Hiring Process3 min read

What Happens When You Connect Your ATS to Pickr for 5 Minutes

The Pickr AI Process Audit connects to any ATS, analyzes your hiring data, and shows you exactly where your process loses time and candidates. Free. No signup.

Andreas Gruber·

Most recruitment teams know their process has problems. What most teams do not have is the number. Specifically: at which stage do we lose the most time? Which bottleneck is costing us candidates? Which interviewer is the consistent delay?

Without the number you are guessing at fixes. With the number you are fixing the actual problem.

What the audit produces

Connect your ATS to Pickr. Read-only OAuth. The report generates in under two minutes.

Your time-per-stage breakdown

Every stage in your pipeline, with the average days candidates spend there. Each one benchmarked against companies at your stage — so you see not just your numbers but whether those numbers are normal.

Candidate drop-off by stage

Where are candidates withdrawing or going silent? The audit shows the exact stage where your pipeline loses the most candidates, and whether that rate is above or below benchmark.

Scorecard compliance

What percentage of your interviews have a scorecard submitted within 48 hours? This single number predicts a surprising amount of downstream process quality. Most teams overestimate it by 30–40 points.

Time from final interview to offer

The single number that correlates most strongly with strong-candidate loss. If it is over 5 days, you are losing candidates to competing offers. If it is over 10 days, you are definitely losing them.

Three prioritised recommendations

Not ten things. Three, ranked by expected impact. The audit does not produce a general to-do list. It produces the three changes that, based on where your specific process is breaking, will have the largest effect.

Who this is for

The audit is useful if you are:

  • Running a recruitment agency and want to understand where client mandates are taking longer than they should
  • An in-house talent team lead who suspects a specific stage is the bottleneck but lacks the data to confirm it
  • A founder or COO who has heard "the hiring process is fine" but has seen strong candidates disappear

It is not useful if your ATS is not yet one of the supported platforms, or if you have fewer than 10 completed hiring processes in your history — the benchmark comparisons need a minimum dataset to be meaningful.

Run your audit

pickr.dev/audit

Select your ATS. Click Connect. Authorise read-only access. Report ready in under two minutes. No email required.

— Andreas Gruber, Founder, Pickr

Frequently Asked Questions

Which ATS does the Pickr audit support?+

Currently Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, Bullhorn, Teamtailor, and Manatal.

Is the audit actually free?+

Yes. No credit card. No signup required for the basic report.

What data does Pickr access?+

Read-only access to process metadata: stage history, interview dates, scorecard timestamps, offer dates. Never reads personal candidate data.

How long does the connection take?+

Under 3 minutes including OAuth. Report ready in 1-2 minutes.

Run your free hiring process audit

Connect your ATS in 3 minutes. Get a full breakdown of where your process loses time and candidates — with three prioritised fixes.

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Andreas Gruber

Founder of Pickr and ScalingPPL. Former recruiter who placed engineers and operators into European startups and scale-ups for four years before building the tool he wished had existed.

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