The Workable alternative for growing teams that need more hiring control

Pinpoint is a Workable alternative for organizations whose hiring has outgrown a one-size setup. Where Workable has widened into HRIS and payroll, Pinpoint goes deep on hiring: flexibility and control, kept easy enough that recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates all use it. When everything is done in the system, the system knows everything that's happening meaning AI and automation can actually deliver on their promise.

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Pinpoint vs Workable: Everything you need to compare

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Pinpoint
Workable
Best fit
Enterprise, mid-market, and high-volume teams that want to do more with less and believe that strong adoption, AI, and automation can help them achieve that.
Fast-growing small teams that want to launch hiring quickly with low overhead, with built-in HR and payroll in the same platform.
Ease of use
Deeply configurable with an interface designed for ease of use that drives strong adoption among recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates (G2 4.8; SSR ease of use 4.7)
Highly rated for ease of use and quick to set up for straightforward hiring (G2 4.4).
Ability to evolve configuration over time
Users can adjust their own configuration (workflows, forms, templates, reporting) easily at any time, with or without help from Pinpoint's team.
Configurable and quick to set up; some customers report that workflow changes, such as requisition edits, can require re-running approvals.
Multi-stream hiring
A flexible architecture built for enterprise multi-stream hiring across corporate, frontline, high-volume, early-career, and experienced hires in one platform.
Optimized for a single, streamlined hiring shape; some customers report it's harder to model multi-brand or multi-path hiring.
All-in-one pre-hire breadth
Comprehensive pre-hire suite covering Plan, Attract, Engage, Select and Onboard. One of few ATSs to include native background checks, one-way video interviews, reference checks, and interview transcription within the suite.
A broad platform spanning hiring plus HRIS and payroll; some pre-hire capabilities such as background checks and reference checks require a third-party integration, though it has a strong integration marketplace.
Enterprise track record
Global enterprise client base with customers recruiting in 160+ countries; track record of rollouts for organizations hiring 15,000+ people a year.
30,000+ companies across 100+ countries; founded in 2012, now expanding from hiring into HRIS, time-tracking, and payroll.
AI approach & governance
AI is opt-in, transparent, and human-supervised. Customer data is never used to train external models; backed by ISO 42001.
AI-forward, with the agentic Workable Agent and an open MCP server; designed to align with the EU AI Act.
Switching and data migration
Migrate your jobs, candidates, pipeline stages, resumes, and notes yourself, or our migrations team does it for you in 15 business days. There's no hiring freeze, we remap and test your integrations before go-live, and you choose what to bring across.
Workable supports one-time migration from a range of supported ATSs, with several import pathways and a dedicated contact through the process.

Why Pinpoint is a better alternative for TA teams being asked to do more with less

Adoption across your whole hiring team
Pinpoint is built to be intuitive for everyone who touches hiring: recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates. That matters even more when hiring runs across several teams and brands, because a system people genuinely use is the only way your data stays complete and accurate. And clean data is exactly what AI and automation need to deliver real efficiency, rather than add noise.
A platform that evolves with you
Going live is the start, not the finish. As your organization grows and the market shifts, you can adjust workflows, automations, forms, templates, and reporting yourself, whenever you need, with or without our team. Careful design work keeps even technical-looking changes simple, so Pinpoint stays deeply flexible without ever becoming hard to use, and keeps pace as your hiring changes shape.
More of hiring, in one platform
Workable has stretched wide, adding HRIS, time-tracking, and payroll. Pinpoint goes the other way, deeper on hiring itself. Background checks, one-way video interviews, reference checks, and interview transcription are built in natively, rather than pieced together from separate tools. That means fewer systems to learn, fewer integrations and handoffs, and a complete picture of hiring in one place, so reporting, automation, and AI all become more powerful, whether you hire under one brand or many.

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The top reasons hiring teams choose Pinpoint over Workable

More of your hiring data in one system
Flexibility and control, in your hands
A candidate experience that converts
A strong foundation for AI and automation
Service and partnership that lasts past go-live
Automation that runs the repetitive work for you

More of your hiring data in one system

Pinpoint covers the whole pre-hire journey in one place: Plan, Attract, Engage, Select, and Onboard. It's one of few ATSs to include background checks, one-way video interviews, reference checks, and interview transcription natively. Because more of your hiring runs in a single system, more of your hiring data lives there too, which makes reporting simpler and more complete, and gives automation and AI the full, consistent picture they need to work powerfully and personally for your team.

