AI implementation partner · India · serving clients globally

Most companies don't have an AI problem.
They have a process problem.

Hab finds where your operations lose hours and money, then implements AI where it actually pays, with plain-language training, human oversight, and ROI you can audit. Business problem first. Technology second. Results always.

No retainers to start. Bring one process that hurts and we'll tell you honestly whether AI pays there.

Lead Intelligence

Live market workflow

Evidence checked
01ICP
02Discover
03Verify
04Score

ICP match

B2B SaaS · India · growth signal

94

Verified opportunities

3 surfaced

  • Acme Systems

    8 evidence sources

    94High
  • Northstar Cloud

    6 evidence sources

    89High
  • Vertex Labs

    5 evidence sources

    81Medium

Next signal

Decision maker

Sales output

Why · why now · what to say

Illustrative Lead Intelligence workflow showing ICP targeting, market discovery, evidence verification, opportunity scoring and sales-ready output. Figures are illustrative.

CandidRanker, live in production · illustrative figures

One partner · a connected ecosystem

Why now

The gap between AI talkers and AI adopters is becoming a margin gap.

The opportunity is real and quantified, but most attempts stall because they start with technology instead of the business problem. That's the part we fix.

74%

of companies struggle to achieve and scale value from AI

BCG, 2024 global AI study

$4.4T

annual productivity potential of generative AI worldwide

McKinsey Global Institute

8 dimensions

every applicant scored on skills, tools, experience, education, certifications, projects, title and semantic fit

CandidRanker scoring model

Baseline first

the process is measured before anything is built, so the result is yours

Hab 4D methodology

What this is

A hiring decision system, not another applicant tracker.

Hab Business Solutions builds and implements AI systems for business operations. MinMaxHR is its hiring decision system, and CandidRanker is the ranking engine inside it.

Short answer

What is a hiring decision system?

A hiring decision system helps a hiring team evaluate candidates against defined job requirements, organise the evidence behind each evaluation, rank candidates consistently, and support the human decision at the end. It sits alongside an applicant tracking system rather than replacing one. MinMaxHR applies this across blue collar, grey collar and white collar hiring, with criteria configured per role and per industry.

Industry research

Most companies stall before AI reaches production

Seventy-four per cent of companies report difficulty achieving and scaling value from AI. That is a finding about the market, published by BCG. It is not a finding about Hab.

Source: BCG, 2024 global AI study

Hab methodology

We measure your process before we build on it

The baseline is captured on your workflow first, the pilot runs against it, and the comparison is reported back with the workings attached. This is how we work, not a result we are claiming.

Product capability

Eight named dimensions behind every score

Skills, tools, experience, education, certifications, projects, title alignment and semantic fit. Each opens into the resume lines that produced it. This is what the software does today.

How the score is built

Eight dimensions, named and weighted.

A single opaque percentage tells a recruiter nothing they can defend to a hiring manager. Every MinMaxHR score opens into these eight parts, and each part opens into the evidence behind it.

01

Skills

Mandatory and optional skills weighted separately. Missing must-haves are surfaced, never used to silently drop a candidate.

02

Tools

Named platforms, frameworks, and systems, matched through aliases so equivalent terms count as the same requirement.

03

Experience

Depth and recency of relevant work. Employment gaps are recorded as neutral facts, not penalties.

04

Education

Degree-aware matching across supported degree variants and branches, rather than exact-string comparison.

05

Certifications

Role-relevant certifications identified and credited against the requirement they satisfy.

06

Projects

Delivered work that evidences a requirement even when the resume never uses the requirement's wording.

07

Title similarity

How closely prior titles map to the role, allowing for the fact that titles mean different things across companies.

08

Semantic similarity

Overall meaning-level fit between the resume and the job description, beyond keyword overlap.

Your job description. Your criteria.

Hiring criteria differ by role, by organisation and by industry, so MinMaxHR is built to let a team define the criteria that matter for a particular position instead of relying on generic keyword matching.

  • Boolean skill groups and aliases. Group equivalent terms so different wording does not create avoidable misses.
  • Mandatory and optional. Separate must-have requirements from useful extras. Missing mandatory requirements stay visible.
  • Workspace terminology. Use your organisation's own language consistently across future rankings.
  • Degree-aware matching. Recognise supported degree variants and relevant education context instead of relying only on exact text.
  • Skill depth and recency. Look beyond whether a skill appears. Inspect evidence of duration and recency in work history.
  • Employment gaps. Surface longer gaps as neutral facts for discussion rather than treating them as an automatic penalty.

Employment gaps are context, not a penalty.

A gap is surfaced as part of the candidate's employment history and presented as context for a person to review. It is not treated as evidence that a candidate is unsuitable, and it never reduces a score on its own. Careers include illness, caring responsibilities, study, relocation and redundancy, and a system that scores those as defects will quietly discard good candidates while leaving no record of having done so.

