Match on the stack. Close the contract.
IT staffing software that ranks engineers by skill, shows your bill-rate margin, and automates contract renewals - one branded ATS built for tech recruiting.
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Tech staffing is a different animal. Generic ATS tools miss it.
Skills matching, thin margins, long sales cycles, and renewal windows are where contract IT firms win or bleed. Here is where a generic pipeline lets you down.
Skills matching is manual
A Java role is not a JavaScript role. Keyword search buries the right engineer under near-misses, and recruiters read fifty resumes to find the five that actually fit the stack.
Margins are thin and invisible
Contract IT lives on the spread between bill rate and pay rate. When margin is trapped in a spreadsheet, you learn a placement was underwater after the invoice, not before the offer.
Sales cycles run long
A senior DevOps req can take weeks to close. Candidates get counter-offered, ghost, or accept elsewhere while your pipeline sits in an inbox with no follow-up.
Contract renewals slip
Every consultant on a fixed end date is a renewal you can miss. Miss the window and a billable contractor rolls off, or a competitor extends them first.
Built for the way tech recruiters actually win
Four capabilities, ordered for contract IT: match by stack, parse technical resumes, see the margin, and never miss a renewal.
Match on the stack, not the keyword
Mako parses resumes and ranks candidates on the criteria you set: primary language and framework, cloud and CI/CD experience, years at seniority, clearance, and location. A React + Node + AWS req returns a shortlist that fits the stack instead of a raw pile you have to read line by line.
→ Open a shortlist that already fits the requisition.
Read technical resumes the way a lead engineer would
Technical resumes are dense: certifications, repos, tenure per stack, contract vs. full-time history. Mako parses the details that matter, scores against your weighting, and structures every candidate into a profile you can search by skill, not scroll by hope.
→ Every resume becomes searchable, weighted data.
See bill rate, pay rate, and margin before you commit
Customized reporting surfaces the numbers contract IT runs on: bill rate against pay rate, gross margin per placement, and pipeline value by req. Stop guessing which deals are profitable and start knowing which ones to prioritize.
→ Prioritize the reqs that actually earn.
Never miss a contract renewal again
Set the trigger once. When a consultant nears a contract end date, Mako flags the record and fires the follow-up on its own: a check-in text to the contractor, a renewal nudge to the account manager, a re-engagement sequence if it lapses. Set the trigger. We handle the rest.
→ Renewals surface before they slip.
Req to skills-matched shortlist to contract-to-hire
One connected path from an open requisition to a signed placement logged with its margin.
Req lands with a defined stack
A client opens a 6-month contract-to-hire for a Senior Backend Engineer: Go, Kubernetes, and GCP. You set the ranking criteria once - required stack, seniority, rate ceiling - and the requisition is live on your branded career page.
Skills-matched shortlist builds itself
Applicants and bench consultants get parsed and ranked against that stack. Instead of reading every resume, your recruiter opens a ranked shortlist of engineers who match on the technologies that matter, with the near-misses filtered out.
Engage fast across the long cycle
Two-way SMS and multi-step email sequences keep candidates warm through a weeks-long close. Replies land in one centralized inbox, follow-ups fire automatically if no answer, and real-time engagement signals tell you who is still interested.
Contract-to-hire pipeline, tracked to signature
Move the engineer through a contract-to-hire pipeline stage by stage. Generate a branded offer, capture the e-signature, and log the bill rate and pay rate so the placement shows up in margin reporting from day one.
In contract IT, the spread is the business.
Bill rate minus pay rate is your margin, and if you cannot see it in real time you are flying blind on the deals that fund payroll. Mako puts rate and margin next to the pipeline so decisions happen before the invoice.
What the client pays per hour.
What the contractor earns per hour.
The spread, reported per placement.
Margin visible per placement
Log bill rate and pay rate on every contract and Mako reports the gross margin. You see which placements carry the spread and which ones are quietly eroding it - before you renew, not after.
Pipeline value by requisition
Customized reporting rolls margin up by req, recruiter, and client so you can pour effort into the deals that pay. Stop guessing. Start knowing which reqs deserve your best engineers.
Rate discipline on the offer
When rate data sits next to the offer step, a recruiter is not committing a placement blind. The margin math is in front of them at the moment they present, not buried in a separate sheet.
Keep a warm tech bench between contracts
The engineer you placed last quarter is your fastest fill next quarter - if you stay in touch. Automation keeps the relationship warm across the long cycle.
A bench that stays warm
Great contractors roll off and disappear into someone else's inbox. Segment your bench by stack and seniority, then run automated re-engagement sequences so your best engineers hear from you the week a contract ends - not months later when it is too late.
Nurture through the long close
Senior tech reqs take time. Multi-step email sequences with conditional logic keep passive candidates engaged across a weeks-long cycle, auto-following-up when there is no reply and tracking every open and click so you know when to pick up the phone.
One branded relationship, first touch to renewal
Every text, email, offer, and portal carries your logo, your colors, your domain - not ours. The engineer you placed last year sees your brand when the renewal message lands, which is exactly why they answer.
Stack matching, rates, and contract-to-hire
Can ATS Mako match candidates on a specific tech stack?
Yes. AI candidate ranking is built on your criteria, not ours. You define the requirements for each req - primary language, framework, cloud platform, CI/CD, seniority, clearance, location - and Mako parses resumes and applications, then ranks candidates against exactly those weights. A React + Node + AWS role returns a shortlist that fits the stack instead of a keyword-matched pile of near-misses.
Does it track bill rate versus pay rate and margin?
Log bill rate and pay rate on each placement and customized reporting surfaces the gross margin per contract, rolled up by requisition, recruiter, and client. That visibility is the point in contract IT: you see which placements carry the spread and which ones are eroding it before a renewal, not after an invoice.
How does contract-to-hire tracking work?
Build a contract-to-hire pipeline and move each engineer through it stage by stage, from skills-matched shortlist to contract to conversion. Generate a branded offer letter, capture the candidate e-signature online, and keep the whole record - resume, engagement history, rate data - on one profile so nothing is lost when a contract converts to a permanent hire.
Can it remind us before contracts expire?
Yes. Automated workflows fire on status- and time-based triggers. Set the trigger once for a contract end date and Mako flags the record and sends the follow-up on its own: a check-in to the contractor, a renewal nudge to the account manager, and a re-engagement sequence if the contract lapses. Set the trigger. We handle the rest.
Is the platform branded to our staffing firm?
Fully. ATS Mako is a white-label ATS - your logo, your colors, your domain across branded career pages, candidate portals, email, SMS, and offer letters. Candidates and clients experience your brand at every touchpoint, not ATS Mako's.
Do outbound texts stay compliant?
Two-way SMS honors quiet hours and automatic opt-out handling by default, and email keeps automatic unsubscribe handling intact. SMS recruiting is regulated - outbound texts need lawful prior consent and a clear opt-out - and the platform is built to respect that.
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