A Pinpoint candidate profile with a one-way video interview and AI summary, part of Pinpoint's all-in-one pre-hire suite

Flexibility and control, in your hands

Pinpoint bends to fit how you hire, instead of asking you to hire the way the software expects. It's deeply configurable, and the controls stay with your team: adjust workflows, automations, forms, templates, and reporting yourself, no support queue required. Run multiple brands, regions, and locations from one instance, each with its own careers site, candidate experience, and workflow, with reporting rolled up across all of them.

Building a custom hiring workflow and stages in Pinpoint's self-serve configuration

A candidate experience that converts

Candidates get answers the moment they have questions. Pinpoint's built-in AI candidate chat, Candidate Companion, guides applicants through the process in plain language, so fewer drop out from confusion or friction. They can apply without creating an account or password too, which counts when around 60% walk away from an application that's too long or complex. A smoother, more responsive experience means more of the right people reach the end.

A candidate browsing Pinpoint's branded careers site with an AI assistant and text updates

A strong foundation for AI and automation

Plenty of platforms now lead with AI and agentic recruiting. Pinpoint isn't just another ATS with AI. Pinpoint has invested heavily in creating the conditions under which automation and AI deliver. Those conditions are complete, accurate, consistent data, which only comes from adoption, flexibility, and control together. A human stays in the loop at every step, so AI surfaces the insight and your team decides, which matters more than ever when you're asked to do more with less.

Pinpoint's AI scorecard summary and Hiring Copilot recapping a candidate's interviews

Service and partnership that lasts past go-live

Every Pinpoint customer gets a named Customer Success Manager, access to our Technical Account Management team, and human support that answers in under two minutes on average. Go-live is the beginning of the relationship, not the end of it, and we stay hands-on as your hiring changes shape.

A Pinpoint customer's onboarding journey from discovery to ongoing support
Automation that runs the repetitive work for you

Pinpoint's automation builder is unique among ATSs in its breadth and depth, built around the way recruiting actually works rather than generic if-this-then-that rules. Move candidates between stages, send emails and tasks, schedule interviews, request feedback, and keep everyone in the loop automatically, with different logic for different brands and hiring streams. Your team builds and edits it all without code, so the repetitive work runs itself and recruiters get their time back for people.

pinpoint ats ui example of automations in the platform to help make hiring easier
Pinpoint capabilities

Where Pinpoint wins

Multi-stream hiring across industries

Run different hiring models, workflows, and candidate journeys across industries from one platformshort

Native pre-hire capabilities

Manage pre-hire workflows in Pinpoint without stitching together extra tools

Self-serve administration for careers site

Update careers-site content and hiring workflows without waiting on dev support

Multibrand single-instance

Manage multiple brands, workflows, and candidate experiences in one central ATS

Switching from Workable to Pinpoint

Move your hiring to Pinpoint without the disruption. Here's how switching from Workable works, and what comes with you.
How your move works
Agree what to bring across, then migrate it yourself with in-platform tools and our API, or have our migrations team do it (about 15 business days). We remap and test your integrations before go-live, and there's no hiring freeze.
What comes with you, your choice
Your jobs, candidates and their pipeline stage, talent pools and CRM contacts, resumes and attached files, and historic notes and comments. Bring your full history or just active jobs and recent candidates, and leave behind anything you don't need.
More of your hiring runs natively
Background checks, reference checks, one-way video interviewing, and transcription run natively in Pinpoint, and we connect to your HRIS, job boards, and calendars through hundreds of pre-built integrations, so there are fewer point tools to rebuild.
Support through the move and after
A dedicated implementation manager takes you from signing to go-live, with an onboarding portal and project plan. Your customer success manager then helps you keep evolving your setup as your hiring changes.
“Pinpoint took that rough idea and made it go live incredibly quickly. The evolution of the tool has been really key in how we mature and how we make the process easier for everyone.”
Brad Clark
Director of Talent Acquisition, Article
Hospitality

