Atlas vs Clockwork
Modern recruitment demands modern solutions!
While your current ATS or CRM might be doing okay, does it give you an unfair advantage?
Searching for the best executive search software with AI features? You’ve found it.
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Build a recruiting workflow that runs itself
Atlas gives you a workflow that feels genuinely hands-free. Its agentic AI moves through your pipeline on its own, updating records, launching outreach, and handling follow-ups before anyone on your team needs to lift a finger. The platform keeps momentum high by taking over the repetitive work that normally slows searches down, giving you more time to focus on the conversations and decisions that actually move deals forward.
Clockwork offers helpful AI tools for searching candidates and supporting daily tasks (Cai), but it does not use an agentic AI model that connects your entire system. You still rely on manual steps for many parts of the workflow.
Turn every recruiter interaction into insight your whole team can use
Atlas captures every touchpoint and turns it into intelligence your workflow can lean on. Total Memory pulls in calls, emails, notes, and updates from every corner of your pipeline, then connects it all into a single, searchable layer of context. AI agents act with precision because they see the full story behind every candidate and client move. Gain speed, clarity, and a level of awareness that keeps searches moving in the right direction.
Clockwork offers flexible tagging so teams can label candidates and projects with custom tags. It does not provide a unified memory layer that connects every interaction, which means you handle more manual admin to keep information organized and actionable across the workflow.
Identify opportunities to win new business for your agency
Atlas reads the live signals across every role, client, and candidate in your pipeline and brings the most valuable moments straight to the surface. Its agentic AI scores engagement, tracks momentum shifts, and recommends the next best action so recruiters always know where to focus. Your team moves with intention, spending time on the opportunities that are building real traction instead of guessing where to look next.
Clockwork does not include agentic AI to help prioritize deals or highlight high-value opportunities. You need to manually review projects and activities to decide what deserves attention, which can slow down decision-making and make it harder to stay ahead of fast-moving searches.
Every conversation is mapped into your workflow with a native AI note taker
Atlas captures every interaction with an intelligent AI note taker that works across outreach, phone calls, video interviews, and your entire recruiting workflow. Each conversation is distilled into clear insights and tied directly to the candidate’s evolving profile, giving you instant context they can use to influence clients, shape shortlists, and make sharper decisions. You move faster because the details that matter never slip through the cracks.
Clockwork uses Quil for interview note-taking, but it does not offer advanced capabilities like querying past conversations or generating deeper insights from those interactions. Recruiters get basic transcription support, yet they miss the richer intelligence and workflow connection that Atlas provides.
Create outreach that feels personal and scales without effort
Atlas gives you the ability to build rich, multi-touch outreach sequences that span email, phone, and social without adding more work to the day. Its AI pulls in role details, notes, past conversations, and real-time context to shape messages that feel tailored from the first touch. With the Atlas Chrome extension, recruiters can draw from shared intelligence, ask quick questions, and send personalized outreach in minutes. The entire process feels fast, smart, and human, helping your team spark stronger engagement at scale.
Clockwork provides real-time tracking, customizable pipelines, and dynamic marketing lists that support lead generation, but it does not automate messaging or campaign execution to the depth that Atlas offers.
See the signals that matter and keep every search on track
Atlas gives recruiting teams the kind of visibility that drives better decisions every day. Its dashboards are fast, detailed, and built around the way agency teams actually work. You can break down performance by consultant, role, activity, stage, or any metric that shapes outcomes. Pipelines update in real time, revealing momentum shifts the moment they occur. Atlas flags risks early, spotlights hidden opportunities, and keeps your team aligned so every search moves forward with confidence.
Clockwork provides basic dashboards, but they are not connected to a unified memory layer or powered by agentic AI. Recruiters see summaries, yet they miss the deeper insights and real-time intelligence that Atlas delivers across the entire recruitment business.
Spot standout talent instantly with intelligent fit scoring
Atlas gives your team a sharper, more intuitive way to identify top candidates. You define exactly what great looks like for each search, from skills and experience to behaviors and role-specific nuances. Magic Columns evaluates every profile against your criteria and produces a clear, visual fit score that reveals who rises to the top and where hidden potential might be sitting. Recruiters build precise shortlists in moments, without tedious filtering or manual comparison.
Clockwork allows you to rate candidates and prioritize strong fits, but it does not offer the same depth of customization or a unified memory layer.
