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ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions, the recruitment outsourcing arm of one of the world’s largest staffing groups, picked Carv in July 2025 as a strategic partner to bring agentic AI into its global RPO operations. That deal is the strongest signal behind Carv, an Amsterdam company that splits staffing work into narrow AI agents: one answers candidates, one screens them, one schedules, one rediscovers past applicants and one contacts workers as their contracts end.

Carv is best for large staffing agencies and RPO providers that run high volumes through an ATS such as Bullhorn, Avionte or Workday and want agents for each step rather than one general assistant. Pricing for the agent suite is shared by quote, and public review ratings have not appeared yet. We rate it 7.8/10 on our scale; the score reflects pricing that is not yet published and a neutral sentiment score rather than the product design. We have not used Carv ourselves; this review is based on Carv’s product pages, its press releases and ManpowerGroup’s announcement.

A Partner Record That Matters More Than Usage Stats

Carv is younger than most rivals in this category, so its partner record carries more weight than usage statistics.

Fact	Detail	Source and Date
Anchor customer	ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions selected Carv as a strategic partner to speed up the global transformation of its RPO operations	ManpowerGroup press release, July 22, 2025
ManpowerGroup tech stack	PowerSuite, ManpowerGroup’s foundational platform, processes 90% of front-office revenues on a single global platform	ManpowerGroup press release, July 22, 2025
Deployment design	Six-agent architecture at ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions: intake, sourcing, engage, screening and hosting, interview and insights agents embedded in PowerSuite	Carv customer story, viewed October 2026
Customer scale	The story describes a customer with more than 30,000 employees that places over 200,000 candidates a year across 92 countries	Carv customer story, viewed October 2026
Vendor-reported results	80% fewer admin tasks, 70% cost reduction per hire, 3 times faster hiring	Carv staffing page, viewed October 2026
Other staffing logos	Randstad, Perrett Laver, ManpowerGroup, TMC, Idex and House of Covebo shown on the staffing page	Carv staffing page, viewed October 2026
Seed funding	$10 million seed round with Global Founders Capital and angel investors who previously backed Slack, Miro and Revolut	Carv press release, June 2024
Founding team	Co-founder Barend Raaff; the founding team previously built digital hiring company Harver	Carv press release, June 2024
Languages and time saved	Capterra lists support for 99 languages and a vendor claim of up to 30% of a recruiter’s daily time returned	Capterra UK listing, viewed October 2026

The ManpowerGroup deal is the fact to weigh most. A recruitment outsourcing business that runs a single global platform does not embed a vendor’s agents into that stack lightly, and the six-agent design described in Carv’s customer story shows the product working inside existing workflows rather than replacing them. The press release itself, though, set out expected gains in time to hire and recruiter productivity, not measured results.

The vendor-reported figures, such as 70% lower cost per hire, are best treated as targets for a pilot. Ask Carv for a reference customer of your size and job mix and measure screening completion, time to interview and redeployment rate against your current numbers.

From Recruiter Admin Assistant to Narrow Staffing Agents

Carv started as an AI assistant that took over recruiter admin: it joins intake and interview calls, takes notes, drafts job descriptions and writes candidate profiles in the recruiter’s style. It has since grown into a suite of agents that handle candidate-facing steps on their own and write the results into the ATS.

The Staffing Agents

• Host agent: an always-on front door that answers candidate questions, clarifies intent and guides people to prescreening or suitable roles.
• Screening agent: gathers availability, eligibility, location, shift preferences and dealbreakers, then returns a go or no-go outcome.
• Assessment agent: evaluates competencies against each role through live and asynchronous interactions and produces a confidence score.
• Scheduling and rescheduling agents: book interviews around candidate and hiring-team calendars and handle changes in real time.
• Rediscovery and re-activation agents: surface relevant candidates from existing talent pools when a vacancy opens and re-engage them.
• Re-assignment agent: contacts workers as assignments or contracts end, checks availability and records updated preferences for redeployment.
• Talent pool maintenance agent: periodically confirms availability, updates profiles and validates interest.
• Custom agents: built around an agency’s own hiring flows and business rules.

