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We built Brindle to make references the default

Why we built it, what we believe, and where we're going.

Why we started Brindle.

I build companies. I'm not a recruiter, but a business I ran out of London leaned on agencies constantly, and my sales lead had come out of recruitment. I spent enough time around the work to notice the things that don't make it into a pitch.

One was references. Everyone agreed they mattered. Almost nobody ran them on everyone, because at the going prices, checking every placement costs too much. When I came home, I picked it up with a friend I'd built with before, someone who'd spent a career inside recruitment and knew the desk in a way I never would. We asked whether that cost was actually fixed, or just unexamined. It was unexamined.

So we built around a flat monthly model and put it in front of real desks. References that used to get skipped were getting done, and finished. That's the whole idea: running a reference shouldn't be something you ration. We built Brindle to make it the default.

Pete / Founder

What we believe

The beliefs behind every product and pricing decision.

References should run on every placement, not just the ones you can afford.

The pricing model sets the practice. Per-check billing makes a reference a rationing decision; flat monthly makes it standard.

The mechanism matters more than the platform.

A reference is worthless if the referee never finishes it. A guided conversation completes where a static form doesn't. The mechanism is the product.

Your data is handled responsibly.

Compliant with the AU Privacy Act 1988 and NZ Privacy Act 2020. SOC 2 Type II infrastructure (not our own certification yet), with AI inference on Google Vertex servers in Australia. No data sale, no AI training on customer data.

Trust comes from constraints, not promises.

Quotas roll month to month within the contract year. Overage caps at $2 per reference. No conversion pressure at the end of the trial. The model holds us to it.

In active use across Australia and New Zealand.

Agencies in temp, labour hire, and construction recruitment run references through Brindle on every placement. References that wouldn't have gone out under per-check pricing are now standard.

Building the next chapter with a design partner cohort.

We're working with a cohort of 10 agencies shaping what Brindle becomes, in exchange for early access on favourable terms. [Number] of 10 spots remaining. If you run 10 or more placements a month, we'd like to talk.

01

ATS integration

With the platforms that dominate ANZ recruitment: JobAdder, Bullhorn, FastTrack360, Astute. Prioritised against design partner feedback.

02

AI summaries of completed references

So the recruiter can scan rather than read.

03

Interview notes inside CV templating

For a richer candidate overview when sending to the client.

04

Fraud detection patterns across references

Answer consistency, IP tracking, referee email duplication.

We commit to direction, not specific timelines. As we ship, this list updates.

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