For Recruiting Agencies

Paste a JD.
Get up to 1,000 ranked candidates and bilingual scout mails. In one click.

Headhunt.AI is the AI recruiting platform we built for our own agency and have been using in production for eight years. Now it’s available to you.

We score against 4M+ Japan-based profiles. 10 free credits on signup, no credit card required.

Used daily by our own agency 4M+ profiles · 90%+ Japan-based Monstarlab Inc. (TSE: 5255) group
Your JD
Senior Product Manager — FinTech SaaS Tokyo · Hybrid · ¥14–18M • Own roadmap for SMB payments product • 6+ years PM experience, 3+ at SaaS • Business-level Japanese required • Prior FinTech or payments exposure • Comfortable leading cross-functional…
Ranked candidates
TN
T. Nakamura
Sr. PM, SmartPay · ex-Mercari
92
AS
A. Sato
Lead PM, Freee · SaaS/payments
87
YK
Y. Kobayashi
PM, PayPay · 7 yrs SMB
81
RI
R. Ito
Group PM, MoneyForward
78
HM
H. Matsuda
Senior PM, Rakuten Pay
74
Q1 2026 production data
ESAI Agency · per recruiter
+38% More candidates met
+13.8% Scout mail reply rate
+13.5% Interview pass rate
+14% Offer rate

The problem

Your billing recruiters spend most of their week not billing.

Typical 40-hour week for a senior recruiter before Headhunt.AI. Sourcing, list building, and writing scout messages crowd out the activity that actually closes placements.

Sourcing candidates
LinkedIn searches, boolean strings, tab hell
~12 hrs
Building shortlists
Filtering, scoring in your head, cleaning data
~8 hrs
Writing scout mails
One at a time, in Japanese and English
~6 hrs
Actual recruiting work
Talking to candidates, pitching, closing
~14 hrs
With Headhunt.AI, sourcing and scout-mail writing drop to near zero. Your recruiters can spend 30+ hours a week on candidate conversations instead of typing.

How it works

Three modules, one pasted JD, one click.

Target list generation, ESAI Score ranking, and bilingual scout mail — all produced from a single job description in one to two minutes.

01 / Target List Generator

Target List Generator

From a pasted job description, generate a list of up to 1,000 candidates drawn from our 4M+ Japan-focused profile database. Built primarily from public LinkedIn data, with public signals from X (formerly Twitter), GitHub, Facebook, and Instagram layered in where candidates are active. Refreshed continuously.

1–2 minutes, JD to list
02 / ESAI Score

ESAI Score

Every candidate is scored 0–100 by our proprietary GPT-based matching engine, with a plain-language fit summary in Japanese or English. You know at a glance who’s worth the conversation.

0–100 with written fit rationale
03 / Scout Mail

Personalized Scout Mail

Personalized scout messages generated in business-level Japanese (with proper keigo) or English, tailored to each candidate’s background and the role. Paste into LinkedIn Recruiter, InMail, or your CRM.

JP / EN native-quality output

Screening Guidance

Tell the AI what else matters.

Every senior recruiter weighs factors that don’t fit a search form — the kind of nuance you’d normally pass on to a junior on your team. Maybe certain backgrounds tend to signal strong fit. Maybe certain career patterns warrant a closer look. Maybe the JD already covers something. Write it in plain language. The AI uses it as extra context when ranking candidates and writing fit summaries — it’s guidance, not a hard filter. Nothing gets hidden. The strongest matches rise to the top, and anything you’ve flagged shows up clearly in the rationale.

Prefer / 重視 Caution / 慎重に Don’t weight / 対象外 Major concern / 重大な懸念
PREFER: Candidates from Mercari, SmartBank, Rakuten Ichiba PM org (lifts ranking, noted in fit summary) CAUTION: Career gaps > 18 months without clear context (lowers ranking, flagged for review) DON’T WEIGHT: University ranking or major (already covered in the JD) MAJOR CONCERN: < 2 years in current role Non-Japanese speakers for this role (strong negative signal — still shown, flagged in rationale)

ESAI Score

You only pay for candidates worth reading.

Every candidate on your ranked list is benchmarked 0–100 by the ESAI Score. Credits are only consumed by candidates who pass your search criteria and score 50 or higher — the matches you’d actually want to scout.

70–100
Strong match — shortlist immediately
Core requirements clearly met; most scouts land here.
50–69
Possible match — worth a read
Partial fit; useful for JD refinement or adjacent-skill candidates.
0–49
Below threshold — not charged
Not a match to your brief. No credit is spent on these candidates.

Production Results · Q1 2026

The lift compounds at every stage of the funnel.

Comparison of ESAI Agency recruiters working with Headhunt.AI vs. the same recruiters’ prior quarters on manual sourcing. All figures per recruiter, per quarter.

