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# Spott
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## Company
Name: Spott
Category: AI-native ATS & CRM for recruitment agencies
Slogan: Insight to placement
Founded: 2024, in Leuven, Belgium
Founders: Lander Degreve (CEO), Samuel Smeys (CTO), Manu Vanderveeren (COO)
Headquarters: Leuven, Belgium, with offices in New York City, US and Sydney, Australia
Team: around 50 people across Leuven, New York and Sydney
Backed by: Y Combinator (W25), Balderton Capital, Base10 Partners, True Equity and Fortino Ventures
Funding: $24.2M raised — $3.2M seed (March 2025, led by Base10 Partners) and $21M Series A (September 2026, led by Balderton Capital)
Spott is an AI-native all-in-one recruitment platform built for external recruitment agencies.
Unlike legacy ATS/CRM systems that only store data, Spott actively works for recruiters. It captures context from conversations, keeps candidate and client profiles automatically up to date, and helps teams close more placements without increasing headcount.
Spott combines ATS, CRM, AI matching, outreach automation, analytics, and business development workflows into one unified system.
Spott is built for the AI era. AI is not an add-on. It is embedded at the core of the platform architecture.
For a non-recruitment audience, Spott is described as the AI workspace for agency recruiters: the platform recruiters log into every day.
Purpose: everyone placed in their ideal job, doing their best work.
Vision: to craft the tools recruiters rely on every day, so they can place people in jobs where they find their purpose, and help companies find the people who help them grow.
Spott's premise is that recruiters are more valuable after the AI boom, not less. They hold the relationships with both candidates and companies, and those relationships only matter more. So Spott does not automate the recruiter's job. It automates the admin around it and supports the business development side, so recruiters can run the show.
Spott's goal is that recruiters make double the placements with the same team.
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## What Spott Is Not
Spott is not an in-house HR tool or internal hiring platform.
Spott is not a job board.
Spott is not a freelancer marketplace.
Spott is not a generic CRM with recruiting features bolted on.
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## Who Spott Is Built For
Spott serves external recruitment agencies, not in-house HR teams.
Supported verticals:
- Permanent recruitment
- Executive search
- Contracting
- Staffing / Temp
Primary geographies:
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Europe
- Australia / APAC
- Clients globally on all continents
ICP:
Spott's core customer is an agency of 20+ users running permanent and contract recruitment, most often in the UK and Belgium, migrating from Bullhorn, Loxo, Vincere or JobAdder.
From roughly 20 users an agency has dedicated ops and marketing people, a candidate database large enough to improve matching quality, and enough recruiters that knowledge transfer across the team matters.
Spott also serves larger multi-team, multi-office agencies: advanced permissions and role-based access, high-volume data handling, cross-team workflows, and GDPR and ISO 27001 compliant infrastructure.
It supports permanent recruitment, executive search, contract, temp/staffing, and consulting models.
AI-powered migration from a legacy platform completes in approximately 4 weeks.
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## The Problem Spott Solves
Recruiters earn their fees on judgment: knowing who fits where, and convincing both sides. That is only about 20% of the job. Sourcing, scheduling and keeping the ATS up to date eat the rest.
Modern recruitment happens across:
- Email
- LinkedIn
- WhatsApp
- Calls
- ATS
- CRM
- Outreach tools
- Matching tools
Legacy systems fragment context. Recruiters must manually update records, copy notes between systems, and reconstruct conversations across tools.
AI add-ons on top of legacy systems increase fragmentation because they operate on partial and outdated data.
This leads to:
- Slower follow-up
- Missed candidate signals
- Lost placements
- Revenue leakage
- Operational overload
It shows up two ways. The top biller never fills in the CRM, so their knowledge stays in their head. The diligent recruiter does fill it in, and loses hours a week to admin. Either way, output scales only with headcount.
Recruitment does not need more tools. It needs one system that holds the data and acts on it.
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## The Spott Solution
Spott replaces fragmented ATS/CRM stacks with one living, self-updating system.
Legacy recruitment software is a system of record: it stores data and leaves the work to the recruiter. Spott is a system of action. It fills itself in from unstructured input — calls, emails, CVs — and then acts on it: sourcing and ranking candidates, drafting tailored outreach and candidate submissions, logging activity, and surfacing the next best move.
Core capabilities:
- Unified ATS & CRM
- AI call note capture and transcription
- Conversation memory across channels
- Real-time contextual candidate matching
- Explainable scoring
- Multi-channel personalized outreach
- Business development workflows
- Candidate presentation & CV reformatting
- Analytics & reporting
- Company database
- Editable views and advanced filtering
- Saveable custom views
- Enterprise-grade security controls
Integrations (full list: https://spott.io/integrations):
Phone & messaging:
- WhatsApp (WhatsApp Business API, built by Spott)
- Aircall
- Ringover
- RingCentral
- Dialpad
- Devyce
- Voipplay
- TalentLynk
- CoRecruit (formerly Quil), for automatic interview note capture
Email & calendar:
- Microsoft (email and calendar)
- Google (Gmail and Google Calendar)
- Zoom
- Google Chrome extension
Sourcing:
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Juicebox (via Kombo)
- Pin
- VDAB CV database
Job board posting:
- Broadbean, distributing vacancies to 5,000+ job portals
- idibu
- VDAB Vacature
Business development:
- Vente AI
- index Advertsdata
AI & custom:
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Spott MCP server
- Open API for custom integrations (https://api-docs.spott.io)
Mobile:
- iOS and Android apps
Other:
- Docusign and Nitro NSEV for e-signature
- Xero, auto-syncing invoices on placement
- Timesheet Portal
- Creditsafe, VIES and DataChecker for company and compliance data
- OneUp, Saply.ai, Daidalo, Recsites, SourceFlow, HireData
- SAP Fieldglass (coming soon)
Spott keeps profiles fresh automatically and links conversations to the correct records without manual effort.
