Category
ATS
Rating
4.8/5 (91 Reviews)
HQ
Leuven, Belgium
Pricing
From $139/user/mo
Free tier
No
Best for
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Capabilities
What is Spott?
Spott is an ATS and CRM for staffing and recruiting agencies, tracking candidates, clients, job orders, placements, and BD pipeline in one workspace. A job belongs to a client and moves through its own pipeline as candidates are matched, presented and taken to placement, with every note and interaction tied to that vacancy retained. Recruiters primarily rediscover candidates already in their own database through semantic search, while a LinkedIn Chrome extension and multi-channel outreach bring in new profiles as a secondary layer. Conversation Memory attaches calls, emails and messages to the right profile, and Candidate Presentation handles client-facing shortlists. AI matching, automated call note-taking and outreach drafting are included rather than sold as separate add-ons, with desk coverage spanning perm, contract and executive search.
What are Spott's key features?
Conversation Memory attaches every call, email, and message to the right profile.
Candidate Presentation publishes branded shortlists for hiring manager review.
Semantic matching finds candidates by context and relationship signals, not keywords.
Perm, contract, and executive search workflows run in one set of pipeline stages.
ISO 27001 certified with an EU-hosted data option and eSignature integration.
How do staffing agencies use Spott?
- A candidate replied to a WhatsApp message and a LinkedIn message on the same day and your team has no unified view of either thread.
- You send clients a formatted resume by email and there is no way for the client to give feedback inside the same flow.
- Your database has grown to a point where keyword search misses obvious candidates because records are not tagged consistently.
- You are migrating off a legacy ATS and every vendor you have spoken to quotes a months-long implementation needing a project manager on your side.
Who is Spott best for?
- Perm, executive search and RPO agencies wanting semantic database search with an EU-hosted data option
- Agencies running perm, contract, and retained work together on one set of configurable pipeline stages
- Agencies replacing a legacy ATS that want migration to run in parallel rather than stopping the desk
What are Spott's pros and cons?
Pros
- Customizing pipelines for temporary, contract, and permanent placements needs no separate modules.
- Client records, communications, and placements sit inside the same workspace as candidate pipelines.
- Native deduplication automatically identifies and merges duplicate candidate records over time.
- Migration runs in parallel with your existing system, so the desk keeps working until go-live.
Cons
- Enrichment credits are the main add-on, so heavy enrichment use adds cost above the plan price.
- Migration still needs your team to answer mapping questions and review test data before go-live.
- Pipelines are configurable per placement type, which means someone has to design those stages first.
What are people saying about Spott?
Reviewers generally describe Spott as genuinely AI-native rather than AI bolted on, with the notetaker, database question-answering and explainable candidate matching built in instead of bought as separate add-ons, and several report replacing a whole stack of tools with it. The recurring caveat is maturity, with a thin integration list and features still arriving.
Consolidated from 91 reviews across G2, Capterra · Updated August 14, 2026
How does Spott compare to alternatives?
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| Category | ATS | ATS | ATS |
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| Best for | Agency | Agency | Agency |
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