Cosm by Cielo™: AI-native TA operating model

Human expertise, AI intelligence and governance built to move with your business

Organizations need talent acquisition to move at the speed of business. But workforce needs are changing faster than traditional recruiting models can adapt.

Improving recruiting activities can only take you so far. To keep pace, your operating model must adapt as your business changes.

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Cosm by Cielo™ is the AI-native talent acquisition operating model that brings together human expertise, AI-enabled intelligence and governance to drive better hiring and business outcomes.

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Organizations can automate more and still fail to create material enterprise value.

Everest Group, From AI Pilots to Agentic Enterprise Value

Human first. AI-accelerated.

The future of recruiting will be defined by how intentionally people and AI work together.

The goal isn't to automate as much work as possible. It's to allocate work intentionally.

AI helps monitor activity, surface signals and automate repetitive actions. Human experts focus on relationships, advisory conversations, and decisions that require judgment.

What this means for you

  • Recruiters focus where their expertise creates the greatest impact

  • Deeper, more timely and more strategic advice for hiring leaders

  • Personalized candidate experiences with human support at critical moments

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Designed around outcomes, not process steps

Most hiring delays aren't caused by one broken step. They happen when work stays locked in a fixed sequence even when business needs change.

Cosm by Cielo starts with the outcome, then evaluates the steps, handoffs, systems, decisions and human touchpoints needed to determine the right mix of people, technology and expertise.

What this means for you

  • Less friction and fewer unnecessary steps across the hiring journey

  • Greater flexibility to adapt without losing rigor or control

  • Maximizing value from existing technology investments

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Some moments create disproportionate value because the participant expects empathy, negotiation, reassurance, ethical judgment, or visible accountability.

Everest Group, From AI Pilots to Agentic Enterprise Value

Powered by Cielo Lumis™

Cielo Lumis™ is the system of action within Cosm by Cielo — translating talent and recruiting signals into coordinated action.

Cielo Lumis helps hiring teams identify changing conditions, determine the next best action and coordinate responses across human experts, AI and automation. You get earlier visibility into talent market shifts, hiring gaps and emerging bottlenecks before they affect performance.

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Built for responsible AI adoption

Governance in Cosm by Cielo establishes accountability, oversight and clear limits on autonomous action, helping organizations scale AI-enabled talent acquisition without sacrificing transparency or control.

The result: responsible AI adoption with greater confidence in how decisions are made and continuously monitored.

Cosm by Cielo is grounded in globally recognized standards like ISO 42001, ISO 27001, and regulations such as the EU AI Act.

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Flexes as business needs change

Workforce needs aren’t static. Organizations often require different talent strategies across business units, geographies or stages of growth.

Cosm by Cielo adapts as your needs change, combining the right expertise, technology and delivery approach for each situation. That may include enterprise RPO, modular or project-based support, direct sourcing, contingent workforce strategies, Recruiting on Demand or blended workforce solutions.

The same operating model can be applied across a wide range of talent priorities.

One operating model. Multiple ways to access talent.

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Internal

Unlock talent already inside your organization.

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External

Bring talent into your organization.

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Contingent

Access flexible workforce capacity as needs change.

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Specialized

Find hard-to-source skills tied to strategic priorities.

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Emerging

Build access to future-critical capabilities.

Make talent acquisition a business advantage

When talent acquisition operates as a connected system, it becomes a business capability that helps organizations respond faster to change and build the talent capacity they need to move forward.

Cosm by Cielo helps talent leaders orchestrate the people, intelligence, governance and action that drive stronger workforce outcomes.

Built from proven innovation

Cosm by Cielo brings together capabilities developed across Cielo TalentCloud™, Digital Accelerators™, Cielo Source & Engage and Cielo Lumis into one connected AI-native model for talent acquisition.

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We're frequently asked...

An AI-native talent acquisition operating model is a framework for designing how recruiting work happens. Rather than optimizing individual tasks, it aligns workflows, human expertise, AI, technology and governance around workforce outcomes. Cosm by Cielo applies this approach to help organizations adapt as talent needs evolve.

Many organizations have improved individual recruiting activities with technology and automation. But hiring challenges often result from disconnected workflows, systems and decision-making. As a recruiting operating model, Cosm by Cielo is designed to improve how talent acquisition works as a whole, not just individual tasks.

An AI-native operating model is designed around the strengths of both people and AI from the start. Rather than layering AI onto existing processes, it intentionally determines how work, decisions and expertise should be allocated across human experts, technology and automation.

Cosm by Cielo™ is Cielo’s AI-native talent acquisition operating model, bringing together human expertise, AI-enabled intelligence and responsible governance to drive better workforce outcomes.

Traditional RPO is often focused on recruiting capacity and process execution. Cosm by Cielo builds on Cielo’s RPO expertise but changes the operating model behind the work. As an AI-native recruiting operating model, it helps organizations orchestrate enterprise RPO, modular RPO, project RPO, direct sourcing, Recruiting on Demand and blended workforce needs through AI-enabled workflows, talent expertise and responsible governance.

Recruiting technology provides tools and capabilities. An operating model determines how work happens, how decisions are made and how people, technology and governance come together to achieve business goals. In Cosm by Cielo, Cielo Lumis™ serves as the system of action that helps put the operating model into practice.

Cielo Lumis™ is the system of action powering Cosm by Cielo. Cielo Lumis™ turns signals and insight into coordinated workflows, AI-assisted decisions, automation and next-best actions, while Cosm by Cielo is the broader operating model that brings those capabilities together with Cielo’s services, expertise and governance.

Cosm by Cielo uses AI to support how talent acquisition work is organized, routed and improved. AI-enabled workflows and automation help reduce repetitive work, surface relevant signals and coordinate action, while human experts remain responsible for judgment, relationships, oversight and decision-making.

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