In the height of a global pandemic, while the world wrestled with COVID-19, Apprentice.io found itself at the heart of a high-stakes race against time. Angelo Stracquatanio III, the company's co-founder and CEO, faced a challenge that would make even the most seasoned tech veterans break into a cold sweat: build an entirely new version of his platform to orchestrate the delivery of 400 million life-saving vaccines across the globe—in just 45 days. This wasn't just a test of speed; it was a trial of talent. In the heavily regulated world of pharmaceutical manufacturing, overhauling a complex, multi-stack platform required specialized skills and firepower that went beyond the capacity of his existing team. It was around this time that Angelo was introduced to A.Team — he brought in over 30 specialized fractional engineers from A.Team’s expert network to join forces with Apprentice’s core tech team, allowing them to quickly accomplish the unimaginable. Apprentice’s story is so remarkable because it’s so different from how most companies experience hiring. Our research shows that tech leaders spend an average of four months to hire a top engineer, a timeframe that would’ve spelled disaster in Apprentice’s case. And, the advent of Generative AI has only exacerbated this problem, igniting a digital transformation arms race and widening the already yawning skills gap. Meanwhile, hiring managers — juggling under-resourced teams and endless hiring cycles — are increasingly burning out. Over the past year, we’ve been working on a new generative AI platform at A.Team to solve these challenges and revolutionize the hiring process, enabling tech leaders to source, interview, and hire top-tier talent from A.Team’s network of 11,000+ pre-vetted experts. Enabling hiring managers to now get access to best-in-class Silicon Valley talent on demand that they can onboard in days, not months. We launched it publicly this week as an experimental new feature, and it’s called Team Formation AI. It’s a powerful leap in how companies can assemble world-class teams at exponential speed to solve their most critical business challenges. But don’t just take our word for it — early clients and prospects that have used the platform — like Angelo — have loved it: “The flow was so natural, and the caliber of candidates was so impressive,” said Stracquantanio. “With conversational talent acquisition methods, I don’t get this level of refinement. It’s something that’s always bothered me about traditional hiring — getting the right people for your team is so important, but there’s been a lack of deep and rich thinking about the process, until now. Team Formation AI was much better and deeper.” Try Team Formation AI for yourself. Simply tell it what you’re wanting to build or the roles you’re hiring for, and watch it work its magic: https://hubs.la/Q02F220l0
The new platform is truly transformational, it's really changed how I think about hiring - congrats A.Team!
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