The recruiter side
“DrilLedger is the speed-to-market piece our Seek + FastTrack360 + Altora + Microsoft 365 stack doesn't have. AI interacting with our candidates from first contact — that's the bit no one else built.”
— Perth labour-hire firm, $20M revenue, 200+ candidates/month
The candidate side
“Drove 6 hours back from Newman, Friday night, signal patchy on the Great Northern. Hit the careers link from the swag. Picked Talk it out. Marin voice greeted me in 2 seconds — actually sounded Aussie. 8 minutes later I'd done the whole screen. Shortlisted Saturday morning. On a swing the next Tuesday.”
— Excavator operator, Pilbara
Vertical Brief · Perth Labour-Hire Firms
Candidate at 9pm Friday → picks Talk it out (~8-min spoken interview, AU-accented voice) or Type instead → ranked shortlist Saturday morning → mobilised into FIFO by Tuesday. Eliminates the Seek-and-Screen drag your Seek + FastTrack360 + Altora + Microsoft 365 stack still forces you to run.
Combined receipt for a labour-hire firm running Talent Engage and Agent #1 FIFO Mobilisation: $157K–$229K/year of admin labour you stop carrying — recovered ad spend, reclaimed recruiter hours, faster time-to-shortlist, and zero re-keying into mobilisation. Not a subscription cost.
You currently pay for sourcing, an ATS that gets re-keyed, induction seats burned on candidates with no right-to-work, a file store no one searches, payroll, billing, client KPI reports, ticket registers, fatigue records, incident reporting — six or more systems for one labour-hire firm. Agent #17 Talent Engage takes out the Seek-form-then-phone-screen drag first. Every other DrilLedger agent on the same Postgres tenant takes out one more line of your stack on its way to one full system. Keep Seek as a paid ad channel if you still want it — everything else compounds onto DrilLedger.
| Tool you currently pay for | What it does today | DrilLedger agent that replaces it |
|---|---|---|
| Seek | Sourcing + 12-question application form — $200–$400 per ad × 8–15 ads/month = $24K–$72K/year, with 30–50% form drop-off on mobile | Optional paid ad channel only. Seek ads route candidates to your branded/careers/your-firmpage where Agent #17 Talent Engage runs the full screen in voice or chat. Direct, referral and LinkedIn applicants land there with zero per-ad cost. The Seek form itself becomes redundant. |
| FastTrack360 | ATS + timesheets + payroll feed + client invoicing + progress reporting — six functions, one $X per user/month seat | Redundant in full. Candidate ATS pre-hire → Agent #17 Talent Engage. Worker records + mobilisation → Agent #1 FIFO Mobilisation & Onboarding. Timesheets + Xero payroll feed → Agent #3 Integrated Timesheet Portal. Client invoicing + collections → Agent #14 Cash Flow & Invoice Tracking. Client KPI / man-hours reports → Agent #11 Client Progress KPI Portal. |
| Altora | Online inductions + ticket repository + safety records — per-seat licensing burned on candidates who never had right-to-work | Redundant in full. Server-side knockout rules verify right-to-work, FIFO availability and ticket coverage before any seat is touched. Tickets + expiries → Agent #2 AI Document Control + Agent #10 Training & Competency Matrix. Inductions + SOPs → Agent #16 Procedures & Checklists Portal. Incident reporting + ICAM → Agent #9. Fatigue records → Agent #15 Fatigue Management Portal. |
| Microsoft 365 (SharePoint / OneDrive) | File storage — CVs, screening notes, tool registers, parts lists, quotes, site diaries, variation paperwork in folders nobody searches | Redundant for operational data. Candidate transcripts, audio, scores and knockout reasons live in multi-tenant Postgres with RLS — queryable, filterable, audit-ready. Tools → Agent #7. Spare parts → Agent #8. Procurement → Agent #6. Quotes & tenders → Agent #5. Site diary → Agent #12. Variation claims → Agent #13. Not files. Operational data. |
| Recruiter phone-screen rota | 15 min × 200 candidates/month = 50 hrs/month at $55–$75/hr blended = $33K–$45K/year of admin labour — and the 9pm-Friday driller still gets a voicemail until Tuesday | Redundant. Agent #17 AI conducts the full screen in voice or chat at 9pm Friday in an Australian voice. Recruiter calls the top 10% on Monday morning — not 200 voicemails on Tuesday. |
| DrilLedger | One system. 17 agents on one multi-tenant Postgres, one login, one audit trail, one CFO line item. | Branded careers page per tenant (see a live one). Candidate picks Talk it out or Type instead — from there, the same tenant runs your mobilisation, timesheets, payroll feed, invoicing, compliance, tools, parts, procurement, incidents, fatigue, procedures, site diary and variation claims. Labour-hire entry receipt:$157K–$229K/year recovered. Full 17-agent suite: $555K–$1.1M+/year recovered. |
The Seek-and-Screen drag goes first. FastTrack360, Altora and Microsoft 365 follow as the rest of the 17 agents come online. One login. One audit trail. One CFO line item. One system, yours.
After the 30-second intake form
Same screening questions, same knockout rules, same scoring, same recruiter inbox. Voice is recommended because completion rates beat a 12-question form on a phone — especially for a 9pm-Friday operator in Newman with patchy signal who doesn't want to type paragraphs from a swag.
What candidates see · /careers/your-firm/role
~8-min spoken interview with the AI recruiter. Six preset voices including two Australian-accented (Marin male, Cedar female) — or clone your recruiter's voice. Mic + headphones recommended.
