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Ashby
Modern talent operating system that combines ATS, CRM, scheduling, and analytics for recruiting teams that want one system of record instead of a patched stack. Ashby raised a $50 million Series D in July 2025, led by Alkeon with Lachy Groom co-leading.
Recruiting teams that want ATS, CRM, scheduling, and reporting in one product with serious analytics.
Teams that only need a lightweight job board, or buyers locked into a giant HCM suite with no appetite to migrate ATS.
Verdict
Ashby is a good fit when the bottleneck is running recruiting analytics and pipeline ops without bolting five tools together. Practitioners like the unified ATS/CRM motion; buyers who only need a simple career page may still look lighter.
Score Breakdown
How Ashby scores in the categories that matter to its buyers.
Pricing
Ashby prices through sales-assisted plans rather than a full public grid. Model below reflects common mid-market packaging themes for 2026; confirm modules and seat math on a live quote.
Sales-assisted ATS / CRM packaging by company size and modules. Expect annual contracts with implementation support; ask for analytics and scheduling add-ons in the same quote.
The Field at a Glance
How Ashby compares with other AI recruiting & ATS vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
Ashby scores 7.9 in AI recruiting & ATS, ahead of Gem (7.6), Manatal (7.5), and Dover (7.2). Relative cost lands upper-mid on sales-assisted ATS plans.
Use-case matrix
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ATS + CRM | Strong | One system holds applicants and sourced prospects. |
| Recruiting analytics | Strong | Built-in reports cover pipeline, source and hiring speed. |
| Scheduling | Strong | Interview scheduling sits in the same system as the pipeline. |
| Lightweight job board only | Mixed | A team that only posts jobs would use little of what Ashby offers. |
| Outbound sourcing CRM alone | Mixed | Gem is built around outbound sourcing. |
| Compliance automation | Poor | Ashby does not cover compliance automation. |
Review Excerpts
Representative buyer views drawn from public information about Ashby. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites were excluded.
“Pipeline, scheduling and reporting sit in one system, so recruiters stop exporting data to build their own dashboards.”
Representative buyer view
“We moved from an older ATS and run sourcing, scheduling and offers inside Ashby.”
Representative buyer view
“It is priced by quote, and a team that only needs a basic careers page would pay for a system larger than its process.”
Representative buyer view
Where customer reviews couldn't be found, our analysts attempted to give a voice to buyer sentiment, drawing on real information from review sites, forums, and product documentation.
Based on: Ashby’s website
Company Facts
- Founded
- 2018 (CB Insights)
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States (CB Insights)
- Employees
- About 110 (Y Combinator)
- Total funding raised
- $130.58M (CB Insights)
- Key investors
- Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, F-Prime Capital, Gaingels, Alkeon Capital Management (CB Insights)
- Accelerator
- Y Combinator, Winter 2019 batch (Y Combinator)
- Website
- ashbyhq.com
Key Leadership
Benjamin Encz
Co-founder and CEO
Methodology
This page is an independent evaluation of Ashby for buyers comparing options in AI recruiting & ATS. AI Industry Reviews accepts no sponsorships, advertising, or pay-for-placement fees. Ashby did not pay for this review.
What we scored
The headline number is an Overall Score on a 0-10 scale. Eight criteria sit under it in two groups.
- Buyer outcomes (for AI recruiting & ATS)
- ATS + CRM unification
- Recruiting analytics
- Scheduling & coordination
- Lightweight job-board simplicity
- Company & commercial
- Innovation & product leadership
- Project management & communication
- Pricing
- Contract fairness
Pricing measures whether the price looks fair for the value delivered, including packaging and renewal friction that show up in real buying cycles.
Score Composition
| Input | Weight | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews | 40% | A proprietary read of what practitioners say about likes, complaints, and day-to-day use, including public review sites, forums, and private chat rooms. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites are out of scope. |
| Product | 35% | Hands-on look at screens and workflows. |
| Pricing | 15% | Whether the price looks fair for what you get. |
| Docs & training | 10% | Docs, tutorials, and training material. |
How we balanced the evidence
The Overall Score is the simple average of the eight criteria. Recommendation language follows that score and the use-case matrix above.
Scope
Ashby is graded here as AI recruiting & ATS. Criteria scores can move as more review volume and product checks are added.