◆ Compare · Vouch vs Recman
Recman and Vouch make different bets on what hiring software is for. Here's how we see the split, and where running both makes sense.
Last updated · 15 August 2026 · Written by the Vouch team
◆ Two categories, not two contenders
The AI-native system that keeps what your recruiters know, and makes it usable on the next search.
The mature operating layer Nordic staffing has run on for a decade.
◆ Same moment, different posture
09:14, A new role hits your inbox. The client sent a voice memo.
◆ What we built around
Ten years of conversations, notes and judgement calls sit in your team's heads and in a database nobody enjoys searching. Vouch keeps that intelligence on the record and hands it back when it's relevant: a new brief opens and the people you've already met come up first, with the reasoning attached. When someone leaves, what they learned stays.
Share a stage or a hand-picked selection as one live link. Keep editing it after you've sent it, and set exactly what's visible and to whom, down to the field. Your client sees a slate that tracks the real pipeline instead of a document that went stale on the way to their inbox.
Every score comes with a verbatim quote and reasoning you can read, so you can argue with it. Adjust a score, a ranking or a note and it stands; Vouch never writes over a manual change. The AI narrows the list. The judgement, the call and the relationship stay yours, and we're not trying to take them.
◆ Questions to ask yourself
Yes. Finn, Arbeidsplassen and The Hub, published from the same workflow that wrote the ad, with applicants flowing straight back into your pipeline and screened on arrival. This used to be the honest gap in a Recman conversation and it isn't one any more. If you wrote us off over this before, it's worth another look.
Vouch was an AI-native product from day one, the assistant runs the brief, the screening, the Notetaker, the activity log. It's not a feature you switch on. If you'd rather stack add-on modules onto a classic CRM, that's a different shape of buying.
Vouch is usage-priced. Unlimited seats, you pay only for the AI work that helps you hire. Adding a colleague costs €0 in licence fees. If you'd rather predict cost by seat count, that's a different pricing posture.
Vouch handles the hiring side: brief, find, shortlist, place, present. We don't do timesheets, contractor payroll, or shift management. Those are real things; we just don't try to be them.
Every Vouch score ships with a verbatim evidence quote, readable reasoning, and a click-through to what fed it. Override anything; the override is logged with reasoning. The shortlist holds up in front of a hiring manager, a partner, or a regulator.
Every email sent, presentation viewed, vote cast, interview booked, offer signed lands in the activity feed automatically. The audit trail is a byproduct of using the product, not something you maintain. When a client asks 'what's the status?', the answer is one open tab.
In Vouch it stays. The notes, the interview transcripts, the reason a candidate was right for one client and wrong for another live on the record rather than in one person's head. The next person to open that search inherits the thinking, not just the CVs. For an agency with a long client book, this is the part that compounds.
◆ Pricing posture
Vouch is priced per package: agency, in-house team or startup, with the number agreed in one short conversation and put in writing. Seats, roles, candidates and storage are unlimited, and there is no per-seat fee. You can start free on real roles before talking to anyone, with the whole product live and a trial cap on usage.
Recman is licensed per seat, with functionality split across modules you opt into. The total moves with both headcount and scope, so it's worth mapping which modules you'd actually be paying for.
◆ What moving actually involves
It's the first question every agency asks, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a reassurance. Migration is free on paid packages, onboarding runs in days, and you don't have to commit the whole book on day one.
◆ When each one fits
You need an operating layer for staffing operations and a sharper assistant for the hiring itself. Several of our customers run exactly this split: the operating layer stays where it is, Vouch takes everything up to placement. It's also the lowest-risk way to test us without touching what already works.
"I had to go through my own memory. The database was there, but it wasn't useful."
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Building Vouch, the AI-native ATS for the Nordic recruiter.
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