Notes
Notes on running a desk.
What we have learned building recruiting software, and what we would want to know if we were buying it. Nothing here is gated.
Operations · 4 min
Who gets to see the margin?
The most common permissions mistake in a staffing firm is not being too strict. It is being strict in the interface and open underneath.
Read it →27 August 2026
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Buying · 6 min
Eleven questions to ask an ATS vendor
Most demos are designed to avoid these. Ask them in the first call and you will save yourself a quarter.
20 August 2026 -
Redeployment · 5 min
The candidate you already found
You spent weeks sourcing them, screening them and placing them. Then their contract ends and you go back to the job boards.
13 August 2026 -
Operations · 4 min
Why your pipeline stops meaning anything
Every recruiter who adds a stage is being helpful. Twenty stages later, nobody can answer how many people are out on submission.
3 August 2026
Rather see it than read about it?
Thirty minutes, your roles, your data. We’d rather you saw it handle something awkward than something tidy.