How Branchy runs their entire recruitment agency on Vouch
Håkon Høgetveit
How Branchy replaced Teamtailor, started fresh and built a searchable talent pool that actually works for a recruitment agency that works across domains.
How Branchy replaced Teamtailor, started fresh and built a searchable talent pool that actually works for a recruitment agency that works across domains.
Not every golden candidate spend much time on LinkedIn. Branchy's recruiters work the phone, scraping contact details from agency websites and building relationships one call at a time.
Over time, that work accumulates: notes from calls, preferences candidates have mentioned, a sense of who's open to a move and who isn't. The kind of intelligence that separates a good agency from a fast one.
The database no one could search
None of that would be possible to find with all the AI sourcing tools people hype about.
"You could search through some outdated LinkedIn profiles," Tom Erik explained. "But if I wanted to find everyone in Oslo West who was open to a sales leadership role and would be open to a chat this spring, I had to go through my own memory. The database was there but it wasn't useful."
Tom and team need a system that could search and find hidden gems through unstructured data – proactively nudging them. They'd been using coordination via daily conversation to compensate for what the tool couldn't do. That worked until it didn't.
Who Branchy is
Branchy is a recruitment agency in Oslo that originally had their roots in real estate but that now works with a range of other roles and companies. Making it even more important to get better system help. Branchy was founded in 2022, and by early 2025, the team had three partners and a shared candidate database of a few thousand people.
Most of those candidates were essentially invisible.
A clean start
They started afresh in Vouch by migrating they wanted and curated their talent pool with the right data.
Starting fresh meant something specific in Vouch's architecture. Every candidate added would be properly structured, enriched, and searchable from day one. The Chrome plugin made adding new candidates fast: a recruiter on LinkedIn could import a profile in a single click, with AI filling in context, fit notes, and any enrichment it could find. Notes from calls could be added on the go. The system remembered what the recruiter had written.
Thomas Mathisen, Branchy's third partner and the agency's real estate recruitment specialist, tested the Chrome plugin in his first week. "Worked like a charm. Will completely change my workflow," he said.
What changed
Three months in, Branchy is running their recruitment operation in Vouch. Their talent pool is growing with clean, structured data. Recruiters can search in plain language: not by tags or filters, but by typing what they're looking for and letting the system surface matches.
The duplicate outreach problem is gone. Candidate ownership is visible. The team still talks every day, but now Vouch holds the context so the conversation can be about the work rather than the logistics of who called who.
For a small agency where every placement matters and commission is individual, that clarity is worth more than it sounds.
Read more about Branchy here.
Want to see it action yourself? Book a demo today.
Not every golden candidate spend much time on LinkedIn. Branchy's recruiters work the phone, scraping contact details from agency websites and building relationships one call at a time.
Over time, that work accumulates: notes from calls, preferences candidates have mentioned, a sense of who's open to a move and who isn't. The kind of intelligence that separates a good agency from a fast one.
The database no one could search
None of that would be possible to find with all the AI sourcing tools people hype about.
"You could search through some outdated LinkedIn profiles," Tom Erik explained. "But if I wanted to find everyone in Oslo West who was open to a sales leadership role and would be open to a chat this spring, I had to go through my own memory. The database was there but it wasn't useful."
Tom and team need a system that could search and find hidden gems through unstructured data – proactively nudging them. They'd been using coordination via daily conversation to compensate for what the tool couldn't do. That worked until it didn't.
Who Branchy is
Branchy is a recruitment agency in Oslo that originally had their roots in real estate but that now works with a range of other roles and companies. Making it even more important to get better system help. Branchy was founded in 2022, and by early 2025, the team had three partners and a shared candidate database of a few thousand people.
Most of those candidates were essentially invisible.
A clean start
They started afresh in Vouch by migrating they wanted and curated their talent pool with the right data.
Starting fresh meant something specific in Vouch's architecture. Every candidate added would be properly structured, enriched, and searchable from day one. The Chrome plugin made adding new candidates fast: a recruiter on LinkedIn could import a profile in a single click, with AI filling in context, fit notes, and any enrichment it could find. Notes from calls could be added on the go. The system remembered what the recruiter had written.
Thomas Mathisen, Branchy's third partner and the agency's real estate recruitment specialist, tested the Chrome plugin in his first week. "Worked like a charm. Will completely change my workflow," he said.
What changed
Three months in, Branchy is running their recruitment operation in Vouch. Their talent pool is growing with clean, structured data. Recruiters can search in plain language: not by tags or filters, but by typing what they're looking for and letting the system surface matches.
The duplicate outreach problem is gone. Candidate ownership is visible. The team still talks every day, but now Vouch holds the context so the conversation can be about the work rather than the logistics of who called who.
For a small agency where every placement matters and commission is individual, that clarity is worth more than it sounds.
Read more about Branchy here.
Want to see it action yourself? Book a demo today.