On demand
£6.95
per hour plus VAT
When the machine is not reserved.
For Recruitment
Process every CV you hold - without any candidate's data leaving the country
For agencies, executive search firms and RPO providers who cannot send CVs to a US-hosted model, and who need the files read as documents, overnight, on hardware in the UK.
Matching and drafting are decision support for a human recruiter. This page does not offer automated rejection or hiring decisions. That line is kept because automated candidate rejection engages Article 22 of the UK GDPR.
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The problem
Every CV is personal data belonging to a candidate who did not consent to it being processed by a US AI provider. Most agencies are doing it anyway and have not documented it. Client data-processing addenda are starting to name the practice. The exposure is real: a GDPR question about CV handling, or a single client clause, is enough to stop the unofficial workflow overnight. The work itself is the awkward part. Volume arrives in batches. Latency does not matter. The files are long, unstructured, and commercially sensitive. Public models are the wrong place for them, and a keyword ATS is the wrong reader.
02
What you can actually run
What you can actually run is a large open-weight model held entirely in memory at full precision on a UK-hosted Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory. The named size class is a 70B-class model. Apple marketed the hardware, at launch, as able to run models with over 600 billion parameters entirely in memory. The point is not a leaderboard. The point is that the model and the CV set sit on one machine your team reaches, and that no other firm shares that machine on a reserved booking. Overnight CV processing is the workload this hardware profile rewards. A customer-facing chatbot at scale is not.
03
Named workflows
- CV parsing and structuring at volume, overnight Take the files you already hold and return structured fields for a human to accept or correct.
- Candidate-to-brief matching across the agency database Reason across full documents, not keyword overlap, against the brief you supply.
- Interview note summarisation Reduce notes to a handover the consultant still owns.
- Client brief and role specification drafting Draft from the agency's own precedent, not a generic template.
- Market map and longlist assembly Assemble a longlist from material you already have the right to process.
- Job advertisement compliance screening Flag wording for a human to review before publication.
04
Why this hardware
This is a capacity machine: 512GB of unified memory on a single tenant. The CPU and GPU share one pool, so a large model and a large document set can sit in memory together at full precision. A 70B-class open-weight model is the named size class this configuration is used for.
It is not sold as a high-throughput service. Apple Silicon does not suit many simultaneous users, and this page makes no claim about tokens per second, response time, or concurrency. The fit is single-tenant, privacy-led, batch-friendly work: overnight processing, long documents, and a model that stays on hardware only your team can reach.
Dedicated monthly use is one customer on one machine. That is the product.
05
Buying one is not currently an option
Apple launched the M3 Ultra Mac Studio in March 2025 advertising up to 512GB of unified memory, and marketed it as able to run models with over 600 billion parameters entirely in memory.
In March 2026, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and Ars Technica reported that Apple withdrew the 512GB configuration. In May 2026, Apple Insider and others reported that the 256GB configuration was withdrawn as well. The M3 Ultra Mac Studio is now sold in a single 96GB configuration.
Secondary-market listings for 512GB units have been reported around $25,000, roughly £19,000-20,000, where they appear at all. Apple has given no public reason and has not said whether the change is permanent. The M5 Ultra Mac Studio has not shipped.
MetalCloud did not originate these facts. They are a matter of public reporting. This page will be rewritten if Apple restores a high-memory configuration.
Currently one 512GB machine. A dedicated monthly customer occupies it in full. Allocation is first-committed.
Correct as of 22 August 2026. Sourced from public reporting, not from MetalCloud.
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Data handling
The machine is hosted in the UK. On the reserved monthly tier it is single-tenant: your team reaches the endpoint, and another firm does not share the box for that period. Execution is hardware-isolated at the machine.
MetalCloud does not hold SOC 2. ISO 27001 is not certified. A data processing agreement is available on request. Operator access, logging and retention are set out in that agreement and on the technical call, not invented here.
When you stop, you stop. What happens to residual data on disk is a DPA and offboarding question, and we will answer it in writing before you commit.
- Where it sits
- UK-hosted Mac Studio.
- Who reaches it
- Your team, on a reserved booking. Single tenant.
- What is logged
- Set out in the DPA and on the technical call. Not invented here.
- Agreement
- DPA available on request. ISO 27001 is not certified. SOC 2 is not held.
07
Pricing
Two published prices, both plus VAT. On demand is £6.95 per hour. Reserved monthly is £2,995 per month. There is currently one 512GB machine. A reserved monthly customer occupies it in full. Hourly work is offered when the machine is not reserved. Allocation is first-committed.
Reserved
£2,995
per month plus VAT
Occupies the machine for the month.
Agencies usually look at this as cost against placement margin, not as a headline monthly number. At £2,995 plus VAT, a reserved month is the cost of holding the only privately hosted 512GB box currently on offer here. Hourly use at £6.95 plus VAT is the route when you have a mandate spike and the machine is free. An ATS that already "does this" is doing keyword matching. It is not holding your document set in memory at full precision on hardware that does not leave the UK.
Currently one machine, allocated on a first-committed basis. Neither price includes VAT.
08
What MetalCloud is not
If you need an applicant system, this is the wrong product.
- Not an ATS or CRM, and it does not replace one.
- Does not source candidates or access job boards.
- Does not make hiring decisions.
- Does not score candidates for automated rejection.
09
Questions recruitment teams ask
On a UK-hosted Mac Studio. Reserved monthly use is single-tenant. A DPA is available on request.
No. MetalCloud is a model endpoint. Your ATS remains the system of record.
No. Outputs are for a human recruiter. Automated rejection is not offered, and would engage Article 22 of the UK GDPR.
That processing stays on UK-hosted, single-tenant hardware under a DPA, and that you can walk them through the data flow on a call.
An ATS matches keywords. A large model can read a full CV against a full brief. A human still decides.
Offboarding and residual data are set out in the DPA and confirmed in writing before you commit. They are not invented on this page.
Book a 20-minute technical call
If a client addendum or a GDPR question has already arrived, book a 20-minute technical call. Capacity is one machine, allocated first-committed.