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What the sponsorship buys is one page — this one — and a sponsor strip at the top of others. If you came here from one of those, you’re a recruiter looking at the Japan market. The rest of this page is written for you.
Less Sourcing. More Closing.
If you’ve been recruiting in Japan for more than two years, you’ve been pitched on at least four “AI recruiting” tools. You’ve sat through demos that promised to change sourcing forever. You’ve also quietly gone back to BizReach and LinkedIn Recruiter and made your number anyway.
This briefing is written for you. It’s the honest version, with production data from ESAI Agency’s own desk — and a 100-credit trial designed to answer one question: is there a single name on the list you haven’t already worked?
Same recruiters. Same market. Same fees.
ESAI Agency’s own recruiters, full funnel measured against their pre-Headhunt.AI baseline. The only variable was the sourcing layer.
More candidates worth meeting reach the desk.
Bilingual outreach the candidate side actually answers.
Better fit at the top of the funnel shows up downstream.
Clients trust the shortlist; the close rate moves with it.
Real-desk numbers, not a controlled experiment. Same recruiters who placed under the old process — the only thing that changed is the sourcing tool.
One JD. One question. Two minutes.
Sign up at headhunt.ai. 100 credits, no card. Paste a real JD you’re working right now.
In 1–2 minutes you get a ranked shortlist. Each candidate has an ESAI Score 0–100 with the rationale spelled out — tenure pattern, company tier, language signal, trajectory.
Show the list to yourself. Or to the colleague who covers the same patch. Ask one thing: is there a name on this list I haven’t already worked?
When recruiters at peer agencies have run this test, 30–60% of the names on the list were new to them — even on roles their teams had been working for months.
If even one is new, the platform is finding people your current process is missing. If none are new, walk away. Cost: zero. Time: two minutes.
Tell another recruiter. You both get 50 credits.
The recruiters who get the most out of Headhunt.AI tend to share it with the colleague who covers the same patch — one ranked list, two desks, no wasted overlap.
Credits are added on top of the 100 free trial credits — enough to run real searches, not just a single demo. The referral link is in the dashboard once you’re in.
Sign up first — referral link comes afterMore from the Headhunt.AI insights series.
Each briefing is a self-contained PDF, written for a specific reader. All bilingual EN/JP.
¥100,000 Per Meeting
The unit economics of Japan recruiting, broken down to one number: the all-in cost of getting one qualified candidate meeting on the calendar.
Read briefing →The Decision Gap
Why most TA orgs in Japan still decide between candidates with worse data than they decide between vendors. And what closes the gap.
Read briefing →The Database Tax
Most AI recruiting tools lock you into their database — you build the asset, they own it. The case for an exportable, ATS-native model.
Read briefing →Is your AI stack illegal in Japan?
APPI, MHLW employment-information rules, the 4-go filing nobody talks about. A practical compliance review of how AI sourcing tools handle Japan-resident candidate data.
Read briefing →Enrich Your ATS
How to push enriched, AI-scored Japan candidate data into Bullhorn, Salesforce, Zoho, and Greenhouse without a re-platforming project.
Read briefing →Trusting The AI
A practical framework for when to override the score, when to follow it, and what an experienced recruiter’s judgment is actually worth alongside model output.
Read briefing →Built and operated in Japan.
Headhunt.AI is operated by ExecutiveSearch.AI K.K., a Tokyo entity established in 2018. The platform is the same one ESAI Agency K.K.’s recruiters use every day — not a separate product line built to be sold.
Designed against Japan’s Personal Information Protection Act (APPI) from the start. AWS Tokyo region. Tenant-isolated workspaces. Japanese-language support, Japan-law contracts, JPY invoicing. 4M+ Japan-focused profiles, refreshed continuously and bound to a single market.
- · Operating entity: ExecutiveSearch.AI K.K. · 〒150-0012 東京都渋谷区広尾1-1-39
- · Recruiting license held separately by ESAI Agency K.K. (license 13-ユ-319155)
- · Parent: Monstarlab Inc. (TSE: 5255)
Read first, or run the test.
Read the briefing first.
16 pages, written for recruiters who’ve been pitched on AI tools before. The full data, the methodology, the candid version.
Read “Less Sourcing. More Closing.”Just run the test.
100 credits free. Paste a JD. Two minutes. The briefing answers questions — the test answers the question.
Bring a colleague — you both get +50 credits when they sign up.
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