Why Pickr exists
I built Pickr so recruiting software does the work, not just the record-keeping.
Built by entrepreneurs and recruiters, for recruiters.
I run ScalingPPL, a recruitment agency, and I built Pickr out of Austria, with a background in the Silicon Valley and European startup and scale-up scene. In recruiting, what decides a hire is conversations and judgement. Most of the week goes to everything around them: sourcing lists, candidate emails, scheduling, interview notes, chasing feedback and reports.
Most ATS platforms were built for compliance and record-keeping, and for HR departments hiring for one company. An agency recruiter running fifteen mandates across eight clients, or an in-house team hiring against a deadline, needs software that does the admin instead of storing it.
The problem
Agency recruiting is a different job. You don't hire for one company, you run pipelines for many, each with its own process, its own stakeholders, its own definition of “good.” Your real product is speed and judgment. Yet your software makes you pay for both: hours of admin per placement, and decisions made on gut feel because the data is scattered across seven tabs.
Meanwhile AI arrived, and most of the industry added a chatbot on top of a fifteen-year-old data model.
The solution
So I built Pickr. An ATS that thinks like a recruiter because it was built by one. AI-native: match scores, drafted follow-ups, interview debriefs, and pipeline insights are the foundation, not features. Agency-first: multi-client pipelines, client portals, and placement tracking are the default data model, not a plugin. DSGVO-compliant by default: candidate data and compute both in Frankfurt, Germany, AVV included, no training on your candidate data, because your clients will ask, and the answer should take one sentence.
Pickr exists so recruiters can spend their hours where they actually win: in conversations with candidates and clients. The software should do the rest. Now it does.
Andreas Amann
Founder, Pickr
Andreas Amann – built Pickr out of Austria, with a background in the Silicon Valley and European startup and scale-up scene.
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