How Agentify Digital scaled hiring 3x faster with PeoplePanda

About Agentify Digital

Agentify Digital is a specialist AI automation agency helping mid-market and enterprise businesses deploy intelligent agents, automate repetitive workflows, and integrate AI-native processes across their operations. Founded in 2022, they've grown rapidly to serve clients across Europe and North America.

With deep expertise in LLM orchestration, API integration, and enterprise process automation, Agentify has become one of the most sought-after AI agencies in the market - and that growth meant they needed to hire fast, and hire well.

The Challenge

In early 2026, Agentify received a significant round of project wins, requiring them to grow their team from 22 to 36 people within 6 weeks. Their People team - just two people - faced an overwhelming volume of inbound applications for highly technical roles.

• Over 400 applications arrived within the first 10 days of posting roles
• Technical roles (AI Engineers, Automation Specialists, API Developers) required deep domain screening that generalist recruiters struggled to evaluate
• Manual CV review was taking 3-4 hours per role per day - leaving no time for interviews or stakeholder management
• High-quality candidates were dropping off due to slow response times
• Risk of burnout in the small People team was real and growing

The Solution

Agentify connected PeoplePanda to their existing Lever ATS in under 15 minutes. They configured scoring criteria for each role - weighting technical competencies, relevant project experience, and culture-fit signals - and let the AI begin screening from day one.

PeoplePanda's model read every application end-to-end, not just scanning for keywords. It evaluated the depth and relevance of each candidate's experience, the quality of project descriptions, and alignment with Agentify's fast-paced, technically demanding environment.

Within 48 hours, the team had a ranked shortlist of 28 candidates across all 14 open roles - each with a plain-English summary explaining the reasoning behind every score.

The Results

Over the following 6 weeks, Agentify successfully extended offers to all 14 target hires. The results spoke for themselves:

• Time from application to shortlist reduced by 3x - from ~3 hours per role per day to under 45 minutes
• Overall screening time cut by 60%, freeing the People team to focus on interviews and candidate experience
• 96% offer acceptance rate, up from 78% in the prior hiring round
• Zero candidate dropoff due to slow response - PeoplePanda's automated initial acknowledgment kept candidates engaged while screening completed
• Hiring team reported significantly lower stress levels and better quality conversations in interviews

Since that initial sprint hire, Agentify has continued using PeoplePanda as their default screening layer for all new roles - and has expanded to use the People Ops module for onboarding and 30/60/90-day check-ins for new joiners.