Hiring without the inbox.

Every application acknowledged, screened against your questions and moved through stages by the agent. Interviews scheduled, offers drafted, a person approving each step.

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Renewals at risk

Board pack, October

Supplier terms review

Churn post mortem

Which accounts are at risk this month, and draft the outreach.

Worked for 41s · 6 steps · $0.12

Read9 accounts renewing

Read14 open tickets

Comparedusage against the last two quarters

Drafted7 messages, held 2 for a person

Nine accounts renew inside 30 days and three of them are the ones to worry about. Their ticket volume is up while usage is falling, which is the pattern that preceded every churn last quarter.

Salesforce

Zendesk2 sources, permission aware

Message Daciel

Reads applications from your job board and careers inbox.

Every candidate, one record

Library

Everything the work produced, with who owns it and who can read it.

AllDocumentsSheetsFrom runs

Renewal brief, Acme

Document · Priya · Deal team

Q3 pipeline review

Sheet · Marcus · Sales

Supplier terms summary

Document · Ana · Private

Churn post mortem

Document · Marcus · Everyone

Board pack, October

Deck · Priya · Leadership

Access review

Sheet · Tom · Admins

Turn the renewal brief into an email to the deal team

Renewal brief, Acme

Chat

One composer, on every surface.

Vendor reviews

Q3 onboarding

Support desk

Website rebuild

Everything the renewal touched: the thread it started in, the artifacts it produced, and who is allowed to see them.

148 artifacts

Keep

Acme renewal

Payroll migration

Hiring: sales

Said once, kept for good

Any answer becomes an artifact, with an owner and a permission.

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Google Drive

Notion

Salesforce

HubSpot

Zendesk

Jira

GitHub

Linear

Stripe

Zoom

Asana

Airtable

Dropbox

Box

Confluence

Intercom

Google Calendar

Monday

ClickUp

Figma

DocuSign

Trello

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Connected from day one

The systems you already run, readable in one place.

Runs this week

RunOutcome and traceWhat it producedCost

1Renewal outreachApprovedRead the nine accounts renewing this quarter in Salesforce, compared each one's usage against the last two quarters, drafted seven messages and held two back for a person. 41s, 6 steps, $0.12...7 draftsTotal$0.12Model$0.09Tools$0.03

2Invoice chaseHeldMatched fourteen overdue invoices in Stripe against the support thread for each account, then stopped before sending: two of them are in an open dispute and the policy says a person decides...14 invoicesTotal$0.08Model$0.06Tools$0.02

3Monday briefingApprovedPulled every run from the last seven days, grouped them by workspace, and wrote the briefing into the Library with the trace attached to each claim so any line can be opened...1 briefingTotal$0.21Model$0.17Tools$0.04

4Access reviewApprovedListed every connection holding a write scope, checked each against the role that owns it, and flagged three that now outlive the person who created them. Nothing was revoked without asking...3 flaggedTotal$0.05Model$0.04Tools$0.01

Runs

Every step, every tool call, every cost, and who approved it.

The 80 applications nobody answered

A small company posts a job, gets eighty applications in a week and answers eleven. The rest never hear back, and some of them were the hire. Here every application becomes a candidate record, gets an acknowledgement drafted in your voice, is screened against the questions you wrote, and is moved to the stage the evidence supports. The hiring manager reviews a shortlist, not an inbox.

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Chase the 14 overdue invoices

RUN-2094

Summarise every ticket Acme opened

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Check which renewals slipped a quarter

RUN-2200

Rewrite the onboarding mail sequence

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RUN-2211

Renewal quote for Acme, send held

Salesforce

Priya approves

RUN-926

Renewal outreach, nine accounts

Salesforce

Gmail

RUN-2088

Weekly briefing into the Library

Slack

RUN-924

Reconcile Stripe against the tickets

Stripe

RUN-1882

Tag the inbox by account

Outlook

Running3+⋯

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Pull usage for the at-risk accounts

4 steps

RUN-1028

Answer the RFP security section

Confluence

RUN-2187

Flag connections holding write scope

Waiting on Priya6 steps

Done48+⋯

RUN-2074

Monday briefing, written and filed

Library$0.21

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Churn post mortem for Q3

$0.14

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Board pack pulled together

$0.31

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Access review, three flagged

Approved$0.05

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Supplier terms summarised

Thread in #renewals

Marcus Hale9:12 AM

Acme wants a renewal quote. Their contract is up in three weeks.

