Prosper. Unlocking a 10x increase in recruiting submissions with an AI-enabled UX
How AI-enabled UX workflows enabled a product team of one to design, build, and deploy a staffing agency's operational workflow in six weeks.
March 16, 2026
UX Design
Full-Stack
AI Workflows
Recruiting
10x
Efficiency Increase
6
Weeks
18
Global Components
1
Designer
The Client
A boutique staffing agency ready to grow
Prosper HQ is a boutique staffing agency led by an a team with 20 years of experience in staffing for tech and construction roles. The recruiters work directly with hiring clients to source, vet, and submit candidates for open roles in a high-touch, relationship-driven business where submission volume directly correlates to revenue.
The Problem
A manual workflow with a hard ceiling on growth
A deeper investigation into Prosper's staffing workflow revealed that every candidate placement followed the same time-intensive five-step process, entirely by hand.
Receive
A set of requirements arrives from a client, often as messy notes, emails, or bullet points.
Parse
The recruiter manually identifies key qualifications, location constraints, and role parameters.
Construct
A Boolean search string is built manually, which takes 15 to 20 minutes per search.
Evaluate
Candidate profiles are reviewed one by one against the requirements.
Submit
Qualified candidates are sent to the client, producing roughly two submissions per week.
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End-to-end, this process enabled approximately 2 candidate submissions per week. Removing the operational cap was key to business growth.
The Approach
A three-site platform, built by one designer
As a product team of one, owning research, experience design, and engineering, I built a production-grade platform in approximately six weeks by leveraging AI-augmented workflows at every stage of the process.
The Landing Site
A public-facing marketing site and job board that replaced the original single page. Clearly communicates what Prosper does and creates an inbound candidate pipeline.
Search and filter opportunities
Scroll animations + 3D shader hero
Apply directly through a structured form
Converts visitors to applicants or contacts
The Admin Portal
A public-facing marketing site and job board that replaced the original single page. Clearly communicates what Prosper does and creates an inbound candidate pipeline.
Raw job description parsing
One-click job publishing
Functional ATS candidate sorting
Enhanced security for compliance
UI Documentation
A living reference for the design system, built with Astro Starlight. Displays every component in use, where it's used, and any overrides that exist.
Catalogs 18+ shared UI components
DTCG Design token definitions
Consolidation tracking for tech debt
Maintenance strategy for easy iteration
RESULTS
Improving the submission rate without impacting submission quality
By removing the manual bottlenecks in the recruiter's workflow, submissions went from two per week to over four per day, roughly a 10x increase in candidate throughput. The platform restructured how the business operates, beyond simply modernizing the landing site.