Prepared for Ian Wheaton · Red Consulting & Recruitment · Confidential
You know Texas. We have the engine.

Master Texas. Then the map.

Your network plus a PureBrain agent workforce gives us a way to own two Texas markets at once, prove the playbook, then replicate it state by state. One anchor. Two doors. A beachhead nobody else is positioned to take.

From: Melanie Salvador & Jared Sanborn Pure Technology · PureBrain Partner to partner
The insight

You sit exactly where two big markets meet.

For forty years you have built one of the most connected names in Texas. Your firm recruits exclusively for Texas commercial banks, the regional and community lenders from a few billion to tens of billions in assets, and you know the people doing the hiring personally. That single position puts you in two industries at the same time: recruitment, and the banking it serves. One anchor, two doors.

The anchor

Ian Wheaton

Four decades inside Texas recruitment and executive search, Houston and Dallas networks, the bank C-suites on a first-name basis. The trust that takes a career to build is already built.

Door one

The recruitment industry

Your own world. Staffing and search firms running manual sourcing, screening, and outreach, exactly the work an agent workforce does best. The product fits the buyer you already are.

Door two

Texas commercial banking

Your clients. The regional and community banks you place leaders into, fighting a talent shortage and a wave of compliance work. The exact pain PureBrain agents relieve.

THE ANCHOR Ian PureBrain agent workforce TWO DOORS Recruitmentstaffing & search firms Texas bankingregional & community banks
Two beachheads, one engine

The same agent workforce wins in both rooms.

PureBrain runs as a team of named, persistent AI agents that hold context and do real operational work. The work changes by industry, the engine does not. Here is what it does on each side of your network, and how it puts money on the table for the people who buy it.

Beachhead one

Recruitment & staffing

Sell PureBrain, with Bounty Brain as the front-line referral engine, into staffing and search firms. The agent workforce runs the parts of recruiting that scale badly by hand, so a firm places more without hiring more recruiters. The relationships and the close stay entirely human.

Sourcing & referrer ranking

Agents mine the network and surface who actually knows the right candidates for an open role, with the reasoning attached.

Candidate screening & scoring

Agents screen and rank inbound candidates against the role, so recruiters spend their hours on the shortlist, not the slush pile.

Dynamic outreach

Agents draft personalized outreach and route it to the right people at the right moment, so every open role gets worked, not just the ones someone remembered.

Pipeline ops, fraud & quality

Agents keep the pipeline clean and flag gamed or recycled candidates, protecting placement quality and the firm's reputation.

More placements per recruiter. The engine works every role in parallel, so a firm fills more without adding headcount.
Lower cost per placement. The manual grind runs itself, so each hire costs less to produce.
A premium AI service tier. Firms charge clients more for an AI-accelerated search, a new margin line they did not have.
Stickier client accounts. An engine actively working a client's roles is far harder to walk away from.

Industry benchmarks, not promises: AI screening cuts candidate review time by roughly 71 percent, time-to-fill by roughly 31 percent, and cost-per-hire by roughly 30 percent across published recruitment studies. We size the real numbers together against a live firm.

Beachhead two

Texas commercial banking

Put PureBrain agents into the regional and community banks you already recruit for. The agents take on the document-heavy, compliance-heavy back office, with a human in the loop on every decision. Auditable and explainable by design, which is the part that lets a conservative, heavily regulated bank actually say yes.

Loan origination & underwriting prep

Agents collect borrower documents, chase what is missing, and assemble a clean underwriting package, so lenders move from application to decision faster.

BSA / AML compliance monitoring

Agents monitor transactions and surface what needs a human's eyes, with a full audit trail. Human-in-the-loop and explainable, which is exactly what a regulator wants to see.

Relationship-manager copilots

Agents prep call notes, pull account context, and draft follow-ups, so a bank's relationship managers carry more accounts at a higher standard.

Treasury & onboarding

Agents run the paperwork-heavy onboarding for treasury and new commercial clients, turning a slow manual process into days, not weeks.

