Vouch
- 09:14The email drops into the brief.
- 09:15Vouch reads it. Drafts qualifiers, JD, screening, interview plan.
- 09:17You sharpen one must-have, hit save.
- 09:18Live in five languages. Interview plan wired. Out to Finn, Arbeidsplassen and The Hub.
◆ Compare · Vouch vs Teamtailor
Vouch vs Teamtailor. Polish, or progress.
Teamtailor and Vouch make opposite bets on what an ATS is for. Here's how we see the split, and the trade-off you're picking when you choose one.
Last updated · 15 August 2026 · Written by the Vouch team
◆ Two categories, not two contenders
Vouch
The AI-native ATS that keeps what you learn about a candidate and hands it back on the next role, for in-house and agency from day one.
Teamtailor
A polished, mature ATS refined over a decade, built around in-house employer brand.
- Every searchstarts from what you already know · past candidates resurface
- Evidenceverbatim quote behind every AI score · no opaque 8.5/10
- One linklive slate for the client · you control what's on it, and who sees it
- One calla number in writing · usually the next day
◆ Same moment, different posture
How each one handles the moment.
09:14, A new role hits your inbox. The hiring manager sent a half-page email.
Teamtailor
- 09:14Email lands.
- 09:25Open the dashboard. Create a new job.
- 09:40Fill in department, role, location, cover, description.
- 10:00Build the scorecard yourself, skills, traits, weights.
- 10:25Write screening questions per stage.
- 10:55Pick the cover image. Polish the page.
- 11:15Publish to the careers page.
◆ What we built around
Three things, plainly stated.
- 01
Every search should start from the last one.
Most systems track what happened. Vouch keeps what you learned: the notes, the interview transcripts, the reason you passed on someone in March. Open a new role and the candidates you already screened come back up before you start looking. CVs shouldn't lie down and die in your ATS.
- 02
One live link for the client, not one per candidate.
Share a stage or a hand-picked selection as a single link that stays live. Add someone, drop someone, and the client sees the change. You control what's on it and who sees what, down to the field. No fresh link every time the slate moves.
- 03
Self-service kickoff.
You can open a free workspace and put real roles through it before any meeting. No card, no per-seat tax, no contract minimum. When you want more, the number lands in one short conversation, in writing.
◆ Questions to ask yourself
Short answers, about us.
- 01
How much does the careers page itself need to carry?
Straight answer: Teamtailor's careers pages look better than our standard ones. We'd rather say that than argue it. What changed is that you no longer have to choose. Vouch has a documented public API and an embeddable apply widget, so the careers page can live on your own site, in your own design system, with Vouch running the hiring behind it. If you want a hosted page that looks beautiful out of the box, weigh that honestly. If you want to own the surface, ours is the better shape.
- 02
Should the work you did on a candidate still be worth something next year?
In Vouch, screening a candidate is not a one-off. The evidence, the notes, the interview transcript stay on the record, and the next role you open surfaces the people you already looked at, with the reasoning intact. A recruiter who leaves doesn't take the search history with them. This is the part that compounds, and it's the main reason our agency customers move.
- 03
Should every AI score show you the evidence behind it?
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 and Vouch won't write over it. No opaque 8.5/10, you can defend every shortlist in a debrief.
- 04
How does a shortlist actually get in front of a client or a hiring manager?
As one live link. Share a whole stage or a selection you pick by hand, keep editing it after you've sent it, and set exactly what's visible and to whom. The link tracks the pipeline instead of freezing at the moment you hit send, so a slate that changes on Thursday doesn't mean a new round of links on Friday.
- 05
Single brand, or multiple clients, divisions and brands?
Vouch ships multi-client and multi-organisation workspaces natively, with per-workspace candidate visibility and client rooms. If you're in-house with one brand you don't strictly need this. If you run several, or you're an agency serving clients, single-tenant tools get painful fast.
- 06
Want to see it working before any sales conversation?
You can start free, on real roles, before talking to anyone, and the product is never gated behind a demo. When you're ready for a number, Håkon does the first calls personally and the quote arrives in writing.
◆ Pricing posture
Vouch
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.
Teamtailor
Teamtailor prices per organisation, so the number comes from a sales conversation there too. Worth asking early what it's indexed to, and what it does as you grow.
◆ What moving actually involves
The honest version of switching.
The real question in the room is never "is it better", it's "what do we lose?" So: we've migrated teams off Teamtailor before, it's free on paid packages, and it takes days rather than weeks. You don't have to move everything, and most teams shouldn't.
- Candidates, CVs and attachments come across. Bring a list in and you're asked on what basis you hold it, which sets the retention window and lands in the audit log.
- Full process history from another system doesn't transfer cleanly, and we won't pretend otherwise. What's stuck back there is mostly dead weight anyway; everything you do in Vouch from day one stays reusable.
- Mid-contract is fine. Start with one role while the old system runs, and have the evidence ready when your renewal window opens.
- Old databases usually need a clean-up. We'd rather do that on the way in than import someone else's mess and call it a candidate database.
◆ When each one fits
Honestly.
Pick Vouch if…
- You want the next search to start from everything you learned in the last one.
- You present candidates to clients or hiring managers and want one live link you still control after sending.
- You want AI screening you can interrogate, not just trust.
Mostly either / or.
These overlap for in-house teams, so running both is unusual. One route puts the employer brand surface first; the other puts the accumulated knowledge first. Both are defensible. They're just not the same bet, and it's worth knowing which one you're making.
Pick Teamtailor if…
- A beautiful hosted careers page, ready out of the box, is near the top of your list.
- You're in-house with one brand, and a settled workflow is worth more to you right now than a compounding one.
- Your team is happy with how hiring runs today and the job is to keep it running.
"Vouch actually helps us decide, not just track. That's a big distinction once you've used both."
Meet the founder
Håkon Høgetveit
Founder · Vouch
Building Vouch, the AI-native ATS for the Nordic recruiter.
Book a chat →↘ Off the record
- Håkon's family has a long tradition with mattress production. Ask about spring vs foam mattresses and he'll talk for an hour straight.
- Studied in Bath, big fan of British alternative rock. Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys are usually on repeat on his headset.
- Hosts his own podcast about founder journeys, Støttehjulet. Maybe you're the next guest?
- Has a million side projects on the go. Currently football coach, marathon runner, pizza baker, and slide producer in his spare time.
Spot something wrong about Teamtailor? Tell us, hakon@vouch.careers. We'd rather be right than rhetorical.