Shortlistr turns every shortlist into a partner-quality briefing room — it sources candidates with an AI agent, drafts the brief for each one with quotes from their own resume and LinkedIn, and sends your client a single private link. They read it, click Advance / Hold / Pass, and the decision lands back in your inbox. No login, no PDF attachments, no follow-up call.
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An AI agent searches LinkedIn and your ATS export and returns a ranked longlist — with its reasoning visible, not a black-box score.
For each shortlisted candidate, Shortlistr writes a one-page brief where every sentence links back to the CV, recommendation, or portfolio it came from.
You send your client one private link — a Briefing Room. They click Advance, Hold, or Pass. The verdicts land in your inbox. No login, no PDF chase.
The six steps below show one candidate going through this loop in a week.
Now run the same week with Shortlistr.
Follow one candidate from Monday's JD to Thursday's verdict — without the re-keying, the chase, the silent inbox, or the "why this person?" call you've already had this quarter.
The JD for your client's Staff Designer role lands at 4:47pm Monday. Paste it — must-haves, dealbreakers, reviewers, comp band are pulled out for you.
You paste the JD. Shortlistr reads it and pre-fills a structured brief — role, must-haves, dealbreakers, comp band, who'll review — so you can start sourcing in minutes instead of in the morning.
Tuesday morning. Hand the role to an AI agent and read its thinking, or drop the ATS export you already have. Either way, candidates by lunchtime.
You either let an AI agent search LinkedIn and return a longlist (with its reasoning shown), or upload a CSV from your ATS. Both routes land candidates inside the same Briefing Room — no re-keying, no spreadsheet.
No re-keying. No “final_final_v3.xlsx.” No black-box scoring.
Hand it the role. The agent plans sweeps, considers profiles, refines its query in the open, and ships a shortlist with verbatim evidence — never a black-box score. Run state persists across refresh; you can leave and come back.
Drop the .xlsx or .csv your ATS or sourcing tool spits out. The model reads the headers and a sample of rows, infers what each column means, and saves the mapping per shape — next time the same export lands, it's mapped automatically. Optional LinkedIn enrichment after import.
Tuesday afternoon. “Why this person?” — the question you answer five times per shortlist. Each sentence in the candidate's brief links back to the CV, the rec, the portfolio.
For each candidate, Shortlistr writes a one-page brief in the recruiter's voice. Every sentence has a footnote that points to the exact CV bullet, LinkedIn line, or portfolio page it was drawn from — nothing is invented.
The honest questions a sharp reviewer would ask — and the answer already in the file. You stop being the bottleneck.
For every candidate, Shortlistr drafts the case against them — the awkward question your client would have raised on the call. Each one comes with a one-line answer from their own evidence, so the question lands with the answer beside it.
The doubt you'd have had on the call is already on the page — answered.
Wednesday morning. Your hiring manager is opening LinkedIn behind your back to second-guess the slate. The compare view ends that — every candidate sits next to the open questions you'd have answered on the call.
A side-by-side table puts every shortlisted candidate against the same must-haves, with a verdict pill and a one-line open question per person — the honest things a sharp reviewer would ask, written down so your client doesn't have to.
Wednesday evening. The hiring manager opens the link, asks the questions you'd expect, finds the answers already written down, and forwards a PDF that carries your firm's name — not ours.
Your client opens one private link — no login. They can ask follow-up questions (answered from the brief), see pre-written risks, and download a PDF that carries your firm's branding, not ours.
Verdicts arrive while you're still at your desk.
You're not on the call to relitigate the slate. Your client types the question, Shortlistr answers it from the candidate's own evidence — every claim links back to the exact source line. No hallucinated wins, no late-night Slack from you.
Any line in the brief can be highlighted, agreed with, or challenged — right there, no comment thread to dig through. You watch in real time which sentence convinced them, and which one they pushed back on. Sales calls used to give you that signal. Now the room does.
She's done the exact 0→1 motion this role requires — twice, in regulated fintechHM · 👍 — once for SMB checkout, once for embedded onboarding.
She has not owned a checkout flow since 2023R2 · ❓ — last principal role was platform-side.
When a reviewer needs something the brief doesn't cover — a salary confirmation, an availability window, a writing sample — they click Request info. You get a tracked task tied to the exact candidate, not a forwarded email you'll lose by Friday.
Can you confirm Candidate A's earliest start date? We're tight on a Q3 deadline.
Info request from Hiring Manager — start date for Candidate A
Every room is co-branded — your firm × your client's. Download the slate as a print-ready A4 PDF or an editable .docx that opens cleanly in Word. Your hiring manager forwards it to their CEO without editing a thing.
She's done the exact 0→1 motion this role requires — twice. a top EU fintech SMB checkout, an embedded banking co. onboarding.
Thursday standup. “Any word from the client?” — gone. Live opens, verdicts, the chase queue sorted by silence, the polite nudge that goes out only when it helps.
An engagement dashboard shows which reviewers opened the room, who voted Advance / Hold / Pass, and who has gone quiet — with a one-click polite nudge for the silent ones. You never have to ask “any word yet?” again.
Most of your searches are confidential. Shortlistr is built around that — every room is token-gated, every reviewer is named, and nothing leaks to the open web.
Hide names, photos and current employer until the reviewer commits to advance — useful for sensitive moves and competitor searches.
Each reviewer gets their own token — no shared URL, no “I'll forward it.” You see exactly who opened what, and you can revoke any link in one click.
A sticky banner names the authorised reviewer on every page — “Confidential — do not forward. Authorised for {name} only.” Editable per room.
Reviewers never create an account. No marketing pixels, no third-party trackers in the room — just a private page with a clean URL.
Set a close date when you send. After it passes the link 404s, the brief is sealed, and decisions are archived. Nothing lingers on the open web.
Two to twenty consultants. Your judgment is the product; the room makes it visible.
One person, premium clients. Send something that looks like a team wrote it.
Skip the ATS hand-off. Send the room internally; decisions land same-day.
Shortlistr is in invite-only beta. Walk through a real briefing room first, then open the recruiter app and build your own.