Our core business model is to find the right people for the right job. However, to achieve this, our success is driven from a deep understanding of what it will take to get there in the first place.
From benchmarking and salary surveys, providing market advice and guidance within candidate short sectors, creating effective engagement and onboarding models to interviewing techniques and process management we’re often in from the beginning, helping them to shape, plan and guide.
We’re immersed in the communities that surround us, often called on to share our knowledge, opinion and guidance. This has led to being embraced as industry partners by the likes of TechSPARK, Bristol Media, Business Marketing Club and Invest Bristol and Bath.
They needed to build the team. We worked with them to truly understand their style of working and management. This resulted in the team’s first 2 hires, followed by another 5 hires across data engineering and machine learning over an 18-month period.
Client Testimonial by Tamara Miner, Director of Engineering at Climate Policy Radar: ADLIB collaborated closely with us, refining the process through an iterative approach, and helped us find six exceptional candidates for our growing tech team.
We provided salary bandings plus information about motivations for moving and skills that are in demand, leading to the placement of 3 Cloud Data Engineers including a lead after approving salaries and agency budget.
"GTSW is an incredible resource for expanding knowledge on the wider subject of sustainable technology. It’s helped to expand my network of environmentally focused tech folk. Enabling conversations, collaborations and new friendships. It’s a great community to be a part of."
Nick Lewis
Senior Sustainable Web Developer at Leap and creator of lowwwcarbon.com
Green Tech South West
Following significant Series A funding, LabGenius needed an expert Bioscience and Biotechnology recruitment partner to provide a scalable model for growing their Science and Technology teams.
Client Testimonial by Dr. Venura Perera, Data Science Manager at LV=: “From finding me my current role to helping place two fantastic hires, ADLIB has been a pivotal role in the development of our team here at Bristol. The guys are easy to work with, friendly and most importantly inspire trust. I look forward to working with them in the future.”
As a growing biotech company, Epitopea needed to assemble a founding scientific team capable of establishing lab protocols while meeting c-suite and investor timelines.
Client Testimonial by Joss Ford, Founder of Enviral: "ADLIB have really gotten to know us over the years, truly understanding our business, mission and values. They’re our trusted partner and go to for hiring insight. Not only are they perfectly aligned with our B Corp values and understand how to run an inclusive process, but their track record is second to none. We knew we could trust them to find the very best candidates and to ensure the candidates in process had an excellent experience. It was especially helpful to receive their guidance when shaping the job description and title for the role. Forget using Exec Search firms, ADLIB is the one!"
The Head of Data Engineering needed this team built fast, so we agreed to keep open lines of communication and for 24-hour CV turnaround and suggested streamlining the process as much as possible due to the nature of such a competitive talent market.
Outsourced Recruitment Partner – Placing CUPP’s first Marketing Manager.
In 2019, ADLIB joined a growing global community of B Corps. From the outset, this was our starting point to evolve, a framework that would sharpen our focus and hold us accountable to building a business that truly balanced profit and purpose. In 2020 ADLIB became the world’s first 100% employee-owned B Corp recruitment business globally. In 2023 we received a recertification score of 130.3. An immensely proud moment in ADLIB history.
We’re committed to creating working environments that are inclusive, empowering and respectful. We invest time and resources into civic engagement activities.
We believe in stakeholder capitalism.
We believe changes need to be made to the way businesses attract, recruit and retain diverse talent. Recruiting a diverse and inclusive team is proven to bring multiple benefits, from increasing candidate attraction and brand perception, bridging skill gaps, increasing staff retention and driving better business performance.

We have invested into HeyFlow. HeyFlow empowers businesses to build a truly inclusive company by understanding the impact of women’s reproductive health in the workplace. They equip, empower and educate leaders, managers and employees alike through insight-driven data surveying, understanding and confidence.

A welcoming community of over 2,000 members who run curated events to share insight on how technology can heal or harm our planet.

A Charter, Community and Event Series that has been created to drive positive change for working mums throughout the UK Technology sectors.

Tech Ethics is organised by a team of volunteers who are passionate about building a fair and equal society, where technology is a catalyst for positive change.