150% Revenue Growth: Aym Recruitment's Atlas Story

About Aym Recruitment

Aym Recruitment is a niche specialist agency focused entirely on the EV charging market in the United States. Founded just over two years ago, the agency works almost exclusively with start-ups and high-growth businesses, the kind that move fast, carry little bureaucracy, and hire with real ambition. 

Placements span a wide spectrum, from field service engineers through to director, VP, and C-suite appointments, with most searches landing around the director and VP level. It’s a deliberately focused operation: one market, deep specialism, and a reputation for delivering candidates who fit first time.

We spoke with Ayrton Moore, Managing Director of Aym Recruitment, about scaling a high-touch desk and how Atlas reshaped the way the agency works.

Read the story and check out our full interview below:

The Tipping Point: When Manual Work Stops Scaling

Before Atlas, Ayrton’s tech stack was lean to the point of fragile. As he puts it, “Excel sheets and a phone.” The business was making money, but he wanted a system that could carry growth rather than slow it down.

Two priorities drove the search. The first was cutting the time spent on work that didn’t generate revenue. The second, and the one he felt most acutely, was the conversations scattered across every channel he used. Calls on his mobile, a few notes jotted and lost, an email here, a message there, a WhatsApp somewhere else. Working in the US market from the UK only sharpened the problem.

It’s very, very difficult to keep track of who I said what to and where and when.

That problem, communications living everywhere and nowhere, was what made the initial Atlas demo land.

How Atlas Gave Ayrton Back 10 Hours a Week

Ayrton is candid about the kind of work that held him back. Sourcing was hard to quantify, but one task had a clear price tag attached: CV formatting, which used to take him around half an hour per document.

He deliberately put context into the document rather than the email, so nothing would be lost when a hiring manager forwarded a candidate to the C-suite. Thorough, but slow. At 10 to 20 CVs a week, the maths added up fast.

Atlas unified that work almost entirely. Notes captured on the call feed snippets that pull the candidate detail and salary information straight into a formatted CV. What once took half an hour now takes two clicks.

Atlas immediately changed my life, quite literally. In many good ways.

The result was straightforward: roughly 10 hours a week back in his pocket.

The Features That Earned Their Place on Day One

Beyond the time savings, a handful of features earned Ayrton’s loyalty quickly. The client view stood out: branded long lists with reports built in, updating live as he works, so clients can click through and see exactly what’s been kept and rejected. For longer searches, and for the start-up clients he describes as “just as unorganised as me,” that running record has been a quiet but real advantage.

Magic Columns was the other early win. It became his go-to method for surfacing candidates long before Atlas’s search function existed, scoring his existing talent pool against the brief and pulling forward people he’d lost touch with.

“Straight away, I’ve got a list of people based on what I’ve actually asked for and spoken to them about. It just did it, and that was huge.”

The Revenue Hiding in His Own Call Notes

The biggest surprise wasn’t time-saving at all. It was revenue that Atlas recovered from conversations Ayrton had lost track of. A couple of roles discussed with a client had slipped off his radar entirely, until he went back to the call notes and asked Atlas for the job descriptions. An extra role was sitting there, captured and logged from a passing comment he’d long forgotten. Both went on to become placements.

“We actually generated about forty-three thousand dollars directly from Atlas. Which I would not have had, because I would have missed those. I didn’t even think about that as a use case.”

Doubling Revenue and Working Less to Get There

Ayrton is quick to note that Atlas can’t claim all the credit, but the trajectory speaks for itself. Year one, the agency generated around £80,000. Year two, the year he adopted Atlas, that climbed to £200,000, a 150% jump, he says the platform played a significant part in.

The operational metrics tell an equally clear story. His CV-to-interview ratio, something he’s tracked since day one, dropped from 2.2 submissions per interview to 1.4 over an eight-month period. He credits Magic Columns for much of that, flagging shortlist choices and giving him a sanity check before he submits.

We have to do drastically less work to get an interview, which is absolutely unreal.

Time to hire fell by two full days per project. Less work, faster placements, more revenue, and clients who no longer have to wade through CVs they don’t want to see.

The Three Features He’d Rank Above the Rest

Asked to rank his top three, Ayrton started with prospect monitoring and opportunities, the flame-based tracking that lets him jump straight to the hottest deals when he wants to do a round of sales. 

Second was the AI chat, which he credits with actively moving his processes forward, building the job description for a role straight from the call so he can start a search there and then rather than waiting.

Top of the list, though, were the AI snippets and the way everything connects around them.

“I can just write something as I would, get AI to fill in the blanks. It’s the way it all gels together. Everything works synchronously with the same data, and all I’ve got to do is pick the phone up.”

The Honest Pitch From Someone Who’s Tried Them All

Having demoed and used plenty of CRMs, Ayrton’s recommendation is grounded rather than gushing.

“Depends what you want out of your CRM, but for me, there’s nothing better on the market that I’ve seen, because my workflow is very simple but also very chaotic, and Atlas removes all the chaos from it.”

His verdict on Atlas, in his own three words?

Very, very efficient.

And looking ahead, the irony isn’t lost on him that his goal is to recruit as little as possible, something Atlas has made possible rather than necessary.

“It’s actually because of Atlas that I’ve been able to not recruit, as it’s a fantastic system, really, really good. It’s not that no software is perfect for everybody, but if you’ve got the problems I’ve got, it does solve them. And it does it by looking quite good as well.”