About Us

Built by the people who
built recruitment technology

Quake is the AI platform for recruitment agencies — created by a founding team with two exits behind them and three decades inside the industry. We are building the infrastructure that lets agencies deploy frontier AI across their entire workflow.

2 Successful exits
30+ Years in rec-tech
12 AI agents shipped
36k UK agencies we serve

Our Vision

Recruitment is being rewritten by AI. We are writing the platform underneath it.

Every one of the UK's 36,000 recruitment agencies is running on software designed for a world without large language models. Their CRMs were built to store records, not to reason about them. The result is a generation of agencies bolting AI tools onto infrastructure that was never meant to support them.

Quake exists to close that gap. We give agencies a headless, AI-native foundation — one unified data layer that talks to Bullhorn, SourceFlow, OpenAI and the rest of the stack simultaneously, with twelve specialist agents covering the full recruitment lifecycle. Keep your system of record. Change the game on top of it.

We have spent careers solving the integration problems recruiters know only too well. Quake is the culmination of that work: enterprise-grade, ISO 27001 aligned, and built for the regulatory reality of the EU AI Act.

“We're not guessing at recruitment's problems. We've lived them, built for them, and sold the companies that solved them. Quake is the third act.”

Robert Wilde Founder & CEO

Track Record

A team that has built and sold before.

This is not a first-time team learning how to ship and exit. The founders have architected, scaled and sold two venture-backed companies — and are applying that operator playbook to AI.

2019

Volcanic

Acquired by The Access Group

Built and scaled a category-defining recruitment website and CRM platform used by hundreds of agencies, then exited to The Access Group — one of the UK's largest software companies.

2022

Shape Payroll

Acquired by Cipher

Founded and scaled a modern payroll platform serving thousands of businesses, then exited to Cipher — a second successful exit in the HR and staffing technology stack.

Two exits, one conviction. Deep recruitment-domain scar tissue plus a proven ability to build, scale and sell.

The Team

The people behind Quake.

Serial recruitment-tech founders, joined by the engineering and capital to deploy frontier AI across the global staffing market.

Robert Wilde

Founder & CEO

Two-time recruitment-tech founder with back-to-back exits — Volcanic (2019) and Shape Payroll (2022). Sets Quake's product and company direction.

Alec Middleton

Chief Commercial Officer

Quake Ventures co-founder and long-time business partner. Drives commercial strategy and enterprise revenue across the recruitment market.

Mouhannad Alshamali

Chief Technology Officer

Owns the Quake Core platform — vector pipelines, multi-agent orchestration and tenant-isolated infrastructure powering every AI deployment.

Ian Turnpenny

Investor & Director, APAC

Former Volcanic director and Quake investor. Leads APAC expansion, opening enterprise staffing networks across the region.

Where We're Going

Twelve agents. The full recruitment lifecycle.

Our vision is simple: every repeatable step of recruitment, handled by a specialist agent — so consultants spend their time where humans win, on trust, judgement and nuance.

The Spec Builder

Generates precise job specifications from a brief conversation

The Broadcaster

Publishes roles across every job board and channel simultaneously

The Brand Manager

Crafts compelling job descriptions and employer brand copy

The Screener

Ranks inbound applicants against spec criteria before human review

The Matchmaker

Surfaces the best-fit talent from your existing candidate database

The Oracle

Turns historical placement data into forward-looking market intelligence

The CV Formatter

Reformats CVs to agency house style in seconds

The Broker

Sources and qualifies new business opportunities at scale

The Validator

Verifies references, credentials and compliance before placement

The Ledger

Reconciles timesheets, ATS records and billing data automatically

The Paymaster

Manages contractor payroll, timesheets and payment disputes

The After Care

Nurtures candidate relationships post-placement to drive repeat business

Explore all twelve agents

Technology Partners

Integrated with the tools you already use.

Quake connects natively with the CRMs, job boards, payroll systems and AI providers your team relies on — these are just some of the technologies we integrate with today.