Nerve for recruiters
Run your candidate pipeline like the best B2B sales orgs run theirs.
Candidate follow-ups, client updates, interview prep, and call notes. Nerve drafts the structural work so your 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
Candidates and clients who need a reply, flagged
Nerve reads your inbox and calendar and flags the candidate waiting on an answer, the client expecting an update, and the relationship that has gone quiet.
Follow-ups drafted for both sides
After a call, Nerve drafts the follow-up to the candidate or the client, and its drafts pick up your voice from the edits you make. Nothing goes out until you approve it.
Call notes that turn into next steps
With Fireflies connected, or interview notes landing in your inbox from your meeting tool, Nerve summarizes the call and drafts what comes next. Scorecards stay yours to write.
Built by an operator who understands sales pipelines
Nerve was built and tested on real B2B sales pipelines, and a recruiting desk runs on the same follow-through.
How it works
Three steps to the agent team running
Connect your inbox and calendar
Gmail or Outlook, your calendar, and Fireflies if you record calls. Nerve doesn't sync with an applicant tracking system today, so candidate context comes from your email and calls.
Run the desk from a single briefing
Candidates needing followups, clients needing updates, today's calls with prep for each. 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.
FAQ
Common questions
How is this different from Gem, hireEZ, or Loxo?
Those are sourcing tools that find candidates and automate outreach. Nerve works on the desk after sourcing: candidate and client follow-ups, call prep, and call notes.
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 rest of my search team see my candidates?
No. A Nerve account belongs to one person, so nobody else sees what you connect. There are no shared desk views today.
What about confidential or executive searches?
Everything you connect stays in your account and Nerve never trains AI on it. It doesn't separate one search from another inside your account or redact names, so be deliberate about what you connect.
Does it write scorecards?
No. Nerve drafts follow-ups and summarizes calls; scorecards stay in your own format and your own tools.
Workflows and guides
For recruiters, read these next
Claude MCP integration for Gmail: a working founder's setup guide
How to wire Gmail to Claude over MCP so an agent can triage, search, and draft from your real inbox. The 15-minute setup, the gotchas, and what changes when it's live.
Claude MCP integration for Slack: where the real evidence of work lives
How to wire Slack to Claude over MCP so an agent can read threads, search context, and respond as you (when you let it). The quiet workhorse of MCP setups.
Claude MCP integration for Google Calendar: real meetings, no swivel-chair
How to wire Google Calendar to Claude over MCP so an agent can find time, book meetings, and reason about your week without screenshots or back-and-forth.
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