The ATS built for boutique recruiting agencies

Your pipeline. Your candidates. One place.

Compass is the recruiting CRM built for small technical staffing agencies. Skip the bloated enterprise tools. Track candidates, send outreach, and close placements, without the overhead.

Spreadsheets don't scale

Tracking 50 candidates in a spreadsheet works until it doesn't. One missed follow-up and a placement walks.

Enterprise ATS tools are overkill

Tools built for 500-person HR teams charge accordingly. You don't need half their features and shouldn't pay for them.

Outreach falls through the cracks

A candidate goes cold while you're juggling three other searches. Sequences that stop when they should keep going.

Core features

Everything your agency needs. Nothing it doesn't.

See every search at a glance

A visual kanban board with stages: Contacted, Screened, Interview, Offer, Placed. Drag candidates between stages. Spot stalled searches before they cost you a placement. Filter by individual recruiter or view the whole team.

Pipeline board
Contacted
Screened
Interview
Offer
Placed

One record for every relationship

Full candidate profiles with contact info, resume storage, activity history, pipeline positions, and interview records. Link candidates to clients and jobs. Merge duplicates. Never lose context on a relationship.

Candidate profile
AK
Amara KhanFull Stack Engineer · Acme Search
Screened Client: Northwind

Send from your own inbox

Connect your Gmail or Outlook account and send emails directly from candidate profiles. Every sent email, every reply, automatically logged to the candidate's activity feed. No BCC hacks. No copy-paste.

Compose email
Toamara.khan@email.com
SubjectRe: Backend role at Northwind

Automated follow-up that actually thinks

Build multi-step email sequences and enroll candidates manually. Set delays between steps, personalize with first name and your signature, and define what happens when a candidate replies. Route them to a scheduling email instead of just stopping. The only ATS built with branching sequences.

  • Template variables: {{candidate_firstName}}, {{recruiter_name}}
  • Configurable delays between steps
  • Branch on reply: route to a different step instead of stopping
  • Auto-pauses when candidate replies, resumes or stops on demand
Sequence editor
Step 1 · Intro email
↓ 3 days
Step 2 · Follow-up
Replied → Scheduling link
No reply → Step 3

Every candidate conversation in one place

A unified inbox that pulls together outbound emails and inbound replies across all your candidates. Filter by status: active, waiting on reply, replied, handled. Search by name. Mark threads handled and move on.

Inbox
Jordan DiazReplied
Sam LeeWaiting
Rae ParkHandled

Reuse what works

Save your best outreach emails as templates. Pull them into sequences or one-off sends. Variables resolve automatically per candidate.

Template picker
Cold outreach: BackendUsed 214 times
Interview follow-upUsed 88 times
Offer congratsUsed 41 times

The differentiator

Outreach sequences that branch.

Most ATS tools send emails in a straight line. Compass doesn't. When a candidate replies, route them to a scheduling email instead of stopping cold. When they don't reply, keep the follow-up going. Build the exact outreach flow your search requires, without code or workarounds.

Sequence editor: Backend Engineer, Northwind
Step 1 · Intro email Day 0
↓ 3 days
Step 2 · Value follow-up Day 3
On reply: Route to → Scheduling email
No reply: Continue to → Step 3
↓ 5 days
Step 3 · Final check-in Day 8
Amara Khan
Enrolled: Backend Sequence
1

Multi-step drip campaigns

Set delays in days between each email. Personalize each step with candidate and recruiter variables.

2

Branch on reply

Configure where the sequence goes when a candidate responds. Stop, continue, or route to a new thread entirely.

3

Pause, resume, stop

Full control from the candidate's profile. Every sequence action is logged to their activity feed.

Interview scheduling

Log interviews, set types, track status.

Reminders

Set follow-up reminders on any candidate.

Resume storage

Upload and store PDFs per candidate.

Team management

Invite recruiters, assign roles, view their pipeline.

Reports

Track placements, outreach volume, and pipeline health.

Global search

Find any candidate, client, or job instantly.

Bulk email

Select candidates from the list and send in one shot.

Client & job linking

Tie candidates to specific searches and clients.

Resume parsing

Upload a PDF and let Compass extract the key details.

Getting started

Up and running in minutes.

1

Connect your email

Link Gmail or Outlook. Your sent emails and replies sync automatically.

2

Import your candidates

Add them manually, upload resumes, or build your bench from scratch.

3

Build your first sequence

Set up a multi-step outreach flow, enroll candidates, and let Compass handle the follow-up.

Pricing

Simple plans that scale with your team.

All tiers include Gmail and Outlook integration. No per-seat email fees.

Starter

Solo recruiters

  • 1 user
  • Core features
  • Gmail & Outlook integration
Request early access

Team

Small agencies

  • Up to 10 users
  • Outreach sequences
  • Full unified inbox
Request early access

Agency

Growing firms

  • Unlimited users
  • Priority support
  • Gmail & Outlook integration
Request early access

Built for recruiters who move fast.

No contracts. No bloated feature sets. Just the tools your agency actually needs.