Meet and Engage

What Meet and Engage does

Meet & Engage is a UK-based candidate experience and pre-boarding technology vendor founded in 2015 by Ali Hackett and Graham Shroll and headquartered in Manchester, with an operational office in Leicestershire. The company sells a modular SaaS platform that helps large employers engage, nurture, and onboard candidates, with a primary focus on early-careers, graduate, apprentice, and high-volume hiring programs. Customers span logistics (Royal Mail, Yodel), aerospace and defence (Rolls-Royce, MBDA), professional services (Deloitte), beverages (Diageo), telecommunications (Virgin Media), and public sector (Ministry of Justice), with named global banking clients using the Timeline onboarding module for graduate and intern programs.

The platform is built around a social-media-style candidate interface combining live group chat events, one-to-one live helpdesk, automated nurture journeys with SMS and email nudges, drag-and-drop rule-based FAQ chatbots, and QR-code-driven campus engagement. Technically, the product is API-first: a JavaScript Plugin API for embedding chat into external sites, a REST Scheduling API for programmatic event management, a read-only Organisation Data API exposing JSON event and participant data, and Participant SSO for identity, all secured via Basic Auth and rate-limited. The platform is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, and integrates with client ATS, HRIS, and CRM systems.

Meet & Engage operates a sales-led, enterprise-focused go-to-market with quote-based annual subscriptions tiered as Business, Enterprise, Global, and Bespoke packages differentiated by event volume (6-20+ events per year), nurture flow count, and audience segments. Revenue mechanics combine recurring SaaS subscription with event-based services and a "fully-concierged" professional services layer covering implementation, moderation, and nurture flow build. In June 2025, the company was acquired by The Unseen Group, a Manchester-based talent services roll-up backed by Pelican Capital, becoming the acquirer's tenth platform asset. The company holds two consecutive Personnel Today HR Technology Provider of the Year awards (2023-2024) and multiple FIRM and RMA recognitions.

Name

Meet and Engage

Legal name

Meet and Engage Ltd

Website

https://meetandengage.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Meet & Engage is a UK-based SaaS platform that helps large employers engage, nurture, and onboard early-careers, graduate, and high-volume candidates through virtual events, chatbots, social-style nurture journeys, and ATS-integrated onboarding tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Candidate Experience / Talent Acquisition Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Human Resources Consulting Services (541612)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Work Management & Collaboration Suites (BPAMAMAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Remote/Hybrid & Distributed Workforce Onboarding (EDABAOAJ), Meeting & Event Program Technology (Registration, Apps, Badging) (THACAFAB)

Keywords

• Candidate experience software
• Talent acquisition platform
• Employee onboarding technology
• Recruitment engagement tools
• Early careers solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Leicester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription: SaaS platform subscription model with tiered packages (Business, Enterprise, Global, Bespoke) based on event volume and feature access. Includes platform access, automated nurture flows, and analytics.
2. Event-Based Services: Per-event pricing for virtual hiring events including event production support, moderation, pre/post-event communications, and analytics. Up to 6 events/year (Business), 10 events/year (Enterprise), 20 events/year (Global).
3. Professional Services: Implementation, configuration, and strategic consultancy services. 'Fully-concierged service' includes event planning, technical support, data analytics, and nurture flow build.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Meet & Engage provides a cloud-based candidate experience and onboarding SaaS platform that enables employers to inspire, engage, nurture, and onboard candidates throughout the hiring journey. The platform combines virtual hiring events, automated nurture flows, drag-and-drop chatbots, live chat, and social-style pre-boarding/onboarding journeys that integrate with clients' ATS, HRIS, and CRM systems.

