Human review on every shortlist
No candidate goes out without a Wirehead recruiter signing off. AI does the screening; a human owns the recommendation.
Introducing Autopilot
You post, we match, you meet
— all in the same day.
Autopilot is Wirehead's AI-powered staffing service. Brief us once — our Claude-powered matching searches a contractor network that already trusts us with their rates, goals, and availability. A vetted shortlist lands in 24–48 hours, signed off by a real Wirehead recruiter.
- Typically 24–48 h shortlist
- Vetted by humans
- Built on Claude
How Autopilot works
From brief to shortlist — typically 24–48 hours.
Four steps. No black box. You see the rationale behind every match.
- 01BRIEF
~2 min
Send us the role
Drop a JD, an email, or a 60-second voice note. No portal, no forms to fill out.
- 02MATCH
Runs in minutes
Autopilot finds your shortlist
Our Claude-powered matcher screens our vetted contractor network against your brief in minutes.
- 03SHORTLIST
Typically 24–48 h
3–5 candidates, fully vetted
Each profile includes a written rationale, rate, availability, and clearance status.
- 04ENGAGE
Same week
Interview and start
We handle contracts, onboarding, and compliance end-to-end. You focus on the work.
Timelines reflect typical engagements. Complex or cleared roles may take longer — we will tell you up front.
Why teams trust Autopilot
AI does the matching. Humans own the outcome.
The hard part of hiring senior talent isn't searching — it's reach. The best I&IT contractors are almost always already working. They don't answer cold recruiters. They do answer us. Over years, elite contractors have trusted Wirehead with what they actually want — their rate, their next move, their availability. So when your role matches, it doesn't land as spam. It lands as a recommendation from a network they already believe in. That trust is the moat. AI just makes it fast.
Explainable matches
Every profile ships with a short written rationale: why this person, what they bring, and what to probe in interview.
Vetted contractor network
We don't scrape job boards. Candidates come from Wirehead's existing relationships — references and prior placements on file.
Hosted in Canada · PIPEDA + Law 25
Your brief and any data you share stay in Canada. We never train external models on your role descriptions or candidate notes.
Old way vs Autopilot
What changes when AI does the heavy lifting.
The old way
Traditional agency search
Wait 2–3 weeks for a first shortlist.
Five recruiters, five different interpretations of your role.
Resumes arrive with no context on why they were picked.
Pay a premium for slow, manual sourcing work.
Your role description sits in a recruiter's inbox somewhere.
With Autopilot
AI-assisted, human-owned
First shortlist typically in 24–48 hours.
One brief. One consistent matching pass. One account lead.
Every profile ships with a written matching rationale.
Senior humans focus on judgment — not keyword searches.
Your data stays in Canada and is never used to train external models.
The AI under the hood
Built on Claude
Autopilot runs on Anthropic's Claude — one of the most trusted AI systems in enterprise use. It reads your brief, weighs trade-offs across our contractor network, and writes the rationale behind every match. Your data stays in Canada and is never used to train external models.
Brief us. Vetted talent, typically in 24–48 hours.
Tell us the role in a sentence or two. A Wirehead lead will reply with a shortlist plus the rationale behind each match.
Hosted in Canada · PIPEDA + Law 25 · Your data, your control