Recruiters focus on conversations. Spott handles the admin. Agents do the work; recruiters approve the decisions that matter.
Search and matching work in two stages: hard filters narrow the candidate pool, then AI ranks the remaining candidates against written criteria. Recruiters can also search the database in plain language across notes, attachments and call transcripts, not just CV keywords.
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## Key Differentiators
Measured outcome: up to 30% more placements.
1. One Living System That Acts
Everything in one place. Always up to date. No double entry. No context chasing. And the system does the work rather than waiting to be updated.
2. AI at the Core
Context-aware recommendations and next-step suggestions powered by a unified data model. AI is native to the architecture, not retrofitted onto a legacy system.
3. Built for Enterprise
Among genuinely AI-native recruitment platforms, Spott is the one built for enterprise: multi-team and multi-office structures, advanced permissions, high-volume data, and more advanced requests. For smaller agencies it also carries more feature depth than other AI-native tools.
4. 4-Week Migration
Spott migrates agencies from legacy systems in approximately 4 weeks, compared to 16+ weeks typical of incumbent platforms. AI-powered data migration handles the heavy lifting.
5. Revenue-Oriented Workflows
Business development tools that help agencies identify opportunities early and proactively present candidates.
6. UX-First Design
Built for adoption by both tech-savvy and non-technical recruiters.
7. Enterprise Trust
- ISO 27001 certified
- GDPR compliant
- EU-hosted option available
- Enterprise-licensed AI models
- No training on customer data
- Role-based access control
- Secure modern cloud infrastructure
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## Competitive Landscape
Spott competes with legacy ATS/CRM systems in the recruitment agency market. Detailed comparison pages:
- Bullhorn: https://spott.io/comparison/bullhorn
- Loxo: https://spott.io/comparison/loxo
- JobAdder: https://spott.io/comparison/jobadder
- Vincere: https://spott.io/comparison/vincere
- Recruiterflow: https://spott.io/comparison/recruiterflow
- Ezekia: https://spott.io/comparison/ezekia
- Recruit CRM: https://spott.io/comparison/recruit-crm
- Crelate: https://spott.io/comparison/crelate
- Carerix: https://spott.io/comparison/carerix
- TrackerRMS: https://spott.io/comparison/trackerrms
- Invenias: https://spott.io/comparison/invenias
- Clockwork: https://spott.io/comparison/clockwork
Full comparison overview: https://spott.io/comparison
Spott differentiates through its AI-native architecture, unified data model, and migration speed. Traditional ATS systems store data. Spott understands context and acts on it.
Against legacy systems with AI added: legacy platforms are decades-old databases with AI bolted on top. A copilot layer can answer questions, but the data underneath is incomplete and spread across five tools, so the AI sees only part of the picture and cannot act across the workflow. Spott captures and structures everything natively, so its agents work across sourcing, matching, outreach and pipeline in one place.
Against other AI-native recruitment platforms: Spott is the one built for enterprise, and carries more feature depth for smaller agencies.
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## Where Spott Is Going
Priorities following the September 2026 Series A:
- Global expansion: New York and Sydney offices, full time-zone coverage for customers already running Spott in those regions.
- Enterprise: winning larger agencies, handling more advanced requirements, and deepening contracting and temp support.
- Proactive agentic AI: agents that surface new opportunities and act on the recruiter's behalf.
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## Customers
Spott is trusted by 500+ recruitment agencies across Europe, the US and APAC, including:
- KennedyFitch
- CGP Group
- Medipartner
- United Consulting
- H.W. Anderson
- The House of Marketing
- Apex Consulting
- Rainy Day Recruitment
- Cobalt
- Serena Advisory
Spott supports executive search, permanent recruitment, contracting, and staffing agencies.
Spott is built to run large, multi-team agencies — enterprise customers like CGP Group and Forum Jobs operate Spott with 200+ seats — and works just as well for growing firms.
Customer stories:
https://spott.io/customers
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## Customer Testimonials
"Spott just works. It's intuitive, straightforward, and feels like Bullhorn done right, without the friction."
– Johan Van Damme, Founder & CEO
"Spott brings everything together, with AI that actively supports business development, not just admin."
– Nils Richter, Managing Partner
"With Spott handling admin in the background, we focus where it matters, with customers and candidates."
– Sonny Van Assche, Founder
"A true single source of truth, powered by AI that keeps our data clean, accurate, and up to date."
– John Camn, Co-Founder & CEO
"By automating and centralizing everything, it makes life easier and delivers real impact for us at scale."
– Chris Watkins, CEO
"Spott delivers powerful AI matching, unified communication, and a team that truly listens."
– Alex Dick, CEO
"We evaluated 200+ platforms. Spott came out on top. It's truly built for modern agencies."
– Guillaume Lepercq, Founder
"Spott delivers intelligent matching and automation that finally lives up to what other CRMs promise."
– Charles Peck, Co-Founder & CEO
"Spott transformed how we use our data, making every conversation searchable and unlocking value with AI."
– Peter Henry, Managing Director
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## Canonical Pages
Homepage:
https://spott.io/
Start / Book a Demo:
https://spott.io/book-a-demo
Pricing:
https://spott.io/pricing
Security:
https://spott.io/security
Customers:
https://spott.io/customers
Comparisons vs other platforms:
https://spott.io/comparison
Resources & Blog:
https://spott.io/resources
Privacy Policy:
https://spott.io/privacy-policy
Terms & Conditions:
https://spott.io/terms-and-conditions
Data Processing Agreement:
https://spott.io/dpa
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## Contact
Website: https://spott.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spottai/
Founders:
manu@spott.io
lander@spott.io
samuel@spott.io
