Spott: AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms

AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting firms

Spott is the first AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting & staffing firms. We built Spott because existing recruitment platforms require extensive manual work, are clunky to use, rely on fragmented add-ons, and are not designed for AI adoption. Spott combines everything recruiting firms need, from a full ATS & CRM to AI agents across the entire workflow, into one AI-native solution. It enables recruiters to focus on what matters most and close more placements.

Active Founders

Manu Vanderveeren

Founder

Co-Founder & COO at Spott. Previously worked at McKinsey on Strategy, Tech DD and HR projects. Background in Finance with internships in IB & PE at Morgan Stanley and CVC. Master's degree in Financial Analysis at LBS

Manu Vanderveeren

Founder

Co-Founder & COO at Spott. Previously worked at McKinsey on Strategy, Tech DD and HR projects. Background in Finance with internships in IB & PE at Morgan Stanley and CVC. Master's degree in Financial Analysis at LBS

Lander Degreve

Founder

Co-Founder & CEO at Spott. Previously worked at Bain building an AI job match tool and built a GenAI consulting-case interviewer as a side project. Background in Financial Statistics with internship in IB at JPMorgan and Master's degree at Bocconi.

Lander Degreve

Founder

Co-Founder & CEO at Spott. Previously worked at Bain building an AI job match tool and built a GenAI consulting-case interviewer as a side project. Background in Financial Statistics with internship in IB at JPMorgan and Master's degree at Bocconi.

Samuel Smeys

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Spott. Previously worked at BCG, building Data & ML pipelines for Recruitment Agencies in the UK, USA, EU with a wide range of industry, experience & staffing type specializations. Background in Mathematical Statistics, Machine Learning & AI. Backend, DevOps & Infra enthusiast. Master's degree in Statistics at LSE.

Samuel Smeys

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Spott. Previously worked at BCG, building Data & ML pipelines for Recruitment Agencies in the UK, USA, EU with a wide range of industry, experience & staffing type specializations. Background in Mathematical Statistics, Machine Learning & AI. Backend, DevOps & Infra enthusiast. Master's degree in Statistics at LSE.

Company Launches

Spott: The AI workspace for agency recruiters

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TL;DR
Spott is the AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting & staffing agencies. We are the modern alternative to Bullhorn and Loxo. We offer an all-in-one, AI-native system that truly understands your data and helps you act on it. This enables you to make more placements, faster.

Hundreds of recruitment agencies worldwide, from executive search firms to temp agencies of all sizes, already made the switch.

https://youtu.be/GdaSZZq40fw

📉 Problem
Recruiting is a $1T+ industry, yet the most widely used recruitment platforms were built 20 years ago. They were never built for AI and have shown a clear lack of innovation, which has led to a growing reliance on add-on functionality. Most of today’s "AI features" are just layers on top of outdated systems that can’t properly understand, update, or act on data. This is despite the enormous potential AI has in recruitment.

📈 Solution
We built Spott from scratch in the AI era. It captures all your data, understands the meaning behind it, and can act on it. That is how you can find the candidate who mentioned six months ago that they were open to relocating. This helps recruitment agencies make more placements, faster.

How it works\

AI Matching. Contextual, not keyword-based. Matches across CVs, notes, Socials, call transcripts, and interviews. Shows why each candidate was matched.
Deep Customizability. Custom attributes, AI-prompted columns, drag-and-drop views, kanban boards.
AI Note-Taker. Transcribes calls, creates smart summaries, auto-updates candidate profiles. No manual data entry.
Unified Inbox. Email, Socials, WhatsApp, calendar, VOIP. Two-way sync. Every conversation auto-attached to the right record.
Candidate Presentations. Client-ready presentations in your own Word/PPT template plus CV reformatting and a client portal.
Multi-channel sequences, Analytics, Automations, Data enrichment… All included. No add-ons required.