Agency recruiting is a two-sided sale run at speed: win the role, build the slate, keep candidates warm and clients honest, close both sides of the same offer — then invoice the fee and hold your breath through the guarantee period. The applicant tracking systems were built for corporate HR: compliance workflows, requisition approvals, careers pages. The recruiting CRMs that do get agencies price like you run a fifty-seat firm. And the generic CRMs? They don’t know what a candidate is, let alone that the same person can be your product on one search and your client on the next.
Install it and Planes speaks recruiting on day one — clients, open roles, candidates, placements — with both sides of the desk in one system.
intake, sourcing, shortlist, client interviews, offer, placed. Every open role staged, every follow-up a task, every fee term on the record.
sourced, contacted, screened, submitted, interviewing, placed — your bench stays warm between searches instead of dissolving into a spreadsheet.
accepted, started, guarantee period, cleared — so the fee you invoiced stays earned, and a fall-through triggers a replacement search instead of a surprise.
fee percentage, salary range, guarantee terms on the role; the agreement signed electronically before the candidate wobbles.
connect Claude or ChatGPT and ask "who’s interviewing this week?" or "move the Hendricks search to offer" — from your phone, between calls.
recruiters, sourcers, the back office. No per-seat pricing deciding who sees the pipeline.
That’s the starting point. Your split-fee arrangements, your retained-search milestones, the niche only you recruit for — describe them and the agent builds them in. That’s not configuration. That’s the product.
A whole aisle of it — ATSs built for internal HR teams, and agency platforms priced and shaped for the big firms. Both hand you their model of a search and charge per seat for the privilege of bending to it. Planes starts from your model instead: an agent shapes the system to how your desk actually runs, both pipelines live next to your proposals and invoices, and your people ride free. The difference between your process and the software’s process is where fees get dropped — so we made your process the software.
The Recruiting Blueprint is the newest of our horizontals — built after the onboarding agent kept configuring Planes for businesses far beyond the trades we started with, from a couple of sentences of context. The first recruiting desks aboard shape it with us: your search stages, your guarantee terms, your candidate motion become the Blueprint the next thousand desks install.
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