● OUR MISSION

Built to give every recruitment
agency the tools to win in the
post-AI era.

Q: Who founded Signals?

Signals was founded by Julio Orr and Roger Lam. Julio brings deep experience in recruitment agencies. Roger brings years of experience building technology products. Together they combine recruitment empathy with technical excellence.

Q: Where is Signals based?

Signals is headquartered in Hong Kong with team members in Sydney, New York, and Venezuela. We build for recruitment agencies across APAC — primarily Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia.

Q: What makes Signals different from other recruitment CRMs?

Signals is AI-native from day one. Our founders have worked in recruitment agencies themselves, which means every product decision is grounded in what recruiters actually need. We build with one principle: recruiters want to make placements. Everything else is noise.

Q: Is Signals built for large or small agencies?

Signals is built specifically for recruitment agencies across Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and globally.

Not just survive it — win it.

Quick Answer

Signals was founded to give recruitment agencies in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and globally the same competitive edge that only large enterprise firms had access to. Research shows recruiters spend 40–60% of their working day on non-billable admin — the equivalent of 15–22 hours per week. We build AI-native software that eliminates that admin automatically, so recruiters spend their time on relationships and placements.

Our vision

For too long, recruitment agencies have been outgunned — by bigger firms with more headcount, by legacy tools that never kept up, and by AI features bolted onto systems that were never built for them.

Signals changes that.

We built an AI-native CRM from scratch — for how recruitment actually works in 2026. Every call listened to. Every conversation remembered. Every opportunity surfaced before your competition sees it. In 3 markets across APAC: Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia.

The average recruiter loses 15–22 hours a week to admin that a well-built system should handle automatically. Signals handles it — so the same recruiter, in the same hours, closes more placements.

More placements.
Less everything else.

The team

Built by a team fluent in AI and recruitment.

A small, focused team combining deep recruitment experience with modern AI engineering. We're not consultants guessing at your problems — we've lived them.

Julio Orr

Co-founder & CEO

For the past ten years, Julio has built technology products for recruitment and HR across APAC. Signals is the CRM he always wished existed,

Roger Lam

Co-founder & CTO

An engineer with a track record building technology for complex, people-driven businesses. Roger makes sure Signals works the way recruiters actually think.

How we build

One principle. No exceptions.

Recruiters want to make placements. Everything else is friction.

If a feature doesn't reduce admin, surface an opportunity, or help close a deal — it doesn't ship.

Our focus

APAC first. Global always.

We started in Hong Kong and Australia because we know these markets — the agencies, the candidates, the clients. The tools we're building work everywhere recruitment happens.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇦🇺 Australia 🇳🇿 New Zealand 🌏 And beyond

Built to give every recruitment agency the tools to win in the post-AI era.