RIPPERWORKS

Why RipperWorks

We believe the best people decisions come from clarity.

But too often, recruiters are overloaded, candidates feel overlooked, and hiring decisions are made with limited visibility.

Origin Story

Built From Real Hiring Experience

After a decade working across recruitment and hiring environments for SMEs to large multinational organisations in the UK to Australia, the problems are consistent.

  • Hiring is a core business challenge.
  • The cost of hiring the wrong person.
  • Poor candidate experience.

Recruiters and hiring managers were often forced to manually sift through hundreds of CVs, with time-to-hire counted in months. Relying on fragmented ATS systems and generic ranking tools that rarely reflected how experienced recruiters actually assess talent.

RipperWorks was designed around how experienced recruiters actually identify strong candidates, balancing relevance, context, experience, certifications, timing, and fit.

Our goal is to help organisations better allocate time to connecting with great talent, supporting this with better intelligence, visibility, and confidence.

Because workforce decisions have always required a specialist.

Meet the Team

The people behind RipperWorks.

Jonathan Winter

Co-Founder

Jonathan spent years working across recruitment and hiring environments, from SMEs to large multinational organisations, seeing first hand how difficult it was for teams to confidently identify the right candidates and the time inefficiencies in the process.

After being on the ground for a decade interacting with HR, hiring managers and candidates alike, he founded RipperWorks to build a more intelligent and human-centred approach to workforce decision-making, working towards a more positive experience.

Steve Quenette

Co-Founder

Steve leads the intelligence infrastructure and product architecture behind RipperWorks, combining AI, data systems, and operational design to build workforce intelligence tools that support real-world hiring and staffing environments.

What We Believe

Four convictions that shape how we build.

  • Hiring is a human-centred task.

    Recruiters and hiring teams don't need replacing, they need better visibility and better information.

  • Great hiring decisions come from clarity and context.

    Not rushed filtering or speed-at-all-costs.

  • Candidate experience matters.

    The best systems should help an organisation improve their hiring experience for managers and candidates alike.

  • Workforce decisions deserve specialised intelligence.

Vision / What's Next

Where We're Heading

We're starting with one of the most important decisions in workforce operations: helping teams identify who to spend time on and make better hiring decisions.

From there, we're expanding into broader workforce intelligence to tackle key industry challenges we've identified.

The goal isn't automation or replacements. It's a better experience.

Built to Support Better Hiring Decisions

We believe recruiters and hiring teams do their best work when they have better visibility, clearer prioritisation, and confidence they're spending time on the right candidates.

That's why RipperWorks was designed around real recruiting workflows, not black-box automation.

Explore the Process