Simon Brown

The platform that cares as much as you do about Candidate Presentation. Your candidates are your product. We help them and you to stand out with beautiful AI-powered candidate presentation.

Award winning software business, Phoenix51 is a powerful employee technology enabling organisations to make data driven decisions at every stage of the employee journey from hiring through to bench marking and people development. The platform provides detailed analytics on the most important asset in your business; your people. We enable organisations not only to make the correct hiring decisions, but also how to benchmark, train and retain them.

𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦. Not a business plan. Not a five-year exit model. A dream. To do it better. To do it differently. To build something of your own. But dreams alone do not grow businesses. And ambition alone does not create foundations. And neither of these helps you reach a destination you have probably not even thought about yet. That’s why we created Richard Invests. We exist to back those who want to start or want to change, but they know they need help. Whether that be a financial cash injection, or a strategic restructure, they know they need some help. We are that help. At Richard Invests, we invest differently. No crushing ownership deals. No hidden terms. No vultures circling your profits. Just transparent partnerships that help you start, grow, rebuild, and enjoy your business. Richard Invests is for three groups of people/businesses: 1. Those who want to start their own recruitment business and need funding and strategy to start. 2. Those recruitment businesses which already exist, but the owner is finding it harder and harder to lead the business each day. Investment and support is needed to turn things around. 3. Recruitment service providers looking to raise money or increase sales velocity.

For years, recruitment has been full of 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬. Every agency has one. Every recruitment supplier has one. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞. Richard has been drowning recruitment businesses in bullsh*t promises, snake oil solutions, and more ‘new clothes’ than the Emperor could dream of. Your business doesnt need any more empty promises. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮: a real strategy. A Go-To-Market Growth Strategy. One that is 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. That’s why we created Richard Knows Best. We are the first-of-its-kind strategic growth agency for recruitment businesses. We don’t do quick fixes. We don’t promise instant revenue. And we don’t chase trends. We build foundations that last. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐊𝐁 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤: 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠: Your brand, your message, your authority. If your business has no story, it has no voice. 𝐎𝐩𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬: Your process, your execution, your obsession. 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 Your people, your tech synergy, your future. In the future, the best recruiters will be part human, part machine. 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐎𝐩𝐬: Your tools, your systems, your advantage. We exist to stop Richard - the mindset, the noise, the cycle of wasted time and money that holds agencies back. Because you know the ironic thing? 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭. We are bold, creative, unapologetic, and we call out the industrys nonsense. Richard Knows Best is just getting started; we have so much to show you. The fightback starts now. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝? 𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤.

The platform that cares as much as you do about Candidate Presentation. Your candidates are your product. We help them and you to stand out with beautiful AI-powered candidate presentation.

Digital Gurus immerse themselves in the UKs most exciting markets; Creative, Product and Tech. Digital Gurus are famous for delivering the highest quality end-end consultative experiences; whether youre a candidate or client - resulting in securing the best talent in the market; within the most reputable businesses in the sector.

In old terminology Digital 51 is a recruitment business, but we are much more than that. Digital 51 exists to provide talent partnerships which sit at the heart of the digital space. We have a fascination, passion and obsession for product, creative and technology industries. We believe people sit at the heart of everything we do. We never cease to be amazed at the impact combining the right people and technology can have on an organisation. We find people who use their passion for technology to design, build and implement the best looking, most user friendly and intuitive products on the planet. Why do we do this? Because we believe these are the people that change the world. We started this business as a team, a team who have strong beliefs about how to improve the recruitment process for you as an individual and your organisation. We are different, different is good, it is what makes the passion for what we do so strong. We are Digital 51. We love what we do and would love to show you more.