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Momentum

Founded in 1996, Momentum Consulting has established itself as a leading recruitment agency in New Zealand, with offices in Auckland and Wellington.

Their team of skilled professionals specialises in strategic talent placement, matching exceptional candidates with ideal positions.
The challenge

'In 2025, Momentum wanted to increase operational capacity without significantly expanding their team size and overhead costs.'

The Challenge

In 2025, Momentum wanted to increase operational capacity without significantly expanding their team size and overhead costs. Their skilled recruiters were spending excessive time on administrative tasks, diverting their expertise from high-value recruitment activities.

Key Challenges

● Administrative tasks consuming valuable recruiter time
● Need for scalable growth without proportional cost increase
● Rising pressure to adapt to emerging AI technologies

Strategic objectives

Momentum partnered with Arcanum to:

1. Transform operational efficiency
2. Automate routine administrative workflows
3. Enhance candidate engagement without expanding headcount

solution implementation

Powered by AWS's Amazon Q technology, Bedrock and Textract Arcanum delivered:

1. Intelligent Knowledge Management
‍● Implemented a secure, AI-powered knowledge base
● Enabled quick access to internal information using Amazon Q
● Reduced time spent searching for answers to routine questions

2. Automated Financial Operations
‍● Leveraged Amazon Textract for intelligent document processing
● Streamlined accounts payable and receivable
● Reduced manual financial administration

The implementation has significantly reduced administrative burden, allowing Momentum's recruiters to focus on relationship-building and strategic talent acquisition.

“Having formed a great relationship with Asa and the team over the last five years, we totally trust and believe in what Arcanum are doing. The products and services that they’ve introduced us to are allowing us to think about how we exponentially grow the human capability that we have in our organisation, and allow those individuals to not do the mundane but fun, interactive humanistic elements of their job.”
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Nick Roberts, CEO, Momentum

“It's been an absolute pleasure to work with the innovative and forward-thinking team at Momentum, and to be such a big part in their journey to adopting AI. It has been incredibly rewarding to see how even something seemingly small can have a big company wide impact, as the flow on effects create opportunity for further value add to the company as a whole.”

Asa Cox, CEO & Founder, Arcanum AI