Your search finds keywords. Gemsift finds who can do the job.
Your base is full of candidates you already paid to find, and a keyword search only returns the ones you knew to look for. Gemsift reads the whole base against each new role and tells you why each person is worth the call. Move in from your old ATS in under an hour.
Free for 7 days · no credit card · nothing to upload to look around
100+
agency recruiters shaped the product
< 1 hour
from export file to scored base
$0
setup fees, no lock-in
Gemsift holds the base, the jobs, the pipeline and the placements, and it reads every candidate for you. It is also deliberately not everything a classic platform is: no job-board posting, no interview scheduling, no HRIS, no two-way email sync. If your desk depends on the parts we cut, a heavier ATS is the better buy, and we would rather you knew that on this page than after the trial.
Not a chatbot
No AI talks to your candidates. No automated interviews, no screening bots, no robot recruiter in the loop. Candidates never interact with Gemsift at all. It reads, it scores, it gives you the reason.
Not a keyword filter
It does not match strings. It reads what a person actually did and says whether that fits this role, so someone who wrote “built the internal tool” instead of “React developer” does not sink to the bottom of the list.
The human decides
Every score arrives with a written reason, and a flag where something needs a second look. You review, you call, you place. The judgment is the product; the decision stays yours.
Searchable is not surfaced
You can already search your database. That is the trap.
A boolean query only returns who you knew to look for. The strong candidate who wrote “built the internal tool” instead of “React developer” is invisible to that search by definition. Your next placement is often already in your base, and your search will never hand them back.
You cannot feel that loss, because a search never shows you who it skipped. Gemsift reads the whole base against the role instead of matching it, and gives you a written reason for every person it puts in front of you.
Your keyword search is hiding your best candidates
Same pile of resumes. Two ways to read it.
Keyword search
Query: “Senior React Developer, 5 years”
47 matches
- Senior React Developer, 5 years experience, Agile, Scrum
- React Developer, 5+ years, Redux, TypeScript
- Frontend Engineer, React specialist
Strongest candidate: not returned. Wrong words on the resume.
Gemsift
Same base, read against the role
6 worth calling
Priya N.
94 · Strong fit
Built the internal tool that saved the team 40 hours a week. Led the migration nobody else wanted.
Marcus D.
89 · Hidden gem
Self-taught, shipped three side projects with real users. No formal title, delivered repeatedly.
Elena R.
87 · Worth a look
Managed an offshore team through a rewrite. Flag: verify communication style on the call.
The keyword search returned none of these three.
Illustration, not a customer case. The people and scores are made up; the shape of the output is not.
Free account, then one click loads a scored sample base. Nothing to upload.
You paid for every candidate in that database. Your ATS turned them into files.
Every day a role sits open, the agency loses money, while the right person is usually already sitting in your own system from a search months ago.
The base is a filing cabinet
Thousands of candidates you paid to attract, unfindable the day a matching role lands. Legacy systems store resumes; they do not read them.
AI floods you with noise
One posting pulls hundreds of keyword-perfect, near-identical applications. The one you would have called is buried under the CV-polishers.
Reading eats the week
Recruiters lose a large share of the week to resumes that never fit. That is time not spent talking to candidates and clients, which is the actual job.
From your old system to your first shortlist in an hour
No field mapping. No setup calls. One file, and your entire base is scored and ready.
Move in with one file
Export your base from the old system or a spreadsheet and drop it in. Parsed, deduplicated, scored.
Every candidate, re-read
Gemsift re-reads the whole base for every new role. Each score comes with a plain-English reason. No black boxes.
Submit with reasons. Place.
One click packages a client-ready shortlist: who made the list, why, and what to check in the interview. Placements record themselves.
A score you can defend on a client call
Every pick comes with the reason. Clear tiers, plain-English reasoning, and advisory flags where something needs a second look.
Black-box AI
Candidate: Devon R.
92/100
Why? the reasoning you will never see
Flags: also hidden away
Gemsift
Candidate: Devon R.
92/100
Strong fitEvery must-have matched, two years over the bar, led the exact migration in the JD.
Flag: verify the client-facing piece, on a call.
Role fit
Does the experience match what the role really needs?
Signal vs noise
Real, specific wins vs AI-generated filler.
Your success factors
The traits your placements actually reward.
Flags to check
Gaps, short stints, claims worth verifying before you call.
Built for the people buried in resumes
Three desks, one platform that adapts to how you actually work.
