Specialist businesses.
One standard.

AWI is the collective of specialist businesses. Each one is built for its own market and run by people who know it, and every one of them is held to the same standard. We are centred in the UK and partner globally, working alongside organisations in the markets they operate in.

Specialist by design
Each business built for its own market, never stretched across all of them
One collective
Shared standards, infrastructure and governance
UK-centred, global reach
Headquartered in the UK, partnering globally across the markets we serve

The collective

Distinct brands, deliberately. Each business is built around the market it serves and the people who know it, partnering globally across the sectors it works in.

Construction & the built environment

AWICivitas

Specialist recruitment for the construction industry — senior leaders, technical experts and skilled trades across every discipline of the built environment.

Skilled trades & labourProject & site managementQS & estimatingDesign, engineering & building servicesHealth, safety & complianceExecutive & leadership search
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Civitas places people who build: project and site leadership, commercial and estimating, design and engineering, building services, surveying, health and safety, and the skilled trades that deliver on site. Temporary, contract, permanent, interim and executive search across the UK.

Talent & people advisory

AWITaio

Talent and people advisory for life sciences organisations and the consultancies that serve them — how the talent function is built, led and measured.

Talent & people advisoryBuilding the talent functionInterim & fractional leadershipAssessment, capability & succession
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Taio advises rather than delivers: talent operating model and workforce planning, building a talent function from scratch, interim and fractional talent leadership, and assessment, capability and succession. Independent of any placement fee.

Technology & digital

AWIIngenum Launching soon

Specialist technology recruitment — engineering, data, infrastructure and product talent for businesses building software and the systems around it.

Software engineeringData & analyticsCloud, infrastructure & securityProduct & deliveryTechnology leadership
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Ingenum recruits across the technology function: software engineering, data and analytics, cloud and infrastructure, security, product and delivery. Contract, permanent and leadership hires for scale-ups and established teams alike.

Sport & creative

A creative strategy agency for sport — placing senior creative direction inside clubs and organisations, and building the campaigns that turn attention into commercial return.

Embedded Creative DirectorsCreative campaigns & contentInternational creative reachFlexible engagement models
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Rifto embeds experienced Creative Directors into sporting organisations, delivers short-form creative built to travel, and brings UK and European creative experience into international teams and markets. Engagements run short-term, project-based or long-term.

Why a collective

Focus stays where it belongs

Each company keeps its own brand, market and leadership. Nothing is diluted into a single generic offering.

Weight behind each brand

Systems, compliance, finance and technology sit across the collective, so a young business operates with the backing of an established one.

One standard of conduct

How we treat the organisations we partner with, the people we place and each other is set across the collective, and is not negotiable business by business.

Built to add more

The collective is built to keep growing — new specialist businesses join it as they are founded, acquired or partnered with.

UK-centred, not UK-limited

Our base and our standards are British. The work isn't — we partner on international projects and move people across borders where the mandate calls for it.

Talk to AWI

Not sure which company you need? Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll point you at the right one.

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