What it is
Right to Represent is the candidate's explicit agreement that a specific recruiter or agency may submit their CV or profile to a specific named client for a specific role. It is not a blanket licence to shop a candidate anywhere. A valid RTR names the client, names the role, and exists before that submission happens, not as a courtesy call after the fact.
In much of the US staffing market, especially IT contracting and OPT-heavy pipelines, RTR is a written, sometimes signed, document a client explicitly requires before it will look at a submission. In the UK and most of Europe it is less often a standalone form and more often a confirmed email or verbal go-ahead, but the underlying rule is the same: no consent, no submission. Either way, the point is to stop a 'blind submission', a CV sent to a client the candidate never agreed to, and never knew about, until the recruiter mentions it after the fact.
No RTR, no submission. That is the rule every double-submission dispute eventually gets measured against.
Why it matters
Recruitment runs on trust in both directions, and RTR protects it on both sides at once. For the candidate, it means their CV never turns up at a client they did not sign off on, sitting alongside a rival submission from an agency they never spoke to. For the agency, it is the paper trail that proves who introduced the candidate first, which is exactly what gets checked the moment two agencies submit the same person for the same role.
Double submission is the scenario RTR exists to prevent. When a client receives the same profile from two agencies, most will not adjudicate who deserves the fee; they will simply disqualify the candidate to avoid the dispute entirely, or the fee itself becomes contested between the two agencies with neither able to prove who acted first. An RTR with a timestamp is the difference between a defensible claim to the placement and a shouting match that costs everyone the role.
How boilr handles it
boilr sits at the top of the BD motion, so RTR shows up wherever your AI sales employee builds a candidate-led pitch, most directly a Spec CV drafted for a standout candidate against an ICP-matched account. That task is queued for you to verify, never sent on its own, which is exactly the checkpoint where confirming Right to Represent belongs before anything reaches a client.
Every submission-worthy task, the client it names, the role it names and when it went out, is logged in the Company Brain rather than scattered across inboxes and spreadsheets. If a second consultant on your desk, or a rival agency, ever contests who introduced a candidate first, you have a timestamped record instead of a memory to argue with.
