Talent Acquisition Consulting, AI-Engineered
Unlock Your Recruiting Team’s Potential
Your Hiring Team is understaffed and buried in requisitions, bot-applicants or no applicants — not short on effort, short on bandwidth and the right tools. Solving these challenges is why Keystone exists. Start with a free Discovery call or AI Enablement conversation: more than 25 years of recruiting leadership, pointed at exactly where your team needs it most.
Trusted by Tech, Industrial, Aviation and Public Sector organizations.
Three Things Slowing Your Team Down
Your TA Team Is Stretched Too Thin
Requisitions keep coming, headcount doesn’t. Your recruiters are sourcing, screening, and scheduling while also putting out whatever fire HR needs handled — and something always falls through the cracks.
The Solution: TA Health Check & Fractional TA Leadership
Start with a free Discovery Call — we’ll figure out what’s actually going on and whether a TA Health Check makes sense. From there, fractional leadership adds 25+ years of TA management, part-time, for as long as you need it.
Hundreds of Applications, No Way to Tell Who’s Worth Calling
AI bots are now applying to your jobs faster than you can read them. Post a role and you’ll have hundreds of applications within hours — most AI-generated, none triaged. Your team’s drowning in volume, not talent.
The Solution: AI Talent Acceleration (AI Enablement)
This isn’t an AI tool off a shelf — it’s a recruiting process engineered around the ATS/CRM/LinkedIn setup you already have, backed by 25 years of knowing what a good candidate looks like. It ranks and prioritizes candidates — never hires or rejects — so your team’s outreach starts with the best fits first. We’re running this now for AdTech, supply chain, and home building products companies.
Need a Fast Win? Start With One Role
Not ready for a full engagement? Sometimes the easiest way to see how I work is with a single role — and traditional agencies make that expensive, wanting 20-25% of salary.
The Solution: The Search Sprint
Flat-fee, dedicated search — $12,000 per role, 45 hours of dedicated recruiting time, guaranteed. Add an identical second hire in the same sprint for +$5,000. It’s a low-risk, fast-moving way in, and the spend savings make the case for themselves.
Discover Our Talent Solutions
Talent Solutions Built for Growing Businesses
TA Health Check
Custom Diagnostic, Real Roadmap
A scoped assessment of your recruiting process, tools, and team bandwidth — where the gaps are and what to fix first. Priced to the engagement, typically $10K–$50K depending on scope. Starts with a free Discovery Call.
AI Talent Acceleration
Recruiting Expertise, AI-Engineered
AI agents I engineer around 25 years of recruiting judgment, not an off-the-shelf tool — candidate evaluation and outreach prioritization, screening, scheduling, sourcing. Not a demo. Not a pilot that stalls. Running.
Fractional TA Leadership
Strategic Recruiting Expertise
Decades of global experience, part-time. Strategic planning, process design, team coaching — extra leadership bandwidth for your existing team.
The Search Sprint
Get Started Fast
Flat-fee recruiting backed by 25 years of talent network, sharpened with AI sourcing. A low-risk way to try Keystone on a single role.
Why Work With Keystone?
25 Years of Global TA Expertise
Built recruiting functions for airlines, airports, biotech firms, security companies, and tech startups. Hired everything from mosquito catchers (not kidding) to C-suite executives.
Industry Specialization You Won’t Find Elsewhere
Aviation (airlines, airports, port authorities), Technology (BioTech, EdTech, Security, AdTech, Video), Public Sector (compliance-heavy environments).
The Recruiting Expertise Behind the AI
AI isn’t magic and it isn’t the solution — it’s an exceptional tool, and a tool is only as good as the judgment engineering it. I spent 25 years running recruiting functions before I built a single agent. I’ve built AI sourcing workflows for security and media clients this way. And this website was built using that same approach with Claude’s agent tooling — you’re looking at the expertise doing the engineering, not an AI vendor’s demo.