How the full evaluation works

Who it covers

Blue collar, grey collar, and white collar.

The same job title means different things in different workforces, so the criteria change with the work rather than the wording.

Blue collar

Yes. Blue collar hiring is usually trade, plant and field work where the resume is short, the certification matters more than the prose, and the same role is filled repeatedly at volume. MinMaxHR is configured to weight licences, tickets, machine and equipment familiarity, shift history and physical-site experience, and to read the scanned or photographed documents these candidates actually submit.

  • Trade certifications and licences treated as mandatory criteria where the role requires them
  • Named equipment, machinery and tooling matched through aliases, so one term does not miss another
  • Site, plant and shift-pattern experience read as evidence rather than as keywords
  • Scanned documents and phone photographs parsed through OCR, because that is what arrives
  • Short resumes handled without penalising a candidate for having little to write

Grey collar

Yes. Grey collar roles combine a technical trade with a qualification or a supervisory scope: technicians, maintenance and quality engineers, healthcare support, logistics supervisors, field service. These are the roles a keyword search fails most often, because the title is generic and the actual capability sits in the project detail. MinMaxHR scores the skill depth and the evidence under it, not the job title.

  • Skill depth and recency separated from years of service, so a stale skill does not read as a current one
  • Certification and qualification weighted alongside hands-on evidence rather than instead of it
  • Supervisory scope read from what the candidate describes doing, not from seniority in the title
  • Mandatory versus preferred requirements set per role, so a nice-to-have never blocks a strong candidate

White collar

Yes, and this is where the title problem is worst. A specialist and a generalist can carry the same job title and the same platform name while doing entirely different work. MinMaxHR is configured with the distinctions that matter for the role, so the evidence for hands-on delivery is scored separately from adjacent exposure to the same domain.

  • Criteria written to separate hands-on delivery from advisory or coordination work in the same domain
  • Named platforms, modules and frameworks matched through an alias catalogue maintained per workspace
  • Projects scored as applied evidence, so a claim in a skills list is not worth the same as a delivery record
  • Degree-aware matching across supported degree variants and branches rather than exact-string comparison

Short answer

Can hiring criteria be adapted by industry?

Yes. Criteria are configured per workspace and per role rather than shipped as a fixed catalogue. The same job title means different things in manufacturing, IT services, healthcare and retail, so the criteria set, the terminology catalogue and the weighting are defined for the role you are actually filling.

Manufacturing and plant hiring

Module and process experience, plant and production exposure, maintenance and quality scope, trade tickets. The distinction between implementing a system and operating it is written into the criteria.

IT services and technical hiring

Hands-on build evidence separated from functional, support and coordination work carrying the same platform name. Depth and recency of a named stack scored against the requirement.

Healthcare and clinical support

Registrations, licences and clinical scope treated as mandatory criteria where the role requires them, with employment history reviewed by a person rather than filtered by a rule.

Retail, logistics and high-volume intake

Repeatable criteria applied identically across a large seasonal pool, so the hundredth applicant is evaluated on the same standard as the first.

What changes

Two hundred CVs arrive. Here is the difference.

Described as a process, because that is what actually changes. We do not put a percentage on it until your pilot has measured one.

Before

  1. 1Two hundred CVs land in an inbox
  2. 2A recruiter opens them one at a time
  3. 3Each is compared against the job description from memory
  4. 4Screening stops when the calendar says stop, usually in the first hundred
  5. 5A shortlist is assembled and then argued over
  6. 6The hiring manager asks why, and the answer is a recollection

With MinMaxHR

  1. 1Two hundred CVs are uploaded, including scans and phone photographs
  2. 2The criteria for this role are defined, weighted, and marked mandatory or preferred
  3. 3Every candidate is evaluated against those criteria, on the same standard
  4. 4Each score opens into the resume lines that produced it
  5. 5The pool arrives ranked, with gaps and context surfaced for review
  6. 6A recruiter decides, and the reason is recorded against their name

How ROI gets proven

Measured ROI, not claimed ROI.

Every step below produces a number. All of them are measured on your process, which is the only reason they are worth anything.

  1. Step 1

    Baseline

    Before anything is deployed, we measure the process as it runs today: hours spent, time to shortlist, how much of the applicant pool is genuinely read, and how often a shortlist survives the hiring manager.

  2. Step 2

    Pilot

    One bounded process, real roles, real applicants. The scope and the go-live date are agreed in writing before work starts, so the test has an edge.

  3. Step 3

    Measure

    The same figures captured at baseline are captured again during the pilot, on the same definitions. Shortlist acceptance is tracked alongside speed, because a faster shortlist that hiring managers reject is not an improvement.

