Recruitment platform · v1.0
A complete recruitment platform — public job board, recruiter portal, AI copilot — that you own outright. One install, your data, your terms. No monthly SaaS bill, no per-recruiter charge, no vendor sitting between you and your candidates.
Trusted by recruitment firms across the UK, EU and the Indian Ocean
Illustrative — real customer roster confidential during early access. Reach out for references.
"Built for agencies who own their work — not those who rent their tooling from someone else."
The pitch
Every ATS vendor charges monthly. Per seat. Forever. The moment you stop paying, you lose your pipeline, your timelines, your sourcing history. Your recruiters' relationships become someone else's leverage.
Recruage flips the model. You buy it once. It runs on your own infrastructure. Your candidate data stays yours. Your upgrades are yours to schedule. Walking away from a vendor is no longer a six-month migration project — because there's no vendor.
8 users, annual cost
Only on Recruage
We didn't bundle a public job board with the ATS by accident. These six capabilities are the actual reason agencies pick Recruage over the SaaS competition.
A branded WordPress careers site ships with every Studio install — theme, page builder, job board, apply form. No second platform, no second invoice.
Every line of PHP, every CSS file, every install script. Run it forever on your own hosting. No subscription. No vendor lock-in. No retention risk.
Hire a tenth recruiter, pay nothing extra. Hire a fiftieth, pay nothing extra. Your cost stops at year-one purchase; your headcount can grow at will.
Pick Anthropic Claude or OpenAI GPT. Switch with one config line. Your API key, your billing, your data-processing terms with the model provider.
A dedicated read-only user role with a topbar pill, write-blocked at the server, full data visibility. Spin up a demo account in 30 seconds — give prospects the keys without risking your pipeline.
Outbound emails send from each recruiter's own mailbox. Replies thread back into Outlook. Your candidate conversations stay in your team's M365 audit trail.
What's in the box
Public-facing job board for candidates. Recruiter portal for your team. Real-time signed channel between them. Plus an AI copilot when you want it, M365 single sign-on when you have it, and a drag-drop page builder when you're rebranding.
01 — Recruiter Portal
Drag-and-drop kanban from Applied through Placed. Auto-published stage-change emails. Per-recruiter desks and firm-wide manager views. Structured scorecards. Two-way email threading. Calendar-aware scheduling via Microsoft Bookings.
02 — Public Job Board
Every other ATS sells the database. Recruage ships the public-facing site too — built on WordPress, fully brandable, with WP Job Manager wired up and a Contact Form 7 apply form that routes directly into your portal over an encrypted REST channel.
03 — AI Recruiter Copilot
CV summaries, draft email replies, smart-match reasoning, morning brief, interview prep, risk radar. Powered by Anthropic Claude or OpenAI GPT — you pick the provider, you bring the key. Opt-in per recruiter. Never sends mail without confirmation.
04 — Microsoft 365 SSO
OAuth + OIDC against Entra ID. MFA inherited from your tenant policies. Role assignment from group membership. A recruiter who leaves M365 loses portal access automatically.
05 — Demo Mode
Built-in read-only role. Every write action returns a friendly "Demo mode — editing is disabled" toast. Gold DEMO pill in the topbar makes the mode obvious to everyone. Spin up a demo user in 30 seconds.
06 — Page Builder
Every page in the public site has a drag-drop "Page sections" field. Pick from eleven section types — hero, services grid, CTA band, image+text, team grid, more. Drag to reorder. Brand colours stay locked from your install config.
Inside the public site
Every Studio install ships a full white-label WordPress theme — home page, job board, role detail pages, team page, contact, an apply form wired straight back into the portal. Customise via the page builder or the WP-Admin settings panel; no theme code edits required.
Editorial hero with a split headline, stats strip, and a "Open Positions" panel that pulls live from WP Job Manager.
Single job-listing template with structured responsibilities, requirements, and the apply form embedded — no second page load.
Custom-post-type for team members. Auto-formatted member detail pages with bio, role, optional digital business card.
Contact Form 7 with file upload, consent capture, and a signed REST handoff to the portal. No third-party form vendor in the chain.
Every view above is rendered from a real Recruage install. The page-builder lets you compose any of these layouts from eleven drag-drop section types — hero, services grid, CTA band, image+text, team grid, sector chips, info blocks, more.
Beyond the basics
Quality-of-life features that quietly compound. Every one of these took weeks of agency-recruiter feedback to get right.
Six predefined reasons (Not qualified, Withdrew, Declined offer, No show, Position filled, Other), free-text note, locked terminal stage. Compliance teams love it.
Drop a candidate in Placed → confirm "Mark role as filled?" → opportunity closes, others auto-rejected with "Position filled" reason. One click does the work of fifteen.
Auto-emails fire only after you confirm — accidental drag never sends an offer letter. The default elsewhere is silent auto-send.
Recruiters see their own desk by default; managers toggle to a firm-wide pipeline. Both views drag-and-drop. Both views Cmd+K searchable.
