For recruiters
LinkedIn sourcing and outreach for recruiters, with real qualification
You're sourcing candidates on LinkedIn and want outreach that doesn't read like a template sent to two hundred profiles. Spruce qualifies each candidate against your role brief, writes a message from their actual profile, and tracks who replies — the same discipline built for sales prospecting, applied to candidate sourcing.
Candidate outreach has the same problem sales outreach does
A message that opens with "I came across your profile and was impressed" gets ignored whether it's sent to a prospect or a candidate. Good passive candidates get several of these a week. The ones who reply are the ones who can tell the message was actually written about them — their background, not a job title match.
How it maps to sourcing
You write the role brief and candidate profile once in Prospecting Setup — what the role needs, what a strong background looks like. AI Scan reads each candidate's profile and only qualifies the ones who genuinely match, before a single message goes out. AI Prospecting writes the outreach from that candidate's own background and sends it. Replies land sorted in Replies, ready for you to take to a screening call yourself in Manual Setting, or hand to AI Setting to book it for you.
What Spruce isn't
Spruce isn't an applicant tracking system. There's no job posting, no interview scheduling beyond the first call, no offer management. It handles sourcing and first-touch outreach on LinkedIn — finding and qualifying candidates, and getting a real reply — and stops at a booked call. Everything past that stays in whatever ATS you already run.
Questions recruiters ask
Does Spruce replace our ATS?
No. Spruce handles sourcing and outreach on LinkedIn through to a booked call. Everything after that — interviews, offers, tracking — stays in your existing ATS.
How does qualification work for candidates instead of sales prospects?
The same way: you describe the role and what a strong candidate looks like in Prospecting Setup, and AI Scan reads each profile against that brief before an invitation goes out.
Can I source candidates without Sales Navigator?
Yes — a standard LinkedIn search, CSV import, or post reactions work too. Sales Navigator (or Recruiter, if you have it) is the recommended source, not a requirement.
Will outreach sound generic, like a mass sourcing blast?
Each message is generated from the candidate's own profile and your role brief, not a template with a name swapped in — that's the point of qualifying before writing.