We use AI to be more human.
Two Frenchmen in Malaysia, a frustration with how manpower agencies worked, and one conviction from day one: matching and ranking people to roles is work for AI, not for a recruiter reading CVs at midnight.
Automate the sorting. Keep the relationship.
Recruitment runs on trust. A candidate wants to know someone read their story and will be straight with them. A client wants to know someone stands behind the shortlist. None of that is work a machine should own.
So we point AI at the part that was never human to begin with: reading thousands of CVs, ranking them, chasing availability, keeping the database current. What it gives back is time, and we spend that time on the people. That is what we mean by using AI to be more human.
The people, and the agent, behind Trees Asia
Designing the operating system for energy workforce mobility across ASEAN, AI-first, deployment-ready.
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Scaling Trees Engineering across APAC through market expansion, strategic partnerships, and operational efficiency.
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The agent behind our search and our prospecting. A consultant makes every decision about a person.
Software, not a person.Two French founders in Malaysia set out to simplify how manpower companies work, replacing spreadsheets and middlemen. The founding conviction was specific: matching and ranking people to roles should be done by AI, not by someone skimming a folder of CVs. The first platform was built by our CTO Romeo Bellon and ran on Algolia, which is what you used for instant search and ranking years before a model could read a CV. Romeo Bellon on LinkedIn
Not a pilot and not one team. Everyone put it into their daily work, and our productivity moved with it. That year taught us where the technology genuinely helps and where it does not.
We rebuilt every process on top of AI rather than bolting it onto the old ones. Humans stayed exactly where judgement belongs: the decision, the call on a candidate, the ownership of the outcome. The AI does the parsing, ranking and chasing.
Trees became a licensed private employment agency in Malaysia. The licence is what lets us place people here rather than only introduce them, and that entity is the one behind every contract we sign and every CV we hold.
Quentin founded Trees OS to build the software this business now runs on: the matching engine, the agents our recruiters direct, and the systems behind them. treesos.io
The role changed. Our team no longer spends its days screening and coordinating, they direct the agents doing that work and spend their time with candidates and clients. An experienced team across Kuala Lumpur and Indonesia, deploying manpower, recruitment and RPO across ASEAN.