Track candidates, manage interviews, and hire talent in an AI-powered portal built with AI to fit your staffing agency's workflow.




Customize your custom recruitment portal with the exact stages and views your team needs. Add features as hiring processes evolve—no code needed.






Connect your recruitment portal to Airtable or Google Sheets. Keep all your candidate resumes, interview scores, and status updates in one secure, centralized database.
Give your recruiters and candidates the professional experience they deserve with secure access and real-time automation.
Allow candidates to update their own contact details and upload the latest versions of their resumes directly to your database.
Allow candidates to update their own contact details and upload the latest versions of their resumes directly to your database.
Quickly find the right talent by filtering candidates by skill sets, experience levels, or requested salary ranges.
Define exactly what each team member can see or edit based on their specific role within your staffing agency.
Review resumes and manage interview schedules on the go from any mobile device, tablet, or laptop.
Move candidates through your pipeline instantly with buttons to trigger emails, schedule calls, or update statuses.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.

Launch your hiring tool in minutes using intuitive drag-and-drop features designed for business teams.

Scale from a simple tracker to a complex ATS as your talent pool and agency requirements grow.

Replace multiple expensive subscriptions with one versatile platform for all your internal hiring tools.
Co-build with AI
Simply describe what you need. Let Softr handle everything - Interface, database, workflows.
Iterate with AI or visually
Control most critical parts of your app yourself - roles, permissions, security.
Ship the same day
Invite team members or external clients and partners right away. No developer handover.
Use drag-and-drop blocks to build a portal that looks sleek and modern out of the box. Add only the features you need, and iterate as your workflows evolve.




