Bullhorn provides the Amplify Digital Workers. Newbury Partners helps each firm put them to work, from sourcing through pay/bill.
DALLAS, TX | October 5, 2026, Newbury Partners, a staffing technology advisory and implementation firm and longtime Bullhorn partner, today announced an expanded AI partnership with Bullhorn, the global leader in software for the staffing and recruitment industry. Newbury Partners will help staffing firms put Bullhorn Amplify Digital Workers to work across the entire staffing lifecycle, from sourcing and screening through pay and bill, and measure the return.
Bullhorn’s 2026 GRID Industry Trends Report found that firms embedding AI throughout their workflows are more than twice as likely to achieve fill rates above 75 percent. Yet only 10 percent of firms report having agentic AI embedded throughout the workflow.
The report identifies data readiness, security, and unclear implementation plans as the main reasons adoption stalls and skipping that work is costly. Gartner predicts that through 2026, organizations will abandon 60 percent of AI projects unsupported by AI-ready data. Newbury Partners helps firms clear these hurdles. The firm has worked with staffing companies for more than 20 years, and its team of more than 85 consultants includes those who have run recruiting desks and middle offices themselves.
A high-volume light industrial firm, a full-desk professional team, and a multi-entity MSP have different needs, and with Newbury Partners’ guidance, every Amplify project is built around how the firm actually operates. Data is prepared before Amplify Digital Workers go live, workflows are designed around them, and each team member is trained on how Amplify fits their role. The result is a front office where every applicant hears back, candidates in the database get re-engaged, submittals go out automatically, interview notes get captured, and recruiters start the week with qualified interviews on the calendar.
In addition to the front office, Newbury Partners also helps customers drive greater efficiency across the middle office with Bullhorn Amplify Digital Workers. Together, Newbury Partners’ expertise and Amplify’s AI capabilities help staffing firms capture efficiency in particularly complex parts of the business: pay and bill. Amplify’s Audit skill surfaces pay, bill and compliance errors; Extract chases missing and late time before payroll closes, and Audit and Exchange check VMS hours and rates against placements before invoicing.
“Bullhorn has built the digital workers. Our job is to make sure they have clean data, well-designed workflows and trained teams behind them, so every skill shows up in fill rates, gross profit and hours saved,” said Chris Scowden, CEO, Newbury Partners.
“AI only matters if it creates measurable business outcomes,” said Ryan Murphy, Chief Corporate Development Officer at Bullhorn. “Together with Newbury Partners, we’re helping recruiters put AI to work faster driving productivity, growth and better results across their businesses.”
Staffing firms can request a complimentary Amplify readiness assessment, a review of data quality, and a prioritized Digital Worker roadmap with target KPIs by emailing sales@newburypartners.com.
About Newbury Partners
Newbury Partners is a staffing technology advisory and implementation partner for staffing and recruiting firms. Since 2005, Newbury Partners has completed thousands of implementations across the Bullhorn ecosystem. Its work spans HubSpot and Salesforce integration, business intelligence and analytics on Microsoft Fabric, AI advisory and commission systems. Learn more at newburypartners.com.
About Bullhorn
For over 26 years, Bullhorn has dedicated itself to building industry leading, cloud based software for the staffing and recruitment industry. Through partnerships with 10,000 customers globally, Bullhorn has built a vast knowledge base of recruitment best practices and deep domain expertise to help firms scale their businesses. Founder-led and headquartered in Boston, Bullhorn employs 1,400 people across 14 countries focused on delivering an incredible customer experience, its core mission. To learn more, visit www.bullhorn.com or follow Bullhorn on LinkedIn or X.
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