turning manual agency operations into ai-powered workforce platform
Chelsea Labs identified the largest bottlenecks across Operations and People.
We built an AI-powered workforce platform that could source candidates, interview them, generate contracts, track hours, and facilitate payments from one system.
GOAL
The goal was to reduce the amount of manual work required to recruit, onboard, manage, and pay talent while improving the speed and consistency of the candidate and contractor experience. Allowing the agency to continue growing without having to scale its internal operations team at the same rate.
As we grew, our team was spending too much time manually recruiting, interviewing, tracking contractors, and processing payments. We wanted to automate the repetitive work without sacrificing the quality of our hiring process. Chelsea Labs helped us turn those workflows into one system that could scale with the business”
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added headcount to support significantly more talent
grow$200K
annual operational savings
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- SALESbottleneck
The agency could only take on as much new business as its recruiting and operations teams could support, slow hiring workflows limited how fast new client demand could be fulfilled.
- OPERATIONSbottleneck
Recruiting, interviewing, contracting, time tracking, and payments lived across multiple systems, teams spent significant time moving data between tools and doing repetitive admin work.
- HIRINGbottleneck
As sales grew, HR and recruitment staff grew linearly with it. Recruiting capacity was tied to how many recruiters and interviewers were available, and manual interviews capped how many candidates the agency could process.
- FINANCE
- OPTIMIZE WHAT EXISTS
- GROW NEW REVENUE
the result
AI-POWERED WORKFORCE PLATFORM
SOURCING & SCREENING
Sources and identifies qualified candidates, conducts AI-powered interviews, and evaluates them against role requirements.
CONTRACTING & PAYMENTS
Generates and manages contractor agreements, tracks hours, and facilitates payments.
PLATFORM
Gives the agency one system to manage talent from application through ongoing work.
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- OPTIMIZE
Reduced repetitive administrative work for the internal team
- OPTIMIZE
Centralized the contractor lifecycle into a single platform
- OPTIMIZE
Generated approximately $200K in annual operational savings
- OPTIMIZE
Automated major portions of recruiting and back-office operations
- GROW
Increase the number of candidates the agency could process without adding equivalent recruiting headcount
- GROW
Removed operational constraints that limited new client growth
- GROW
Created infrastructure capable of supporting a much larger distributed workforce
Chelsea Labs transformed a people-heavy agency operating model into a scalable AI-powered platform, reducing operational costs while allowing the business to recruit, manage, and pay significantly more talent without proportionally increasing internal headcount.
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