Lever holds the relationships. I keep them warm.
Lever's pitch was always ATS plus CRM in one place, and the CRM half is the half that goes quiet. Nurture campaigns get built, then nobody has an hour on Thursday to write the next touch.
$100 of credits on us. No card required.
We have 900 people in Lever nurture nobody has touched since March.
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Re-read them against the two open roles. 31 are a real fit now, mostly because their situation changed rather than the role did.
Drafted a first touch for each that references what they shipped since we last spoke. Approve them and they send from your inbox.
You send. Always.A hire, from intake to start date, with Lever still the record
Click through the six stages. Each one shows what your ATS keeps doing, what I take over, and what lands in the channel. Switch between autopilot and ask approval to see how much you hand over.
The brief gets written down once
The requisition, the approval chain and the structured criteria stay in Lever. That is the record and nobody is moving it.
I read the role from your ATS, ask the two or three questions that are actually missing, and turn the answer into a bar I can score against.
Read the req in Lever. Two things are unclear: is payments experience a must have, and is remote in scope? Answer here and I will start today.
You confirm the bar before I searchSetting me up on Lever, step by step
Nine steps, five of them under three minutes. Tick them off as you go. Nothing here moves your data out of Lever.
About twenty five minutes of your time. The first shortlist comes back the same day, and Lever stays the system of record throughout.
The Lever coordination playbook
Nine templates you can send today: four outreach messages that only work if you name real work, five feedback loop messages that stop a hire stalling, and the cadence table for what to put on autopilot first. No email gate, no form.
- The loop in one page: what Lever holds, what I run, at what cadence
- Four outreach templates: first touch, follow up, referral ask, silver medallist
- Five feedback loop templates: shortlist calibration, feedback chasing, weekly standup, bar check in, post hire retro
- Autopilot versus ask approval, habit by habit
The best candidates are the ones you already met
Your CRM stops being a graveyard
Every past finalist, every warm no, every referral gets re-read against each new brief instead of decaying in a saved list.
Follow ups that do not read like a sequence
I write from the evidence, so the message mentions the repo, the talk or the promotion. That is why people reply.
Approval is not optional
I never send. Every draft waits for a person, and you can set any recurring habit to autopilot or ask approval.
Coordination comes along
Once someone replies, I take the scheduling, the panel chasing and the Lever stage update off your plate.
The difference in one table
| Lever alone | Laidback | |
|---|---|---|
| Nurture | Campaigns someone has to write and remember | I re-read the database each week and draft the next touch |
| New candidates | Manual sourcing into the CRM | Open web index, added to Lever with the source attached |
| Personalisation | Merge fields | The specific thing they shipped, quoted from the evidence |
| Sending | Sequences fire automatically | Nothing leaves without a human approving it |
Nobody bought Lever's CRM planning to leave it idle. It goes idle because maintaining it is a job and nobody has that job.
That job is mine now. You keep the tool, the data and the relationships. I do the reading and the writing, you press send.
Built-in taste, not a general model pointed at hiring
Anyone can wire a model to a search box. What makes me good at this is the recruiting judgement, skills, workflows and memory that arrive with me on day one.
Titles lie and stacks change. I look at what someone shipped, who they shipped it with, and how fast they grew into the work.
You get the commit, the talk, the customer they carried, the line in the release notes. If I cannot show why, I do not claim it.
Your bar becomes a written rubric I apply the same way on Monday and on Friday, so a shortlist is comparable instead of moody.
Disagree with a score and I show the reasoning behind it, then carry your correction into the next batch.
The four questions everyone asks
Do we have to migrate anything?
No. Your ATS stays the system of record. I connect to it, read the roles and candidates you already have, and write approved outcomes back.
Will this make our data messier?
It usually makes it cleaner. Candidates are written back with the source attributed and the evidence in the note, and stages move when the thing actually happened rather than when someone remembered.
Who sends outreach?
You do. I draft from the evidence in each profile and a human approves and sends from your own inbox. Recurring work can be set to autopilot or ask approval, per habit.
How long does setup take?
An afternoon. Connect your ATS and calendar, brief me on one open role in a channel, and the first evidenced shortlist comes back the same day.
Other tools I sit on top of
Templates for the work around it
Questions people ask before connecting an ATS
The proof, the docs and how your data is handled
How I compare with what you already looked at
Keep Lever. Add the coworker.
One connection, one open role, one shortlist. Then decide.