How Seaport Intermodal Saved a Full-Time Headcount With Lighthouse

Two people. Four active roles. No room to breathe.

Seaport Intermodal's HR team runs lean: two people handling everything for a company of 40-50 employees. With frequent hiring across multiple roles, the talent acquisition specialist was spending entire days just screening applicants — reading resumes, sorting candidates, trying to identify who was worth a callback. Every new role posting meant another pile. The team was at capacity, and the obvious answer — hire a third person — was expensive and slow.

A second TA specialist, without the headcount

Lighthouse stepped in as a force multiplier. Instead of adding headcount, Seaport automated the screening. Lighthouse acts as a second talent acquisition specialist on their team — automatically screening every new candidate the moment they apply, scoring them against role requirements, and surfacing the best talent immediately. The TA specialist opens their dashboard and sees a ranked pipeline instead of a pile of resumes.

Today, Seaport runs 4 active roles simultaneously. The time investment: less than 10 minutes per role to get the right candidates to interview. What used to take a full day now takes an hour.

A two-person HR team doesn't need to become a three-person team to keep up with hiring volume. Sometimes the answer isn't another hire — it's giving the team you have the right tool.