Act Faster, Search Smarter

Byner Update – October 2026

Shorter days, longer to-do lists? Not on our watch. 🍁 Byner is the recruitment software for permanent placement, staffing and project agencies, with AI built in. This month is all about less admin and more doing. Byner Agents now lend a hand at every stage of recruitment, plus search results you can scan in seconds and insights you can act on straight away. Grab a warm drink and let’s dive in.

Big news:

Meet your newest co-workers: Byner Agents

Recruitment is a people business. Yet a surprising chunk of the day goes to admin. Byner already has AI that helps when you ask: the Byner Assistant writes texts, parses CVs and builds presentations at the click of a button. Byner Agents go one step further. They don’t wait for a question. They pick up tasks in your recruitment process, right inside Byner, using your own jobs, candidates and clients and their history. No separate tool, no copy-pasting, and your data stays where it belongs.

We’ve been rolling agents out release by release, and this one is a big step: agents now support you at every stage of the recruitment process.

Here’s how the work is split. Agents prepare, and you stay in the loop at every moment that matters:

• At intake: the agent schedules the job intake with your client and prepares the questions to ask. You run the intake call. Afterwards, the agent turns it into a complete job record for you to check.
• During sourcing: the agent finds promising candidates and gives a detailed analysis. You decide who continues and who doesn’t. The agent then schedules interviews, sends reminders, and makes sure everyone you didn’t select hears back with real, friendly feedback. You conduct the interviews.
• When presenting: the agent enriches candidate records from your interview notes and transcripts. You choose which candidates to present. The agent prepares the customer presentation, and you review it and share it with your client.

What it means for your day: nothing slips through the cracks, everyone hears back, and your data stays complete. AI doesn’t replace you. It frees you up for the conversations that matter, in permanent placement and staffing alike

Clear your to-do list straight from your home page

Actionable Insights are your personal overview of everything that needs your attention, waiting for you the moment you open Byner. Overdue tasks, timesheets to approve, professionals (the candidates and workers you place) who still need to give consent. All in one place, tailored to your role.

Until now, insights told you what needed doing. Now you can do it right there. Send a reminder. Request consent by email or WhatsApp. Mark a task as done or move it to a new date. Open a timesheet and approve it. Request missing compliance documents. Log a client satisfaction score. Many actions work in bulk, so ten overdue tasks take one go instead of ten.

More context, such as how long something has been waiting, helps you decide what to tackle first. There are two new insights too: professionals without a CV and active workflows for closed jobs (candidates still mid-process for a job that’s already closed). And when an insight is all green? You can hide it, so you only see what actually needs you.

What it means for your day: no more record-hopping. Just a to-do list you can actually finish, in permanent placement, staffing or projects.

See the right match 

Byner AI Search & Match finds the best professionals for any job in your own database. It combines AI-powered semantic search, natural-language search and classic boolean search. Start from a job to see your best-fit candidates, or start from a candidate to find jobs that suit them.

This month, scanning results got a lot quicker. Your keywords are now highlighted in the results, so you can see why someone matches without reading every line. Candidates who shouldn’t be contacted now carry a clear Do not approach badge, with the reason shown when you hover over it. It’s a heads-up, not a wall: they stay in your results, so you keep the full picture.

Under the hood, the AI got smarter too. When Byner builds a search from a job, it now uses short, to-the-point skill keywords instead of long descriptions. That matches the way skills are written in candidate profiles, so fewer good candidates slip through the net.

What it means for your day: faster shortlists, no awkward calls to people you shouldn’t be calling, and more of the right people in front of you. Great news for permanent placement and staffing teams alike.

Never miss a professional’s birthday

Staying in touch with your professionals is half the job. Remembering every birthday is the half nobody has time for.

Byner can now send professionals an automatic birthday email, in their own language. You choose who gets one, for example everyone with an active contract or assignment, or candidates you’re currently working with. Byner checks the calendar every day and does the rest.

The result: a personal touch at scale, without a spreadsheet full of dates. Your professionals feel remembered, and you didn’t lift a finger.

Put your strongest card on top

A Customer Presentation is the polished, branded profile of a professional that you send to a client. Byner builds it for you with AI, using the CV, the job and your interview notes.

Now you decide what the client sees first. Simply drag and drop the sections into the order that suits the role. Skills up front for a tech role. Languages first for an international one. The basics stay where clients expect them, so every presentation still feels familiar.

Why it matters: every presentation tells the story your client cares about most, right from the first page. Handy for permanent placement and staffing alike.

Let the paperwork chase itself

Staffing and project agencies juggle a lot of paperwork. Think compliance documents like IDs and certificates, and, under the Dutch 2026 Equal Pay rules, client approval of pay for the professionals you place.

Two new automations take the chasing off your plate. When compliance documents on an active assignment need renewing, Byner automatically emails the professional or supplier with a direct upload link, without flooding their inbox. And when a client hasn’t approved an Equal Pay request yet, Byner sends them a friendly reminder with a direct link, after the number of days you choose.

Why it matters: fewer gaps, fewer follow-up emails, and more time for actual recruiting.

From client request to job, with fewer edits

Got a job brief from a client? Byner’s AI reads the customer request and prefills the job for you: the details, the description and the skills needed.

This month the AI got sharper. It picks out details like the end date more accurately and writes richer job descriptions, complete with formatting such as bold text and bullet lists.

Why it matters: less retyping, fewer corrections, and a stronger job description from the very first draft. Ideal for permanent placement and staffing teams that handle lots of client requests.

More improvements this month

• Sort your active jobs by name or number of candidates, and see straight away which jobs need attention.
• Dates in candidate search follow your own date format, so no more mixing up days and months.
• See calculated values while completing a workflow step (a step in a candidate’s hiring process), without looking them up elsewhere.
• Know right away when a document is signed: get an email as soon as every signature is in.
• Update signed documents safely: regenerating a document keeps the signed original intact.
• Generated documents are classified correctly from the start when you use e-signing.
• Cleaner generated documents, with clear headers above lists and no empty sections.
• Find any assignment by its number in global search.
• Faster contract and salary screens, so less waiting when you update them.
• Pick the right salary table from a collective labour agreement (CLA), with start dates shown next to tables that share a name.
• See your customer’s own product names in the assignment wizard, just as agreed in your framework agreement.
• Set the project currency when you create a project, or let Byner take it from the linked opportunity.
• Assignment change requests sent by email land in Byner automatically, with the email and attachments saved.
• Creditors can add their country themselves during onboarding.