AI applicant tracking system

The AI ATS built for multi-stream hiring

Pinpoint brings AI to every part of hiring, whether your teams are desk-based or deskless, early career or executive. It takes care of the repetitive work and supports your team on the calls that need real judgment, so the decisions that matter stay with the people making them.

Chosen by leading talent acquisition and HR teams

Why an AI ATS needs your whole hiring picture

An AI ATS is an applicant tracking system with AI built into the hiring workflow, from hiring manager intake, through sourcing, screening and selection.

Pinpoint is an AI applicant tracking system built for organizations hiring across multiple teams, regions, and role types. Unlike an ATS where AI is layered onto disconnected tools and data, Pinpoint brings recruiters, talent acquisition teams, and hiring managers together in one system, creating a shared record of every conversation, decision, and piece of candidate feedback.

That gives Pinpoint’s AI the context to understand your complete hiring process and how candidates move through it. With the full hiring journey in one place, AI-powered sourcing, screening, automation, and guidance can be more accurate, relevant, and easier to trust. So your team can use AI effectively and at scale.

What you can do with AI in Pinpoint

Pinpoint pairs automation for the routine work with AI for the work that needs judgment, all built into hiring, with a person in control of every decision. Here's what that looks like day to day.

Drafting

Draft the message in your own voice

Pinpoint's AI Hiring Copilot handles the writing across your hiring, from job descriptions to candidate emails to rejections. Each draft is grounded in the role and the candidate record, so it reads as specific and personal rather than generic, and everything waits on your approval before it sends.

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Sourcing

Rebuild your pipeline from people you already know

Open AI Hiring Copilot in your job dashboard and ask it to find candidates from your database. It searches your entire talent pool, from past applicants and silver medalists to candidates you've sourced before, to uncover the best matches for your role.

Screening

Get to a shortlist you can stand behind

Use Pinpoint's AI features together to get you from a full pipeline to a shortlist you trust. Filter on the criteria that matter, rank candidates by match score with the reasoning shown, turn requirements into scored checks, and let automatic skill tagging surface the right people faster. Anonymized screening keeps early review focused on the work, not personal details.

Selecting

Make the close calls with confidence

When your finalists are close, ask Pinpoint's AI Hiring Copilot to compare them against the job's key criteria and the must-haves and nice-to-haves from the original intake. You'll get a clear read on each candidate's strengths and the gaps worth exploring, so a hard, subjective choice becomes an evidenced one, with the decision still in your hands.

Briefing

Walk into every interview prepared

Briefing gets your team ready for every conversation. Create and save your favorite prompts for a quick turnaround: Pinpoint can summarize a candidate's history, build an interview brief for the next round, recommend questions to ask, or highlight where earlier interviewers disagreed most in their scorecards, so you focus on what's still unresolved.

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Reporting

Build your reports using plain language

Ask Pinpoint's AI Hiring Copilot for the report you need in plain language and it builds the dashboard for you. Share it with your leadership team without waiting on an analytics request or the next reporting cycle, and keep it private while you refine it or open it up to the people who need the view.

Connecting

Bring Pinpoint into the AI tools you already use

Pinpoint's MCP server connects your hiring data to the AI assistants your team already works in, like Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT. Ask those tools about your candidates, roles, and pipeline and get answers grounded in Pinpoint, with Pinpoint staying the trusted system of record.

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More ways teams use AI in Pinpoint

Filter and organize candidates with your own AI fields
Score candidates against your criteria and see the reasoning
Tag candidate skills automatically to speed up search
Summarize every interview automatically with AI Notetaker
Turn role requirements into scored, yes-or-no checks
Answer candidate questions around the clock
Hide personal details in early review to keep the focus on the work
Capture and reuse role requirements as intake notes
Automate the repeatable work, from scheduling to replies to SLAs
Save and reuse your best prompts
Bring Pinpoint into the AI assistants your team already use with MCP
“Tasks that once took days now happen in minutes, and the process runs on its own. Hiring managers even asked if I'd been working weekends because everything kept moving. It's given me back hours every week and made the whole process run far more efficiently.”
Jed Shaw
Talent Acquisition Manager, CDL

How does Pinpoint keep a human in control when AI is used?

