SmartRecruiters Unveils AI-Powered Platform That Ends the ATS Era

Welcome to the Next Generation of Hiring Technology

San Francisco, CA – June 10, 2025 — SmartRecruiters, The Recruiting AI Company, today announced the launch of its next-generation AI-powered hiring platform, redefining how enterprises attract, engage, and hire talent. This launch marks the end of the traditional Applicant Tracking System and the beginning of an intelligent, embedded, and orchestrated approach to hiring.

At the heart of this new platform is Winston, an agentic AI companion that eliminates administrative complexity, accelerates decision-making, and empowers every stakeholder in the hiring process. Winston supports recruiters, candidates, and hiring managers alike through real-time assistance, automation, and guidance.

This is not another feature release or surface-level enhancement. This is a foundational shift in how hiring gets done.

Hiring Has Been Broken for Too Long

Despite years of digital investment, most hiring teams still face the same core problems. Recruiters are buried in repetitive tasks. Hiring managers are disengaged or overloaded. Candidates face slow, impersonal experiences. Most systems digitized legacy processes but failed to modernize them.

SmartRecruiters has reimagined the system from the ground up. Intelligence is no longer an overlay. It is the operating logic.

Introducing Winston

Winston is a real-time AI recruiting companion built on advanced Large Language Models (LLM). It adapts to the user, learns from the environment, and delivers brand-aligned, context-aware assistance across every phase of hiring.

Unlike legacy NLP bots or scripted workflows, Winston does not require complex decision trees or extensive configuration. It works immediately, grows smarter over time, and scales naturally across enterprise environments.

Winston is faster to implement, easier to use, and more powerful to grow with.

What’s Available Now

Winston Chat is already live across customer environments and delivering significant results, including a two-times increase in candidate conversion rates and a 35 percent increase in mobile application completions.

The full platform—including Winston Match, Winston Screen, Winston Companion, and SmartOS—is now available for purchase and is being actively deployed across leading global enterprises.

Winston Chat

Winston Chat replaces forms and portals with branded, conversational experiences. Candidates ask questions, explore roles, and complete their applications via desktop or mobile. Follow-up and interview scheduling happen in the same thread, with no login or separate interface required.

Built on LLMs and integrated directly into the hiring flow, Winston Chat offers a modern, intuitive experience for both candidates and recruiters. It adapts naturally, handles nuance, and reflects the brand voice from the very first interaction.

This is not a chatbot of the past. It is the future of candidate engagement.

Winston Match and Winston Screen

Winston Match evaluates every applicant using a multi-model scoring system based on relevance, fit, and inferred potential. Match results are presented on a four-star scale with explainability included. Winston Screen complements this by sending job-specific questions, collecting structured responses, and automatically ranking candidates based on their answers.

Together, they eliminate guesswork, reduce manual screening by 75 percent, and ensure recruiters can prioritize candidates with speed and confidence.

Winston Companion

Winston Companion finally gives hiring managers a tool designed around their needs and workflows. It is available within Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS, WhatsApp, desktop, and mobile—meeting managers wherever they already work.

Winston prompts feedback, suggests next steps, summarizes candidates, and handles interview scheduling, all through natural language interaction. There is no login or training required. Managers stay in the loop without being overwhelmed.

This transforms hiring managers from blockers to accelerators.

SmartOS

SmartOS is the core infrastructure powering the entire SmartRecruiters platform. It is live today and already supports complex, high-scale hiring operations for thousands of global customers.

Built to support end-to-end recruiter workflows, SmartOS is robust, flexible, and fully configurable. Its drag-and-drop workflow builder, embedded analytics, and localized configurations make it adaptable across geographies, hiring models, and business structures.

It also enables the AI Control Center, giving companies precise visibility and control over what Winston sees, learns, and acts on.

SmartOS is what makes agentic AI possible in the real world. It is already in place and built to scale.

Simple to Buy. Simple to Use. Simple to Grow.

The SmartRecruiters platform is available through modular packaging, allowing customers to select the right solution for their hiring model—corporate, high-volume, or hybrid. Outcome-aligned pricing ensures that costs are based on actual usage and value delivered.

This is hiring software that fits the business, not the other way around.

Secure, Scalable, and Built for the Enterprise

Winston and SmartOS are governed by the SmartRecruiters AI Control Center, enabling full transparency, auditability, and governance across the platform.

The system is GDPR-aligned, explainable, and supports complex role-based permissions. SmartRecruiters is CyberVadis Gold Certified, with a 927 out of 1000 maturity score, and meets global security, compliance, and accessibility standards.

Proven Across the World’s Leading Brands

More than 4,000 organizations – including Amazon, H&M, Domino’s, Frasers Group, Avery Dennison, and Qantas – use SmartRecruiters to power their global hiring strategies.

Industry recognition includes:

• Positioned as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Talent Acquisition Suites
• Positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Talent Acquisition Suites 2025 Vendor Assessment
• Recipient of the 2025 HR Tech Award for Best Innovation in Practical AI Application
• Recognized as a Strategic Leader on the 2025 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent Acquisition

A Message from the CEO

“This is not a facelift or a bolt-on. It is the foundation for what comes next,” said Rebecca Carr, CEO of SmartRecruiters. “Winston is intelligence built in. SmartOS gives us the structure and control to make agentic hiring real. We’ve made it simple to buy, simple to use, and simple to grow. The ATS era is over. This is hiring intelligence.”

Learn More

To request a demo or explore the platform, visit www.smartrecruiters.com.