Features
ATLAS
Clockwork
Total Memory
Access everything anyone in your company ever said, heard, read, or wrote about a candidate
Powered by Gen AI
Tagging with an unintuitive interface
Opportunities
Track job leads, target clients, and marketable candidates in one central workspace
End-to-end business development with a customizable playbook
Basic outreach campaigns only
Dashboards
Custom native dashboards to set goals, monitor data analysis, and make smart decisions
Live performance tracking at every stage of your pipeline
Basic features only
Email and phone data
Get email and phone data natively inside your platform
Native AI note-taker
Access AI-generated notes in real-time
Third-party integration, Quil
Ask AI
Query your firm’s entire knowledge base in real time
Report AI
Gen AI search report writing
Speed
How quickly does it load a page
0.1 seconds
+1 seconds
Client page
Present candidates to clients in a clean, consolidated view
Chrome Extension
Sync candidate data directly from the platform and launch multi-touch, multi-step campaigns
Mobile App
Manage your recruitment on the go
Richard Twumasi
// Founder and Director of Ocean Red Partners
// Feedback
“Atlas’s AI is a true enabler. It doesn’t do your job for you—it enables you to do it better instead.“
The common objections
I’ve heard that moving platforms is a nightmare.
The entire process can be completed in a few weeks. The Onboarding team manage the migration project from end-to-end including, getting your data from Loxo, mapping the data ahead of migration, migrating the data, clearing up the mess and onboarding your team.
I’m concerned about the privacy and security of our candidate data if we start using AI
Your candidate data is in good hands. Our AI platform is fully GDPR compliant, and we use OpenAI’s API-based models, which are also GDPR compliant, to ensure your data stays private. You can learn more about our security measures at https://openai.com/security.
Customer testimonials
Atlas has been a gamechanger – Combining data collection, outreach and workflow has made my life considerably easier!
Atlas is a game-changer! Unlike clunky ATS platforms I’ve used before, it’s intuitive, efficient, and takes the hassle out of admin tasks. Huge thanks to the team for leveraging AI the right way—what it does is epic!
We moved over to Atlas in the summer with a very tight migration timeframe. The Atlas team have been super responsive to all our queries; it’s been really refreshing to have a genuine two way engagement where suggestions and requirements are acknowledged and acted upon. The new Opportunities BD pipeline is a game changer. The pace of their innovation is incredible and genuinely exciting!
Atlas is the next generation of recruitment software the industry has been waiting for. It removes the admin drain from recruiters, to allow them to focus on the human relationships and personal interactions that make all the difference.
Having used other ‘market leading’ CRMs Atlas feels a class above. It is simply, flexible and intiutive. The rate at which new features are being launched and upgraded is unparalleled to what I have seen in the market.
Atlas has been a game changer in terms of our ability to deliver in a faster and more effective manner. By removing the time consuming admin, we are able to focus on delivering for our clients and candidates.
In my 15 years in recruitment, I’ve never experienced such a genuine game changer as Atlas! Everything has improved, admin is non existent, and productivity has increased 10x compared to our old CRMs (Bullhorn and Vincere). If you are in recruitment, you absolutely HAVE to try it!
I’ve used countless recruitment systems over the year, all of them at the time were seen as ‘cutting edge’. Times have changed. In the world we now live Atlas are true pioneers in this space. Whilst others ‘bolt on’ AI, Atlas is built from the ground up. It is like having an assistant in my pocket which enables me to work faster and with greater accuracy, putting me ahead of my competition. The speed of innovation is beyond anything I have ever seen, and every new feature just feels like Christmas, the Atlas Team really are setting the bar.
Until this year, I’d never used a CRM. Choosing one felt overwhelming—until we found Atlas AI. Built on AI and designed with customer feedback, it’s smart, intuitive, and always improving. The real-time chat, training videos, and hands-on support are game-changing. This isn’t just a CRM; it’s the future of recruitment tech.
Atlas is the best CRM platform I have ever used, it is built exactly how you think something should work utilizing the best of AI. Not only does Atlas capture everything you do, highlight everything you need to know and help uncover missed information from a simple search, the team are also fantastic. They solve tickets quickly but most importantly the Atlas you see today isn’t the Atlas you’ll have next week or in three months time. They are constantly adding new features which don’t slow anything down. Highly recommend.
Loving the speed of Atlas and the support of the AI throughout the system. Asking a question and getting an answer is great; but it’s even better when you can quickly move/update/change the data on your candidates immediately and move onto the next task of placing great talent.
