Ascend Hiring – Michael LaBrecque
Ascend Hiring offers a suite of proprietary AI-powered recruitment solutions designed to streamline and optimize the hiring process for businesses.
We leverage artificial intelligence to automate various stages of recruitment, aiming to save time, eliminate bias, and improve the quality of hires.
Here's how Ascend Hiring generally works and its key benefits:
Core Functionality:
* AI-Enhanced Job Posting Generation: Ascend Hiring helps companies create compelling and effective job descriptions. Its AI assists in crafting content that attracts top talent and includes all necessary requirements, making it easier to publish across major job boards.
* Rapid Candidate Screening and Resume Analysis: One of the most time-consuming aspects of recruitment is sifting through resumes. Ascend Hiring uses AI to analyze candidate resumes against job qualifications, providing a ranked list of the most suitable applicants. This process aims to reduce human bias and ensure that no qualified candidate is overlooked.
* Automated Interview Scheduling: The platform automates the often tedious task of scheduling interviews. It can autonomously coordinate screening calls and interviews with top candidates, aligning schedules with the hiring team and sending out reminders. This eliminates endless email chains and manual calendar management.
* Seamless Onboarding: Ascend Hiring can also assist in the initial stages of onboarding new hires by streamlining processes like background checks, offer letter generation, and contract management. This helps integrate new talent into the team more quickly. Key Benefits:
* Time Savings: By automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks like resume screening and interview scheduling, Ascend Hiring frees up recruiters' time, allowing them to focus on more strategic aspects of their role, such as building relationships with candidates.
* Improved Efficiency: The platform aims to accelerate the entire recruitment workflow, enabling companies to find and hire qualified candidates faster.
* Eliminate Bias: The AI-powered resume analysis is designed to evaluate candidates objectively, based on skills and qualifications, thereby reducing the potential for human bias in the screening process and promoting a more inclusive hiring environment.
* Better Candidate Communication: Automated scheduling and tracking features enhance communication with candidates, providing a smoother and more professional experience.
* Access to Top Talent: By optimizing the job posting and screening processes, Ascend Hiring helps companies attract and identify the best candidates for their open positions.
* Integration with Existing Systems: Ascend Hiring often integrates with popular Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) like Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and Workday, allowing businesses to seamlessly incorporate the AI tools into their existing recruitment infrastructure.
Bros. Pro Hauling – Miguel Contreras
We are a family-owned and operated business servicing all your hauling & junk removal needs in Pinellas County and the Greater Tampa Bay area of Florida.
We are the most reviewed and highest-rated local junk removal company in St. Petersburg, FL!
We have helped hundreds of customers clear clutter and get their space back – FAST!
We pride ourselves on our "small business" feel and old-fashioned customer service.
We offer a variety of services – from mattress and furniture removal, to hot tub and shed removals, to full house and estate cleanouts.
You can count on us to be reliable and efficient and have peace of mind knowing we are fully licensed and insured!
3200 21st St N
Saint Petersburg, FL 33713
P: 727-379-7532
Frank Crum PEO – Barbara Ternes
Experienced Business Consultant dedicated to helping businesses optimize their operations to reduce employer liability, and scale effectively through co-employment solutions, benefits administration, and risk management.
When business delegate HR, Payroll, HR services, employee benefits, workers' comp, etc. it gives them more time to focus on their business, while we focus on the tasks that are necessary for every business, but time consuming.
Don't waste your time trying to learn what we already know.
Let us do that work for you.
You are in total control of your employees.
We help businesses be the BEST that they can be! It will be the best business decision you can make!
We appreciate the opportunity to SERVE you! BARBARA TERNES 727-799-1229 x2122 BarbaraT@FrankCrum.com
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Quads Lab LLC – David Hacker
Quads Lab helps founders, small businesses, and growing companies turn AI and automation into real business outcomes.
As a fractional CTO and technical advisor based in the Tampa Bay area, I work with leaders who know technology should be solving more problems for them but do not have a full-time executive in place to figure out what to build, what to buy, and what to ignore.
My clients are typically founders without a technical co-founder, operators drowning in manual work, and small business owners who keep hearing about AI but cannot tell which tools are real and which are hype. I bring more than ten years of experience building production systems in contact centers, conversational AI, voice automation, and large-scale customer experience platforms. That background means I have spent a long time inside the operational guts of businesses where downtime costs money and bad automation costs even more. I know the difference between a flashy demo and something that actually holds up in production. I bring that same lens to every engagement, whether the work is an AI strategy review, an automation rollout, or a full technical advisory relationship.
The services I offer fall into a few clear buckets. Fractional CTO and technical advisory work for founders who need senior technical judgment without a full-time hire. AI consulting and AI strategy for companies trying to understand where generative AI fits inside their operation, what it will cost, and what return they should expect. Automation consulting for teams that want to remove manual work from sales, marketing, operations, and customer service. Technical due diligence for buyers, investors, and partners who need an honest read on a piece of software before they commit. Vendor selection and build versus buy advisory for leaders weighing whether to license, integrate, or build from scratch. What sets the work apart is honesty about cost and outcome. AI and automation get sold with a lot of magic in the pitch, and I think small businesses deserve straight answers. If a problem is better solved with a spreadsheet and a part-time hire, I will say so. If a vendor is a good fit, I will recommend them and step out of the way. If something genuinely needs to be custom built,
I will scope it realistically and explain the tradeoffs in plain English. The goal is always to leave the client with a clearer picture of their technology, their options, and their next three moves, not to sell them a long engagement they do not need. I also run Quads Lab as an active product studio, which keeps me hands-on with the same tools and platforms my clients are evaluating. That means when a client asks about Claude, agentic workflows, voice AI, contact center modernization, or workflow automation, the answer is informed by current shipping experience, not a slide deck from last year. The pace of change in AI right now is fast enough that yesterday's best practice is often today's mistake, and clients hire me in part to keep them from making expensive ones. Engagements are flexible. Some clients want a one-time technical audit or AI readiness assessment. Others want an ongoing fractional CTO relationship with a few hours a week of strategic input, vendor conversations, and team support. Others bring me in for a specific project like a contact center modernization, a customer service automation rollout, or an MVP build for a new product line. Whatever the shape, the goal is the same. Cut through the noise, focus on what actually moves the business, and ship.
The Nimble Notary, LLC – Cheryl Vinson
On-demand mobile notary services at your location.
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