The Admin Agents

Carv’s earlier product still sits underneath the staffing suite. Its AI joins a recruiter’s intake and interview calls, picks up the context, and then writes the job description, interview notes, debrief summary and candidate profile in the recruiter’s usual style and tone, populating the ATS as it goes. Capterra’s listing describes it as software that also writes candidate profiles and motivation letters for hiring managers, with support for 99 languages. Carv’s seed announcement cites industry data that 20% to 40% of a recruiter’s day goes to admin, which is the time this layer targets.

How It Runs at ManpowerGroup

Carv’s customer story describes a six-agent architecture inside ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions. An intake agent captures job requirements from client calls, a sourcing agent rediscovers and ranks candidates across global talent pools, an engage agent handles multilingual outreach, a screening and hosting agent keeps applicant communication running around the clock, an interview agent records interview insights and updates the ATS, and an insights agent pulls context together across teams, markets and systems. All of it sits inside PowerSuite, ManpowerGroup’s own platform.

Demo, ATS Connection and Agent Scoping

• Request a demo: Carv scopes agents and pricing with each customer.
• Connect the ATS: integrations cover Bullhorn, JobAdder, Avature, Workday, Greenhouse, SmartRecruiters and Avionte, and Carv syncs with the ATS automatically.
• Set screening rules: define the availability, eligibility, location and dealbreaker criteria the screening agent uses for go or no-go outcomes.
• Choose agents per workflow: start with the steps that cost most recruiter time, such as screening or re-assignment, and add custom agents for your own rules.

Offers, Rates and Final Submittals Stay Human

Client relationships, rate negotiation, offers and final submittal decisions stay with recruiters. Go or no-go screening outcomes should be reviewed for borderline cases, and recruiters remain responsible for how candidates are treated under local hiring rules.

Carv Pricing Starts With a Demo

Carv does not publish prices for its staffing agents. The staffing page directs buyers to request a demo.

Plan	Price	Billing	What’s Included	Limits
Staffing agent suite	Custom quote	Set in contract after a demo	Host, screening, assessment, scheduling, rediscovery, re-assignment and maintenance agents, plus custom agents and ATS sync	Agents and volumes depend on the quote
AI recruiting admin tool (Capterra listing)	Free version listed; per-user pricing	Per user	Call notes, debrief summaries, job descriptions and candidate write-ups	Capterra does not list paid tier prices

Bringing Your Current Seat Costs to the Demo

Without published agent prices, the best preparation is to know what you already pay for comparable seats and to bring that figure to the demo.

• Seat benchmark: five recruiters on Recruiterflow’s published Platform plan at $149 per user per month pay $745 a month, or $8,940 a year, for an agency ATS and CRM. A Carv quote sits on top of an ATS, not in place of one.
• AI sourcing benchmark: five hireEZ Growth seats at $549 per user per month cost $2,745 a month. If Carv is priced per recruiter, that is a useful upper reference for what agencies pay for AI recruiting software.
• Volume pricing: if Carv prices by candidates screened or agents deployed, ask for the rate at your peak season volume, not your average month.

Carv Compared With Bullhorn Amplify, Sense AI Recruiter and Olivia by Paradox

All four bring AI agents to candidate screening and engagement at volume. They differ in where the agents live and how granular they are.

Agent	Starting Price	Free Plan	Main Strength	Main Trade-Off	Best For
Carv	Custom quote	Limited (admin tool)	Narrow agents for each staffing step, including re-assignment	No public ratings; quote-only suite	Large staffing and RPO operations
Bullhorn Amplify	Custom quote	No	Agents built into the staffing ATS	Only works inside Bullhorn	Agencies on higher Bullhorn tiers
Sense AI Recruiter	Custom quote	No	Voice, SMS and WhatsApp agents with broad staffing ATS sync	Setup effort reported by reviewers	Staffing firms on Avionte, JobDiva or Bullhorn
Olivia by Paradox	Custom quote	No	Mature conversational hiring for frontline roles	Overkill for low-volume hiring	Large employers hiring hourly staff

Carv’s distinguishing feature is granularity: an agency can switch on a re-assignment agent or a screening agent without adopting a whole new engagement platform, and its ATS list includes JobAdder and Avature, which suit agencies outside the US. Bullhorn Amplify is simpler for Bullhorn shops because nothing extra is bought. Sense has a longer staffing track record and hundreds of public reviews, while Carv is still building its public review base. Olivia by Paradox targets employers more than agencies. All four are quote-only, so the deciding factor is usually the ATS and the step in the process that costs your recruiters the most time. More options are in our AI agents for recruitment agencies and multi-agent systems guides.