A custom recruitment portal is a secure, branded space where your hiring managers and candidates can log in to manage job applications, interview feedback, and candidate documents. It centralizes all your hiring communication in one place, so you don't have to rely on fragmented email chains or clunky spreadsheets to track your pipeline. This makes it easier to stay organized and provide a professional, seamless experience for both your recruiting team and potential hires.
Softr is the first AI-native platform for building business software, making it easy to create a custom recruitment portal that fits your specific hiring process. You can describe your workflow to the AI Co-Builder to instantly generate your candidate database, job boards, and application logic—already connected and secure.
You don't need to code anything. You can start by generating with AI, using a pre-built ATS template, or building from scratch. Everything runs on Softr Databases, the native, relational database built into the platform, or you can connect external tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, or SmartSuite. You have full control to adjust the layout visually, decide which hiring managers see specific candidate data, and brand the portal to match your company’s identity. It's quick to get up and running, simple to update as your hiring needs change, and flexible enough to scale from ten to a thousand hires.
You can include a wide range of features in your custom recruitment portal, depending on how your hiring team operates. A great ATS app usually mixes classic functional blocks with AI-powered intelligence:
- AI-Powered Intelligence – Use Ask AI to let hiring managers query candidate data conversationally, or set up Database AI Agents to automatically summarize long applicant resumes or rank candidates based on job descriptions.
- Vibe Coding Blocks – Build custom UI elements—like a dynamic candidate scoring slider or a drag-and-drop interview scheduler—using the AI Code block to "vibe code" exactly what your team requires.
- Softr Workflows – Build native automations (like an automatic email notification to a candidate) that trigger whenever an application status is moved to 'Hired' or a button is clicked.
- User Portals & Logins – Securely manage access so external candidates only see their application status while hiring managers access internal reviews.
- Forms & Data Collection – Capture applicant data with custom forms, resume file uploads, and conditional logic for specific job roles.
- Dashboards & Charts – Visualize your recruitment funnel performance and time-to-hire metrics with real-time charts and summaries.
- Lists & Advanced Filtering – Display and manage your candidate pipeline with searchable tables, kanban boards for stages, and detailed profile views.
Everything is built using Softr's drag-and-drop blocks, so you can create these features without writing code. Need something more bespoke? Use the Vibe Coding block to generate a tailored component with AI. And as your recruiting strategy evolves, it's easy to update the portal later.
Vibe coding is all about moving fast and using AI to build exactly what you need for your hiring process. You can "vibe code" a custom recruitment portal in Softr by simply describing your specific workflow—like a multi-stage interview pipeline—to the AI Co-Builder. Softr then generates a production-ready application on top of a stable, secure foundation.
Unlike other tools that just generate raw, fragile code, Softr handles the "boring 80%"—like applicant authentication, database logic, and permission security—natively. This means you get the speed of vibe coding without the "Day Two" headaches of managing raw code for candidate data. You describe the recruitment flow, Softr builds it, and it’s ready for your HR team and candidates instantly.
Yes. You can manage multiple internal hiring teams or even external headhunters in a single portal. Each user only sees the specific candidates and job postings assigned to them, based on their login and role. This is useful for large organizations with diverse departments or recruitment agencies working with multiple client stakeholders.
Yes, you can. You don't need to bring your candidate data from somewhere else to start building your custom recruitment portal. If you're starting from scratch, you can use Softr Databases, which is built into the platform and integrates perfectly with the application you build.
But if you already have candidate information in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Notion, or even SQL databases, you can connect those too. You can also use the REST API connector to sync data from existing HRIS systems. Either way, you have full control over how your recruitment data is structured and displayed in your portal.
Softr Databases is the recommended native, relational data source for your custom recruitment portal. It is built explicitly for business apps, offering the highest performance for candidate tracking, instant automation triggers for status changes, and a lightning-fast experience because the data is native to the platform.
If you already have your recruiting data elsewhere, Softr also connects to 17+ external data sources. You can connect to Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, SmartSuite, BigQuery, and more. You can even integrate multiple data sources into the same app—so your portal could pull in internal candidate records from Softr Databases and external leads from HubSpot at once. Most sources support real-time, two-way sync, so any updates made in your recruitment app stay in sync automatically.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how applicants and hiring managers experience your custom recruitment portal. You can customize the layout, navigation, and content to match your employer brand and interview workflow. Each page or block can be shown or hidden based on who's logged in, so applicants only see their individual progress while recruiters see the full pipeline.
You can also set up different user roles, such as Recruiter, Hiring Manager, or Candidate—and define exactly what each role can view or edit. For example, candidates can only edit their contact info and upload resumes, while internal users can leave interview feedback. You can also create personalized views by filtering job listings based on the logged-in candidate's location or industry.
This level of customization is especially useful when you're managing hundreds of applicants across different departments. It helps keep the experience clean, secure, and tailored to every stakeholder.
Yes, you can fully white-label your custom recruitment portal in Softr. You can use your own company logo, brand colors, typography, and a custom domain (like jobs.yourcompany.com) to make the portal feel like a natural extension of your careers page. You can also remove all Softr branding, so your candidates and team members only see your company's professional identity throughout the application process.
Yes, you can. Softr gives you a lot of flexibility to control both the design and layout of your custom recruitment portal. You can adjust brand styles, spacing, and page structure to match your corporate identity. You can also choose how each page is organized, decide which candidate data blocks go where, and set what different users see when they log in to the ATS.
To display your candidate data, you can add different types of blocks depending on what you need:
- Table blocks – to show a high-level overview of applicants and their progress
- List or Card blocks – to highlight detailed candidate profiles with headshots and skills
- Detail View – to show a deep dive into an applicant's resume and feedback
- Forms – for application submissions and interviewer scorecards
- Charts – to show hiring speed and diversity metrics
- Calendar blocks – to display upcoming interview schedules and panel times
If your hiring process or design needs change later, it's easy to go back and make updates right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with enterprise-grade security in mind. All candidate data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, and your recruitment portals are hosted on secure, reliable infrastructure. Softr apps also give you full control over sensitive PII (Personally Identifiable Information). You can set up role-based permissions, manage users directly within your data source, set visibility rules, and apply global restrictions to protect resume data across your entire app.
For portals using Softr Databases, your candidate data is stored in Softr's secure environment, with all data hosted in Europe (Germany) and SOC 2 Type II compliance. For apps connected to external data sources like Airtable or SQL, Softr doesn't store your data—it just displays it in real time based on your access settings. You're always in control of your data and which recruiter can view or edit it.
Softr also follows industry best practices for authentication, access control, and platform monitoring to help keep applicant information safe and compliant with data privacy laws.
It is fully production-ready. Unlike many AI tools that just "vibe code"—generating fragile, custom code for a job board that is hard to maintain—Softr builds your custom recruitment portal on top of a stable, business-grade foundation.
We handle the "boring 80%" (like secure applicant auth, reliable resumes hosting, and granular recruiter permissions) natively, so you don't have to. This solves the "Day Two" problem of AI: you get the speed of instant ATS generation without the headache of managing raw, unreliable code. Your recruiting app is secure, scalable, and ready for your HR team to start hiring from day one.
Softr is the first AI-native platform for building business software. Unlike pure "vibe coding" tools that generate fragile candidate tracking code, or traditional no-code platforms that require weeks of manual configuration, Softr's AI Co-Builder creates custom recruitment portals on top of a secure, production-ready foundation.
What sets it apart is the hybrid advantage: you can use AI to generate your candidate database, application forms, and hiring logic in minutes, then use visual controls for precise editing. You get the speed of AI with the reliability of business-grade infrastructure (enterprise auth, recruiter roles, and applicant permissions) already built-in. It's designed for non-technical HR teams who want to move from a basic spreadsheet to a professional recruitment portal on day one.
Yes. Softr supports powerful native workflows and a wide range of integrations so you can connect your custom recruitment portal to the rest of your HR stack. You can automate tasks using Softr Workflows, like sending a calendar invite via Google Calendar when an interview is scheduled, or sync with tools like Stripe for referral bonuses. Softr also supports REST API and webhooks for more advanced flows like background checks.
Whether you need to send candidate data to a payroll system, trigger Slack notifications for new applications, or display information from LinkedIn, you can build it into your recruitment portal without writing code.
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