How I set up a resume screening agent that processes 2,000 CVs in the same time it used to take for 200

Our recruiting team was drowning. Three people, 21+ hours a week on the mechanical parts of hiring: screening resumes, scheduling interviews, sending follow-ups, updating the ATS.

The worst part wasn't the time. By the time we worked through the backlog, good candidates had already accepted other offers.

Here's what the before/after looked like after we set up an agent on Happycapy:

Setup took under 90 minutes. No engineering, no installation. The agent runs in a cloud sandbox so candidate data never touches our local systems, which matters for GDPR compliance.

What surprised us: it doesn't scan for keywords. You give it a scoring rubric in plain language and it reasons about each candidate against it, with written justification. Bias audits got easier. The 2,000-resume batch costs the same time as a 200-resume batch, which used to not be true. It syncs bidirectionally with Greenhouse so candidates move through the pipeline without anyone manually updating records.

We're a 3-person team running a hiring process that used to need a dedicated recruiter.

Full writeup: https://happycapy.ai/blog/how-to-ai-for-hr-teams

Anyone else using agents for recruiting? Curious what's working and what's not.