Relief for the talent shortage. The same back-office roles you are paid to fill get automated, easing the exact pain a bank feels when it cannot hire fast enough.
Faster loan cycles. Quicker document collection and underwriting prep means more loans closed in the same window, which is direct margin.
The governance edge. Auditable, human-in-the-loop agents give a regulated bank a way to adopt AI without betting its compliance posture.
Lower cost to serve. The document and compliance grind runs continuously, freeing bankers for the relationship work only people can do.

The honest read: regional and community banks are conservative and heavily regulated, and AI adoption among them is low. That is the opening, not the obstacle. PureBrain's governance, auditability, and explainability are what make it the safe yes where a black-box tool is an automatic no.

Why this compounds for you

When a bank cannot fill a role, you now have two answers.

A client tells you "we cannot find this person." For forty years that meant one move. Now you have two, and you earn on both.

Answer one

Place the person

Your core business. You run the search, find the candidate, and earn your placement fee, exactly as you always have.

Answer two

Automate the role with PureBrain

When the role is back-office or document-heavy, you offer to automate it instead, and you earn on the PureBrain deal you opened.

This is the part that makes it yours. Your recruiting business and PureBrain do not compete for the same dollar, they cover the two outcomes of the same conversation. Every "we cannot fill this" becomes a fork where you win either way, and every PureBrain account you place inside a bank makes you more useful to that bank, not less.

The playbook

Master Texas first. Then run the same play across the map.

We do not try to boil the ocean. We land a handful of lighthouse accounts in each beachhead, prove the return in hard numbers, standardize the package, and use Texas peers selling to Texas peers to take the state. Then we replicate by finding an Ian in every state.

Step one · Land

Lighthouse accounts

Start with your own firm and your closest bank relationships. Two or three lighthouse accounts in each beachhead, one painful workflow each.

Step two · Prove & standardize

A Texas package

Measure the lift, then standardize a repeatable PureBrain package for each vertical. Now we are not selling a project, we are selling a proven product.

Step three · Dominate & replicate

Take Texas, then the map

Bankers and recruiters buy from peers, so case studies carry the state. Then recruit a connected insider per state and run the same play.

What carries everywhere

  • The PureBrain agent workforce and the agent workflows themselves
  • The federal regulatory layer for banking, FDIC, OCC and BSA
  • The standardized recruitment and banking packages
  • The proof: case studies, ROI models, the reference accounts

What stays local to each state

  • State employment law and any state-specific banking rules
  • The local relationships and the trust that opens doors
  • The connected insider, the "Ian" of that state, who anchors it
  • The first lighthouse accounts in that market
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Where you sit in this

Your network is the pipeline. So you earn like it.

We are not asking you to change your business. We are asking you to point what you already have at a bigger prize, and to share in what it builds. The role grows as the proof grows.

Now · Phase one

Anchor & design partner

You open the first doors, your own firm and a couple of your closest bank relationships, and you help shape the package so it fits how Texas actually buys.

Finder role & a stake in the build
Next · Phase two

Referral & channel partner

As the model proves out, you become the channel: warm intros that turn into accounts, on a clear structure. Cash and equity or warrants per account landed.

Cash + equity per account
Then · Phase three

Equity & advisory partner

For the vertical itself, you help recruit the per-state connectors, the next Ians, and hold an equity and advisory seat in what you helped build.

Equity & advisory in the vertical

The simple version of what is in it for you: you keep placing people and earning your fees, and now you also earn every time a role gets automated instead. Your network becomes the pipeline for a whole new line of revenue, and you own a piece of the engine that runs it. You do the thing you already do best, connecting the right people, and it pays you twice.

Partner to partner

Let's own Texas together.

You know this market better than anyone we could ever hire. We have an engine that does the work the market is short on people to do. The fastest way to start is to pick the first two or three doors together, your firm and your closest banks, and prove the lift where you already have trust. When you are ready, we go.

Pick the first doors with us →
Melanie Salvador & Jared Sanborn Pure Technology · PureBrain