We built Siftboard because we lived the problem

The problem we lived

When you're recruiting at a company under 500 people, the tools available to you were designed for someone else. Handshake and RippleMatch are campus-sourcing platforms built for employers with structured internship pipelines and university partnership budgets. If you're hiring junior talent from a broader pool — recent grads, career changers, bootcamp graduates — those platforms put you in a pay-to-play competition with enterprise employers who have dedicated university relations teams.

On the senior side, LinkedIn Recruiter costs thousands of dollars per seat per year, and delivers a firehose of profiles that require hours of manual screening to turn into a shortlist worth reaching out to. The signal-to-noise ratio is brutal when you don't have a full TA team to absorb that volume.

We needed something that could go from job description to a ranked shortlist of eight realistic candidates — with personalized outreach emails already drafted — in under a minute. That tool didn't exist, so we built it.

See our side-by-side comparison of Siftboard vs Handshake, or our Siftboard vs RippleMatch comparison for self-serve T2 sourcing.

How Siftboard works today

Paste a job description. Siftboard parses the role requirements using AI, then generates a ranked shortlist of eight candidate profiles matched to those requirements. Each profile comes with a personalized outreach email you can send immediately.

The pipeline under the hood:

• LinkedIn Company Page signal — we use company page data to understand the hiring company's size, industry, and talent profile so the candidates we surface are calibrated to the right market.
• Apollo enrichment — contact data and professional background is enriched through Apollo so outreach emails include accurate titles and context.
• AI shortlist generation — a large language model ranks and writes eight candidate profiles and outreach emails tailored to the specific role.
• Feedback loop via /leave-a-review — after you reach out, you can leave a review on each candidate. That signal feeds back into how we weight future shortlists.

The first shortlist is always free with no account required. Ongoing access is $99/month flat — no per-seat pricing, no per-hire fees.

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Who built this

Siftboard was built by a recruiting team that came up in in-house TA roles at companies between 50 and 400 people. We've written job descriptions, screened hundreds of resumes, managed ATS pipelines, and done the outreach ourselves.

We built Siftboard for the team size we came from: small enough that every hire matters, big enough that hiring is a constant process. The product is intentionally scoped to that window — under 500 employees — because that's where the tooling gap is sharpest and where we know the workflow best.

We're not an ATS replacement. We're what you use before your ATS ever gets involved — to find the candidates worth moving through the process in the first place.