TechT ai Adds Lower-Upfront-Cost Lite Plan to Its Engineer Headhunting Service

TechT ai, operated by TechBowl Inc. and guided by the mission “To be the terminal for everyone who supports technology,” has added a new Lite Plan to its pinpoint recruiting service “Head Hunt” as a new approach to engineer hiring. The plan lowers initial implementation costs and removes the uncertainty of traditional recruiting events, where companies do not know who will attend. Through detailed interviews and professional candidate attraction, TechT ai creates reliable touchpoints between companies and their ideal engineers. Many companies in the engineer hiring market face what TechT ai calls a “recruiting lottery”: even when they participate in events to build a candidate pool, they often fail to meet people with the skills and career orientation they need. Even when companies do make contact, the burden of having busy in-house engineers join interviews and the difficulty of persuading candidates afterward can become hiring bottlenecks, delaying the acquisition of engineers needed for business growth. TechT ai says successful IT engineer hiring is not just about finding highly skilled people, but about finding people companies genuinely want to work with. Through its experience supporting recruitment for many mega-ventures and startups, TechT ai concluded that highly accurate matching requires objective third-party evaluation and passionate professional hunting. To make this essential hiring method available to more companies, it created a new success-fee-based plan with lower upfront costs. The service offers two plans that companies can choose from based on their hiring phase and budget, and TechT ai continues hunting until the company meets the right talent. The newly added Lite Plan charges 100,000 yen per interview slot, starting from five slots, plus a 1 million yen success fee. TechT ai thoroughly interviews companies about their desired candidate profile, selects suitable candidates from its proprietary database, and proposes them to clients. Professional headhunters speak carefully with each candidate, communicate the company’s appeal, and arrange interviews without adding workload to the client’s engineering team. Because TechT ai continues hunting until the purchased interview slots are filled, companies avoid the risk common to advertising-style recruiting media: paying without meeting any candidates. After interviews, companies can also switch to the “Moutsui Agent” follow-up service, which tracks and follows up with candidates through the end of the selection process. Going forward, TechT ai aims to contribute to a healthier engineer hiring market, particularly in new graduate recruitment. It also plans to expand into mid-career hiring and improve matching accuracy further by using accumulated matching data. The company aims to build infrastructure that connects outstanding engineers supporting Japan’s IT industry with companies through more essential shared values. CEO Masao Ozawa said the plan was designed from the belief that companies should hire not only people with strong abilities, but people they truly want to work with. He said TechT ai wants companies that have not seen results from conventional recruiting events or scouting platforms, and that feel their engineer hiring has become stagnant, to experience the impact of this nomination-style approach. TechT ai says it will commit to uncompromising matching as a company’s strongest recruiting partner. TechT ai launched in May 2019 and is used by engineers across Japan. Six years after launch, it has surpassed 12,000 users. More than 150 IT engineers from over 70 companies currently serve as mentors, advising on practical development methods. Its corporate services include training, technical support, recruitment support, and school support, while its individual service provides a learning and career support platform for people who want to acquire IT skills or build careers in the IT industry. TechBowl Inc. was established in October 2018, has capital of 100 million yen including capital reserves, operates internet services, and is located at Jimbocho Front 4F, 2-32-5 Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.