  4. Step 4

    Compare

    Baseline against pilot, with the workings attached. Where the result is flat or worse, that is what the report says.

  5. Step 5

    Decision

    You decide whether to scale, adjust, or stop. The evidence for that decision is yours, measured on your process, not borrowed from a case study about someone else's.

Short answer

What has Hab actually benchmarked?

Hab Business Solutions does not publish a shortlist accuracy percentage or a speed multiple for MinMaxHR. We have not run an independent benchmark that would justify one, and a vendor-reported figure is not evidence. What we publish is the scoring method, the eight dimensions behind every score, the evidence under each dimension, and the measurement process a buyer can run on their own historical candidates.

Governance

The system ranks and explains. A person decides.

Hab Business Solutions develops these systems with governance, including a human in the loop always. No candidate is auto-rejected, by design rather than by configuration.

In-region data residency

Customer data is stored and processed in India (Google Cloud asia-south1).

Keys stored as hashes

API keys are held as SHA-256 hashes, never as recoverable secrets.

Malware scanning by default

Every uploaded document is scanned before it enters the evaluation pipeline.

Time-bounded support access

Support access is explicit, read-only unless otherwise granted, and expires within 24 hours.

Tenant isolation

Multi-workspace collaboration with row-level security between tenants.

SOC 2-aligned controls

Controls are built to SOC 2 alignment, with independent certification on the roadmap. We say roadmap because it is a roadmap.

How we work

The 4D Method: Diagnose. Design. Deploy. Deliver.

A named, repeatable path from 'we should look at AI' to 'here's the audited result', built so a non-technical leadership team can govern every step.

Diagnose

We map your process, measure where hours and money leak, and quantify the cost of doing nothing. No technology talk yet, just your operations, in numbers.

Design

We design the future process first, then choose the smallest technology that delivers it. Sometimes that's AI. Sometimes it's simpler, and we'll tell you.

Deploy

A bounded pilot on one process, with the go-live date agreed in scoping. Your team is trained in plain language. Human oversight is built into every decision point.

Deliver

We measure against the baseline from step one, publish the methodology, and only then scale what demonstrably works. ROI is reported, not promised.

Where AI pays first

Start where the money already leaks.

Every engagement begins with a business problem you can name today. Here's where AI reliably earns its keep, and what 'working' looks like in each.

Hiring & HR

The leak
Recruiters spend their month reading resumes; the best candidates accept elsewhere first.
The AI lever
AI candidate ranking scores every applicant against the job with reasons a human can audit.
What working looks like
Screening from days to minutes; shortlists that win interviews.

Operations

The leak
Orders, documents, and approvals crawl through inboxes and spreadsheets.
The AI lever
Workflow automation with AI extraction handles the routine work, humans handle exceptions.
What working looks like
Cycle times cut, errors down, audit trail built in.

Finance workflows

The leak
Invoice matching, expense checks, and reporting consume finance headcount every close.
The AI lever
AI-assisted document processing and reconciliation with human sign-off gates.
What working looks like
Faster close, fewer leakages, same team doing higher-value work.

Customer service

The leak
The same 20 questions consume your team while complex cases wait.
The AI lever
AI triage and drafted responses, your team reviews, personalizes, and sends.
What working looks like
Response times drop; people focus on the conversations that keep customers.

Plain-English AI

You don't need to learn AI. You need AI that learns your business.

Everyone has heard the buzzwords; few have been told when they matter. Here's the honest decoder, the same one we use with boards and founders.

LLM (Large Language Model)

Software that reads and writes language, like a tireless analyst.

When you need it: You need documents read, summarized, drafted, or classified at scale.

AI Agent

An AI that can take multi-step actions, not just answer questions.

When you need it: A workflow has many small decisions a person makes the same way each time.

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

AI that answers from your documents instead of guessing from the internet.

When you need it: Answers must come from your policies, contracts, or knowledge base, accurately.

Copilot

AI that assists a human doing their job, the human stays in charge.

When you need it: You want productivity gains without handing decisions to a machine.

Enterprise trust

Built for the questions procurement actually asks.

Features win demos; governance wins deployments. Every Hab implementation ships with the documentation your IT, legal, and finance teams will ask for.

  • Human oversight at every decision point. AI recommends, your people decide
  • DPDP-aware data handling with documented data flows and retention
  • Plain-language training and change management for your existing team
  • Published measurement methodology, every number we claim is auditable

Hab Business Solutions develops the systems with governance, including a human in the loop, always.

AI ranks, recommends and drafts. Your team decides, and every decision carries a written reason and an audit trail.

See the governance model

Straight answers

What leaders ask us first.

What does Hab Business Solutions actually do?

