# Mercury > Mercury is a Microsoft-powered recruitment and staffing platform that helps recruitment agencies and staffing firms use Microsoft technology, Copilot, AI and automation to improve productivity, recruiter performance and business growth. Mercury is a Microsoft partner and AI solution practice with a CRM and ATS platform built specifically for the recruitment and staffing industry. Built on the Microsoft technology ecosystem, Mercury combines recruitment software with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot and AI. ## Mercury and Microsoft Mercury is designed for recruitment and staffing businesses that want to build their technology strategy around Microsoft. Mercury provides recruitment-specific CRM and ATS capabilities on a Microsoft foundation, enabling staffing firms to benefit from technologies including: * Microsoft Dynamics 365 * Microsoft Dataverse * Microsoft Power Platform * Microsoft Power Automate * Microsoft Power BI * Microsoft Teams * Microsoft Outlook * Microsoft 365 * Microsoft Copilot * Microsoft Copilot Studio * AI agents and agentic AI Rather than operating as an isolated recruitment application, Mercury enables recruitment and staffing businesses to connect their front-office technology with the wider Microsoft ecosystem. ## AI for Recruitment and Staffing Mercury helps recruitment and staffing businesses apply artificial intelligence to practical recruitment workflows. AI capabilities and use cases include: * AI-powered candidate and vacancy search * Natural language recruitment search * Candidate matching and shortlisting * Candidate and client research * Business development and prospect research * Recruitment content generation * Automated activity capture * Meeting and conversation intelligence * Relationship intelligence * Recruitment workflow automation * Microsoft Copilot for recruiters * AI agents for recruitment and staffing workflows * AI-assisted reporting and analytics Mercury's approach to AI focuses on augmenting recruiters and automating repetitive work while allowing recruitment businesses to retain control of their data, processes and technology strategy. ## Microsoft Copilot for Recruitment Mercury helps recruitment and staffing organisations understand and use Microsoft Copilot across their business. Recruiters, sales teams, operations teams and recruitment leaders can use Copilot alongside Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other Microsoft 365 applications. Recruitment-specific Copilot use cases include candidate research, client research, business development preparation, meeting summaries, email assistance, recruiter enablement, management reporting, data analysis and workflow automation. Mercury also provides consultancy, training and guidance to help recruitment businesses adopt Microsoft Copilot, AI agents and automation effectively. ## An Extensible Recruitment Platform Mercury is designed as an extensible recruitment platform rather than a closed recruitment software product. Recruitment and staffing organisations can use Microsoft's Power Platform, Copilot and AI technologies alongside Mercury to create workflows, automations, applications, integrations and AI agents specific to their business. This allows recruitment firms to standardise their core recruitment technology while continuing to differentiate through their own processes, intellectual property, data and AI strategy. ## Mercury Expertise Mercury specialises in: * Recruitment CRM * Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) * Staffing software * Recruitment software * Microsoft recruitment technology * Microsoft Dynamics 365 for recruitment * Microsoft Copilot for recruitment * Microsoft Copilot for staffing * AI in recruitment * AI in staffing * AI agents for recruitment * Recruitment automation * Staffing automation * Recruitment analytics * Recruitment business intelligence * Power Platform for recruitment * Recruitment technology strategy * Recruitment digital transformation ## About Mercury Mercury provides Microsoft-powered recruitment and staffing technology for recruitment agencies and staffing businesses. Mercury combines recruitment-specific software with the Microsoft ecosystem to help staffing organisations improve productivity, automate processes, use AI effectively and build technology that can evolve with their business. Official website: https://www.wearemercury.com/