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Recruitment18 June 2026

Kritmatta is now a TEAM Network Service Partner: what it means for your agency

TEAM Network partner announcement graphic naming Kritmatta as a new partner, with co-founders Kalpesh Baxi and Duncan Stuart

Kritmatta is now an official TEAM Network Service Partner, with an exclusive deal for TEAM Network members and a closer fit with how recruitment agencies actually work.

A members-only deal, not a public one

TEAM Network members have access to an exclusive Kritmatta deal. The offer sits outside Kritmatta's standard pricing and was built specifically for TEAM Network's recruitment businesses.

That is the direct, practical outcome of a wider partnership. The deal is what a member can actually use, so it comes first.

Kritmatta is now an official TEAM Network Service Partner

Duncan Stuart, Kritmatta's co-founder, attended his first TEAM Network event in London as the partnership was announced.

TEAM Network is a community of independent recruitment businesses. That focus lines up directly with what Kritmatta was built for. The partnership does not stretch into a new market, it connects Kritmatta with the exact type of business it already serves.

That was also Duncan's introduction to the wider TEAM Network community in person. For a partner just starting out, meeting the businesses behind the membership face to face is a useful way to understand who the deal is actually for.

What that means for a recruitment agency's day to day

For a recruitment agency, Kritmatta monitors the channels where the actual work happens: WhatsApp threads, email, and the document trail around a placement. An offer agreed over WhatsApp. A rate confirmed by email. A contract revision uploaded to a shared folder. These normally depend on someone remembering to log them.

Kritmatta surfaces those signals as they happen, so a consultant does not have to rely on memory or scroll back through a group chat at the end of the day. It drafts the update. The consultant still decides whether to send it.

Email works the same way. A budget approval, a candidate's offer response, or a client escalation often sits in an inbox between routine correspondence, with nothing marking it out as more urgent than a newsletter. Kritmatta separates that from the rest, so nothing revenue critical waits until someone happens to scroll far enough down.

The document side matters just as much. A rate card updated without notice, or a contract clause quietly revised after a candidate has already been briefed, is the kind of change that is easy to miss until it causes a problem. Kritmatta flags it when it happens, not when someone eventually finds it.

For TEAM Network businesses specifically, that matters because independent agencies run lean. There is rarely a dedicated operations team checking every channel. Kritmatta does that watching, and leaves the judgement calls, and the client relationships, with the person who actually owns them.

None of this replaces the recruiter. It removes the part of the job that was never really recruiting: chasing updates, rereading threads, and hoping nothing slipped through.

Why the deal exists

The Kritmatta deal is exclusive to TEAM Network members. It gives members a lower-cost route into a tool built around the exact kind of business they run.

Becoming a Service Partner is itself a form of vetting, so a member trying Kritmatta through the deal is not starting from zero. The deal exists because the fit was already there.

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