We are a strategic AI implementation partner. We start by diagnosing where your operations lose time and money, then design and deploy AI-assisted processes that fix it, with training, governance, and measurable ROI. Hiring automation is our deepest specialty (through MinMaxHR and CandidRanker), and we apply the same method to operations, finance workflows, and customer service.

We're not a tech company. Can we still adopt AI?

Yes, most of our clients aren't tech companies. You don't need an internal AI team, and you don't need to learn the jargon. We handle diagnosis, implementation, and training in plain language, and every system we deploy is designed to be run by your existing team.

How is Hab different from an AI tools vendor?

A tools vendor sells you software and leaves. We start with your business problem, quantify what it costs you, and only then choose the technology, sometimes AI, sometimes simple automation, sometimes a process change that costs nothing. We stay accountable for the outcome, not the license.

How do we start, and what does it cost?

Start free: take the 3-minute AI Readiness Score or book a strategy call. If there's a fit, we begin with a bounded, fixed-scope pilot on one process, measured against a baseline agreed before it starts, so you see a real result before committing to anything larger. No retainers to start.

Is our data safe? Who is accountable for AI decisions?

Every implementation includes human oversight. AI ranks, recommends, and drafts; your people decide. We design for auditability and India's DPDP Act awareness, document data flows, and keep a human in the loop on every system Hab develops. We publish our methodology openly.

What is a hiring decision system?

A hiring decision system helps a hiring team evaluate candidates against defined job requirements, organise the evidence behind each evaluation, rank candidates consistently, and support the human decision at the end. It is not an applicant tracking system and it does not replace one. MinMaxHR is Hab's hiring decision system, and CandidRanker is the ranking engine inside it.

What does MinMaxHR evaluate a candidate on?

Eight named dimensions: skills, tools, experience, education, certifications, projects, job title alignment, and semantic fit against the job description. Every dimension opens into the evidence behind it, so a recruiter can see which resume lines produced the score rather than being handed a single opaque percentage.

Can hiring criteria be customised and weighted?

Yes. Criteria are defined per job description rather than inferred from keywords. Requirements can be marked mandatory or preferred, weighted against each other, and matched through a workspace terminology catalogue so equivalent terms count as the same requirement. Criteria are configured per role and per industry rather than shipped as a fixed catalogue.

How does MinMaxHR handle employment gaps?

A gap is surfaced as part of the employment history and presented as context for a person to review. It never reduces a score on its own. Careers include illness, caring responsibilities, study, relocation and redundancy, and a system that scores those as defects discards good candidates while leaving no record of having done so.

Does MinMaxHR support blue collar, grey collar and white collar hiring?

Yes, with different criteria for each. Blue collar hiring weights licences, tickets, equipment familiarity and site experience, and parses the scans and phone photographs those candidates actually submit. Grey collar hiring scores skill depth and supervisory scope from evidence rather than from the job title. White collar hiring separates hands-on delivery from adjacent advisory work carrying the same title.

What accuracy figure does Hab publish for MinMaxHR?

None, deliberately. We have not run an independent benchmark, and a vendor-reported accuracy percentage is not evidence. What we publish is the method: the eight scoring dimensions, the evidence under each one, and a measurement process you can run on your own historical candidates. Take a set of candidates whose outcomes you already know, hide those outcomes, and check whether the ranking agrees with your hiring managers.

Do you only do hiring automation?

Hiring is our flagship. MinMaxHR and CandidRanker are live in production. But the 4D Method applies anywhere manual process eats margin: document-heavy operations, finance approvals, customer-service triage, reporting. If a process is repetitive and rule-describable, it's a candidate.

The companies that win with AI won't be the ones that talked about it.

Start with a free diagnosis of where AI would pay in your business, or bring us one process that hurts, and we'll scope the pilot with you on the call.

No retainers to start · Pilot-first · Human-in-the-loop governance

Show me the work

What HAB actually takes off your team's plate.

Don't take our word for "automation". Follow the work from input to decision and see where repetitive human effort is absorbed.

Human accountability stays

HAB handles repeatable research, screening, verification and preparation. Your team retains the judgement and approval step.

Lead Intelligence

Sales prospecting

  1. 01Define ICP
  2. 02Discover live accounts
  3. 03Verify evidence
  4. 04Score opportunity
  5. 05Find decision maker
  6. 06Prepare sales action

Sales receives a qualified opportunity, not another spreadsheet of names.

See the workflow

MinMaxHR + CandidRanker

Hiring

  1. 01Receive applications
  2. 02Set role criteria
  3. 03Evaluate evidence
  4. 04Rank candidates
  5. 05Review exceptions
  6. 06Make the decision

Recruiters spend their time on judgement instead of opening every CV one by one.

See the workflow
Designed for workforce capacity: the objective is to absorb repetitive workload, not remove human accountability.