HOW ISOMETRIK AI BUILT A CUSTOM EXECUTIVE HIRING PLATFORM FOR XQTIV
A custom AI-powered leadership intelligence platform that digitized Xqtiv’s RST methodology and turned executive hiring into a precise, scalable, insight-driven system.
TIMELINE
What the organization truly needs beyond a job description
STYLE
Leadership behavior, culture fit, and decision-making patterns
TRAJECTORY
Growth potential and long-term alignment with the organization.
Xqtiv
Xqtiv is a leadership hiring firm specializing in executive and senior management recruitment for high-growth companies and enterprises. Unlike traditional recruitment that focuses on resumes and keywords, Xqtiv uses its proprietary RST methodology to evaluate leaders on deeper dimensions that determine long-term success.
Xqtiv works with scale-ups, enterprises, and Fortune 500 companies, helping them hire leaders who don't just qualify — but transform organizations.
When High-Stakes Hiring Fails to Scale
Despite having a world-class leadership assessment framework, Xqtiv faced a fundamental problem: their methodology couldn’t scale beyond human effort.
Low Repeat Efficency
Recruiters relied heavily on manual interviews, spreadsheets, and notes. Each role demanded deep cognitive work, limiting how many leadership searches could run in parallel.
Passive Evaluation Models
Traditional tools reduced executive hiring to keyword matching. They failed to capture leadership behavior, decision-making style, and cultural alignment — the very signals that determine executive success.
Operational Unsustainability
Nearly 80% of recruiter time was consumed by screening, scoring, summarizing, and coordination. This left little capacity for high-value leadership judgment and client advisory.
High Risk of Misalignment
Executives rarely fail due to lack of skills. They fail because of misaligned behaviors, culture mismatch, and incompatible leadership styles — factors invisible to standard ATS systems.
No Margin for Error at the Top
A wrong junior hire is recoverable. QA wrong leadership hire is a million-dollar mistake.
A powerful hiring methodology was trapped in manual workflows that couldn’t deliver consistent, scalable precision.
Building the First AI-Powered Leadership Hiring Engine
Digitizing the RST framework, creating AI-powered workflows, and enabling infinite recruiter scalability.
Digitizing the RST Methodology
Xqtiv's proprietary framework was transformed into:
- •A structured organizational intake
- •Culture mapping
- •Leadership style assessment
- •Decision-making pattern capture
- •Automated RST scoring engine
- •Insight explanations
This created a structured, measurable representation of leadership requirements. Xqtiv's 'secret sauce' became software, not just methodology.
Private LLM Deployment (Together AI)
To ensure:
- •100% IP ownership
- •Zero data leakage
- •Full control over reasoning logic
- •Complete enterprise compliance
The AI engine runs on a private, isolated model - not a public LLM.
This becomes Xqtiv's moat: Competitors cannot replicate this intelligence.
End-to-End Full-Stack Platform
A complete SaaS ecosystem:
- •Client Portal – Intake, feedback, JD approval, communication
- •Candidate Portal – Profiles, updates, assessments
- •Recruiter Dashboard – RST scoring, matching, automation, workflows
With:
This creates extreme operational leverage.
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Seamlessly Integrates with Tech Stack
AI, backend, frontend, and security layers powering the platform.
Results & Impact
Measurable outcomes that transformed the business and exceeded all expectations.
Recruiter Capacity Increase
Executive hiring scaled without increasing recruiter headcount
Reduction in Admin & Screening Time
Manual screening, scroring, and summaries automated with AI Intelligence
Candidates per Shortlist
Higher leadership alignment with clearer, more confident hiring decisions
Isometrik translated our proprietary RST methodology into a secure, enterprise-grade AI platform without compromising depth or accuracy. The result is a scalable executive hiring system with explainable intelligence, full IP ownership, and measurable operational impact. This platform has become core to how we deliver leadership outcomes at scale.
Leadership Team, Xqtiv
Why This Succeeded
Understanding the real hiring problem — leadership alignment, not resume matching — before introducing AI
Digitizing Xqtiv’s proprietary RST methodology instead of forcing it into generic ATS workflows
Building a private AI architecture that ensured complete IP ownership, security, and defensibility
Designing intelligence around recruiter thinking, not automation-first HR tools
Embedding explainable reasoning so every recommendation could be trusted and defended
Delivering a production-ready platform in 12 weeks without compromising accuracy or depth
Xqtiv's transformation shows what happens when deep methodology meets custom-built AI:
Leadership hiring becomes scalable, precise, and insight-driven.
This wasn't "AI added to recruiting".
Operates with 10x efficiency
Xqtiv runs leadership hiring workflows at scale without increasing manual effort
Proprietary RST Intelligence
AI-powered RST insights that competitors simply don't have access to
Private AI Platform Ownership
A compounding AI system that becomes smarter and more valuable with every engagement.
Xqtiv doesn't just use AI. It was built with AI at its core.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Xqtiv transformation
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