Pipeline Handoff Integrity

Pipeline Handoff Integrity treats a hiring stack as a chain of custody rather than a single tool. Every transition between sourcing, screening, scheduling, and offer carries a dropout risk, and agencies lose margin when those seams are invisible. A candidate sourced through GoHire's 25+ job board distribution can still stall if the scheduling layer never syncs interviewer availability, which is exactly the gap Spark Hire closes by syncing calendars in real time. The framework asks one question per handoff: who owns the candidate record when it moves? For agencies running recruitment on retainer, mapping handoffs converts vague time-to-hire complaints into specific, fixable steps. It also exposes where AI screening quietly removes a human touchpoint that clients notice. Audit the chain before adding another tool, because most hiring delays live between systems, not inside them.