Nerve for recruiters
Run your candidate pipeline like the best B2B sales orgs run theirs.
Candidate followups, client updates, scorecard prep, intake calls. Nerve handles the structural work so your billable hours stay on the actual placements.
The problem
Why this is broken today
Recruiting is two parallel sales pipelines that need to be run with the same intensity. Candidates need followups, prep notes, schedule coordination, status updates, and feedback loops. Clients need search updates, scorecard drafts, slate presentations, and the explanation for why a candidate who looked great on paper didn't move forward. Drop either side and the search dies.
The standard answer is a heavier ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, JazzHR, Bullhorn) and discipline. Both help. Neither solves the actual constraint: the structural work between the calls. The intake note that becomes the scorecard. The post-interview followup that doesn't go out until Thursday. The client weekly that lands a day late because Friday was a fire.
The compounded cost is that the best recruiters spend most of their day on operations instead of the high-leverage work: sourcing the next great candidate, advising the client on a counter, having the hard feedback conversation. Reclaiming that time is the alpha.
What Nerve does
What changes when an agent team is in the loop
Per-search workspaces with full context
Every active search lives in its own scope: the JD, the scorecard, the slate, the client's preferences, the candidates in flight. The agents working on Search A can't pull context from Search B by default, preserving the search-specific framing each client expects.
Candidate and client followups drafted automatically
Post-call followups for both sides drafted within an hour. Status emails to the client every Friday. Nudges to the candidate who's gone quiet. The communication layer that used to be the bottleneck becomes the part that runs itself.
Scorecard prep from the actual conversations
Intake calls, interview debriefs, candidate calls. Nerve listens (where you opt in) or reads your notes and produces scorecard drafts pre-populated with the signals it picked up. You edit and ship instead of writing from scratch.
Built by an operator who understands sales pipelines
Nerve was built and tested on real B2B sales pipelines. Recruiting is a sales-shaped workflow with extra constraints; the same agent architecture works with minor tuning.
How it works
Three steps to the agent team running
Plug Nerve into your recruiting stack
Your ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Bullhorn), Gmail, Calendar, LinkedIn. Nerve reads candidate context from the substrate without forcing you to migrate.
Run the desk from a single briefing
Morning briefing: candidates needing followups, clients needing updates, searches at risk, the next ten calls and their context. The morning panic becomes a starting line.
Approve drafts on the go
Between calls, on the train, after the post-interview debrief. Nerve queues the drafts; you approve in seconds. The communication layer keeps moving while you focus on the next call.
What people are saying
Signal from operators in the same orbit
I increased my closed-search rate by 30% without working more hours. The agents handle the structural work that used to eat my mornings.
Solo executive recruiter, technology vertical
The candidate followup drafts alone changed my desk. Nothing goes cold anymore.
Senior recruiter, retained search firm
Client updates land every Friday on time. The clients started commenting that I'm the most communicative recruiter they work with.
Recruiter, boutique talent practice
FAQ
Common questions
How is this different from Gem, hireEZ, or Loxo?
Those are sourcing-side tools (find candidates, automate outreach). Nerve is the operating layer across the whole desk: search management, candidate communication, client communication, scorecard prep, slate management. It plugs into Gem and others for the sourcing piece.
Will it send emails to my candidates and clients without my approval?
No. Every external communication is a draft you approve. Recruiting depends on your voice and judgment; the agents draft, you ship.
Can the search team see each other's candidates?
By default, per-search scoping isolates candidate data per search. You can grant cross-search visibility to your team if your workflow needs it. The default is privacy-preserving.
What about confidential or executive searches?
Per-search isolation extends to confidential searches; the candidate identities never appear in any other agent's context. For executive searches, the agents can also redact identifying info from internal scorecards and reports.
How does it work with my existing scorecard format?
The agents learn your scorecard format from past placements and match it. Within two searches the drafts are indistinguishable from yours stylistically.
Workflows and guides
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Claude MCP integration for Google Calendar: real meetings, no swivel-chair
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