Kingsley Gate Launches IGNYTE AI Ensuring Executive-Level Quality for Every Professional Hire
New AI-powered, consultant-led solution delivers executive-level precision to professional search and high-scale hiring with unmatched speed and quality.
October 20, 2025 – Kingsley Gate, a leading global executive search firm, today announced the launch of IGNYTE AI, an innovative solution that combines proprietary AI technology with decades of executive search expertise. The new platform empowers organizations to hire faster and more intelligently beyond the executive level — without sacrificing quality.
Built to address growing demand for sophisticated, quality hiring beyond the C-suite, IGNYTE AI extends Kingsley Gate’s proven executive search rigor to professional search and high-scale hiring. Whether organizations need to hire one person or 200, finding the right talent to optimize company performance requires both advanced technology and human expertise.
“IGNYTE AI disrupts the old trade-off between quality and speed,” said JL Baker, who leads IGNYTE AI. “We’ve developed IGNYTE AI to challenge traditional recruiting by combining our proprietary native AI platform with decades of executive search expertise. Our clients no longer have to choose between deep human insight and data-driven precision — they get both.”
IGNYTE AI offers two distinct service lines:
Professional Search: Applies executive-level rigor to critical mid-level roles, using advanced algorithms that go beyond keywords to analyze experience, competencies, and decision-making styles. This strategic approach helps discover hidden talent that traditional methods would miss.
High-Scale Hiring: Extends our signature executive white-glove service to large-scale hiring initiatives (2–200 roles), ensuring the same consultative attention and strategic rigor typically reserved for C-suite searches.
Clients work directly with experienced consultants while the platform’s proprietary IGNYTE Intelligence accelerates every stage of the search—from role definition to candidate shortlist. This native AI human capital platform was developed from over 20 years of executive search experience and insights from thousands of successful placements.
Each engagement includes a dedicated team — Partner, Client Partner, Project Manager, and specialized recruiters — ensuring strategic alignment and seamless delivery from search initiation through onboarding.
“IGNYTE AI represents the future of talent acquisition,” said Andrew Holmes, Chief Executive Officer of Kingsley Gate. “By extending our proprietary search methodology beyond the executive suite, we help clients build a cohesive, high-performing workforce that magnifies leadership impact and accelerates results across the enterprise.”
IGNYTE AI operates with enterprise-grade security standards, including SOC-2 and GDPR compliance, ensuring safe and trusted data handling for global operations. The platform serves key corporate functions including Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, HR, and IT across North America.
The business unit begins operations immediately, offering organizations a radically different way to hire that delivers both quality and speed without compromise.
Learn more at www.ignyteai.com
About IGNYTE AI
IGNYTE AI brings executive-level precision to mid-level and high-scale hiring. Unlike generic AI recruiting tools, IGNYTE AI runs on our proprietary AI-native platform with a purpose-built small language model designed specifically to augment human capital intelligence.
Guided by experienced consultants, this specialized technology helps organizations “find the person behind the profile” through fast, data-driven, and human-centered Professional Search and High-Scale Hiring solutions.
About Kingsley Gate
Kingsley Gate is a leading global, AI-native executive search and human capital advisory firm that puts decision making at the center of its approach to identifying, evaluating, and selecting executive leaders. Kingsley Gate has helped thousands of organizations across all industries, functions, and geographies, to hire effective, high-impact decision makers.
Headquartered in New York, the firm’s consultants have helped over 1,900 client organizations to successfully hire and onboard thousands of decision-making executives across all industries, functions, and markets.
The firm is backed by the private equity firm Crescent Cove Partners LP.
For more information, please visit www.KingsleyGate.com
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