Spott

If you pay €100k+ for Salesforce or Bullhorn, are unhappy, and feel stuck because of sunk costs or a multi-year contract... I will personally give you a Founder-run demo of our AI-native ATS/CRM. I want your team to have the full AI advantage. Our goal is not to automate the entire recruitment process. We think that's naive. The future is humans and AI working together. We can help with: - an all-in-one front-office stack: note taking, outreach, data enrichment, auto-tagging and all communication channels built in - full open API and MCP so the mid and back-office is well connected and you have full insight into what's happening - orchestrating agents instead of doing the work - AI that knows your full candidate and client context - a self-updating database ... We want to help your agency capture the unique growth opportunity in the age of AI. DM me and I'll show you. manu[@]spott[dot]io

We're breaking the rule that agencies only scale with headcount. Your top recruiter never updates the CRM. Your most careful one loses hours a week doing it. Either way, the agency pays: knowledge stuck in one head, or hours lost to admin. We raised $21M to fix both. Spott puts your entire firm's knowledge and network in one place, in what we call your agency brain. It then tells you what deserves your attention and does the work up to the decision. That part stays yours. Time to double your placements with the same team.

Spott Sydney is live 🇦🇺 20% of our customers already sit in APAC. Time we joined them. We built a global product from a single office in Belgium. Now the team is going where our customers are. Last week we announced New York, where Tycho is building out the team. Today, Arnoud & Sander are heading down under to do the same. Three offices on three continents means someone at Spott is awake at every hour of the day. 😎

One of the nicest things customers tell us has nothing to do with placements or revenue. It’s that they got their evening back. Recruitment has always had a ridiculous amount of work around the actual work. Updating records, writing notes, moving data around, following up, preparing shortlists. None of it is particularly difficult. There’s just a lot of it. And for years, being a great recruiter often meant accepting that all of this happened after the calls, meetings and candidate conversations were done. AI is starting to eat away at that part of the job. We usually call that efficiency. I think getting home earlier is a much better way to measure it.

40 hours of investor meetings. $21M raised. Here's my honest review of fundraising What I like about it: • 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴: VC firms make a 10 year bet, so every meeting turns philosophical. Where will recruitment agencies be in a decade? What if this happens, and then that? One VC firm even passed because they think only hardware and resources will matter in 10 years. • 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴: Shaping the story and approach with our existing investors. The fundraising result is 50% numbers, 50% storytelling. That storytelling is a fun exercise and really good for making your own vision clearer. • 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴: The feeling the moment the fundraising closes. What I hate about it: • 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 More excited than ever to get back to building 🚀 -- If you're wondering what company we're actually building. We're Spott, an AI-native Recruitment platform specifically built for Recruitment agencies. We power 500+ agencies from Executive search up to temp staffing across the world. If you want to make your recruiting team AI-native, check us out: spott.io

Would you run a trail race in 15-year-old boots? 🥾 I wouldn't. But that's the ATS most recruiters are stuck with: heavy, patched, built for 2010. I joined Spott a year and a half ago as one of the first engineers, building our frontend from the ground up. Recruiters deal with massive amounts of data: thousands of candidates, endless notes, complex pipelines. Most legacy tools just dump all of it into a giant spreadsheet. Here are my non-negotiables to get recruiters a carbon-plated running shoe instead of a fancy new pair of laces: • 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻, 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 Every critical detail, none of the clutter. Find it in seconds, not minutes. • 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂. Custom views & attributes, AI-filled columns... Every recruiter builds the platform that fits how they work. • 𝗜𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀. We watch how recruiters really use Spott: where they move, where they get lost. Feedback in the morning, fix live by the afternoon. Building from scratch is what makes it possible: an AI-native foundation that does what patched-up tools can't. And we're barely off the start line. p.s. want to see the carbon-plated version for yourself? 👉 Book a demo at spott.io