A global executive search firm came to Armakuni for transforming a manual, vendor-locked executive search platform into an AI-native system: building agentic candidate discovery, stabilizing ML-powered candidate ranking, replacing fragmented analytics with AWS-native self-service intelligence, and migrating a proprietary cloud foundation to full internal ownership.
The challenge
A fully AWS-funded GenAI discovery assessment grew into a six-contract engagement covering infrastructure modernization, ML Ops, analytics, and a full agentic recruiting platform. Armakuni now owns the architecture for every major technical capability on the Kingsley Gate platform.
Scale: Global executive search firm placing senior leaders across industries. Multi-tenant AWS platform managing thousands of candidate profiles and recruiter workflows across multiple practice areas..
What we built
Armakuni delivered transforming a manual, vendor-locked executive search platform into an AI-native system: building agentic candidate discovery, stabilizing ML-powered candidate ranking, replacing fragmented analytics with AWS-native self-service intelligence, and migrating a proprietary cloud foundation to full internal ownership. The engagement ran as assessment SOW (GenAI Discovery, fully AWS-funded). Fixed-scope implementation SOWs (Infrastructure Modernization and EKS Pipeline Replacement, Recruitment Assistant Proof of Value). Flexible Engineering PODs (ML Ops, Agentic Recruiting Assistant). Analytics build (QuickSight BI and Q). The work was AWS funded.
The outcomes
6 measurable outcomes shipped across the engagement. The ones that moved the business the most:
The December 2025 vendor shutdown landed with no disruption to the platform.. Every workload that ran on AllCloud's managed infrastructure now runs on AWS-native systems that Kingsley Gate owns, operates, and extends independently. The hard deadline that would have stopped the platform passed without incident.
The candidate-ranking system is now monitored, alerting, and quality-controlled for the first time.. Failures that previously reached users undetected now surface in the engineering monitoring stack before they affect search results. Every new model version is evaluated against the current production model before it goes live, and automatic rollback prevents quality from…
Profile enrichment from recruiter calls and emails is now automated.. The manual data entry that consumed recruiter time after every candidate interaction is replaced by automated extraction and direct CRM write-back. Candidate profiles are updated from every call and email without recruiter effort.
Hiring managers can now find and evaluate candidates through conversation with an AI agent.. The time from initial search to a ranked, reasoned shortlist is reduced for every engagement on the platform. Hiring managers interact with candidate intelligence rather than database results, and the agent handles the discovery work so recruiters can focus on judgment and…
Leadership can now ask business questions directly and receive immediate answers without analyst support.. Revenue by client, margin by project, and pipeline by practice area are now self-service for the CEO and board. All business data stays inside AWS, the governance exposure from external reporting tools is eliminated, and reporting is no longer constrained by BI capacity.
A fully-funded discovery assessment opened a six-contract engagement covering every major capability on the platform.. The AWS-funded discovery assessment gave Kingsley Gate a complete AI roadmap at no cost and established the trust and technical clarity that led to every workstream that followed. Armakuni now owns the architecture for Kingsley Gate's infrastructure, machine learning, analytics…
Built on AWS
Delivered under our AWS Generative AI Services, AI Services, Migration and Modernization competencies.
What's next
Expanding the agentic platform to additional high-volume search workflows. Enhanced ML model persona fit scoring and interview outcome feedback loops in production. External client-facing analytics embedded inside the Kingsley Gate platform. Recruiter-facing analytics views.