Category
ATS/CRM
Rating
4.4/5 (210 Reviews)
Availability
HQ
Eagle, United States
Pricing
From $85/user/mo
Free tier
No
Best for
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Capabilities
What is Crelate?
Crelate is a recruiting platform for staffing and recruiting agencies, built around Crelate Recruit. A job order opens once a client shares a vacancy, holding every candidate sourced against it, while a separate BD pipeline tracks that client relationship. Crelate owns candidates, clients, job orders and placements together; recruiters mainly rediscover candidates already in the database through the Discovery Agent. Built for desks 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?
- An executive search firm uses Crelate's CRM to forecast potential placement value across its BD opportunity funnel.
- An agency uses Crelate's Client Portal to give hiring managers direct access to candidate submissions and feedback.
- An agency uses Crelate Hire to carry a placed candidate straight into onboarding and compliance.
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 210 reviews across G2 · Updated October 11, 2026
How does Crelate compare to alternatives?
| Feature | Crelate | Ashby | Gem | Loxo | RecruitCRM |
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| Category | ATS/CRM | ATS/CRM | ATS/CRM | ATS/CRM | ATS/CRM |
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| Best for | Agency | In-House | In-House | Agency | Agency |
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