How Branchy replaced Teamtailor, started fresh, and built a searchable talent pool that actually works for a recruitment agency that works across domains.
Not every golden candidate spends much time on LinkedIn. Branchy's recruiters work the phone.
They scrape contact details from agency websites and build relationships one call at a time. Over time, that work accumulates: notes from calls, preferences candidates have mentioned, a sense of who's open to a move and who isn't. The kind of intelligence that separates a good agency from a fast one.
None of that would be possible to find with all the AI sourcing tools people hype about.
The problem
"You could search through some outdated LinkedIn profiles. But if I wanted to find everyone in Oslo West who was open to a sales leadership role and would be open to a chat this spring, I had to go through my own memory. The database was there but it wasn't useful.
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Tom and the team needed a system that could search and find hidden gems through unstructured data — proactively nudging them. They'd been using coordination via daily conversation to compensate for what the tool couldn't do. That worked until it didn't.
The context
Branchy is a recruitment agency in Oslo that originally had its roots in real estate but now works with a range of other roles and companies — making it even more important to get better system help. Branchy was founded in 2022, and by early 2025, the team had three partners and a shared candidate database of a few thousand people.
Most of those candidates were essentially invisible.
Starting fresh in Vouch
They migrated only what they wanted, and curated their talent pool with the right data from day one.
Starting fresh meant something specific in Vouch's architecture. Every candidate added would be properly structured, enriched, and searchable from day one. The Chrome plugin made adding new candidates fast: a recruiter on LinkedIn could import a profile in a single click, with AI filling in context, fit notes, and any enrichment it could find. Notes from calls could be added on the go. The system remembered what the recruiter had written.
"Worked like a charm. Will completely change my workflow.
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Three months in
Branchy is running their recruitment operation in Vouch. Their talent pool is growing with clean, structured data. Recruiters can search in plain language — not by tags or filters, but by typing what they're looking for and letting the system surface matches.
The duplicate outreach problem is gone. Candidate ownership is visible. The team still talks every day, but now Vouch holds the context so the conversation can be about the work — rather than the logistics of who called who.
For a small agency where every placement matters and commission is individual, that clarity is worth more than it sounds.