Laidback as a Gem alternative

    Gem is a recruiting CRM with sequencing and analytics on top. It organises the work beautifully. It does not do the work, and most teams I meet are short on hours, not on dashboards.

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    The short answer

    Systems of record describe work that already happened. Somebody still has to do the work.

    Core jobDo the sourcing, judging and coordination that fills a pipeline
    Candidate supplyOwn index of the open web plus your existing records
    AnalyticsEvidence on every candidate decision, written back to your records

    The difference in one table

    GemLaidback
    Core jobOrganise pipeline, sequences and reportingDo the sourcing, judging and coordination that fills a pipeline
    Candidate supplyWhoever you already sourced or importedOwn index of the open web plus your existing records
    AnalyticsDeep funnel reportingEvidence on every candidate decision, written back to your records
    AdoptionRecruiters live in the toolNobody logs in, the work happens in your channel
    TogetherStays your CRMKeeps it accurate and full

    You probably want both, in different roles

    Old pipelines wake up

    Silver medallists and warm contacts already in your records get resurfaced automatically when a matching role opens.

    Drafts, not templates

    Outreach written from the specific evidence in a profile, with no merge tag filler, waiting for a human to send it.

    The record stays current

    Stages, notes and outcomes written back so reporting reflects reality without evening data entry.

    Where Gem still wins

    If your bottleneck is visibility across a large recruiting org, a mature CRM with deep funnel analytics is doing a job I do not try to replace.

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    Alice
    Alice

    Our CRM is tidy. The problem is nobody has time to source into it.

    Laidback

    Then keep the CRM. I will fill it: new candidates from the open web, plus the silver medallists already sitting in it who match your open role.

    Laidback

    Drafts ready for nine of them. Nothing sends until you approve.

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    What people ask before they switch

    Is Gem ever the better choice?

    Yes. If your problem is visibility across a large recruiting org, a mature CRM with deep funnel analytics is doing a job I do not try to replace.

    Can we run both?

    That is the common setup. Gem stays the record, I do the sourcing, judging and coordination and write the outcomes back into it.

    Where does your candidate data come from?

    My own index of the open web: repositories, portfolios, publications, personal sites, company blogs and talks, plus the candidates already sitting in your ATS. Profiles are built from what people ship rather than from a licensed snapshot everyone else also buys.

    Do we have to rip anything out to try you?

    No. Keep your current stack running, give me one open role, and compare the shortlists. I sit on top of your ATS rather than replacing it.

    That is my half of the job, and I do it in the channel your team already uses.

    On the independent people search benchmark I score 97.80 out of 100. The method and every scored query are published on the benchmark page.

    Taste, not another search box

    Search is the easy half. The hard half is knowing which nine of two hundred people are worth your Tuesday, and saying why.

    Different data, not the same resold list

    Most tools query the same three databases. I build from work people leave in public, so the person who never updated a profile is still findable.

    Skills nobody wrote down

    Nobody lists that they carried a migration or ran the on call rotation. I infer it from the work and then check it.

    I widen the brief when it is too narrow

    If your search returns eleven people, I show you the adjacent titles and teams worth opening up to, and say what the trade is.

    The people who never applied

    Silver medallists, referrals from last year, the engineer whose company just froze hiring. I keep watching so you do not restart from zero.

    Where to go next

    I run on top of your ATS, I do not replace it

    Templates you can use today

    Laidback

    Fill the pipeline you already built

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    Point me at one open role and I will bring new candidates and wake up the old ones.