About us

Hey, we're Huntsly.

A data-driven, plug-and-play screening tool that helps companies streamline their hiring. We want to change how companies find and assess talent, and make the process more efficient and fair for everyone involved.

Our story

by Liam Burks

Huntsly started with a conversation between my brother and me. We kept coming back to a shared frustration: how little our degrees had to do with our actual job performance. We began to question the common assumption that tertiary education is the strongest predictor of success at work.

Our research confirmed what we had suspected. Academic background is actually a weak predictor of job performance. The strongest correlation we found was with cognitive ability: a factor that is both measurable and does not depend on money or access to formal education.

That insight shaped our mission.

We're building a meritocratic hiring system that promotes diversity by focusing on potential rather than privilege.

Our goal is to help companies discover exceptional talent early, making hiring both fairer and more effective.

Our values

Fairness

We create equal opportunities through objective assessment.

Innovation

We keep pushing the boundaries of recruitment technology.

Empathy

We understand and address the needs of both candidates and employers.

Data

All our methods are grounded in proven psychological research and data science.

Meet the team

Liam Burks

Founder and Software Engineer

Full-stack software engineer with experience on enterprise-grade systems at South Africa's largest bank. Specialist in custom client solutions.

Ciaran Burks

Founder and ex-McKinsey Consultant

Specialist in behavioural bias, with 5+ years of experience optimising decision-making and weighing benefits against costs for multinationals, governments and international finance organisations.

Hire on potential, not privilege.

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