65%  

reduction in time to hire

Streamlined

casting day coordination

Increased

candidate communication

“With these new tools, we’ve set a good foundation to scale our hiring while maintaining our culture and delivering a really great candidate and employee experience.”
Michael Easton
Head of Employee Value Proposition, citizenM
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Nonprofit

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
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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
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Retail

Centralized

visibility on all candidates

100+

locations supported

Strengthened

hiring manager adoption

“It’s been really lovely using Pinpoint to align things a bit more. Across the board now, all of our candidates are getting a more similar experience, and the communication they’re getting is much stronger.”
Adam Barnes
UK&I Retailer, Lush
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Workable x Pinpoint FAQ

If your hiring has outgrown a one-size setup, Pinpoint is the Workable alternative worth a serious look. It pairs enterprise-grade flexibility with an experience easy enough that your whole team actually uses it, and that adoption keeps your hiring data clean, which is exactly what AI and automation need to deliver.

Both are capable, well-rated platforms with global customers. The clearest difference is direction: Workable has widened into HRIS, time-tracking, and payroll, while Pinpoint has gone deeper on hiring. Pinpoint is built for multi-stream and multi-brand hiring, includes more of the pre-hire process natively, and pairs ease of use with the flexibility that keeps data clean enough for AI to work.

Usually because their hiring has grown past what one streamlined setup can handle. As roles span more brands, regions, and ways of working, different configurations are required to handle the differences. Other teams are looking to leverage automation more to drive efficiency, or to bring more of the process into one place, and stop paying for add-ons piece by piece. The trigger is often when the TA team is asked to deliver more with less and they re-evaluate their ATS.

Workable is genuinely easy to use, and so is Pinpoint, at 4.8 on G2 and Capterra against Workable's 4.4. So this isn't really an ease contest. The difference is that Pinpoint stays just as easy while carrying far more flexibility, so it can support more complexity without pushing that complexity onto the people using it every day.

Yes, comfortably. Pinpoint serves enterprise, mid-market, and high-volume teams, with a global client base recruiting in 168 countries and rollouts for organizations hiring 15,000 or more people a year. It's backed by ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and SOC 2 Type II, supports SSO and SCIM provisioning, and has hundreds of out of the box integrations (alongside an integrations team who deliver custom integrations when required).

Workable is fast to switch on, often live in hours, which suits small teams that need to start hiring right away. It publishes transparent tiered pricing, which makes budgeting quick. And its move into HRIS, time-tracking, and payroll can appeal to a smaller organization that wants all of HR from a single vendor.

Pinpoint is built for the complexity that comes with mid-market and enterprise hiring, where Workable is optimized for a simpler, single-shape setup. Your team can adjust workflows, forms, and reporting themselves instead of logging a request, and you get native background checks, video interviews, reference checks, and transcription, plus an automation builder with real depth and a named Customer Success Manager with fast human support behind it.

This is where Pinpoint is at its strongest. It runs corporate, frontline, high-volume, early-career, and experienced hiring side by side in one platform, across multiple brands, regions, and locations, each with its own careers site and workflows and reporting joined up centrally. For organizations whose hiring no longer fits a single shape, that's the whole point.

Switching is guided. You migrate your data yourself with in-platform tools and our API, or Pinpoint's migrations team does it for you in about 15 business days. We remap and test your integrations before go-live, and because more of the pre-hire process runs natively in Pinpoint, there are fewer separate point tools to unwind.

No. Your jobs, candidates and their pipeline stage, talent pools, resumes and files, and historic notes and comments come across, so your team keeps its hiring record. You decide how much history to bring, from active jobs and recent candidates through to your full archive.

Yes. There's no hiring freeze. You can switch over in one go, or run Pinpoint alongside your current ATS so active candidates finish where they started while new applicants come in through Pinpoint.

Pinpoint and Workable can both support mid-size hiring teams, but the best fit depends on how the team manages job postings, candidate pipelines, hiring workflows, reporting, and collaboration with hiring managers. Teams evaluating Workable alternatives should compare how each platform supports their hiring process today and how much flexibility they need as recruitment becomes more complex.