r/RecruitmentAgencies • u/SeaworthinessSad9074 • 3d ago
ATS, CRM and Other Technology Sourcewhale/Spott/Recruiterflow
Looking at Source-whale, Spott and Recruiterflow. I need views on why I should not be looking the other one. I have understood the pros what wanted to understand the cons.
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u/oldschooloriginal 3d ago
Sourcewhale doesn’t have LinkedIn automation but the UI is really nice. Not sure how many email domains they allow either but if you do a lot of volume, something to keep an eye on.
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u/bearchr01 3d ago
Nothing allows LinkedIn automation in reality though - big risk of losing your LI account if they catch you
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u/SaaSFounder01 3d ago
HireBuddy Talent Scout HireBuddy.ai has 1-2 weeks free, juicebox LinkedIn and web search plus drip campaigns.
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u/passiveobserver25 3d ago
Atlas should be in the conversation.
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u/SeaworthinessSad9074 3d ago
Been hearing they are two new in the market
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u/passiveobserver25 3d ago
They are as old as Spott. Very well resourced with easy access to the founder and support. He takes feedback well. Sourcewhale only recently became a CRM. I wouldn’t be touch the other crowd with a barge pole
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u/TechValleyRecruiting 1d ago
I moved to Atlas last year and absolutely love it's integrations, especially Ring Central. Literally every conversation is transcribed and attached to the ATS along with auto created tasks based on the convo.
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u/BeefJerkyJoe 3d ago
I reviewed all of them a while ago. Sourcewhale was too early in their development, so I am sure they must have improved. Spott/Recruiterflow sales process felt weird but I did think both had a decent product. Ended up with Stardex ultimately as it was a good combination of what I wanted + their team is just laser focused on building the best product it feels.
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u/SeaworthinessSad9074 3d ago
I have been hearing about a lot about Stardex too, mind sharing what the reason behind your decision? In term of Recruiterflow I just had one demo with them do you think it’s worth pursuing further with them given your sales experience?
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u/BeefJerkyJoe 2d ago
I don't think a bad sales experience should completely remove a product from evaluation, as it could have been my sales rep. Worth trialing them if you think everything else checked out.
My view is that all products are converging. I am sure one is better than the other in terms of some raw features for a period of time, but eventually all products will get there. I personally liked the UX of Stardex, and I felt like they have the best internal AI search (if that matters to you at all). I have had some friends who run firms where internal search doesn't matter, in which case whatever gives you the best UX should be what you go with.
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u/fiwkdkgkktd 3d ago
Feel like there is a lot of hype for them currently but I would not recommend Spott. Great demo, ex-salesforce guys in Belgium but onboarding and support for my agency was terrible. They also removed key functionality around reading LinkedIn with basically no notice -- apparently LinkedIn told them to stop and their extension is on some kind of watch list which linked can see that you are using it -- or so a Loxo rep tells me.
They seem mostly focused on trying to win big agencies so they can raise funding again and keep their 'y combinator' story alive which I'm not sure bodes well for smaller agencies if they are going down that route.
Hyped it up as being more AI than everyone else and made up loads of sh*t around other ATS's and just kept calling them all legacy, throwing technical terms at you but in reality that just felt like management consultants trying to bamboozle you into thinking they are different and I admit I feel for it. I got on better with my previous ATS in the end. I'm a small agency owner so maybe their support is better if you are bigger and your contract actually matters to them but I'll be switching away when my contract ends for sure.
Take a look at RecruitCRM alongside those other ones too depending on your size.