RPO Providers and High-Volume Staffing Desks

• RPO providers: the ManpowerGroup deployment shows Carv working inside a global outsourcing operation with its own tech stack.
• High-volume staffing agencies: shift and contract desks benefit from go or no-go screening, automatic scheduling and re-assignment as contracts end.
• Agencies on JobAdder, Avature or Avionte: Carv lists integrations with all three alongside Bullhorn and Workday.
• Teams buried in admin: Carv’s original notes, job description and candidate write-up features still cut recruiter paperwork.

Small Agencies and Review-Driven Buyers

• Small agencies wanting a price list: the agent suite is quote-only, so a demo is the place to start.
• Buyers who rely on peer reviews: Carv has no public ratings on review sites yet.
• Executive search boutiques: a team of screening and scheduling agents is built for volume, not a handful of senior searches.
• Agencies without an ATS: Carv writes results into an ATS and does not replace one.

Carv’s Own Savings Claims and Automated Screening Calls

• Vendor-reported results: 80% fewer admin tasks, 70% lower cost per hire and three times faster hiring come from Carv’s own page.
• Automated screening decisions: the screening agent returns go or no-go outcomes, so agencies hiring in regions with rules on automated decisions should confirm how outcomes are explained and reviewed.
• Growing track record: Carv raised its seed round in 2024 and is newer than most rivals, so ask about roadmap commitments and support coverage in your time zone.
• Scope creep: a suite of many agents can grow quickly; agree which agents and volumes are in the contract.
• Data processing: candidate data flows between Carv and your ATS, so request the data processing agreement and confirm where data is hosted.

Listing Every Agent on the Order Form

• Which agents are included? list every agent in the order form, from host and screening to re-assignment, so nothing seen in the demo turns into a later add-on.
• How are go or no-go outcomes explained? ask to see the reasons the screening agent records for each decision and how a recruiter overrides one.
• What does the ATS sync write? confirm which fields, notes and statuses Carv updates in Bullhorn, JobAdder or your system, and how duplicates are handled.
• What are the pilot terms? agree a single-desk pilot with targets such as screening completion rate and time to first interview before a wider rollout.

ManpowerGroup Names Carv a Strategic Partner

• July 22, 2025: ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions named Carv a strategic partner to embed agentic AI in its global recruitment process outsourcing operations, with Global SVP Marceline Beijer describing it as putting smarter tech in the hands of great recruiters.

Thoughtful Agent Design for Staffing Desks

Carv scores 7.8/10 on our scale. The product design is one of the more thoughtful in staffing AI: narrow agents for each step, including the often neglected re-assignment and talent pool maintenance work, synced to the ATS an agency already runs. The ManpowerGroup partnership is a strong endorsement for a company that raised its seed round in 2024. Published pricing and public reviews would give buyers more outside signals and would lift the score.

For a large staffing firm or RPO provider, Carv belongs on the shortlist, especially if redeployment and screening eat recruiter hours. Run a pilot on one desk and measure results against Carv’s own claims. Small agencies that prefer published prices may find another tool easier to start with for now, and an entry plan from Carv would open the product up to them.

Getting a Carv Quote and the Free Version

How Much Does Carv Cost?

Carv does not publish prices for its staffing agents; you request a demo and receive a quote. Capterra lists a free version and per-user pricing for Carv’s AI recruiting admin tool.

What Agents Does Carv Offer for Staffing Agencies?

Its staffing page lists host, screening, assessment, scheduling, rescheduling, re-activation, rediscovery, re-assignment and talent pool maintenance agents, plus custom agents built on your own rules.

Does Carv Work With Bullhorn?

Yes. Carv lists Bullhorn among its integrations, along with JobAdder, Avature, Workday, Greenhouse, SmartRecruiters and Avionte, and syncs with the ATS automatically.

Who Uses Carv?

ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions is its best-known partner. Carv’s staffing page also shows logos for Randstad, Perrett Laver, TMC, Idex and House of Covebo.

Where Is Carv Based and Who Funds It?

Carv is based in Amsterdam. It raised a $10 million seed round in 2024 with Global Founders Capital and angel investors, and its founding team previously built hiring company Harver.