Pinpoint keeps a human in control by requiring a person at every decision point. AI surfaces the insight, and your recruiters and hiring managers make the call. Every output is explainable, so you can check the reasoning behind any score, and every AI feature is opt-in.
A person decides, every time
AI surfaces the insight. Your recruiters and hiring managers make the call. A human is required at each decision point, by design.
You can always see the reasoning
Every AI output is explainable and auditable, so you can check why a candidate was scored the way they were. If we can't explain it, we don't build it.
Your data stays yours
Pinpoint doesn't use your data to train, fine-tune, or improve any AI model, and every feature is opt-in.
Driven by your input, not your history
Pinpoint's AI works from what you ask it in the moment and the data you point it at, not from patterns in who you've hired before.
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Strengthened

candidate engagement

Increased

candidate trust

Reduced

reliance on paid ads

“Pinpoint has completely changed how we work. We're more efficient, more consistent, and better equipped to give every candidate a great experience.”
Emma Bishop
Resourcing Manager, Blue Cross
Healthcare

Centralized

hiring across multiple states

Faster

and more consistent hiring for a one-person team

Fewer

interview no-shows for high-volume roles

“I don't see us outgrowing Pinpoint. The team's commitment to customer feedback and continuous product improvement makes them a partner we're excited to build with long term.”
Taylor Griesbach
Talent Acquisition Partner
Professional Services

Lower

risk of candidates stalling

Improved

visibility for TA leaders and stakeholders

3,500

employees supported in the states

“I just love that I can manage everything and every role in one place without having to jump between systems.”
Liz Mellor
Head of Talent Acquisition for North America, Davies Group
Technology

30%

reduction in time to hire

100%

acceptance-to-start rate

Faster responses

fewer delays for candidates

“Pinpoint has changed how we work with people. The whole process feels more connected, more efficient, and more human.”
Jed Shaw
Talent Acquisition Manager, CDL
See Pinpoint's AI in action
Book a demo and we'll show you how Pinpoint brings AI to your whole hiring process, with your team in control.
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“The thing that surprised me most about Pinpoint was that it was so well-received. I have a passionate group of people who demand excellence, and the fact that they've picked it up and run with it says everything.”
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“The ability for different interviewers to join with different roles, interview questions that could be ranked and weighted. The analytics is super relevant.”
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Simon N.
“As a global HR Director, Pinpoint would have aced our spec list and delighted us with many features.”
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Vicky Watson
Head of HR, Tata Chemicals
“My team all tease me that people will think I'm working for Pinpoint because I love it so much, but it genuinely is really good. It's done everything we wanted it to and more.”
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AI applicant tracking system FAQs

An AI ATS is an applicant tracking system with artificial intelligence built into the hiring workflow. It uses AI to help with tasks like reading resumés, scoring candidates against your criteria, summarizing interviews, and drafting candidate messages, while a person stays in control of every decision.

AI recruiting software is technology that uses artificial intelligence to support hiring, from attracting and screening candidates to scheduling and selection. The strongest AI recruiting software works on complete, consistent hiring data, which is why it belongs inside the system your whole team already uses.

They overlap. AI recruiting software is the broad category for any AI that supports hiring. An AI ATS is an applicant tracking system with that AI built in, so candidate data, automation, and AI all live in one place rather than scattered across separate tools.

No. Pinpoint's AI surfaces insight, and your recruiters and hiring managers make the call. A human is required at each decision point.

An AI ATS reduces bias by removing personal details from early review, scoring every candidate against the same criteria, and showing the reasoning behind each score so a person can challenge it. Pinpoint's AI works from what you ask it and the context you point it at, not based on automatically learning from who you've hired before.

Pinpoint's MCP server connects your hiring data to AI assistants like Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT, so your team can ask about candidates, roles, and pipeline in the tools they already work in. Pinpoint stays the system of record, and every answer is grounded in your own hiring data.

Yes, and high-volume hiring is where the difference shows most clearly, because the screening load is the bottleneck rather than the sourcing. Pinpoint's AI scores and ranks large candidate pools against the criteria you set, so your team reviews a shortlist instead of a spreadsheet. See our guide to high-volume hiring.

No. Pinpoint doesn't use your data to train, fine-tune, or improve any AI model. AI features are opt-in, and you control what's switched on. You can read all about the security and our approach to Pinpoint AI here.

Yes, but AI in hiring is increasingly regulated, and the rules vary by region. Pinpoint gives you the tooling to meet them, including candidate notifications, audit logs, and disclosures, so you choose what to share and when.

Yes. Pinpoint works as a full applicant tracking system with every AI feature switched off, so you can migrate first and adopt AI later. Teams often start with AI off, turn on one feature such as AI Notetaker for a single hiring team, and expand from there once people trust it.