Product overview

Meet & Engage is a modular talent acquisition and candidate experience technology platform designed to help employers connect with candidates throughout the hiring process. The platform comprises a core product combined with specialized modules including: Early Engagement and Campus Engager (for pre-application candidate outreach and keep-in-touch journeys), FAQ Chatbot and Live Helpdesk (for real-time candidate support), Virtual Events and Inspire & Nurture (for live and automated engagement), Recruitment Process Nurture (for in-process candidate support), Work Readiness Solution (for candidate preparation), and Timeline/Preboard & Onboard (for post-offer onboarding). The platform integrates with ATS and CRM systems and offers Plugin and REST APIs for technical integration. The company was acquired by The Unseen Group in 2025 and holds ISO 27001 certification for data security.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Timeline: Automated onboarding platform delivering personalised onboarding journeys through a social-style interface.
• Campus Engager
• Inspire & Nurture
• Recruitment Process Nurture

Products and services

• Candidate Experience Technology Platform Comprehensive SaaS platform enabling employers to inspire, influence, and inform candidates through the entire recruitment journey from attraction to selection to onboarding, combining virtual events, chatbots, live chat, and analytics.
• Timeline (Onboarding Platform) Automated onboarding platform delivering personalised journey through a social-style interface with email and SMS nudges, Channels feature for candidate-to-employee communication, supporting onboarding for global workforces without requiring app downloads.
• Recruitment Process Nurture Automated social-style interface supporting candidates from application through offer/decline with personalised content flows, SMS and email nudges, and analytics dashboard for monitoring engagement.
• Campus Engager Automated keep-in-touch experience for student audiences using QR codes and customisable forms providing branded social-style content feed, chatbot support, peer chat, and deadline reminders.
• Inspire & Nurture Suite of live virtual recruiting events and automated talent nurture communications with features including live streaming, content sharing, polling, NPS scoring, and GDPR-compliant post-event nurture flows.
• Recruitment Chatbots Family of candidate experience chatbots designed for different stages of recruitment including Careers Site Bot, Apply FAQ Bot, Screening Bot, and Keep Warm Bot, featuring drag-and-drop builder and 24/7 automated candidate engagement.

Quantifiable outcome

• Candidates registering for pre-boarding platforms exceed 100,000
• +10 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature9 records

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Phenom People: Phenom provides a talent experience platform that combines CRM, career site, recruitment marketing, automation, chat and onboarding. It is the closest direct competitor to Meet & Engage in candidate engagement and pre-boarding for enterprise employers.
• Paradox (Conversational AI): Paradox's assistant "Olivia" automates candidate chat, screening and scheduling across high-volume hiring use cases - directly analogous to Meet & Engage's FAQ Chatbot, Live Helpdesk and Scheduling API for hourly and early-careers recruitment.
• Brazen (Hiring Events): Brazen is a virtual hiring event platform used by employers for career fairs, group sessions and candidate chat - directly comparable to Meet & Engage's Inspire & Nurture live virtual event capabilities for graduate recruitment.
• Harver: Harver offers pre-hire assessments, scheduling and candidate experience solutions, including virtual hiring events and onboarding flows. Comparable to Meet & Engage's event-based and onboarding offerings for high-volume hiring organisations.
• Yello: Yello builds candidate experience and recruitment marketing software including virtual events and event management for enterprise talent teams. It competes for the same enterprise virtual-events and early-careers budget as Meet & Engage.
• Avature: Avature delivers a configurable CRM and candidate engagement platform used by large employers for graduate, internal mobility and onboarding programs. It is comparable to Meet & Engage in deep enterprise configuration and CRM-first candidate journeys.

Broad incumbents

• iCIMS: iCIMS is a long-standing enterprise talent acquisition platform offering ATS, candidate relationship management, CRM and onboarding. It competes head-on with Meet & Engage in candidate engagement and events for mid-market and enterprise accounts, but as a much broader platform play.
• SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters offers a global enterprise recruiting platform with ATS, CRM, candidate experience and automation. It competes for the same enterprise candidate-engagement budget as Meet & Engage, with overlapping event and nurture features.
• Eightfold AI: Eightfold provides a talent intelligence platform spanning sourcing, engagement, internal mobility and DEI. It overlaps Meet & Engage in AI-driven candidate engagement and serves many of the same large enterprise HR-tech buyers.
• Workday Recruiting: Workday Recruiting is the recruiting module of Workday HCM, increasingly bundling candidate engagement, career sites and onboarding. It is a broader incumbent alternative whose expanding native engagement features bear down on Meet & Engage's category.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/meetandengage
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/meet-and-engage
• Instagraminstagram.com/meetandengage
• Xx.com/meetandengage

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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