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Six companies, one point of contact.

Recruitment, outsourcing, business software, reputation, AI and growth services. Himank founded AffinitySteps in 2016 and leads each of the companies below.

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Affinity Steps

Founder & CEO · since 2016

affinitysteps.com ↗affinitysteps.uk ↗

Recruitment process outsourcing for staffing and recruitment agencies. Dedicated resourcers handle sourcing, research, outreach and admin behind the desk, so consultants spend their time billing. US agencies through affinitysteps.com; UK and Ireland agencies through affinitysteps.uk. Himank’s first profitable company.

Sourcing

  • Dedicated recruitment resourcers
  • Candidate sourcing & research
  • Boolean & LinkedIn Recruiter search
  • Talent intelligence & market mapping

Delivery

  • Candidate engagement & qualification
  • Recruitment operations & job posting
  • ATS & database management: Bullhorn, Crelate, Big Biller

Growth

  • Recruitment business development
  • Target accounts & prospect research
  • Hiring-manager lead lists

AapicoSteps

CEO · since April 2016

aapicosteps.com ↗

Business process outsourcing from Udaipur: human-powered back-office, support and assistant teams for clients worldwide, plus IT services.

Assistants & support

  • Virtual & executive assistants
  • Omni-channel & voice support
  • Email & inbox management
  • Appointment setting & scheduling

Industry back office

  • Merchant cash advance operations
  • Insurance operations
  • Accounting & bookkeeping
  • Healthcare administration
  • Real estate support
  • E-commerce back office

Sales & marketing

  • Pre-sales support
  • Lead generation
  • Email marketing
  • Social media management

Data & IT

  • Data management & cleansing
  • Transcription
  • Content moderation
  • Web & application development
  • SEO

Aapicos

CEO · since 15 January 2026

aapicos.com ↗

Business software described as a “company operating system”: ready-made tools and custom software that connect day-to-day operations, with trained assistants to run them.

Products

  • Recruitment Suite: sourcing & QA extensions, pipeline dashboard
  • Bondly CRM
  • Subscription Manager
  • Backup Manager

Custom work

  • Bespoke workflows
  • System integrations
  • AI features: summaries & message generation

Setup & support

  • Spreadsheet migration
  • Device setup
  • Single sign-on
  • Trained software assistants

Afirmer

CEO · since February 2019

Online reputation and PR: how people and companies show up when someone searches their name, and how to protect and build it.

Reputation

  • Online reputation management
  • Negative content removal
  • Review management
  • Digital crisis management
  • Online risk mitigation
  • Cyber investigations

Search presence

  • Google Knowledge Panel
  • Forensic SEO
  • Structured data
  • Search engine monitoring

PR & publishing

  • Public relations
  • Media placement
  • News publications
  • Wikitia page creation & updates
  • Wikipedia page editing
  • Employer branding

DeqTeq AI Technologies

Director & Chief Growth Officer

deqteq.com ↗

AI infrastructure and automation for startups, scaling businesses and enterprises: agentic AI, chatbots trained on your own data and engines that automate manual workflows.

AI

  • Agentic AI
  • AI infrastructure
  • RAG chatbots
  • Personal cloud bots
  • DeqTeq Engines

Automation

  • n8n workflows
  • Zapier
  • Power Automate
  • HubSpot, Odoo & Greenhouse integrations

Development

  • Python
  • PHP & CodeIgniter
  • WordPress
  • Shopify & Wix
  • Odoo ERP

7H Pro

CEO & Managing Director · since October 2017 (founded 2016)

7h.com.co ↗

Business services with teams in India and the USA, for companies that want to run better, reach more customers and adopt technology that scales.

Growth

  • Lead generation
  • Sales & marketing
  • Customer relationship management

People

  • Human resources
  • Staffing

Technology

  • Software development
  • Mobile app development

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