About
Built for the person running the desk and the business, because usually it's the same person
Sourcelane is the ATS and recruiting CRM for boutique recruiting agencies. We built it around a fact most legacy platforms ignore: at a boutique agency, there's no clean line between running searches and running the business.
Why this exists
Every major ATS on the market (Bullhorn, Loxo, JobAdder, Vincere) was designed around a split that doesn't hold at a boutique agency: the recruiter working candidates, and the owner watching the business. At a 200-person staffing firm, those are different people with different logins, so the product is built with a reporting layer between them.
At a boutique agency, the owner is never far from the day-to-day, whether that's still running searches personally or just checking pipeline health between everything else they're doing. Every extra seat, workflow, and admin screen built for that enterprise split shows up as bloat you're paying for and clicking past. Sourcelane isn't a smaller version of an enterprise ATS. It's built around the actual shape of a boutique agency, not shrunk down from one that wasn't.
Where it came from
We spent time close to how boutique agencies actually operate day to day, and kept seeing the same thing: they were paying enterprise prices for enterprise complexity built around a split that doesn't really exist at their size. So we built the thing we thought should exist instead.
What we believe
At a boutique agency, the owner is never far from the day-to-day. The product should work for both running searches and running the business, not force a switch between separate views.
AI should search the way you'd ask a colleague, not require a Boolean string. Every candidate and contact in your database should be one plain-language question away.
Full data ownership, always. Easy import in, easy export out. No lock-in as a retention strategy.
Price like a boutique agency's margins matter. Half the cost of legacy platforms, with a free tier that's the real product at capped scale, not a crippled trial.
What's here today
AI-powered search across your full candidate and contact database. A unified people model that still tells candidates and contacts apart. One-click client portals. Proactive pipeline-stall alerts. Business analytics across retained, contingent, and RPO work.
We'd rather show you the real product than describe a bigger one. Book a demo and see it yourself.
See if it fits the actual shape of your agency
Free for 1 user, up to 1,000 candidates · $50/user after that · No implementation fee · Month to month