March Product Updates: Guided Search Creation + Sorting Studio

Hiring is getting more selective. The stakes are higher. And teams have less to work with.

Imagine opening a new search for a role that’s shifted three times in the last month. The intake call got cut short, and the job description is a rough draft pulled from last year’s requisition. Even worse, your team needs to get a qualified shortlist in front of the hiring manager by the end of the week.

Two moments define whether the search is successful or goes sideways: getting started with criteria you trust, and getting alignment on who fits and why. But today, both are harder than they should be.

HR and recruiting teams are being asked to hire more selectively and explain decisions more clearly, all  while doing it with fewer resources, messier data, and roles that keep changing shape. That creates pressure at the key inflection points of a search, which is exactly what we built Guided Search Creation and Sorting Studio to solve.

What we’re launching

Guided Search Creation: Build a strong search foundation in minutes

Guided Search Creation turns a job description into a high-quality, ready-to-run starting point in a few clicks.

Instead of trying to guess what will make a search great, recruiters can drop in a JD and get intelligent guidance on the keywords, companies, and titles that will surface the highest quality candidates.

Guided Search Creation helps teams:

• Get to a qualified shortlist faster by starting a search from a strong foundation
• Spend less time guessing the best titles, skills, companies, and experience bands‍
• Make smarter trade-offs with real-time visibility into the talent pool

Sorting Studio: Say what matters, see who fits, and get the “why”

Sorting Studio helps recruiters and sourcers evaluate and prioritize candidates against criteria they set, using natural language.

Think of it like the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter: you tell it what “house traits” matter most for this role (your criteria), and it helps sort candidates accordingly. But unlike magic, it also shows the reasoning so everyone can see the “why” behind each match.

By surfacing evidence-backed “why this person” explanations inline, teams can give hiring teams strong context for why specific candidates match their unique requirements.

Sorting Studio helps teams:

• Convert intent to criteria: Turn messy intake notes into clear, prioritized criteria
• Sort by priorities: See candidates ranked against your priorities so the most relevant ones rise to the top‍
• Understand “why” at a glance: Build trust and move faster with match explanations in both list and profile views

Why this matters

When hiring teams are asked to do more with less, the hidden cost isn’t just time, it's decision quality and alignment.

Too much effort goes into translating role context into searchable keywords. And even more time goes into manually triaging candidates when there’s no clear ranking to anchor on. When the rationale behind a choice lives only in someone’s head, alignment with hiring managers becomes yet another back-and-forth.

Guided Search Creation and Sorting Studio were built to address these challenges directly, keeping teams in the driver’s seat while removing the friction that surrounds decision making. The tools handle translation and ranking, helping you get to the conversations that matter faster, with the reasoning you need to explain every choice.

Ready to try it?

Guided Search Creation and Sorting Studio are available now. Contact us to learn more or schedule a demo.