ABOUT

We ran the agency first

Eliterecruitments has placed actuarial, analytics, risk and BFSI talent since 2014 — over 1,000 closures. Somewhere around closure five hundred, the tools became the bottleneck: submissions inconsistent, data staleness invisible, the offer-to-join gap unmanaged.

Nothing on the market fixed it, so we built it — ran it on our own desks first, then productized it when other agencies kept asking. That’s the standard: if it isn’t good enough for our own desks, it doesn’t ship.

2014

Eliterecruitments founded — specialist actuarial & BFSI search.

2026

Smoothire opens to all agencies — Elite as paying customer #1.

How we build product

1An Elite desk hits a real problem
2We design against that desk’s Tuesday, not a persona
3Elite runs it live, on paying client work
4Fixed until recruiters stop complaining
5Then — and only then — it ships to everyone

Founding partners join this loop — your desks become the second proving ground. The founding partner program →

Built inside Eliterecruitments

Elite is a specialist search firm placing actuarial, BFSI, analytics and risk talent from Gurugram and Kolkata since 2014 — more than 1,000 closures with insurers, reinsurers, Big-4 consultancies and banks.

Elite is Smoothire’s customer #1 — and it pays. A free internal tool proves nothing; an agency choosing to pay for its own product every month does.

Why we’re obsessed with submissions

The submission is the agency’s product moment. It’s where Elite won — and occasionally lost — trust. It’s the workflow every other tool treats as an attachment.

The submission workflow →

Meet the founders

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Shagun Gupta
Founder, Eliterecruitments

A decade+ building one of India’s most respected specialist search firms; featured in Forbes’ Women Power edition. She’s the reason every workflow smells like a real desk.

“I spent a decade paying for software that didn’t understand my business…”

LinkedIn →
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Vineet Harbhajanka
Founder, Logic Square Technologies

Two decades shipping software products across the US and India; the engineering force behind the platform.

“The spec wasn’t a document — it was watching recruiters lose hours…”

LinkedIn →

Why trust us

✓Paying customer #1 is our own agency
✓One-click export of your entire workspace, any day
✓DPDP/GDPR-aware from day one
✓Two public founders you can check
Who we build for
✓Boutique & specialist agencies
✓Executive search
✓Staffing firms
✓Permanent recruitment
Who we don’t (yet)
✕Corporate in-house HR — that edition arrives in 2027.

Our principles live here → Why Smoothire

Smoothire at a glance

Founded2026
HeadquartersGurugram, India + USA
MarketsUSA & India
ProductAI-powered ATS+CRM for recruitment agencies
PricingFrom $49 / ₹1,999 per user/month
First customerEliterecruitments

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