Staffing & Recruiting Firms
Purpose-Built for Staffing at Scale. Message, move, and manage thousands of candidates instantly — on a platform branded as yours.
You don't fill one req at a time. You're working dozens of open orders across clients, racing other agencies to the same talent, and the firm that touches the candidate first usually wins the placement. When your pipeline is scattered across a job board, a spreadsheet, a texting app, and three inboxes, speed dies in the gaps. ATS Mako pulls every recruiting tool into one platform where communication is the core — so you message, move, and manage thousands of candidates instantly, on a system branded as yours.
The cost of moving slow.
Speed-to-candidate is bleeding you placements
In staffing, the second-fastest recruiter goes home empty. But when reaching a candidate means switching from your ATS to a personal phone or a separate texting tool, every outreach takes minutes you don't have. The candidate you sourced this morning signed with the agency that texted them first. ATS Mako makes SMS and email the core of the platform — first touch happens where the candidate already lives, the second you find them.
Five disconnected tools, one fractured pipeline
Job board here. Resume database there. Texting app on someone's phone. Email in Outlook. A spreadsheet duct-taping it together. Every handoff between tools is a place candidates fall through, statuses go stale, and your recruiters spend the day as administrators instead of closers. ATS Mako replaces the stack: all your recruiting tools, one platform, from first touch to offer letter.
High volume buries your best candidates
A hot req can pull hundreds of applicants overnight. Manually combing every one means your strongest matches sit cold while you dig. ATS Mako's AI surfaces the best candidates against the role so your team works the top of the pile first — stop guessing, start knowing, and let recruiters close instead of search.
Your brand vanishes the moment candidates engage
You sell clients on your firm, then candidates land in a portal stamped with some vendor's logo. The brand you built gets diluted at the exact moment trust matters most. ATS Mako is fully white-label: your logo, your colors, your domain across every touchpoint — so candidates and clients only ever experience you.
Good candidates go cold while you chase the next order
Manual follow-up is the first thing to slip when you're slammed across dozens of reqs, and a qualified candidate who doesn't hear back goes dark. ATS Mako runs automated triggers for follow-up — set the trigger, we handle the rest — so no one in your pipeline falls silent while your team works the next placement.
Compliance risk grows with every text you send
High-volume SMS and email get harder to keep clean by hand as your team scales, and a missed opt-out or quiet-hour send is a risk you can't afford. ATS Mako builds consent capture, Reply STOP, quiet-hours handling, and email unsubscribe into outreach so you can message at scale responsibly.
A faster hiring engine, branded as yours.
ATS Mako brings every recruiting tool into one platform — built for staffing & recruiting firms.
- One platform replaces roughly five disconnected tools — job board, resume database, texting app, email, and spreadsheets collapse into a single pipeline from first touch to offer letter.
- Message, move, and manage thousands of candidates instantly with SMS and email built in as the core, not bolted on as an add-on.
- AI surfaces your strongest matches on every req, so recruiters work the top of the pile first and close instead of search.
- Automated triggers handle the follow-up — set the trigger, we handle the rest — so no qualified candidate goes cold while your team chases the next order.
- Full white-label branding: your logo, your colors, your domain on every candidate and client touchpoint, reinforcing your firm at every step.
- Built-in compliance guardrails for outreach — consent capture, Reply STOP opt-out, and quiet-hours handling for SMS, plus unsubscribe for email — so you scale high-volume messaging without scaling risk.
Features built for this
Recruiters and teams that switched to Mako.
No scripts, no spin — straight from teams running their hiring on ATS Mako.
The MAKO team listened to the recruiting needs for our ICLs and created a program that is second to none. We now have extremely efficient and effective processes with a development team that continues to provide us with updates and impeccable service.
We love that everything is right there. It’s a one stop shop — from applicants, to onboarding, to training. We believe this will be the future of building seamless organizations.
The service is already great and is being improved daily to fit our exact recruiting needs. The support the Mako team provides is next to none! Extremely fast to respond and very willing to listen to and implement any suggestions!
The whole team have been so helpful and communicative throughout this whole process. The system is exactly what we need and anything we need is adjusted, they have been here to help!
We’re obsessed with how easy Mako was to set up! Designed for recruiters, by recruiters, it’s packed with smart features — from built-in texting and detailed reports to a simple onboarding process with all your files in one place.
ATS Mako has transformed our recruiting process. It keeps our team organized, improves follow-up, and gives us clear visibility into every applicant. The platform is easy to use, powerful, and essential for growth.
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Read moreStaffing & Recruiting Firms FAQ
Is ATS Mako really built for high-volume staffing, or just adapted from a corporate HR tool?
It's built for staffing at scale. Where corporate ATS tools assume you're filling a handful of internal roles, ATS Mako assumes you're working dozens of orders and thousands of candidates across multiple clients at once. Communication is the core — message, move, and manage candidates in bulk — and AI surfaces your best matches so recruiters close instead of search. Designed for recruiters, not administrators.
How does the SMS and email actually help us beat other agencies to candidates?
Because outreach lives inside the platform, not in a separate app, your recruiters reach candidates the moment they're sourced — from first touch to offer letter without ever switching tools. You can send personalized SMS and email at scale and set automated triggers for follow-up, so the candidate hears from you first and keeps hearing from you. In staffing, speed-to-candidate wins placements, and that's exactly what the platform is engineered for.
Can we put our own brand on it for candidates and clients?
Yes. ATS Mako is fully white-label. Your logo, your colors, your domain appear across every candidate-facing and client-facing touchpoint. Update once, deploy everywhere. Your candidates experience your firm, not a vendor's — which protects the brand you sell clients on every day.
We text candidates constantly — how does ATS Mako keep that compliant?
SMS outreach in the US is governed by TCPA, which requires prior consent, a clear Reply STOP opt-out, and respect for quiet hours; email falls under CAN-SPAM, which requires a working unsubscribe. ATS Mako builds these guardrails into your messaging so you can run high-volume outreach without managing the compliance plumbing by hand. It's built to help you message at scale responsibly — your team should still follow its own consent and outreach policies.
What does it cost to get a staffing team started?
Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, no setup fees, and no contracts. Reef Shark runs $149/mo and Tiger Shark $299/mo, with Great White ($799/mo) coming soon for larger operations. You can put the full platform in front of your recruiters and see the pipeline come together before you commit a dollar.
How does the AI candidate surfacing actually work on a high-volume req?
When a req pulls hundreds of applicants, ATS Mako's AI ranks candidates against the role so your recruiters see the strongest matches at the top of the pile first, instead of combing every resume by hand. It's a way to focus your team's time where it pays off — your recruiters always make the final call on who to advance and place.
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