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How many more roles could your team run?

Plug in your team size, screening hours, and close rate. See the additional active-role capacity and revenue when Raffi handles the first-call screening — in your firm’s brand, behind the curtain.

TL;DR

Recruitment agencies don’t scale on tools — they scale on recruiter hours. The single biggest drain is first-call screening: 30-60 min per applicant, 6-12 applicants per role. That time isn’t free to reinvest in sourcing harder-to-reach candidates or closing placements faster. Per Bullhorn’s 2025 GRID report, 67% of staffing-firm leaders cite recruiter capacity as their #1 growth constraint.

This calculator models the trade: Raffi runs every first-call screen at $0.45/min, your recruiters reallocate the freed hours to higher-leverage activity (~1.5× productivity by default). For most boutique agencies in the 5-30 recruiter range, the math lands at $300k-$2M in additional annual revenue at 5×-50× ROI. Numbers are estimates — book a walk-through to model your specific stack.

Your agency · edit to fit

Recruiter time freed

300 hrs/mo

38% of each recruiter's week

New active-role capacity

47 roles/mo

+17 vs current (30)

Additional revenue

$1,215,000/yr

~7 extra placements/mo × $15,000 fee

ROI breakdown

Additional revenue

+$1,215,000/ year

Driven by 17 more active roles per month × 40% close rate × $15,000 avg fee.

Raffi annual cost

$159,063/ year

Growth tier $599/mo × 12 + screening-call minutes. Includes the higher applicant volume from the new active-role capacity.

Net annual benefit

$1,055,937

ROI multiple

7.6×revenue / cost

Method:screening hours freed = recruiters × hrs/wk × 4. Freed time produces higher-leverage activity (sourcing, client meetings, closing) at ~1.5× productivity, mapped to additional active-role capacity at constant close rate. Numbers are estimates — your actual lift depends on how your team reallocates the freed time.

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Methodology & assumptions

Defaults reflect 2025-26 staffing-agency benchmarks calibrated against Bullhorn’s GRID industry data and aggregated boutique-firm operating models: 5 recruiters, 15 hrs/week each on first-call screening (~37% of a 40-hour week), 30 active roles/month, $15,000 avg placement fee, 40% close rate. Edit any cell to match your firm.

Capacity lift formula.Screening hours freed per month = recruiters × hrs/week × 4. Freed time produces higher-leverage activity at a 1.5× productivity multiplier (Bullhorn 2025 + our pilot data). Applied to current active-role capacity at constant close rate.

Raffi cost. Growth tier $599/mo (white-label + unlimited seats + 5 sourced jobs/mo included) plus $0.45/min for AI interview minutes. The model assumes ~50 applicants per active role and 12-minute interviews on average. See pricing for the full ladder, or /for-agencies for the white-label setup.

This calculator is for directional planning. Your actual capacity lift depends on how your team reallocates freed time, your client mix, role complexity, and market conditions. Anchor against this estimate, then track real placements over a full quarter to confirm.

Frequently asked questions

How is recruitment-agency capacity actually limited?
By recruiter-hours, not by ATS seats or sourcing tools. The biggest single drain on a recruiter's week is first-call phone screens — 30 to 60 minutes per candidate, 6 to 12 candidates per role. Most boutique agencies (5-30 recruiters) can name the exact recruiter who's the bottleneck: the one who runs the most screens. Adding more recruiters is the expensive answer; freeing screening hours is the cheap one.
Why a 1.5× multiplier on freed time instead of 1×?
Recruiters reallocating screening time don't do 1:1 more screening — they do higher-leverage work: sourcing harder-to-reach candidates, longer client meetings, closing placements faster, taking on a second role. Agencies that automate screening typically see ~1.3× to 1.7× capacity per recruiter (per our pilot data + Bullhorn 2025 industry benchmarks). 1.5× is the conservative middle.
Does this assume the agency's close rate stays flat?
Yes — the calculator holds close rate constant. In practice, agencies running AI-augmented screening often see close rates rise 5-10% because recruiters spend more time with shortlisted candidates and clients. We didn't bake that in; it would be double-counting the lift.
Is the Raffi cost line realistic?
The model uses Growth tier ($599/mo) plus $0.45/min for screening calls. A typical applicant interview is 10-15 minutes, so an agency running 80-150 applicants/month per role lands in the $1.5k-$3k/mo screening cost range on top of the Growth subscription. Above 20+ active roles, the per-minute cost dominates — but so does the additional revenue.
Why is the white-label angle in the CTA?
Most agencies don't want to tell their clients they're using a third-party AI. With Raffi on Growth tier, the entire candidate-facing portal renders in YOUR firm's brand — your domain, your logo, your email FROM. The capacity gain is what closes; the white-label is what keeps it your relationship.
Can I share this calculator with my partner / co-founder?
Yes — the URL doesn't carry your inputs, but you can screenshot the results. No signup required. We'd love to walk you through what these numbers mean for your specific firm — book 15 minutes via the CTA below.
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