A CRM for recruiters that you own outright
Track candidates, open roles, and placements in a CRM you buy once. No per-recruiter subscription, no AI screening you did not ask for, and your candidate database stays on infrastructure you control.
The daily friction.
- Recruiting tools charge per recruiter, so scaling a desk or adding a sourcer raises the bill every time.
- Your candidate database is the business, yet it is locked inside an applicant tracking vendor's cloud.
- Bolted-on AI screening makes opaque decisions about people and inflates the price for features you may not trust.
How recruiters run it day to day.
Track candidates through a pipeline
Move people from sourced to screened to submitted to placed, with notes and resumes attached to each candidate record.
Manage open roles alongside candidates
Keep a record for each role you are working and link candidates to it, so you can see coverage on every requisition at a glance.
Build a searchable talent pool
Tag candidates by skill, location, and availability so a new role starts from people you already know rather than a blank search.
Track client and placement history
Record which client a role belongs to and keep placement history on file, so repeat business starts with context instead of guesswork.
Then bend it to exactly how you work.
The role setup is a head start, not a cage. Rename pipeline stages, add the fields your team actually fills in, build the views you check every morning, and wire up automations for the busywork. You own the source, so nothing is off-limits.
- Custom fields and record types
- Rename or add pipeline stages
- Saved views, filters, and automations
Questions, answered.
- No. The license is one-time, so you add every recruiter, sourcer, and coordinator on the desk without a per-seat charge.
- You do. Candidates and notes live in your own Postgres database, so the talent pool you built is genuinely yours, not the vendor's.
- Yes. You have the full source, so you customize stages, candidate fields, and role records to match how your desk actually works.
- No. There are no AI features by design, so no opaque model is ranking people and nothing is inflating your bill or raising bias concerns.
Do we pay per recruiter or per sourcer?
Who owns the candidate database?
Can we tailor it to our recruiting workflow?
Does it screen or rank candidates with AI?
A recruiting desk grows by adding people, so stop paying per person
Recruiting is a headcount business in two directions at once. You place people for a living, and you grow your own desk by adding recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators. An applicant-tracking system that charges per recruiter punishes the second kind of growth: bring on a sourcer to feed the pipeline and your software bill goes up before that hire has made a single placement. The pricing model taxes exactly the expansion that makes the desk more productive.
Nanobox CRM is a one-time license ($399 for a single domain, $1,999 for the Agency license) with no per-seat fee. Add the whole desk for free and let the team grow with the workload instead of with the invoice.
The talent pool is the business, so own it
The single most valuable thing a recruiter builds is the candidate database: the people you've sourced, screened, placed, and stayed in touch with, tagged by skill, location, and availability. In most ATS products that database lives in the vendor's cloud, and leaving means leaving it behind. Nanobox keeps every candidate, resume, and note in a Postgres database you own and control: a talent pool that's genuinely portable and genuinely yours. You track candidates through stages that match your desk, link them to the roles and clients you're working, and keep placement history on file so repeat business starts with real context.
There's also no AI here. Plenty of recruiting tools now rank or screen candidates with models that make opaque decisions about real people, and that's both a bias risk and a price markup. Nanobox has no AI features at all. You keep the judgment, and the candidate data never leaves your control. Don't want to run a server? Hosted is a flat $29/month for the whole desk, never per recruiter.
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Own the CRM your role deserves.
Start from a setup built for recruiters and shape it to your workflow. One-time price, no per-seat fees, full source.