Seeker

About Seeker

Seeker is an AI-powered talent platform built around a different approach to recruitment: build the talent pool first, understand the talent deeply, then use AI to identify the right people for the right opportunities.

Founded by Richie Wan, who has 16+ years of recruitment and headhunting experience across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia, Seeker combines specialist recruitment expertise with AI and product development.

Companies search job boards and recruitment databases, trying to identify suitable candidates from large volumes of information. This can make it difficult to assess CV context, transferable capability and candidates who are not actively looking.

Seeker takes a different approach by building and understanding the talent pool first.

Recruitment Intelligence Engine

Seeker has translated experienced recruiter decision-making into an AI-powered Recruitment Intelligence Engine.

Rather than relying primarily on keyword matching, the engine deconstructs and interprets candidate and role information to create structured intelligence across areas such as:

• Career progression and trajectory

• Experience and capability

• Technical and transferable skills

• Education and qualifications

• Achievements and impact

• Location and mobility

• Role requirements

• Candidate and organisational context

The current engine uses 30+ structured signals to assess candidates against roles and produces contextual, explainable rankings.

Seeker has already developed and validated the core technology through real recruitment use cases and an established talent pool of 400+ senior startup and technology professionals.

The underlying methodology was developed through 16+ years of practical recruitment experience and previously operated as a manual process, providing a foundation for translating human recruitment judgement into a scalable technology platform.

Current capabilities

Candidate Intelligence

• Profiling candidates across experience, capability, career progression, skills and achievements. Behavioural profiling is also being developed.

Role Intelligence

• Deconstructing complex job requirements, identifying essential and desirable criteria and creating structured role profiles.

AI Recruitment Assessment

• Using 30+ signals to assess candidate suitability and produce contextual, explainable rankings rather than simple keyword matches.

Talent Pool Intelligence

• Building talent pools proactively, mapping available skills and rediscovering candidates when new opportunities arise.

Enterprise Integration

• Designed to operate alongside existing ATS, HRIS and recruitment infrastructure through an API-first approach, without requiring organisations to replace their existing systems.

Proposed R&D

The next stage is to extend Seeker's existing Recruitment Intelligence Engine into a deeper intelligence layer connecting talent, roles, organisations, talent markets and recruitment outcomes.

Potential R&D areas include:

Advanced Candidate Intelligence
Deeper assessment of capability, career trajectory, transferable skills, potential and behavioural characteristics.

Contextual Intelligence
Moving beyond candidate-to-job matching to understand why a person may be suitable for a particular role, organisation and working environment.

Talent Market Intelligence
Understanding talent availability, emerging skills, skills shortages, difficult-to-fill roles and changing recruitment patterns.

Enterprise Recruitment Intelligence
Developing intelligence that can work alongside existing ATS, HRIS and recruitment infrastructure and adapt to organisation-specific workflows and requirements.

Continuous Learning
Using structured recruitment outcomes, recruiter feedback and assessment data to improve candidate assessment and ranking over time.

The aim is to move from an AI system that assesses individual candidates and roles towards a broader Recruitment Intelligence layer that can support enterprise talent and workforce decisions.

Singapore collaboration

Seeker is looking for a Singapore-based organisation to collaborate on this R&D programme.

The ideal partner would have a complex recruitment environment, established HR or Talent Acquisition functions and existing recruitment infrastructure, and contribute real-world use cases, domain expertise and testing.

Seeker would bring its existing Recruitment Intelligence technology, recruitment expertise and AI/product development capability. The collaboration would focus on developing and validating new capabilities rather than simply deploying or localising the existing platform.

Singapore’s high standards and strong business infrastructure make it an ideal base and a strategic gateway to the wider ASEAN market. The longer-term opportunity is to develop technology that can be commercialised across Singapore, ASEAN, the UK and wider international enterprise recruitment markets.