High applicant volume, scarce senior time
The role was a Channel & Alliances Manager: a new seat owning technology partnerships and a set of private equity portfolios, against a first-year target of $2M in closed channel revenue. It is the kind of role that attracts enormous applicant volume, and where resume keyword overlap is nearly useless as a filter.
The most expensive line item in hiring is not the recruiter fee. It is senior people sitting in interviews with candidates who were never going to get the job. As an applied AI GTM firm and certified Perplexity Computer implementation partner, FullFunnel decided to prove on itself that AI belongs in the operating core of a revenue function.
An agent that builds the foundation, so people can judge
In late June 2026, FullFunnel ran intake, grading, research, outreach, interview synthesis, decision support, and candidate communications inside Perplexity Computer. Scheduled agentic workflows, browser automation, and native Google Workspace integration meant the entire system lived in one Drive folder. No applicant tracking system, no integration build, and no engineering time.
The agent never made a hiring decision. It made every decision reviewable. Two decision-makers made the final call and overruled the system twice: the only 9-graded applicant was passed after one conversation, and the ranked slate was reordered on a standard no rubric captured.