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Innovation Pulse: Early 2026 Product Highlights

Innovation Pulse is Access Recruitment's spotlight on the product updates that matter most to your business.

This month, that means clearer visibility into what’s earning its place in your budget and fewer daily bottlenecks slowing your consultants down.

 

Access Attract Evo 

Know exactly where your budget is working 

The only recruitment-specific tool that connects:

traffic source → job application → cost per hire

All benchmarked against 140 million real applications. 

What you can achieve 

  • Stop wasting budget on channels that look active but deliver nothing. Know exactly where every pound is going before the next invoice lands 
  • Make marketing optimisation part of every budget cycle, not a one-off project that never gets prioritised 
  • Outperform competitors who are still guessing. This level of recruitment-specific channel attribution doesn't exist in generic solutions 
  • Get AI-generated recommendations in plain English telling you what to change 
  • View cost-per-application for every source, benchmarked against 140M applications 
  • Run A/B simulations to project the £££ impact of adjustments (configurable to your fees) 
  • Walk into budget conversations with numbers, not instinct. Leave with decisions already made 
  • Get from zero to full channel analysis in 30 seconds 

How it works

Analyse your site in 30 seconds

Input your monthly spend per channel once. CI pulls live traffic and application data via UTM parameters automatically.

See cost-per-application by channel

Every source is rated: Excellent / Good / Poor / Underperforming - benchmarked against 140M real applications. e.g. LinkedIn £133/app vs SEO £41/app

Get told exactly what to change

Actionable recommendations in plain English - not raw data. e.g. Stop LinkedIn, invest in SEO, save £14,400/yr

Project the revenue impact

Simulate what the changes mean in actual £££, based on your own placement fees - before you commit.

Agency Owner / MD

Walk into board meetings with proof. Demonstrate ROI with hard numbers. A £70K average annual saving makes the investment self-evident. 

Marketing Manager

Stop defending your budget with instinct. Start with channel-level data that shows exactly what's working and gives you the ammunition to back every decision internally. 

Access Attract Evo 

£K

average annual saving per agency through marketing optimisation

x

return on investment vs monthly add-on cost

s

to run a full marketing channel analysis - no consultants, no spreadsheets

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Access Vincere Evo 

Your candidate's full picture. Every time

The data was always there. Now it's visible the moment you need it, whether you're scanning a list or opening a full record. The new unified candidate profile loads instantly and shows all the custom fields you need. Set it up once - it handles the rest. 

What this means for you:  

  • Spend less time navigating records and more time on the conversations that actually move placements forward 
  • Find what you need the first time you look: whether you're scanning a list or reviewing someone in depth 
  • Stop losing context when you switch between views  
  • Admins configure all three sections centrally, with changes applying organisation-wide instantly 
  • Get a clearer read on a candidate's background faster, with experience and history in a dedicated section 
  • Adopt the new experience at your own pace with no forced disruption to how your team currently works  

Compliance gaps caught before they cost you

Agencies can choose whether to warn consultants or block the placement entirely until the issue is resolved. 

What this means for you: 

  • Stop a compliance failure before it becomes a legal or financial problem - risk is caught at placement, not after 
  • Never rely on individual consultants remembering to cross-check documents on a busy desk - the system does it automatically 
  • Protect client relationships and contracts from the kind of mistake that happens at volume, not from carelessness 
  • Choose how strictly to enforce it - a warning for awareness, or a hard block until the issue is resolved 
  • Free up hours of manual cross-checking on high-volume temp and contract desks every single week 
  • Give agency owners confidence that compliance standards are consistent across the whole team, not just the careful ones 

Every shift change. Right where you need it

When a client questions a cancellation, the answer should not require a manual investigation. On a temp or shift desk, every change needs a trail. Now it has one with bookings, cancellations and amendments logged directly in the placement record, with full context, instantly.

What this means for you: 

  • Walk into any client conversation about a shift issue with the full picture already in front of you without scrambling 
  • Resolve disputes faster and more confidently, with a timestamped record of exactly what happened and who made the call 
  • Give managers the visibility to spot patterns, hold teams accountable, and stop the same issues recurring 
  • Strengthen your agency's position when clients push back with a clear audit trail. 

Experience new features the moment they land 

Release notes tell you what changed. Evo Test Drive lets you feel why it matters - instantly, at your own pace, without a sales call.  

What you get: 

  • Explore new features at your own pace, in spare moments between placements: no scheduled demo, no waiting on availability 
  • Test the exact workflows that matter to your desk before committing 
  • Find the time-saving tools most relevant to how your team works, rather than being told what should be useful 
  • Share feedback and ask questions directly from within the experience, when it's front of mind   
EVO test drive

Innovation that works for you, not just on paper

Every update in this edition was built because real agencies were losing money, carrying risk, or spending time on things the system should be handling.  

We’ll keep shipping. You’ll keep gaining.