The Recruitment Engine That Finds the Candidate You Thought Did Not Exist

Most companies hiring for difficult roles do the same thing. They write a job post, publish it on the usual platforms, wait for applications, and hope the right person shows up. Sometimes it works. For the roles that really matter the rare profiles, the hybrid skills, the people who are not looking for it almost never does. In this episode of REWIRED, Emil Muthu and Marius Ciurariu sit down with Alexandru Beciu, Head of Recrutopia, to break down how AI and automation are being used to find the candidates that traditional recruitment simply cannot reach. Alex leads Recrutopia. A dentist by degree, a software product builder by obsession. He was already deep in AI startups before the hype cycle. He joined Neurony in September 2023 and found a two-person team with no clear methodology, no platform, and no playbook. Together with his mentor Emil Muthu, he built all three. Today he owns the product, drives the operation, and sets the vision. €2.5M in revenue in under two years. €6M on the table for this year. He's 27. Who this episode is for: Founders and CEOs who have a role they cannot fill and are running out of ideas HR and recruitment leaders who want to understand where AI is actually useful versus where it is hype Anyone building a team in a market where the profile they need barely exists About Recruitopia: Recrutopia is Neurony's AI-powered recruitment methodology, combining artificial intelligence, automation, and human validation into a single modular system. It enables engagement with candidates at a volume and precision traditional methods cannot operationally sustain. The business closed €2.5M in revenue in 2025 and is targeting €6M in 2026. Learn more at https://recrutopia.io/ Timestamps 00:00 — Introduction & who is Alexandru Beciu? 01:53 — What is Recrutopia? The origin story inside Neurony 08:49 — How Recrutopia differs from traditional recruitment agencies 12:45 — The process in practice: a real example (70 hires/month across Romania) 20:07 — Where AI is actually used in Recrutopia's workflow 23:01 — Who is Recrutopia for? From hypergrowth startups to elevator technicians 26:16 — Why choose Recrutopia over any other recruitment company? 28:13 — The hardest role they ever filled: 30 hires from zero in construction tech 36:23 — The CV filtering problem — and why Recrutopia starts before the CV 43:11 — Vision for 2027: €6M revenue and US expansion 44:41 — On competition: why distribution beats technology as a moat 47:58 — Alex's question to the hosts: how will AI change HR and software? 54:37 — What have you automated in your personal life? 57:26 — Closing Meet the Guest: Alexandru Beciu Alexandru Beciu trained as a dentist. He ended up building an AI-powered recruitment platform instead. He joined Neurony in 2023 with no background in HR, found a two-person team with no process and no playbook, and built both from scratch. Today he leads Recrutopia — a methodology that finds the candidates traditional recruitment can't reach: the ones who aren't looking, aren't on job boards, and don't have a polished LinkedIn profile. €2.5M in revenue in under two years. €6M targeted for this year. He's 27. 👉 Talk with Alex:   / alexandru-gabriel-beciu-157823239   Meet the Hosts: Marius Ciurariu brings a leadership and organizational transformation perspective, asking the hard questions about how companies actually adopt AI when everyone's too busy doing their day job. Emil Muthu, founder of Neurony, leads a software development company 23 years in the making, now helping organizations integrate AI into real business processes, from recruitment to custom development to startup incubation. 👉 Talk with Emil:   / emil-muthu   👉 Talk with Marius:   / mariusciurariu   Get Weekly AI Insights 👉 Subscribe →   / ceo-s-ai-spotlight-7358418162570121218