Replace the spreadsheet, the notes app and the guilt
One tool holds your whole desk: the base, the Jobs, the pipeline, the follow-ups. Every candidate scored with a reason, every promise remembered for you.
Fee calculator
How many placements cover your subscription?
No magic coefficients. Your average fee, our list price, plain division.
Average fee
$15,000
Agency plan
$2,388/yr
One placement covers
6.3 yrs
One placement from the base you already own, and everything after that is margin.
No invented logos. No fake quotes. No borrowed metrics. Gemsift was shaped in conversations with agency owners and solo recruiters about what a base should actually do, and everything on this page is what the product does today. Verify it on sample data without uploading a single resume.Case studies from our first agencies land here as they close
Pays for itself with one placement
No setup fees. No lock-in. Cancel anytime and export everything.
$0 /mo
Try it on your own base. Up to 50 resumes, no card.
- 50 resumes total
- Scoring with reasons
- Jobs + pipeline
- CSV export
$79 /mo
Solo desks. The full ATS: unlimited Jobs, 750 resumes a month.
- 750 resumes a month
- Unlimited Jobs
- Client-ready shortlist packs
- Follow-up reminders
- Email support
$199 /mo
Agencies of 3 to 20. 3 seats, branded submittal packs, 3,000 resumes a month.
- 3,000 resumes a month
- 3 seats (+$39 each)
- Branded packs, your agency's name
- Team workspace + activity trail
- Priority support
Custom
More than 3 seats or 3,000 resumes a month. We size it to you.
- Unlimited resumes
- Seats sized to you
- Dedicated onboarding
- We shape it together
Add-ons: extra seat $39/mo, +500 resume pack over your limit, enrichment credit packs.
In every plan
- Candidate base: search, filters, saved views
- Jobs + drag-and-drop pipeline
- Auto-resurface on every new Job
- Explained scores + hidden gems + trust flags
- One-file base import (any ATS export or CSV)
- Client-ready submittal packs
- Clients + placements tracking
- Follow-up reminders + email nudges
- Connect your AI (Claude / ChatGPT over MCP)
- Full export, CSV or JSON
What changes by plan
| Feature | Free | Solo $79 | Agency $199 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resumes / month (fair use) | 50 total | 750 | 3,000 |
| Seats | 1 | 1 | 3 (+$39 each) |
| Submittal pack branding | Gemsift watermark | unbranded | your agency's name |
| Team workspace + activity trail | · | · | yes |
| Support | community | priority |
Everything you need to know before you switch
Legacy systems file candidates and match keywords; the AI matching button hands you a number nobody trusts. Gemsift is the same familiar grammar, Candidates, Jobs, pipeline, placements, but every score comes with the reason, hidden gems get flagged, and your whole base is re-read for every new role automatically. Moving in is one export file, not a migration project.
This is the problem we built it for. Gemsift looks at what someone actually did, not how polished the writing is. It cross-checks claims against the work history, flags generic filler and inconsistencies for your review, and a strong person who wrote plainly does not sink to the bottom.
It is built to. Gemsift covers the agency core: the base, Jobs, pipeline, clients, placements, submittals. Move in with one export file and run your desk here. If you keep the old system around during the switch, fine: everything in Gemsift exports back out in one click, so you are never locked in either direction.
If you paste role context into a model for every search, you know the approach works. The catch is you rebuild it by hand each time. Gemsift holds your criteria, applies them the same way across your whole base and your team, and writes the reasoning for you. And if you love your AI, plug it in: connect Claude or ChatGPT to your Gemsift base and work it from the chat.
One file. Export your base from the old system or a spreadsheet, drop it in, and the base comes out parsed, deduplicated and scored, typically within the hour. No field mapping, no setup calls, no downtime.
Messy is the normal case. Gemsift handles duplicates, near-duplicates and inconsistent formats during import, and flags what needs a human look, like two people with the same name or a gap worth asking about, instead of silently merging or dropping records.
Encrypted in transit and at rest. Your uploads are used to score your pile, nothing else. Candidates can request deletion and it removes their files and records. You can also try Gemsift on built-in sample data without uploading a single real resume.
Yes. One-click CSV or JSON export of the whole base, scores and reasoning included. We do not hold your data hostage. No lock-in, by design.
Your next placement is already in your base.
Stop sourcing, start placing. Try it on sample data first: no upload, no card, no setup.
Free for 7 days · no credit card · nothing to upload to look around