Ana Duarte9:12 AM

Ticket volume has climbed every month this quarter. Read that before we price it.

Marcus Hale9:13 AM

So someone pulls usage, open tickets and the last two invoices. Three systems.

Priya Raman9:14 AM

And most of an afternoon. Hand it over and hold the send until one of us reads it.

Marcus Hale9:14 AM

@Daciel draft the Acme renewal from usage and tickets, hold the send

Two things it does on day one

Screens and replies

Your must-haves as questions; the agent reads each application against them, drafts the reply and proposes the stage. Nothing is rejected without a person.

Get started

Conversations

7 open · 4 answered without a person

Acme CoWhere is invoice 4417?Agent

NorthwindRefund for the duplicate seatAgent

StarlightCan we move the renewal date?Held

MeridianAPI keys stopped workingWaiting

BrightlineInvoice address is wrongAgent

KestrelDo you support SSO?Agent

HalcyonExport stopped at 10k rowsWaiting

Schedules and offers

Interviews booked against the panel's real calendars, the offer drafted from your template and held for the manager's approval.

See onboarding

Renewals

9 inside 30 days · 7 drafted, 2 held

Brightline$14kDrafted

Kestrel$9kSent

Halcyon$6kHeld

What an ATS for a small business should be

An applicant tracking system collects applications, moves candidates through stages and keeps the hiring team in one place. The search is held by listicles and by Workable, Breezy, BambooHR and Zoho Recruit; the AI recruiting vendors, Paradox, Humanly, Metaview, sell screening and scheduling to teams hiring at volume.

How hiring works

Open the role

Title, the must-haves as questions, the panel, the stages. Post it or connect where it is posted.

Applications arrive

Each becomes a candidate record; the agent acknowledges it in your voice within the hour.

Screening

The agent reads each application against your questions and proposes a stage with its reasons; the manager confirms.

Interviews

Scheduled against real calendars, confirmations sent, notes filed on the candidate.

Offer and hire

Drafted from your template, held for approval, and on acceptance the candidate becomes an employee with an onboarding checklist.

Applicant tracking for small business, compared

Conventional ATS products, AI recruiting vendors built for volume, and Daciel's candidate ledger. Compared on what each owns, who decides, and the price.

	Best for	Channels	How a person stays in control	Published pricing
Workable	Teams hiring regularly that want an ATS with sourcing and AI screening	Job posting, sourcing, ATS, interview scheduling, onboarding	Offer approval chains; hiring team roles	Per month by company size, published; add-ons for sourcing
BambooHR	Small and mid-size HR teams that want an HRIS with an ATS and onboarding	Employee records, ATS, onboarding, time off, performance; payroll add-on	Approval workflows on requests, configured per company	Per employee per month, quoted; Core and Pro packages
Paradox	High-volume hourly hiring at enterprise scale	Conversational recruiting over text and chat; scheduling; ATS integrations	Recruiter reviews; the assistant screens and schedules	Not published; enterprise, sales-led
Humanly	Mid-size recruiting teams that want AI screening and interview notes	Candidate screening chat, interview scheduling, note-taking	Recruiter reviews every shortlist	Not published; sales-led
Dacielthis site	Businesses of 5 to 200 people that want the directory, hiring, onboarding and time-off requests on the same record as the rest of the company	Directory, candidates, onboarding tasks and time-off requests as records; the agent drafts, schedules and files	Offers, onboarding steps and time-off requests are held for the named manager; payroll and tax filings are refused, not faked	Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.