25 Years of TA Experience, Engineered Into Every Engagement
✓ Improved Quality of Hire ✓ Reduced Time-to-Fill ✓ Alignment to Business Strategy
How It Works
Discover
Free Discovery Call (30 min) — hiring challenges, current costs, AI readiness. No pitch.
Diagnose
Tailored proposal within 48 hours — transparent pricing, timeline, and a scoped TA Health Check quote if that’s the right starting point.
Deliver
TA Health Check, AI implementation, fractional leadership, or a search sprint kicks off in 2-12 weeks — whatever fits.
Need a Fast Win First? Search Sprint Economics
Most client relationships start with a free Discovery Call. But if a role needs dedicated outside search right now, the Search Sprint is a fast, low-risk way in — and the spend savings make the case on their own:
| Target Salary | Traditional Agency (25%) | Keystone Sprint | Net Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| $90,000 | $22,500 | $12,000 | $10,500 |
| $120,000 | $30,000 | $12,000 | $18,000 |
| $180,000 | $45,000 | $12,000 | $33,000 |
Real results, one active engagement — 10 for 10: every role got filled. Across the full program, typical agency fees would have run $328,125. Keystone Sprint fees: $113,000. Verified savings: $215,125.
“The Search Sprint model solved a problem we didn’t realize we had. As a mid-market company, we couldn’t justify $30K-$40K agency fees per hire, but we also couldn’t afford to leave critical roles unfilled. Keystone’s flat-fee structure gave us enterprise-quality recruiting at an SMB price point. More importantly, James took the time to understand both our technical requirements and our culture—something contingency recruiters never have the incentive to do. We’ve filled multiple roles over the past year, turning the service on exactly when we need it. That’s the kind of flexible, long-term partnership that works in today’s market.”
COO, The Media Trust
Built for Companies Like Yours
Small & Midsize Businesses (10-500 employees)
No HR department, recruiting falls on the CEO/COO/Office Manager, watching agency fees pile up.
Start Here: Discovery Call → TA Health Check → Fractional TA Leadership
Aviation & Airports
FAA compliance, shift work, conditional offers (2 years out), seasonal hiring spikes, public sector procurement — decades in this world already.
Start Here: Discovery Call → TA Health Check → Fractional TA Leadership (currently the model in use with a large international airport)
Technology Companies
BioTech, EdTech, Security, AdTech, Video — talent wars for engineers, PMs, technical leadership.
Start Here: Discovery Call → AI Talent Acceleration + Search Sprint combo
Have questions about pricing, process, or how the AI actually works? Read the full FAQ →
Meet the Recruiting Expert Behind the AI
I’m James Collins, and I’ve spent 25 years building recruiting functions across industries most consultants have never touched.
I cut my teeth recruiting through Y2K, rode out the dot-com boom and bust, tackled cybersecurity and edtech hiring challenges through the 2010s, and pivoted across HR solutions during the COVID shutdown and its aftermath. Leveraging AI as a tool for finding and hiring the best talent is simply the newest chapter.
I’ve hired trust & safety specialists for SaaS platforms. Engineers for biotech startups. Pilots for regional airlines. C-suite executives for security companies.
What sets me apart: AI is an exceptional tool, but it isn’t the solution — recruiting expertise engineering it properly is. That’s the combination I bring: AI sourcing workflows for clients like The Media Trust, hands-on TA Health Check and fractional leadership work with a large international airport, and now Claude-based agent tooling running my own practice, including this website. Twenty-five years of knowing what a good hire looks like, pointed at the right tools.
My typical clients aren’t Fortune 500 companies with unlimited budgets. They’re growing businesses (10-500 employees) that need enterprise-level recruiting expertise without enterprise-level costs.
Discover What Keystone Can Do For You
Ready to Unlock Your Team’s Potential?
Book a free Discovery Call. We’ll talk through where your team’s stretched thin, identify where the right process — engineered with AI where it helps — gives them back time and focus, and figure out if Keystone’s a fit. No pitch, no obligation.
Or email directly: james.collins@keystonetalentsolutions.com