Evidence, not instinct, decides who's hired.
Behavioural benchmarking, AI-assisted interviews, and reporting for agency recruiters and in-house teams — built for a clear, repeatable read on fit.
The human hand makes the mark.
Replace gut-feel with a repeatable read on fit.
Most hiring decisions still run on instinct — a good conversation, a strong CV, a feeling in the room. Retaind puts a benchmark underneath that decision instead, and reads every candidate against it the same way, every time.
Mark Stephens
A message from our Founder & CEO.
For decades, organisations have repeatedly rolled out the same statement: People are our greatest asset.
And yet, the hiring process used to decide who those people will be remains one of the most subjective, inconsistent and surprisingly unsophisticated decision processes inside most businesses.
Organisations still commit hundreds of thousands of pounds in salary, benefits, management time and opportunity cost to an employee after little more than a CV, several conversations and a collection of opinions.
But that contradiction is becoming increasingly difficult to justify. Not because artificial intelligence has suddenly discovered a better way to hire people. Because it hasn’t.
Structured interviewing, behavioural science, psychometrics, competency assessment, benchmarking and evidence-led decision-making have existed for decades.
What AI changes is something potentially far more important…
It changes the economics of applying them.
Methodologies once reserved largely for executive search, assessment specialists and sophisticated internal talent teams can increasingly be delivered quickly, consistently and at a fraction of the historic operational burden.
That is why evidence-based recruitment may represent one of the most important transitions the recruitment profession has experienced for decades.
Mark Stephens — CEO & Founder