Intuitive, user friendly, feature rich and with great customers support, the platform does everything, and more, that I had ever hoped for. Not only that, but Jordan and the brilliant team at ATLAS are so engaged with their users and continuously striving to improve their offering to customers. It feels like there is a new release every few weeks, which is incredibly exciting. And they’re only just getting started!
With Atlas, tasks like importing candidates and navigating dashboards are effortless. Its AI and call transcription are game-changers, and the team’s dedication to updates ensures it only gets better.
Having Atlas is worth two VAs – the amount of time I save by not having to fill in data fields, parse CVs manually, retrofit processes to archaic systems, take notes & actually do something with those notes – like, the whole thing’s done for me!
Atlas is infinitely better than anything else on the market and if you aren’t using it, you are at an incredible disadvantage!
Atlas focus on building the software to automate and blend in human support, they have got the perfect balance.
Never has a CRM changed the game so much when it comes to recruitment. Jordan and the team at Atlas are building something truly incredible with the sole focus of allowing recruitment consultants to focus on what they are incredible at, being consultants. If you are a recruitment company and you’re not using Atlas, be prepared to be left behind in the dust.
Atlas lets me stay focused on the interview by taking notes for me. It also analyzes candidates against the job description, providing valuable insights to help identify the best fit for the role.
Atlas is truly remarkable and it is great to be an early adopter into what I believe is a game changer for the recruitment industry!
I have used 99.9% of all the CRM and ATS systems available to third party recruiters over the course of my 26 year career in recruitment. Atlas is by far the best thing to happen to the industry in a long time. All the things that slow you down as a recruiter are taken on by Atlas, freeing you up to make waves in your niche. Many firms have scrambled to bolt AI on to their systems. Atlas has AI baked in, it is literally in the DNA of the system and it is evident in every aspect of the system. I can’t recommend Atlas highly enough.
Atlas is now at the core of our tech stack, additionally allowing us to significantly save money elsewhere by replacing other now unnecessary tools. It’s become an essential part of how we work and grow. Overall, Atlas feels like a smart, time saving partner that helps us focus on growing our business instead of getting bogged down in repetitive tasks. Definitely worth checking out if you want a fresh, efficient approach in this area.
We moved from Zoho over to Atlas. The decision has been overwhelmingly positive. The basic premise alone to actually capture all of the data points for candidates and clients alike has been a game changer. Adding in everything else like campaigns, reports, and the new opportunities release for BD, we couldn’t be happier. Feature development has been rapid, with actual useful features being released. Support is extremely fast and very helpful. Highly recommended!
Rec tech is the wild west of the industry. Overly complex workflows, the need to buy multiple pieces of software, expensive and slow to innovate. Atlas has solved all of the above problems with an AI infused platform that eliminates ‘tech stack bloat’, spiraling costs and cutting edge innovation. Add to this direct access to the founder (Jordan) and you have a recipe for the best CRM that listens to its customers and iterates faster than any of its competitors.
Atlas has been a game changer for People In AI: we wanted a modern ATS that utilized AI and was easily searchable, usable and fast. Atlas delivered that and more.
I’ve tried a lot of recruitment tech, but Atlas is next-level. Less admin, more time, and features that actually work! Recruitment agencies, this is the platform you need!
Atlas is ‘must use’ when it comes to recruitment technology. There’s no point in starting a recruitment business or continuing to run a recruitment business without it. You might as well say ‘I want to not win’ when you choose not to use Atlas. We cannot fathom the work that’s been done with Atlas and are excited to scale our team with it.
Atlas is the first CRM I actually enjoy using! It takes away so much of the mundane admin, the native AI features are thoughtfully designed and add genuine value (not lipstick on a pig!), and the team are fab from top to bottom! Genuinely the best tech investment I have made in the last 10 years!
The power of Atlas makes it impossible to ignore if you’re looking at CRMs. Aside from all the amazing AI features – too hard to list, but it being natively built on AI puts it above everything else – it’s the core focus of their aim that is so key. They exist to reduce admin and to help users generate more revenue. That’s it, super simple. Every feature, workflow, update and upgrade is all focused on those core principles. If that’s what you want, check it out!
We’ve been using Atlas for the last year and it’s like nothing we’ve ever used before. The platform is so intelligent and with all communications recorded, it makes the life of a recruiter so much easier. As the platform is entirely built on AI, it saves us time on all aspects of our job. The platform is constantly evolving with new features dropping weekly, it can be hard to keep up. A huge upgrade from Bullhorn!
