About us

Putting applications first

CloudFlow exists for one reason: every person who applies for a job deserves to have their application actually read, and every recruiter deserves the time to act on the good ones. Smarter Hiring. Better Outcomes.

Where we started

The problem we kept seeing

Application volumes have been growing faster than any team's capacity to screen them, and AI made it worse before it made it better. Candidates now use AI to tailor a resume to every role in seconds, so more applications look right on the surface and take longer to assess properly. At the same time, privacy rules ask companies to show how roles were filled, and HR and Talent Acquisition budgets keep shrinking. The result, everywhere we looked, was the same: consultants skimming what they could, high-potential people buried in the pile, and nobody able to say with confidence that the best candidate was even seen.

What we built

A screening layer that reads everything and decides nothing

CloudFlow is an application-processing layer that works alongside the recruitment systems you already run. It reads every application against the role's actual requirements, at a rate of thousands of resumes an hour, and marks each requirement met, partial or missing, with the evidence quoted from the resume. What lands on a recruiter's desk is a ranked, evidence-backed shortlist instead of a pile. The AI never rejects anyone; it can't. Our job is to take on the lowest-value work, reading every resume, so your team can spend their time on the highest-value work: talking to the right people. Application volume becomes decision intelligence, and every application gets read. Never miss an application again.

From the founder

Why I started CloudFlow

“CloudFlow was founded by me, Dave Herlihy, after years of watching the same quiet failure repeat: good people applying for jobs they were right for, and never being read. Not out of malice, just arithmetic. Nobody can properly read 500 applications. Software can, if it shows its working and leaves the deciding to people who hire for a living. That's the whole company, really.”

CloudFlow is based in Cork, Ireland, working with recruitment teams across Ireland, the UK and beyond.

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How we work

Three principles we don't bend

They're not policies bolted on afterwards. They're how the product is built

Humans decide

CloudFlow ranks and evidences. It never rejects. Every hiring decision belongs to your team, by design. How we keep AI screening defensible

Evidence behind every score

No unexplained numbers. Every requirement is marked met, partial or missing, with the supporting text quoted from the resume.

Private by design

Data minimization, configurable retention and full audit trails, on independently certified infrastructure. Our security overview

The best introduction is the product

Paste a real job spec and a real resume into the live demo and watch the scored, evidence-backed analysis come back. More candidates considered, better matches faster and better outcomes for everyone.