Top of Funnel
+38%
more candidates met per recruiter
Outreach
+13.8%
scout mail reply rate
Interview Stage
+13.5%
interview pass rate
Close
+14%
offer acceptance rate

ESAI Agency production data, Q1 2026. Not a lab benchmark. Your mileage will depend on market, role mix, and recruiter tenure — but the directional improvement has held across every team we’ve deployed with.

Built for how agencies actually work

Same platform. Different unlocks.

The solo senior

Veteran recruiters who bill on relationships

You already know the market. What you’re short on is hours. Headhunt.AI gives you back the 15–20 hours a week you currently lose to sourcing and scout-mail writing — without changing how you pitch or close.

Typical lift: +2–3 placements per quarter
The growing team

Growing agencies investing in ops leverage

You want new hires productive in weeks instead of months. Headhunt.AI hands your juniors a target-list and scout-mail engine that would otherwise take them a year of market-learning to replicate by hand.

Typical lift: +30–40% junior productivity
The MD / founder

MDs and founders who want to save costs and boost profits

Every hour your team spends on sourcing is an hour pulled from client and candidate facing work — the only activities that actually close placements. Headhunt.AI absorbs the low-leverage sourcing load, so senior time stays on the work that drives revenue and your cost-per-placement drops.

Typical lift: 5–10 senior hours/week redirected from sourcing to client and candidate work

Overall pretty impressed. There were definitely people on there that I would not have found myself and the summary is very comprehensive.

Senior Consultant · Global recruitment agency · Tokyo · Apr 22, 2026

Your workflow

Four steps from JD to first outreach. Under two minutes.

1

Paste the JD

Drop in any job description — Japanese, English, or mixed. No templating or tagging required.

~10s
2

Get the ranked list

Up to 1,000 matches, each with an ESAI Score 0–100 and a written fit summary. Refine with Screening Guidance if needed.

~60–90s
3

Export the scout mails

Personalized Japanese or English messages ready to paste into LinkedIn Recruiter, InMail, email, or your CRM.

~10s
4

Send and track

Send from your own tool. Replies come back to you. Headhunt.AI stays out of the candidate relationship.

~0s

Your database, continuously enriched

Every search adds to your recruiting capital.

Every candidate you surface through Headhunt.AI stays accessible to you. Re-score them against new roles in seconds. At Enterprise Annual pricing, this works out to roughly ¥63.75 per candidate added to your book — a recruiting database of real Japanese professionals, built passively while you do your job.

Year 1 — Illustrative at Enterprise Annual

270K
starting database
800K
after 12 months

¥63.75 / candidate

Based on 6,000 credits/month at Pro rates compounded over 12 months.

ATS integration

Keep your ATS.Plug Headhunt.AI in beside it.

Push ranked candidates directly into your ATS

Candidate profile, ESAI Score, and bilingual scout mail all flow into your existing Salesforce-based ATS, Bullhorn, Zoho, or equivalent — as new records or enrichments on existing ones.

Enrich stale records automatically

Old candidate records get current company, current title, and a fresh fit assessment for any open role — turning your ATS from a graveyard into a live talent pool.

LinkedIn Recruiter CSV export (v1.1+)

Export candidates as a LinkedIn Recruiter–ready CSV to import into your existing Projects, contact them via InMail, and flow them into any ATS through RSC. APPI-aware by design — no candidate email addresses in the export.

Your data stays your data

Customer workspaces are isolated at the tenant level. Your searches, shortlists, and Screening Guidance are not shared across customers and not used to train models for anyone else.

Built in Japan · APPI-aware

Not a US tool with a Japanese UI. Built here, for hiring here.

4M+ profiles, Japan-focused

Over 90% Japan-based professionals across every function and seniority. Public LinkedIn data primary, with public signals from X, GitHub, Facebook, and Instagram layered in where candidates are active there. Not a global database with Japan tacked on.

Tokyo team, Japanese entity

Operated by ExecutiveSearch.AI K.K., a Tokyo-based entity. Japanese-language support, Japan-law contracts, JPY invoicing.

APPI-aware by design

Designed from the start against Japan’s Personal Information Protection Act. AWS Japan region, DPA available, tenant isolation.

Monstarlab Inc. group

Part of Monstarlab Inc. (TSE: 5255), a listed AI/DX firm delivering enterprise digital projects for some of Japan’s largest organizations. Publicly traded parent, long-term commitment.

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Refer & earn

Invite a friend. Both get 50 credits.

Sharing happens from inside Headhunt.AI — open the app, hit the referral section, send your invite. When your friend signs up and runs their first qualified search, 50 credits land in their account and 50 in yours. Same credits as the ones you buy.

50 credits = 50 qualified candidate matches · ≈ ¥7,500 list value per side · no cap during launch

Ready to try?

Paste a JD and see your top 10 candidates in under 2 minutes. No credit card required.

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