Herald
Hiring, end to end — and the careers page on this site already runs on it.
Useful when replacing: Greenhouse, Lever, Eightfold and the per-recruiter, per-job-slot tax
Component · not sold separately
This one has no price.
Herald is something we build with, not something we sell. It ships inside a sprint, and it's part of why a sprint costs $990 a week instead of a quarter's salary. We'd rather say that plainly than put a number on it and imply a support promise we haven't made.
Need it? It comes with the build. If it ever stands on its own, it'll get a price on the pricing page like everything else.
Inside Herald
The problem
Applicant tracking is priced like enterprise software and behaves like a database from 2011. Greenhouse and Lever bill per recruiter seat and per job slot, so hiring more means paying more before a single person is hired. Eightfold sells AI matching at a price that assumes you're a Fortune 500. And every one of them holds the thing you can least afford to lose: your entire candidate history, your talent pool, and the compensation data behind every offer you've made — exportable only as a CSV that drops the context. Meanwhile candidates get a seven-page form that asks them to retype the résumé they just uploaded.
How Herald solves it
Already running on our own careers page
This isn't a mockup: /careers on this site is Herald. Upload a résumé and it parses into the form — name, experience, links — so the candidate confirms rather than retypes. One screen, real progress, no account creation, no 'please re-enter your work history'. Go and apply for something; the flow you'd give your candidates is the flow you just used. We wouldn't sell a hiring product we didn't hire with.
Matching that shows its reasoning
Herald scores candidates against the role on evidence it will show you — the specific experience, skills, and signals it matched, and what it couldn't verify. Every score is explainable and auditable, because a hiring decision you can't explain is a liability, and an opaque model making them is worse than no model.
Your talent pool is an asset, not a hostage
Every candidate, conversation, scorecard, and offer sits in your Postgres. Past applicants stay searchable and re-engageable forever, with no per-record fee for keeping your own history. Migrating out is a pg_dump.
Integrates with the ATS you already regret
Two-way sync with Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and Ashby means you can run Herald alongside your incumbent, prove it, and switch when you're ready — not sign a migration project on faith.
Compliance built into the hire
EEOC and OFCCP reporting, GDPR and DPDP candidate-data rights, configurable retention windows, and auditable consent — with candidate data hosted in the region its law applies to, and never used to train a model.
Delivery terms — stated precisely
How Herald is delivered, what you control, and where the boundaries sit.
Source included · MIT
Run it yourself or use optional managed hosting.
Data and hosting
Deploy in your cloud or use the stated optional managed-hosting plan. Data location and operator access are agreed before production use.
Compliance boundary
Residency, controls, and regulatory requirements are implementation decisions documented in the selected plan or delivery scope.
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Herald — the questions buyers ask
Who owns the code and IP?
For a Build Sprint, the repository, deployment assets, and work-product IP described in the SOW are handed over to you. Pre-existing products retain the licence shown on their product page; hosted services remain services. We state that boundary before work starts.
What happens if a sprint misses its scope?
We finish it. Fixed price means the risk of estimation is ours, not yours — a missed scope item is completed without a new invoice. Changes you request are re-scoped explicitly, so the line between 'our miss' and 'new ask' stays honest.
How do time zones work with a pod in India?
Every engagement includes 4+ hours of overlap with US or EU working hours. Async by default — written updates, weekly clickable demos — and meetings only when they earn the slot. You'll never chase a status report.
How is our data and code kept secure?
Work happens in your repos and your infrastructure wherever possible — we hold the minimum access needed, revoked at handover. NDAs are standard on request, and everything we self-host for you runs behind your keys, not ours.
How fast can you actually start?
Scoping takes a day; most sprints start within a week of sign-off. Pods are deliberately small and senior, so your start date is confirmed in the sprint plan — not left floating.
Do we need a retainer afterwards?
No — that's the point. A sprint ends with handover docs and training. If you want us to keep maintaining what we built, that's an optional flat monthly add-on you can cancel any month, because the software keeps working without us.
Own Herald, don't rent it.
See the price, deploy on your infrastructure, keep the code. Or scope a sprint and we'll customise it and hand it over.