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True Blue Recruitment places tech talent in Bangkok. Its founder had built sourcing and BD tools in Claude, but JobAdder could not plug into them. Here is what changed when the firm moved to Spott, and why a shortlist now takes 20 minutes instead of a day.

September brought a cross-Job Inbound Applications view, a much bigger Spott mobile app and wait steps in Automations, plus AI Job suggestions you approve, Scorecard templates and variables in subject lines.

Spott is opening offices in New York and Sydney and moving to a much larger office in Leuven. Here's what's driving the expansion, what it changes for the agencies we work with, and how we got here.

Spott doubles down on the US, hiring former McKinsey consultant Tycho De Saeytyd as Head of US to crack the world's largest recruitment market.

We compared 10 ATS and CRM platforms for recruiting agencies in 2026. From AI-native newcomers to legacy incumbents, here's what actually matters when choosing your next platform.

Spott has raised $3.2M to build an AI-native ATS/CRM that replaces fragmented recruitment stacks with one system that works for recruiters, not against them.

Crelate has built a solid reputation since 2012 as an ATS/CRM for US mid-market staffing agencies. With recent AI agent launches in 2025, it's evolving - but is it enough? Here's how it compares to Spott's AI-native approach.

TrackerRMS has been a mid-market ATS/CRM since 2005, covering everything from sourcing to invoicing. But breadth built over two decades comes with trade-offs. Here's how it compares to Spott's AI-native approach.

Honest JobAdder review covering pricing, Adder Intelligence AI, SEEK ownership, and how it compares to Spott for staffing and recruiting firms.

Honest Clockwork Recruiting review covering pricing, features, AI capabilities, and how it compares to Spott for executive search and staffing firms.

Access Vincere Evo in 2026: a £69/user CRM licence plus AI Smart Packs priced per agency. A review of pricing, AI, integrations, reviews and how Spott compares.

An in-depth review of Recruit CRM for recruiting firms. We compare sourcing, outreach, candidate presentation, and UX to help you evaluate the platform.

A detailed review of Ezekia for executive search firms. How does its sourcing, search, and interview tooling stack up? See where it leads and how it compares with Spott.

Flaire recruits engineers for frontier AI companies. Its recruiters work out of Claude, plugged into Spott through the MCP. Here is why the Paris firm made Spott the database at the root of its stack, and what it built on top.

Spott has opened its APAC office in Sydney. Sander Crijns and Arnoud Dekeyzer have moved from Leuven to run sales, customer success and operations for Australian and New Zealand agencies on local hours. Here is what changes for you.

H.W. Anderson's buy-side search team had years of call notes locked in fields their ATS could not search. Here is how they unlocked that data with Spott.

The best AI recruiting tools in 2026, by workflow stage: an AI-native core plus the sourcing, notes, enrichment, and distribution tools that plug into it.

Looking for a Vincere alternative in 2026? We compared 7 ATS/CRM platforms on AI depth, pricing, contracts, and migration so you can switch with confidence.

Evaluating a JobAdder alternative in 2026? We compared 6 ATS/CRM platforms on AI depth, pricing, migration, and reporting so you can choose with confidence.

The 10 best recruitment CRM platforms for staffing and recruiting agencies in 2026, organized by what each one is actually best at, with honest trade-offs for every pick.

A UK-specific guide to choosing AI recruiting software: UK GDPR and data residency, the questions to ask vendors, and how the main platforms handle the UK market.

Placements don't wait for office hours. A practical playbook for mobile recruiting: what actually needs to happen on your phone, what doesn't, and how to never lose context between desk sessions.

A step-by-step walkthrough of how AI candidate matching works: what happens between pasting a job description and getting a ranked, explained shortlist, and why context beats keywords.

We compared 6 ATS/CRM platforms for executive search - evaluating AI matching, candidate presentations, client portals, and pricing for retained search firms.

August turned Spott into a full messaging hub with SMS and WhatsApp Business, added Comments with @mentions to your records, and shipped Company Portal pre-sets, bulk Contact actions, relative date filters and a refreshed Calendar.

July brought the Marketing Suite for email campaigns, eSignatures with DocuSign, an Ask AI assistant for job descriptions, multi-language job posts, automatic Company Portal publishing, and a much better email composer.

Comparing Salesforce-based recruitment tools (Bullhorn Recruitment Cloud, Byner, Seven20, Asymbl) vs Spott. A breakdown of platform tax, add-on sprawl and AI gaps, and why AI-native beats bolted-on for staffing agencies.

Looking for a Carerix alternative? Compare Carerix vs Spott across AI capabilities, UX, temp staffing, and BeNeLux market fit to find the best ATS for your agency.

Discover the ideal ATS/CRM solution for your business as we compare Spott and Loxo across sourcing, search, communication, client presentation, pricing, and support.

An in-depth look at Invenias by Bullhorn for executive search. We review its search, automations, pricing, and what has changed since the 2018 acquisition.

Recruiterflow in 2026: what the Platform plan includes, where the AIRA AI plan sits, pricing, and how it compares with Spott.

An honest review of Bullhorn ATS for staffing agencies. We compare search, outreach, pricing, and AI capabilities to help you decide if it's still the right fit.

Spott now integrates with OneUp Sales. Spott captures every recruiter activity automatically, and OneUp turns it into live leaderboards, office-TV celebrations and AI coaching. Here's what the integration unlocks, plus a launch offer.

Melanie, Spott's lead frontend developer, on what it takes to build a modern ATS from the ground up. Clean data, deep customization, a chatbot that becomes the interface, and why building fresh beats patching legacy code.

After Bullhorn and JobAdder, ntiative's 70,000 candidate profiles were not earning their keep. Here is how the Kraków IT recruitment agency made its database searchable again with Spott.

March Consultants had heard every CRM promise intelligent matching. Here is how the executive search boutique moved from Loxo to Spott and made the promise real.

Evaluating a Loxo alternative? We compared 7 ATS/CRM platforms on AI depth, pricing trajectory, client deliverables, and support so you can choose with confidence.

Looking for a Bullhorn alternative? We compared 7 ATS/CRM platforms on AI depth, total cost, migration speed, and support, with honest trade-offs for each.

Macmillan Davies, a 45-year HR recruitment firm, replaced Vincere with Spott and went live in under four weeks - migrating 280K candidates, deduplicating 100K records, and unlocking AI-powered search across CVs, notes, and conversations. Structured data that consultants never filled in manually is n

How AI-native ATS and CRM systems are reshaping recruitment by capturing context, guiding action, and helping agencies move faster.

Agency owners we talk to describe leaving Bullhorn as a matter of when, not if. Yet most stay for years. A look at the three fears that keep firms stuck (migration, retraining, ecosystem lock-in) and what switching actually involves in 2026.

A pre-populated candidate database looks like a running start for a new recruiting agency. It isn't. Here is why a proprietary database compounds faster, and a 30-day playbook to build one from zero.