Author Profile
Founder, Hire Forge AI · Recruitment AI Designer
Ben Lovis is a professional recruiter who built and deployed AI-powered screening systems internally before founding Hire Forge AI. Working across high-volume and specialist hiring, he used AI to transform his own team's throughput — cutting shortlist time from days to minutes — and then built Hire Forge AI to make those same systems available to recruiting teams everywhere.
His work sits at the intersection of recruitment practice and AI engineering. Rather than designing tools in the abstract, Ben's approach is grounded in what actually happens inside a hiring process: the decision fatigue, the volume pressure, the candidates who get missed because a recruiter was on their 85th CV of the day.
He now designs AI recruitment systems for hiring teams worldwide, advising on implementation strategy, ATS integration, and the organisational change required to get real ROI from AI screening tools.
Focus Areas
Role
Founder & AI Systems Designer
Background
Professional Recruiter
Speciality
AI-powered CV screening
Scope
Worldwide

17 July 2026
Compare AI tools for staffing agencies with 2–20 recruiters across sourcing, screening, ATS/CRM, parser APIs, pricing and cost per placement.
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06 May 2026
Compare Workable's $299 Standard plan, current add-on costs and full ATS scope with Hire Forge AI's focused screening plans for small teams.
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05 May 2026
Compare Manatal's $15–$55 per-user plans with Hire Forge AI's £25 flat screening plan, including automation limits and best-fit teams.
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26 April 2026
AI recruitment tools start at $15/user/month and scale to enterprise contracts. Compare verified 2026 pricing, add-ons, and SMB fit.
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22 April 2026
43% of organisations now use AI in HR (SHRM, 2025). Compare the best AI recruitment software for SMBs, real pricing and a fit guide by team size.
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19 April 2026
Calculate screening ROI from application volume, review time and software cost—then check the quality and governance risks a spreadsheet can miss.
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A practical 2026 guide to AI resume-screening bias: test job-related criteria, audit outcomes, challenge vendor claims and meet UK, US and EU duties.
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Compare what an ATS manages with what a dedicated AI screener adds, including volume thresholds, workflow fit, and measurable evaluation criteria for SMBs.
Read article30 March 2026
51% of organisations use AI for recruiting. This SMB-first guide covers how resume screening works, how to choose a tool, and the bias risks to manage.
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08 March 2026
See where recruitment AI saves time in 2026, which workflows benefit, and how to measure screening speed without giving up human oversight.
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15 February 2026
See why extracting CV fields is not the same as evaluating job fit, where ATS workflows lose evidence, and how to test parsing and screening separately.
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01 February 2026
Learn how parsing errors, rigid filters and workflow rules hide qualified candidates—and use four practical checks to find and fix the failure point.
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18 January 2026
AI was meant to make recruitment faster and fairer. In practice, many recruiters feel it has done the opposite. Here's what actually works in 2026.
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09 January 2026
High application volumes are now the norm in recruitment. This FAQ answers the most common questions recruiters ask when evaluating automated resume screening.
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31 July 2025
Build a skills-based hiring process for SMBs: define evidence-based criteria, screen consistently, validate ability and avoid weak proxies.
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12 July 2025
Reduce screening delays with a measurable AI-assisted workflow, realistic benchmarks and human-review safeguards for faster hiring in 2026.
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30 June 2025
Automate resume screening without damaging candidate experience: practical workflows, human-review safeguards and a measurable pilot plan.
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26 June 2025
Compare resume parser APIs, DIY extraction and no-code screening, including current pricing, OCR trade-offs, security checks and a practical test plan.
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25 June 2025
We ran 300 CVs through 5 of the top resume parsing tools. Here's what we found: accuracy benchmarks, verified 2026 pricing, and our shortlisting winner.
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14 June 2025
Learn practical strategies for crafting compelling, clear, and inclusive job descriptions that attract and engage high-quality candidates.
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14 June 2025
Manual CV screening costs more than review time. Calculate delay, rework and opportunity cost—and see when structured automation is genuinely worth it.
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26 May 2025
Compare hireEZ and Hire Forge AI on verified pricing, sourcing, screening and ATS workflows to decide which product fits your recruitment bottleneck.
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14 May 2025
Learn how AI CV sifting compares evidence with job criteria, where it saves review time, and which accuracy, bias and oversight risks still need human checks.
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03 April 2025
Compare Paradox AI with six alternatives for screening, ATS, sourcing and frontline hiring, including verified public prices and best-fit use cases.
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13 March 2025
A practical 2026 guide to recruitment automation: what to automate, which tools to use, where human judgement still matters, and how to measure the result.
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25 January 2025
Discover how AI is transforming recruitment through CV screening and automation—and learn why human judgment and relationship-building still matter.
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10 January 2025
Build a defensible AI recruitment workflow with lawful basis, DPIAs, candidate transparency, human review, vendor checks and current UK/EU rules.
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