Every email — outbound and inbound — lives on the candidate's timeline. Replies auto-thread via Graph API. No more digging Outlook for that one critical exchange.
Three default dimensions (Technical / Culture / Communication), four verdict tiers (Strong hire → No), interviewer-by-interviewer aggregation. Hiring teams converge faster.
Email / phone / fuzzy-name match flags re-applicants automatically. One click merges, preserving the longer activity timeline. No more "wait, didn't we talk to her last year?"
What changed overnight on your desk — new applications, stage moves, stalled offers, tasks due today. Recruiters open the portal already briefed.
Daily scan flags stalled offers, aged candidates, dropped email threads, missing scorecards. Each with a severity and a one-click action. Catches what slips.
Interview-scheduling links per opportunity, sent direct to the candidate. Calendars stay in M365; no third-party calendar tool to license.
Optional loopback-only Python service extracts name/email/phone/LinkedIn/sector/years on upload. Candidate auto-populated. CVs never leave your box.
Custom plugin that dual-writes during transitions. Run Recruage and Zoho side by side for 90 days while your team migrates. Optional, Enterprise tier.
From early-access agencies
Real feedback from the first cohort of agencies running Recruage in production. Names changed where requested; references available on enquiry.
We were paying Bullhorn £18,400 a year and bracing for the renewal uplift. Switched to Recruage; setup took my CTO an afternoon. The kanban alone is worth what we paid. The fact that we keep the data is what made it a board-level decision.
The page builder was the unexpected win. We rebranded our public site in a weekend — eleven section types, no developer required. Recruiters now compose landing pages for individual searches without sending tickets.
Copilot's "morning brief" replaced the daily standup. By 7am every recruiter knows what's stuck, what's stalled, and what's ready to push. The risk radar caught two abandoned candidates in the first week I'd have lost otherwise.
Built by recruiters who got fed up
Recruage came out of an agency that spent a decade renting recruitment tooling and finally got tired of it. Every decision in the product — the per-recruiter desks, the manager-only firm view, the confirmation popup before stage-trigger emails — exists because someone hit the failure mode in real client work and we fixed it.
We don't have a sales team. We don't pay for ad placements. We don't ship features because a competitor did. We ship features because recruiters running real desks asked for them, and we use the product alongside you.
How it works
Pick a tier, pay with card or PayPal. Receipt + download link arrive in your inbox within 60 seconds.
Two WordPress installs on domains you control (e.g. acme.com and portal.acme.com). Both can sit on the same server.
One JSON config, two wp recruage install commands. The CLI writes constants, creates CF7 forms, sideloads your logo, seeds email templates.
Submit a test application from the public site, watch it appear in the portal. Add team members, configure email signatures, go live.
Total install time: ~30 minutes. Optional setup-as-a-service available on Studio + Enterprise tiers.
vs the rest of the field
Same job done by Bullhorn, Manatal, Recruiterflow — different economics. We built the comparison ourselves; you can verify each vendor on their public pricing page.
| Recruage | Manatal | Workable | Recruiterflow | Bullhorn | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One-off | £35/user/mo | £300/mo flat | £99/user/mo | £99/user/mo |
| Year 1 (8 users) | £3,700 | £3,360 | £3,600 | £9,500 | £9,500 + impl. |
| Year 2+ (annual) | £0–675 | £3,360 | £3,600 | £9,500 | £9,500 |
| Public job board included | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| You own the data + code | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| AI recruiter copilot | ✓ | add-on | add-on | ✓ | add-on |
| M365 SSO + Graph | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Implementation fee | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £1k–50k+ |
| Renewal-uplift risk | None | 5–20%/yr | 5–20%/yr | 5–20%/yr | ~20%/yr |
Pricing
All tiers include lifetime updates of the version you bought, plus one year of major-release upgrades. No per-recruiter charges, ever.
+ Optional support retainer: £450/yr
+ Optional support retainer: £675/yr
Typical engagement: £12k–28k all-in.
All prices exclude VAT. 14-day money-back guarantee on Starter + Studio if the install fails on supported hosting.
See it work
Every product surface below is real, runnable, and live. Click through, pause where you want, then come back and decide.
Animated walk-through of every feature, end to end. Pause on any scene; click through the interactive cost-comparison at the close.
Watch →Six AI-assisted scenarios from inside the portal — CV summary, draft email, smart match, morning brief, interview prep, risk radar.
Explore →Drag the team-size slider, see annual cost of Bullhorn / Manatal / Recruiterflow / Workable / JobAdder / Zoho vs Recruage. Plus the feature matrix.
Compare →Want a live demo session anyway? Email [email protected] and we'll book 30 minutes.
Common questions
wp recruage install commands plus a JSON config file — most agency owners with basic technical comfort can do it in 30 minutes following the deployment guide. The Studio tier includes setup-as-a-service if you'd rather not.Stop renting your stack
Buy it once. Install it in an afternoon. Run it for as long as you run your agency.