Is AI doing any real work at your agency yet?

Find out in three minutes. Tell us how your desks run, and see where you stand.

What your plan looks like

This is a sample for an agency of 21 to 50 consultants on Vincere. Yours is built from your own answers.

A verdict in plain words
Your score, and the first thing to hand over.
What each answer means
How it plays out in an ordinary week.
The next 90 days
Three steps that work with any system.

AI readiness plan

1A verdict in plain wordsYour score, and the first thing to hand over.

Acme Staffing is building. The first thing to hand over is filling shifts.

Some of what an agent needs is in place. The three steps below close the next gaps, so the first job can go to an agent.

41 out of 100

2What each answer meansHow it plays out in an ordinary week.

What you told us

AI use

Early

“A few people use ChatGPT or Copilot on their own”

AI use depends on who is keen, so what one desk learns stays on that desk.

“Someone’s keen, but it’s unofficial”

Progress depends on one person’s spare time.

Data and systems

Early

“About half the time”

Half your calls find something out of date, so an agent’s matches would need checking by a person.

“In separate back-office software”

Approved hours get typed twice, once for payroll and once for the invoice.

“Online, and the client approves them online”

Your timesheets already arrive as data, which is the hardest part of automating pay.

3The next 90 daysThree steps that work with any system.

The next 90 days

Write down what can go into AI tools
Agree on one page which AI tools your team may use and what must never go into them, such as CVs, right to work documents and client rates. A CV pasted into a personal account leaves your control, and a written policy is also what you send when a client asks how you use AI.
Name someone to own AI
Give one person an hour or two a week to look after AI: choosing the tools, collecting what works and bringing one proposal a month to the leadership team. Without an owner, each desk picks its own tools and nobody checks what they save.

Where Talisman agents could help

Filling shifts
Sourcing Sam draws up the call list for each shift you still need to fill.
You told us: “Arranging shifts and chasing candidates”

Your plan includes

What you told us. All three areas: AI use, data and systems, and safe AI and compliance.
The next 90 days. Three steps, and how to do each one.
Where Talisman agents could help. Up to three jobs, and the agent that could take each one on.
A copy to share. The whole plan as a PDF, ready to send to a partner or colleague.

Here’s what’s been going on

What recent surveys say about agencies and AI.

4 to 8 timesmore likely to have grown revenue, for UK and Irish agencies using AI¹

95%of fast-growing UK and Irish agencies have AI built into their ATS. They grew revenue by 25% or more.¹

41%of UK recruitment businesses already used AI in REC’s 2023/24 survey. Another 30% planned to within a year.²

A year made the difference

Every year, the GRID industry survey asks recruitment firms worldwide how their business is doing. In the 2025 survey, firms using AI were 25 to 40% more likely to have grown revenue than firms that weren’t. In the 2026 survey, they were 3.5 to 4.5 times more likely. Between the two surveys, the share of firms still at the basic generative AI stage fell from 52% to 29%. And 30% had moved on to AI agents in some form.³

GRID surveys, global

Not using AIthe baseline
2025 survey1.25 to 1.4 times as likely
2026 survey3.5 to 4.5 times as likely

The rules are moving too

What UK law now asks of agencies, and what’s next.

From April 2026
Agencies are responsible for PAYE and National Insurance on workers paid through umbrella companies.
HM Revenue & Customs, policy paper, 26 November 2025.
From October 2026
The right to work scheme covers more working arrangements, where fines are up to £60,000 per worker.
Home Office, code of practice, 1 October 2026.
Expected in 2027
Agencies must pay eligible agency workers for shifts cancelled, cut short or moved at short notice.
Department for Business and Trade, Employment Rights Act timeline, September 2026.

It’s still early

Only 10% of firms worldwide report having AI running through their whole workflow.³

Three minutes. Less time than chasing one timesheet.

Sources

Bullhorn GRID 2026, UK press release, 25 February 2026. Survey of nearly 300 UK and Ireland recruitment professionals.
REC, UK Recruitment Industry Status Report 2023/24, published November 2024. Survey of REC members.
Bullhorn GRID 2026 Industry Trends report. Global survey of nearly 2,300 recruitment professionals. The 2025 figures are from the GRID 2025 survey, as quoted in the same report.