CIPD Level 7 recruitment consultancy
I'm Brian Gillingham, a CIPD Level 7-qualified HR professional with a decade in compliance, training, and applied research. I built Mermoid — the audit-first scoring system — because every other AI hiring tool fails the one test that actually matters: can it defend the score to a tribunal, an inspector, or the ICO?
Send me your job spec and your candidate CVs. I'll send back a ranked shortlist with citation-backed evidence per criterion, sector-specific compliance gaps surfaced before interview, and a retention-probability prediction for each candidate. £99 per cohort, pay after delivery.
The weights are derived from your job spec. If you said "must have", we boost. If you said "nice to have", we discount. Mathematically grounded, every score reproducible.
Tenure pattern, level fit, domain consistency, location friction, trajectory. A great-fit who churns at 6 months isn't a great hire.
CQC's Reg 19, FCA SMCR, SRA practising certificate, KCSIE for education, CSCS for construction, SIA for security — per sector, automatically routed.
Status detected from CV. Sponsor-licence requirement flagged. Salary checked against Skilled Worker / Health & Care Worker thresholds. Traffic-light tier per candidate.
For every candidate, the must-have documents (passport, DBS, NI number, training records, refs). Missing items surfaced; ready-to-paste email to candidates included.
Shortlist / interview / reject directly from your dashboard. Decisions persist with timestamps so the audit trail survives a tribunal, an inspection, or a Subject Access Request.
Sectors auto-detect from your JD. Cross-sector roles get scored against multiple compliance packs.
Drop your JD and up to 50 CVs. PDF / DOCX / TXT. No SaaS signup. No card up front.
Mermoid extracts, scores deterministically, predicts retention, checks compliance, and verifies right-to-work. ~15 seconds per CV.
Within 24 hours. Every score has a citation back to a CV/JD field. You pay £99 only if you find it useful.
| Generic LLM scorer | Mermoid (audit-first) | |
|---|---|---|
| Score reproducibility | "Maybe similar" | Identical, byte-for-byte |
| Citation per criterion | No | Yes — CV field + JD field |
| Sector-specific compliance | Generic | 9 packs (CQC, FCA, SRA, ...) |
| Right-to-Work + salary check | Not surfaced | Traffic-light, tier-per-candidate |
| Document-gap detection | No | Pre-interview email auto-built |
| Retention prediction | No | 6-signal model, confidence-rated |
| Cost per call | $0.01-0.10 LLM tokens | Free (deterministic) |
| Audit trail under EU AI Act | Hard | Designed for it |
Data Act 2025 · ICO ADM guidance (April 2026)
· EU AI Act · NYC Local Law 144 ·
Colorado AI Act (Feb 2026). Mermoid's deterministic, citation-backed
scoring is built to defend under all of them.
A decade in workforce compliance, training delivery, and applied research across the UK care sector and other regulated industries. Hands-on with the audits, documents, and CQC-style inspections recruiters need their candidates to clear. Published researcher on Lincolnshire's Troubled Families Programme. I'm not a software founder making recruitment tools—I'm a recruitment professional who built the tool I needed.
Read more →£99 per cohort, pay after delivery. If you're not happy with the output, don't pay. For high-volume work I offer a £249/month retainer with unlimited mid-volume cohorts.
PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD. Up to 50 CVs per cohort, 25 MB per file.
Files are deleted 7 days after delivery. CVs are processed on a UK / EU-residency VM and never sent to third-party LLM APIs. The scoring pipeline is fully deterministic so there's no model retention or training on customer data. Article 6(1)(f) legitimate interest is documented per cohort.
Every candidate report includes: weighted criteria with cv_field/jd_field citations; per-signal evidence with substring-level matches; the JD-conditioned weight derivation with a transparent boost calculation per criterion; sector compliance against named regulatory anchors. Defensible under ICO ADM guidance.
Yes. The right-to-work module detects visa types, flags sponsor-licence requirements, and checks salary against the Skilled Worker (£38,700) and Health & Care Worker (£29,000) thresholds. Recruiter-action notes per candidate.
An ATS stores CVs. Mermoid scores them against the job spec with a defensible, citation-backed methodology. Many agencies use both: ATS for storage + workflow; Mermoid for the actual ranking.