Category
ATS
Rating
4.4/5 (217 Reviews)
Availability
HQ
United States
Pricing
From $119/user/mo
Free tier
No
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What is Crelate?
Crelate is a recruiting platform for staffing and recruiting agencies, built around Crelate Recruit, which covers candidates, clients, job orders, placements, and a CRM for BD activity. A job order is opened once a client shares a vacancy, and it holds the candidates sourced and submitted against it while the BD pipeline tracks that client relationship separately. Recruiters primarily rediscover and reactivate candidates already living in the database through the Discovery Agent, while a career portal and manual sourcing bring in new profiles as secondary channels. The Insights Agent monitors contacts for career movement and flags re-engagement, and a branded Client Portal carries hiring manager collaboration on submittals and feedback. Crelate Hire extends the platform into onboarding and compliance after placement, with desk coverage spanning executive search, high-volume staffing, and contract work.
What are Crelate's key features?
The CRM tracks BD opportunity funnels, potential placement value, and revenue forecasting.
A Client Portal gives hiring managers access to candidate submissions and feedback.
VMS integration submits and fills VMS job orders from directly inside the ATS.
The Insights Agent monitors contacts for career movement and flags re-engagement.
Crelate Hire extends the platform into onboarding and compliance after placement.
How do staffing agencies use Crelate?
- You run a retained search practice and need to track every stakeholder interaction across a long engagement without anything slipping.
- A healthcare client expects credential verification before a clinical candidate goes to interview and your current system has no field for it.
- Your VMS clients push job orders through a portal your ATS cannot read, so someone on your team manually re-enters every requisition.
- You want to send a client a polished candidate submission without building it in a separate document tool.
Who is Crelate best for?
- Executive search firms wanting client portals, confidential search controls, and a BD pipeline in one system
- Mid-market US agencies running search and high-volume staffing that need configurable compliance workflows
- Agencies that place candidates and then own onboarding, using Crelate Hire to carry compliance past the placement
What are Crelate's pros and cons?
Pros
- The Client Portal lets recruiters log every client interaction and candidate feedback against the job order.
- Onboarding extends past the placement, covering federal and state forms alongside job and client specific steps.
- The mobile app lets on-the-job assignees log their own time and expenses from a client site.
- The Insights Agent monitors contacts for career movement and flags re-engagement opportunities.
Cons
- Payroll and back office billing are not built in and run through separate providers you choose.
- Full lifecycle coverage means adopting Crelate Hire alongside Crelate Recruit rather than one module.
- Migrating from another system means moving candidate, client, and job history into a new data model.
What are people saying about Crelate?
Reviewers generally pick Crelate for how far it bends to an agency's own process, with customizable workflows, drag-and-drop pipelines and the Discovery sourcing agent singled out as time-savers. The recurring criticism is support, with slow response times and a sense that training and add-ons carry costs buyers did not expect.
Consolidated from 217 reviews across G2 · Updated August 14, 2026
How does Crelate compare to alternatives?
| Feature | Crelate | Ashby | Gem | Loxo | RecruitCRM |
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| Category | ATS | ATS | ATS | ATS | ATS |
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| Best for | Agency | In-House | In-House | Agency | Agency |
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