u/pumpie-dot

I'm just starting out in sourcing and recruiting, and wondering if this is something recruiters actually buy.

Say you have a hard technical role, and someone sends you 20–30 candidates that are:

• matched to the specific role
• backed by public evidence like GitHub, projects, posts, company background, etc.
• ranked with short notes on why each person fits

No outreach included. Just the sourced/researched list.

Would this be useful enough to pay for?

If yes, what would make the list valuable and what would you expect to pay?

If no, why not?

I've been using Codex quite frequently and recently upgraded to the Pro tier ! Code quality has been great & Codex code review has been great.

But, right now, the bottleneck is that I still have to manually:

- pull up the branch
- run the app
- click around the UI
- test core flows

then

- copy the error
- take a screenshot of an issue

And pass the info back to Codex.

I was wondering if anyone has built a good workflow for making this more automated.

- Are people using Playwright, Playwright MCP, browser-use, computer-use tools, or something else?

- Are you running this through GitHub Actions, locally, or on a separate VM?

- Do you mostly write deterministic Playwright tests, or do you let an AI agent explore the app?

Would love to hear what setups people are actually using in practice.