I Rebuild The Hiring Engine You're Too Scared To Admit Is Broken.

We audit, optimise, and elevate every part of your hiring engine, so your TA function becomes a strategic driver, not just a reactive service.
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The Problem

The Elephant In The Room

Hiring isn't broken because of bad recruiters. It's broken because of outdated processes, sourcing strategies that don't scale, tools that complicate more than they help, hiring managers doing their own thing and the list goes on.
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What We Do

We Fix What Everyone Else Ignores

Tooled Up Raccoons delivers strategic consulting for TA teams, People leaders, and fast-growth companies who want:
Scalable, streamlined hiring processes
Alignment between TA, hiring managers, and leadership
Systems that support, not strangle, your recruiters
Tech stacks that actually talk to each other
Recruitment that operates with clarity, speed, and impact
Processes that bring candidates & companies closer together
Whether you need a reset or a full rebuild, we get in fast, go deep, and leave you stronger than we found you.
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Clients

Who We Partner With

TA & People leaders ready to scale with intention
Founders who know their hiring is holding growth back
Tech vendors building solutions for TA

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How it works

Recruitment Rebuilt - Our Signature Framework


We don’t just audit your hiring. We get under the hood, break it down, and rebuild it into something that actually works - with your team fully empowered to run it.
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Every program is built around where you are now - and engineered to get you to where you actually need to be.
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No surface fixes. Just clarity, confidence, and real momentum.
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Discovery Call

We have a detailed discussion about what is happening behind closed doors, the impact to the business and agree the correct next steps.

Diagnostic Phase

We run a full audit, map the issues, and show you what’s really costing you candidates, time, and trust. Every recruiter, every workflow, every pain point.

Rebuild Plan

A no-fluff findings report + action-ready roadmap We co-design the new system with you: workflows, tools, training, and strategy.

Implementation

We help embed it inside your team, with the support they need to actually make it stick.

On-Going Support

Ongoing strategic guidance to keep your team sharp and scalable
Your Guide

Who Will You Be Working With?

I’m Gabi Preston-Phypers, and I don’t fix hiring. I rebuild it.

I founded Tooled Up Raccoons because I was done watching smart, capable TA teams be reduced to order takers, buried under bad process, ignored by leadership, and forced to “make it work” with broken tools.

My background spans investment banking, SaaS sales, and deep-in-the-weeds recruiting. I’ve operated at high levels, and in the hiring chaos most people won’t admit exists.

But I am here to remove that chaos once and for all.

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

Real Wins

Due to the nature of our work, clients remain confidential under NDA. These are real quotes, from real leaders, used with permission.
"We thought we needed sourcing help. We ended up with a whole new hiring system — and a TA team with real influence."
Head of Talent, SaaS Scale-up (under NDA)
"The moment when you realise that LinkedIn Recruiter has an inability to save all of your previous search strings, and you fear all is lost ... but then you remember you have built a sourcing centre in Tooled Up Raccoons and all your Boolean strings are in there!!! A product you can rely on, unlike LinkedIn 😂"
Head of TA, Consulting (under NDA)
"Gabi - I need to tell ya - it's freaking awesome!  😍 It actually provides me with extra keywords I wouldn't have thought of, but they seem very relevant. From a page of 88 profiles, about 10% were entirely new ones I hadn't seen before."
Head of Recruitment, Technology (under NDA)
"You have a lot of new fans! The general consensus is that it would take 3 or 4 hours to build a string that your Chrome extension generates in 45 seconds."
Head of TA, Technology (under NDA)
"Previously hard-to-find candidates became instantly discoverable! Within 45 minutes, I shortlisted perfect matches, and within 24 hours, they were all in interviews. This Chrome extension has transformed my searches."
Head of TA, Financial Services (under NDA)
“Gabi doesn’t fix symptoms. She rebuilds the engine. Game-changing.”
Global TA Ops Lead, Engineering
Why?

Why Should You Change?

When you rebuild your hiring processes, TA stops being the department people ignore and becomes the engine that drives the business forward.

This isn't recruitment as usual. This is recruitment rebuilt.
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Let’s Rebuild What’s Broken. Together.

If your TA team is reactive, under pressure, or underestimated - it’s time for change.
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