Same screening, in chat. Best for quiet workplaces or slow signal. Candidate can switch surface mid-conversation.
Compliance built in: every careers page shows an automated decision-making disclosure (Australian Privacy Act 2026 §27) before the first question.
Try as a candidate on a real roleOne real candidate journey from a Friday-night application to a worker on the next swing.
Fri 9pm · Apply
Branded careers page
Candidate lands on /careers/your-firm/role. No Seek fee. 30-second intake form.
Fri 9:04pm · Pick & Screen
Talk it out (~8 min) or Type instead
Candidate picks. AI recruiter (AU-accented) covers right-to-work, FIFO availability, tickets, recent sites, salary. Server-side knockout runs before the LLM can hallucinate. Same outcome either way.
Sat 7am · Shortlist
Recruiter sees ranked inbox
Score, AI summary, full transcript — plus audio playback for voice screens. Recruiter calls the top 10% on Monday — not 200 voicemails on Tuesday.
Tue–Wed · Mobilise
One click into Agent #1 FIFO
DAS, PEM, White Card and 21-item starter checklist seeded from screening data. Worker on the next swing — no re-keying.
The honest competitive answer
That's the question every founder asks at the end of the first call. Honest answer: by Q3, your Perth competitors are doing one of two things.
Option A
Talking to candidates 24/7 by Q3
Their Friday 9pm operator in Newman hears an Australian voice in 2 seconds — not a chatbot, not a voicemail. Recruiter time on the top 10%, not the inbox. Candidate-to-crew in 3–5 days. Same margin, faster fill rate, fewer cancelled shifts.
Option B
Still leaving voicemails on Tuesday
Whoever picked Option A already greeted the same candidate in their preferred voice on Friday night. The candidate accepted that offer Sunday. Same rates, slower, and the best operators are already on someone else's swing by Tuesday.
There is no third option.
Three Perth labour-hire seats are reserved inside Cohort 1. Lifetime founder pricing. Direct line to Guy. Roadmap influence so labour-hire-specific workflows ship before drilling, fabrication or transport ICPs see them. Enrolment closes 23 June. Onboarding starts 1 July.
Voice questions, answered
Yes. After the 30-second intake form, the candidate picks Talk it out (~8-min spoken interview with the AI recruiter) or Type instead (chat). Same screening questions, same knockout rules, same scoring, same recruiter inbox. Mic + headphones recommended for voice; a clear consent prompt fires before any audio is captured. Candidates can switch surface mid-conversation. Voice is recommended because completion rates beat a 12-question form on a phone — and a 9pm-Friday operator in Newman gets a real conversation instead of typing paragraphs.
Yes. Each tenant can clone one or more recruiter voices via a consent-gated wizard — the recruiter reads a 30-second consent script aloud and the provider verifies it matches the training audio (per Australian Privacy Principle 3.3 and ElevenLabs' verified-voice requirement). Cloned voices are revocable any time and we delete provider-side and locally within 24 hours. Default ships with six preset voices including two Australian-accented (Marin male, Cedar female) so you can launch without cloning anything. For labour-hire firms whose operators already trust a particular recruiter's voice on the phone, cloning makes the AI sound like the firm — not a vendor.
Two reasons specific to the operator pool. First, completion rates: a Newman driller post-swing isn't typing 12 questions on a phone, and a generic-American chatbot voice feels like a robocall — both kill conversion. Second, English-as-second-language candidates (drillers from PNG, riggers from the Philippines, FIFO operators across the Pacific) score higher in conversation than in long-form writing — voice unblocks them in a way a Seek form doesn't. Marin and Cedar were chosen specifically because Australian operators recognise the accent as one of theirs and stay engaged through the full screen.
Yes — the audit story is stronger with voice, not weaker. Every voice screen produces audio + a verbatim transcript + the AI summary + the score + the knockout reasons, all stored in multi-tenant Postgres with RLS and surfaced in the recruiter inbox. That's a deeper audit trail than a phone-screen note ever was. Every careers page also displays an automated decision-making disclosure under Australian Privacy Act 2026 §27 before the first question, so candidate consent is on the record.
Two figures matter. The labour-hire entry receipt is what Agent #17 Talent Engage + Agent #1 FIFO Mobilisation recover in your first quarter. The full-suite receipt is what DrilLedger recovers once the rest of the 17 agents take over from FastTrack360, Altora and Microsoft 365. Both are recovered admin labour — not a subscription cost.
Labour-hire entry receipt · Agent #17 + Agent #1
$157K – $229K/year recovered
Talent Engage ($60K–$120K) + Agent #1 FIFO Mobilisation ($97K–$109K)
Full 17-agent suite receipt · FastTrack360 + Altora + M365 fully replaced
$555K – $1.1M+/year recovered
One login. One audit trail. One CFO line item. One system.
Agent #17 · Talent Engage
$60K – $120K
Agent #1 · FIFO Mobilisation
$97K – $109K
Compliance built in — voice unlocks a deeper audit trail, not a thinner one.
Every careers page shows an automated decision-making disclosure (Australian Privacy Act 2026 §27) before the first question. Voice clones are consent-gated, revocable, and purged provider-side and locally within 24 hours (Australian Privacy Principle 3.3 + ElevenLabs verified voice). Audio + transcript + AI summary + score + knockout reasons live in multi-tenant Postgres with RLS — ready for Tier 1 client audits.
Three founding labour-hire seats. Enrolment closes 23 June. Onboarding starts 1 July. Labour-hire entry receipt: $157K–$229K/year. Full 17-agent suite: $555K–$1.1M+/year. Recovered admin labour, not a subscription cost.
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