The AI-native ATS for in-house hiring teams.
Elevate ATS is the modern applicant tracking system for corporate talent acquisition. Post jobs, screen with AI, run structured interviews, and make offers: all in one platform with MEL built in. Wave 1 goes live early October 2026: a limited founding cohort gets in first, at founding rates locked for life.
Your ATS shouldn't bill you
more every time you hire.
Greenhouse, Lever, and Workday Recruiting price on total company headcount and hide their rates behind a sales call: so your bill climbs with every new employee, whether or not they ever touch the system. Elevate ATS publishes simple employee-band pricing, includes unlimited recruiter and hiring-manager seats, and is AI-native from day one.
Greenhouse · Lever · Workday
- ×Quote-only pricing, $12K–$70K+/year
- ×Headcount tax, bill rises with every hire
- ×AI sourcing & notetaking as paid add-ons
- ×6–12 week implementations
- ×Workday Recruiting can't even be bought standalone
The Modern Way
- Published pricing from $149/mo, billed monthly or annually
- Simple employee bands: no per-seat fees, ever
- MEL AI screening & notetaking built into every screen
- Structured hiring, scorecards & OFCCP compliance included
- Live in a day. We provision founding workspaces for you. Built for 2026.
Your Team Profile
- ◆In-house talent acquisition & HR-led hiring teams
- ◆High-growth startups scaling from 50 to 1,000 employees
- ◆SMB & mid-market companies hiring across departments
- ◆Teams that want structured, bias-resistant hiring
- ◆Companies escaping Greenhouse, Lever & Workday sticker shock
From open requisition to signed offer.
Every stage of corporate hiring, unified in one platform with MEL at every step.
① Requisition & Approvals
Open reqs with headcount budgets, multi-level approval chains, and department routing. Track openings against plan.
② Job Posting & Career Site
Branded careers page, one-click syndication to LinkedIn, Indeed & ZipRecruiter, plus your internal mobility board.
③ Sourcing & AI Screening
Resume parsing, MEL-scored applicant ranking, Boolean & semantic search, talent pools and re-engagement nurture.
④ Structured Interviews
Interview kits, self-scheduling, competency scorecards, and AI notetaking that writes the debrief for you.
⑤ Hiring Decisions & Calibration
Side-by-side candidate comparison, anonymized review options, and structured decision logs for every panel.
⑥ Offers & Approvals
Offer templates with comp bands, approval workflows, e-signature, and automated offer-letter generation.
⑦ Onboarding Handoff
Clean handoff to your HRIS, background-check orchestration, and a first-day checklist that triggers on accept.
⑧ Compliance & Analytics
EEO/OFCCP data capture, audit logs, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, and DEI funnel analytics out of the box.
What you get out of the box.
AI screening that surfaces the shortlist.
Paste a job description. MEL extracts must-have skills, seniority, and location, then ranks every applicant for fit and drafts personalized outreach to your top candidates. Spend your time interviewing, not screening 300 résumés.
- Resume parsing with 95%+ field accuracy
- Applicant ranking across skills, experience & location
- Knockout questions & auto-disposition rules
- Talent pools, saved searches & nurture campaigns
Structured hiring that removes the guesswork.
Define the interview plan once and every panelist runs the same play. Competency-based interview kits, scorecards scored before debrief, and side-by-side calibration mean faster decisions: and a defensible, bias-resistant process you can stand behind.
- Interview kits with focus areas & suggested questions
- Scorecards locked before debrief to reduce groupthink
- MEL AI notetaker drafts the interview summary
- Candidate self-scheduling synced to interviewer calendars
- Approval workflows for reqs, offers & comp bands
Compliance & analytics, built in.
Capture EEO/OFCCP data the right way, keep a full audit trail of every hiring decision, and watch your funnel in real time. Know your time-to-fill, which sources actually convert, and where candidates drop off: by department, recruiter, and stage.
- EEO-1 & OFCCP-compliant voluntary self-ID capture
- Full audit logs & disposition reason tracking
- Time-to-fill, pipeline velocity & source effectiveness
- DEI funnel analytics with stage-by-stage drop-off
Priced by company size. Not per seat.
Pick the band that matches your employee count. Every plan includes unlimited recruiter and hiring-manager seats, unlimited candidates, and MEL. These are the tiers we'll launch with, founding members lock today's rates for life and take 40% off year one.
