watch demo videos of each Clockwork integration at the links below.

PeopleGPT

PeopleGPT uses AI to accelerate the research phase of executive search by pulling from multiple data sources to surface hard-to-find candidates. While other tools might stop at simple job and skills matching, PeopleGPT can help you diversify your talent pipeline, find best-fit candidates you may have missed, and present them to clients faster.

Level up your process by: 

• Using natural language processing to filter for search-specific criteria, industry data, core competencies, target company demographics, and more
• Searching 30+ data sources—including Clockwork—to surface any known candidates and relationships that may have been overlooked
• Sourcing accurate and validated contact data
• Adding candidates directly onto a search project to build a longlist across platforms

Using PeopleGPT along with Clockwork empowers you to leave no stone unturned in your research on best-fit candidates while keeping those candidates within a single system—making your database unbeatable. You can add a refined talent pool of high-value candidates directly to a search in just a few minutes, present your top candidates to clients with total confidence, and leverage that talent pool in future searches within Clockwork. See the Clockwork integration in action here. 

Quil

If you’re busy typing notes during important client and candidate conversations, it’s difficult to be fully present and deliver the best possible consultative experience. Designed to help executive recruiters save admin time and pay deeper attention to clients and candidates, Quil is an AI-powered platform that generates, formats, and summarizes automated meeting notes for any type of call. Help your team standardize their notes from every search by creating templates for different call types that feed directly into search projects with minimal work required.

Level up your process with: 

• AI-powered note-taking that adapts to meeting types like screening calls, candidate interviews, business development meetings, and status calls
• Branded virtual meeting assistant to deliver a high-touch, confidential experience to both candidates and clients
• Ability to listen, detect, and capture what matters most from each call
• Automation to generate conversation notes and next steps, then post them back to the relevant contact’s record within Clockwork to reduce duplicate work
• Uniform formatting for all automated synopses, reducing inconsistencies across notes
• Launching a call or meeting straight from Clockwork

With the combination of Quil and Clockwork, you can automatically capture meeting notes tailored to the needs of your search, enrich your projects and the contacts in your database with important context, and ensure your notes are just as dialed-in as your search process across your team. Join the growing number of Clockwork users getting valuable time back by adding Quil to their search firm’s tool kit. Take a deeper look at Quil here.

SourceWhale

Hyper-personalized 1:1 outreach is a critical part of executive search, and it’s important to find ways to streamline your efforts in the outreach stage without compromising the authenticity or effectiveness of your communications. SourceWhale helps you build automated outreach campaigns across email, SMS, and LinkedIn—and sync this activity back to Clockwork.

Level up your process by: 

• Reaching out to targets with a multi-step, multi-channel, highly-personalized mix of emails, LinkedIn messages, personalized text messages, and more
• Writing for outreach campaigns using generative AI, including sentiment prompts to help refine tone
• Posting all outreach and communication activities directly back to a contact’s record in Clockwork to track, audit, and review outreach performance
• Automating business development outreach in addition to candidate communications
• Performance analytics to help you optimize outreach cadence and campaigns 

By combining Clockwork and SourceWhale, you ensure that, once you’ve surfaced the best possible candidates in your research phase, you can tailor multi-channel outreach campaigns that reach them on the right platforms and are automatically captured in Clockwork, so no context gets lost. Save up to 8 hours per week through outreach automation and increase response rates by an average of 56%. Learn more about how SourceWhale works with Clockwork here.

Nothing replaces the value of your human insights, industry context, and capacity for building authentic relationships. But at their best, AI-powered tools can help you work as efficiently as possible, ensuring you surface the hardest-to-find quality candidates, capture valuable context from every client conversation, and track all your outreach efforts in one place.

Use these tools to stay competitive by saving time. So you can do more of what you do best—and keep growing your firm in the process.

Watch our full webinar: AI Platforms & Integrations For Executive Recruiting