Permanent recruitment
End to end hiring for full time roles, from role definition through to offer acceptance and joining.
- AI sourcing across every channel
- Ranked, reasoned shortlists
- Offer & joining support
AI Enabled Recruitment, Pune
AI finds the candidates.
AI finds the candidates.
We find the fit.
Animus Tech is an AI enabled talent acquisition firm. Our AI sources, screens and assesses at a scale and speed no manual team can match, then our recruiters do the part software still cannot, judging whether a person will genuinely work well inside your team.
About us
Hiring, minus the guesswork.
We are a talent acquisition partner for manufacturing, IT and software, and D2C companies who are tired of hiring by volume instead of by fit.
Most recruiters hand you a stack of resumes and hope something sticks. We work backwards from that. Every candidate we source is run through AI powered screening, skills assessments and a personality evaluation for cultural fit, before you ever see their name.
What lands in your inbox is not a long list to sort through. It is the short list, the few who have already proven they can do the job and fit the team.
Faster hiring
You interview candidates who have already cleared the bar, not a pile of maybes.
Better fit
Skills and culture, checked upfront, not discovered three months in.
Less noise
Fewer resumes, higher signal. Less scrolling, less second guessing.
We built this because industries like yours cannot afford a bad hire, or a slow one. Let's fill your next role right.
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What we do
AI enabled hiring, sized to the problem
Some clients need one hard to find engineer. Others need thirty people on a plant floor by next quarter. Every engagement runs on the same AI pipeline, scoped to the actual gap.
Leadership & niche search
Confidential search for senior and specialist roles where the pool is small and mostly not looking.
- AI mapped talent landscape
- Discreet, human led approach
- Deep reference checks
Volume & project hiring
Structured drives when you need many people in one window, whether that is a new plant, a new shift, festive season or a funding led scale up.
- AI screening at scale
- Campus & walk in drives
- Weekly pipeline reporting
AI assessment as a service
Already have a pipeline? Send us your candidates and we will run them through our AI assessment and culture fit process, then return a scored report on each.
- Role specific skill assessments
- Structured culture fit interview
- Written report per candidate
Hiring advisory
Job descriptions that attract the right people, interview loops that actually discriminate, and honest salary benchmarks for your market.
- JD & scorecard design
- Compensation benchmarking
Our AI
Three places AI does the heavy lifting
Recruitment has always been limited by how many profiles one person can realistically read in a day. AI removes that ceiling, so our recruiters spend their hours on judgement instead of triage.
01 / SOURCING
AI sourcing
We search on meaning, not keywords. Our AI reads a role the way a hiring manager would, then finds people whose actual experience matches, including strong candidates whose CV never uses your exact terminology.
- Semantic matching on capability
- Job boards, our database, professional networks
- Reaches passive candidates who never applied
02 / SCREENING
AI screening
Every profile gets read, not just the first fifty. Our AI parses each CV against the scorecard we agreed at intake, ranks candidates, and writes out the reasoning, including the gaps and the inconsistencies worth asking about.
- Scored against your criteria, not a generic template
- Written rationale for every ranking
- Flags career gaps, job hopping, credential mismatches
03 / ASSESSMENT
AI assessment
Role specific assessments that test whether someone can do the work, scored against the same rubric for every candidate. No panel fatigue, no first impression bias, no difference between the person interviewed on Monday and the one on Friday.
- Technical and functional skill tests
- Consistent rubric across the whole pool
- Comparable scores you can defend internally
A human always signs off
No candidate is rejected by software alone. AI narrows and ranks, a recruiter reviews, and every shortlist that reaches you has been read and argued for by a person who understands your team. We will also tell you when the AI and the recruiter disagree, because that is usually the most useful signal in the whole process.
Where we specialise
Three industries. Three different games.
We stay narrow on purpose. Knowing what a good hire looks like in your sector is most of the value, and it is also what we train our screening criteria on. A generalist is guessing.
Software & technology
Engineering, data, product, design, QA, DevOps and SRE, for product companies, SaaS teams, GCCs and services firms. We read a stack seriously and do not confuse keyword matches with capability.
- Backend, frontend, full stack, mobile
- Data engineering, ML, analytics
- Cloud, platform, security
- Product & engineering leadership
Manufacturing & engineering
Pune sits in one of India's densest industrial corridors, and plant hiring has its own rules, from shift realities and location constraints to safety discipline and joining ratios that punish sloppy screening.
- Design, R&D, NPD
- Production, quality, maintenance
- Supply chain, sourcing, SCM
- Plant & operations leadership
D2C & consumer brands
Fast moving brands need people who can own a number without a playbook. We look for ownership and comfort with ambiguity, not just a familiar logo on the CV.
- Growth, performance marketing, CRM
- Category & brand management
- Supply chain, ops, warehousing
- Founder's office & leadership
Our approach
AI handles the volume. Culture fit needs a human.
Technical evaluation is close to a solved problem now. Between AI screening, structured assessments and panel rounds, most companies can tell whether someone is able to do the job.
What still goes unmeasured is everything else. How a person handles disagreement, whether they need structure or resent it, how they behave when a deadline slips, whether they are actually motivated by the work in front of them or just by leaving their last job. That is where hires quietly fail, six months in, at full cost to you.
So we let AI do what it is good at, reading everything and ranking it consistently, and we spend the time it frees up on the part that needs a person. We build a picture of how your team really operates, not the values on the wall but the actual norms, and we interview against it. Every shortlist includes a written view on fit, reservations included. You get an honest read, not a sales pitch.
How it works
Four steps, no black box
You always know where the search stands, why a candidate is on the list, and what the AI scored them on.
Intake
We sit with the hiring manager to understand the role, the team it joins, and what good looks like here specifically, then turn that into the scorecard the AI screens against.
AI sourcing
Semantic search across job boards, our database and professional networks, plus targeted outreach. We go after people doing the work, not only people applying for it.
Screen & assess
AI screening and role specific assessment, then a structured culture fit interview with a recruiter. You get a shortlist with scores and a written rationale for each person.
Close
We manage scheduling, feedback loops, offer negotiation and the notice period, then stay in touch through onboarding to protect the joining.
Get in touch
Let's talk about the role
Tell us what you are hiring for and we will come back within one working day with a view on the market, a realistic timeline, and whether we are the right firm for it.
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Pune, Maharashtra, India
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