Up to 50 employees
- Up to 10 active job openings
- Unlimited recruiter & hiring-manager seats
- Branded careers page & job-board syndication
- Resume parsing & AI applicant ranking
- Interview scheduling & scorecards
- EEO/OFCCP self-ID capture
- MEL · 200 queries/mo
- Email support
Up to 200 employees
- Everything in Launch
- Unlimited active job openings
- Structured hiring & interview kits
- Requisition & offer approval workflows
- CRM, talent pools & nurture campaigns
- DEI funnel & pipeline analytics
- HRIS, background-check & assessment integrations
- MEL · Unlimited queries + AI notetaker
- 3 Marketplace agents included
- Priority support · 8-hr SLA
Up to 500 employees
- Everything in Growth
- Multi-department & multi-brand career sites
- Advanced approval chains & req budgeting
- OFCCP compliance pack & full audit logs
- Internal mobility & referral portals
- Custom reports & API access
- All Marketplace agents included
- Dedicated CSM · 4-hr SLA
500+ employees
- Everything in Scale
- Unlimited departments & brands
- Custom workflows & data residency options
- HRIS-grade uptime SLA & sandbox
- Advanced security review, DPA & BAA
- Internal mobility & redeployment suite
- Dedicated implementation team
- Executive sponsorship
All plans include unlimited users, unlimited candidates, and MEL. No per-seat fees. Cross a band only when your company headcount grows, we'll tell you before anything changes. Founding-member benefits apply to the first 25 companies: after launch, standard pricing applies.
Elevate ATS vs. the incumbents.
Representative pricing for a ~200-employee company, based on publicly reported 2026 figures. Competitor list prices are quote-driven and vary by negotiation.
| Capability | Elevate ATS | Greenhouse | Lever | Workable | Workday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Published list pricing | Yes | No (quote) | No (quote) | Yes | No (quote) |
| Indicative annual cost (~200 emp) | ~$3,560 | ~$12,250 | ~$12,240 | ~$3,600–$7,200 | $100K+ (bundled) |
| Pricing model | Employee band, flat | Headcount tax | Headcount tax | Headcount tiers | PEPM, HCM-bundled |
| Per-seat fees | None | Varies | Varies | None | PEPM |
| Native AI assistant (agentic) | MEL built-in | Paid add-on | Add-on | Add-on | Limited |
| Structured hiring & scorecards | Included | Included | Included | Higher tiers | Included |
| OFCCP / EEO compliance | Included | Enterprise tier | Enterprise tier | Add-on | Included |
| Time-to-live | Under 1 day | 4–8 weeks | 4–8 weeks | 1–2 weeks | 3–6 months |
| Sold standalone (not in HCM) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Sources: vendor-reported 2026 pricing (Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, Workday Recruiting). Figures are indicative and for comparison only.
Questions, answered.
What exactly is the Founders Program?
Elevate ATS launches publicly soon. Before then, we're inviting 25 founding companies into VIP early access. Founders lock today's launch rates for life, take 40% off year one, get free white-glove migration off Greenhouse, Lever, or Workday Recruiting on Growth and above, and join monthly calls that directly shape the roadmap. Reserving a spot is free and carries no commitment. You pay nothing until your workspace goes live. Reserve your spot →
How is Elevate ATS different from Elevate Recruit?
Elevate ATS is for corporate, in-house talent teams hiring full-time employees for their own company: competing with Greenhouse, Lever, and Workday Recruiting. Elevate Recruit is for staffing firms and RPO providers who place contract and direct-hire workers at client companies, with CRM, timesheets, and client billing built in. Both share MEL and live on the same platform.
Do you really not charge per seat?
Correct. Your plan is priced by your company's employee band, and includes unlimited recruiter, hiring-manager, and interviewer seats. Invite your whole hiring team without watching a per-user meter, a deliberate contrast to legacy ATS pricing.
Can I migrate from Greenhouse, Lever, or Workday?
Yes. Growth and above include white-glove migration of candidates, jobs, scorecards, and historical hiring data. Most migrations complete in 1–2 weeks. Launch-plan customers use a self-serve CSV/bulk-import tool, and our team is on hand if you get stuck.
Is Elevate ATS OFCCP and EEO compliant?
Yes. Every plan captures voluntary EEO-1 self-identification correctly, keeps disposition reasons and audit logs, and the Scale plan adds a full OFCCP compliance pack with applicant-flow logging. See Security & Trust for where we are on SOC 2 and what we can evidence today.
Is MEL included at every tier?
Yes, though usage scales. Launch includes 200 MEL queries per month, enough for AI screening on most small teams. Growth and up get unlimited queries, the AI notetaker, and access to the Agentic Marketplace (compliance, sourcing, and analytics agents).
What happens when we grow past an employee band?
Nothing automatic and nothing punitive. We notify you before you cross into the next band and your price only changes at renewal, no surprise mid-contract true-ups or per-hire charges. You always know your bill in advance.
25 founding companies.
Rates locked for life.
Join the Founders Program before launch: 40% off year one, free white-glove migration on Growth and above, and a direct line to the team building your ATS.