We come from staffing.
The systems came after.
Everyday Consultants combines decades of real staffing experience with Zoho, automation and AI to build systems around the way recruitment firms actually work.
We don’t sell technology looking for a problem. We understand the problem first, design the workflow, and then use the right technology to solve it.
Book a Staffing Systems ReviewThirty years in recruitment came first.
Rob has spent 30+ years in recruitment: recruiter, manager, and leader of recruiting businesses. He has worked in Bullhorn and multiple other ATS platforms, and helped test an ATS developed in-house. The systems side of this company exists because of what those years taught him.
He started where the industry starts: on the phone
A decade at CNC Global, first as a senior technical recruiter, then as an account manager, running an IT desk through boom, bust and everything between.
Then thirteen years leading at the Ian Martin Group
Director of Operations, then General Manager, then Managing Director, a role he held for seven years. Along the way he lived inside the industry’s software: Bullhorn, several other ATS platforms, and a stint helping test an ATS the firm developed internally. He has seen recruiting systems from the buyer’s chair and the builder’s bench.
Then he built Everyday People, and knew exactly what the systems needed to do
His own staffing agency. After three decades on desks and in boardrooms, the requirements weren’t a mystery. Zoho had the flexibility to build it. So he hired Zoho partners to do exactly that.
The projects failed. More than once.
The partners knew the software. They didn’t know staffing. They couldn’t tell a job order from a placement, so they built systems around the technology instead of the work. The problem wasn’t Zoho. It was the gap between software knowledge and staffing knowledge.
That gap became the foundation of Everyday Consultants
A consultancy built to close it: staffing people who are exceptionally good at building systems. Since then we’ve built for 14+ recruiting firms. And Rob still runs Everyday People, so he still lives the Monday pipeline meeting, the timesheet chase and the fall-off late on a Friday. He translates agency reality into system requirements. When a workflow matches how a desk actually runs, he’s the reason.
Fourteen firms. One architect.
Akhil is the architect behind Everyday Consultants’ Zoho builds for 14+ recruiting firms, plus companies in real estate, travel, manufacturing and e-commerce along the way.
The long way around
Business development, software development, ERP consulting, CRM consulting. He’s seen business systems from the sales floor, the code editor and the implementation trench.
Recruitment became the specialty
For a simple reason: recruiting firms have the widest gap in the market between what they pay for software and what they get from it. Closing that gap takes someone who understands the desk, not just the database.
The current obsession: the AI layer
Zia agents, custom matching and screening automations, MCP-connected assistants, all built on top of well-structured systems, because agents on top of messy data just make mistakes faster. The automations he ships aren’t demos; they carry real routine work in live agencies, with people making the calls that matter.
He builds everything Rob specifies
When the routine work is already handled before the team logs in, and a recruiter only had to approve it, he’s the reason.
An everyday name, chosen on purpose.
There’s a family of companies behind this site, and the name is the point.
Everyday People Inc.
Rob’s own staffing agency, placing people right now.
Everyday Consultants
The consultancy born from that gap, building systems around the way recruitment firms actually work.
Everyday Energy Talent
The family’s energy-staffing vertical.
EverydayRecruit
Staffing technology, built by people who run staffing businesses.
Most consultancies see an agency’s problems in a discovery call. We see them every day: in our own pipeline meetings, our own timesheets, our own P&L. The systems we sell you are versions of the systems we depend on. That’s the whole pitch, and it’s also the name.
We run what we sell.
Every day.
The platform that could flex to the work.
Rob chose Zoho before this consultancy existed, because it had the flexibility to fit a staffing workflow instead of forcing one. We’re a Zoho partner now, so you should discount this section accordingly. Here’s the reasoning anyway. Judge it on the math.
The economics are lopsided
A typical staffing stack of ATS, CRM, marketing, e-sign, scheduling, accounting, BI, plus the Zapier glue, runs $500 to $1,000 per producer per month, and none of it shares a database. Add Recruit’s Staffing Agency edition ($25 to $75/recruiter/mo) and Workerly for temp desks, both licensed separately from Zoho One, a detail plenty of resellers gloss over. A 10-person agency lands around $1,066/mo all-in, versus ~$2,650 to $3,150 on Bullhorn and ~$4,569 on a Franken-stack. List prices; we show the working on every page.
One database beats seven integrations
The deal your salesperson closes becomes the job order your recruiter fills, becomes the timesheet ops approves, becomes the invoice Books sends, without a human ferrying data. Fill rate, GP per recruiter and DSO come from one place, so they finally agree with each other. And if you ever sell the firm, clean unified data is worth real money in diligence.
The AI layer is arriving in the right place
Zia agents, Agent Studio and Zoho’s MCP server put automation inside the system of record, under the same permissions as the user running them, not in a bolt-on tool with another login and another sync to break. Zoho’s models run in Zoho’s own data centers, which matters when your database is candidates’ personal information.
Implementation is the product
Generic Zoho partners don’t know staffing; staffing consultants don’t know Zoho deeply. Rob paid to learn that the hard way. The value isn’t in the licenses. It’s in an implementation shaped by someone who has run recruiting businesses and someone who has wired fourteen of these before. Software alone doesn’t fix an agency. Implementation does.
What we hold ourselves to.
Understand the problem first
We don’t ask where we can put AI. We ask how the firm makes money, where work gets stuck, and what people do manually that they shouldn’t. Workflow first, then Zoho, then automation and AI where they genuinely remove work.
Show the math
Every claim quantified, every price sourced, every caveat stated. If a number on this site can’t be traced to a list price or a measured result, it doesn’t ship.
Right-sized, never oversold
A solo desk gets the same craftsmanship as a 40-seat firm, just less machinery. We’d rather you buy the right tier than the big one; you climb when the work justifies it.
Honesty is a feature
Straight answers about scope live on our own pages because trust compounds faster than hype. If the answer is “keep QuickBooks” or “you’re too VMS-heavy for this,” you’ll hear it in the review.
Ship, then automate
Clean system first, automation second, agents third. Machinery built on messy data just makes mistakes faster. Every automation is measured against a baseline, and deleted if it doesn’t earn its keep. People make the decisions; the system removes the drag.
Run what we sell
Our own agencies run on this stack. The chat on this site is SalesIQ, the booking page is Zoho Bookings, the proposal you’ll get comes out of Writer and Sign. Every day, in our own P&L.
Talk to the people doing the work.
No sales team, no handoffs. The Staffing Systems Review is a business conversation with Rob and Akhil, people who have run recruiting businesses and build these systems themselves.
Book a Staffing Systems Review45 minutes, written findings either way, booked on Zoho Bookings. Naturally.