# What AIRA is and why it matters AIRA is described as Recruiterflow's intelligence layer. It's not positioned as a single plug-in feature but as the platform's infrastructure. Multiple AIRA agents are built to perform recruiting work across the full lifecycle: finding talent, engaging clients and candidates, capturing conversations, and keeping records current.
# How AIRA agents map to the recruiting workflow Recruiterflow lists agents by workflow stage:
- Find talent: AIRA Search, Ask AIRA, AIRA Source, AIRA Matchmaker
- Client & candidate engagement: Outreach Agent, Email Generation Agent, Submission Agent, Research Agent, Follow-up Email Agent
- Capture and act on conversations: AIRA Notetaker, AIRA Task Agent, Scorecard Agent, Summarisation Agent
- Data enrichment and database upkeep: Update Field Agents, Job Change Alerts, Email Finder, Phone Finder, Duplicate Contact Agent
This arrangement is intended so that agents feed into each other and into the recruiter's review process rather than replacing human oversight.
# The sourcing agents and when to use them
- AIRA Matchmaker: Read a job's requirements and rank candidates already in your database by semantic fit. It returns a criteria score and a plain-English explanation for each match. Use Matchmaker at the start of a search to prioritize internal candidates before external sourcing.
- Ask AIRA: Works inside a job pipeline. When a job has many candidates, Ask AIRA reads every profile on that pipeline and returns a ranked shortlist with reasoning. It keeps conversational context, so you can refine queries in follow-up prompts (for example, exclude people at their current company for under a year).
# How results are presented Each agent provides human-readable explanations or scores for why a candidate or result was selected. That lets recruiters review and accept or adjust recommendations rather than guess how the selection was made.
# Practical sequence for a typical search
- 1Run AIRA Matchmaker on the job to surface and rank internal candidates. Review the criteria scores.
- 2Use AIRA Search when you need complex intent-based queries across your data that filters can't handle.
- 3If the database can't fill the role, run AIRA Source to find external candidates and add them directly to the pipeline.
- 4In large pipelines, use Ask AIRA to shortlist and iterate via conversational refinements.
- 5Use the platform's engagement agents (Outreach, Email Generation, Follow-up) to move candidates into active outreach and track returns.
# What this changes for recruiters AIRA agents are intended to reduce context switching (no switching to LinkedIn or job boards for initial sourcing), surface internal matches first, and make shortlist rationale explicit. Recruiters keep control by reviewing scores and explanations rather than re-keying data or relying on opaque matches.
# Final practical note