typical contingency fill rate — the rest of the desk's work goes unpaid
Industry benchmark, 2025–26Revenue intelligence for recruitment agencies
See the half of your agency you never invoice.
Roughly half the jobs a contingency desk works are never filled — full recruiter cost, zero fee, invisible in your P&L. Noxentir reads your ATS and tells you which live jobs will fill, and which are burning hours you'll never get paid for.
Request a Desk Waste AuditTwelve months of your data · findings in pounds · fixed fee
growth correlation for agencies that run on analytics — the strongest of any AI workflow measured
State of Staffing, 2026what an unfilled job pays. Your ATS already knows which ones they'll be — nobody is asking it
The Noxentir questionThe Monday briefing
Your week, decided before nine o'clock.
Not another dashboard. One short briefing every Monday morning: every live job weighed for its likelihood to fill, in plain English, with the reasons — and what to do about the ones that won't.
- Will fill
Senior QS — £11,000 fee. This client fills eight of ten exclusive briefs with you. Prioritise it: a shortlist by Thursday closes it.
- At risk
Three contingency roles, one client — £28,000 of “pipeline”. They've taken eleven briefs in two years and filled one with you. Renegotiate to exclusive, or decline.
- Unpaid hours
Desk two spent most of last week on jobs unlikely to fill. Reassign those hours to the four roles that will pay.
Illustrative example — your briefing is built from your own book.
How it works
Start with an audit, not an integration project.
The audit
Your last twelve months, in pounds
A one-off, fixed-fee analysis of your ATS export: fill rate by client, sector, fee type and desk — and exactly where unpaid hours went. Candidate data stays anonymised; a signed data agreement before anything moves.
The weighing
Every live job, judged
The same analysis, turned forward: each open role weighed for its likelihood to fill, with the reasons stated — client history, terms, salary band, sector heat.
The briefing
Monday, every Monday
Connected to Bullhorn or Vincere, the briefing arrives weekly: what will fill, what's at risk, where each desk's hours should go. You run the agency; it watches the dark.
Who's behind this
Noxentir is being built in London, from inside the recruitment industry — on the desk, not in a lab. We're working with a small number of founding agencies (ten to fifty consultants, specialist desks) whose audits shape the product.
If that's you, write to us.