# Crelate

> Crelate is a privately held recruiting-software company whose cloud platform combines applicant tracking, recruiting CRM, candidate discovery, workflow automation, onboarding, compliance and back-office connections. Founded in the Boise metro in 2012, it serves executive-search firms, direct-hire agencies, staffing companies and in-house talent teams, with more than 25,000 recruiting professionals using the platform. Its current product thesis is that an ATS should do more than store records: Crelate's AI agents search external and internal talent pools, refresh contact data and surface possible next actions while recruiters retain control of the relationship.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** Eagle, United States
- **Founders:** Aaron Elder (CEO and Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 55 employees; LinkedIn lists a 51-200 employee range.
- **Products:** Crelate Recruit, Crelate Omni, Crelate Hire, Crelate Deliver, Crelate Co-Pilot
- **Notable:** Grew from a three-person startup to a platform used by more than 25,000 recruiting professionals., Reached 1,500 staffing and recruiting firm customers by 2021, according to the company's history., Built a marketplace of more than 80 integration partners; the current homepage describes more than 100 integration partners.

## Products & services

- **Crelate Recruit** — The core cloud product combining an applicant tracking system, recruiting and sales CRM, candidate sourcing, job and client portals, communication, workflow automation, and reporting.
- **Crelate Omni** — The modular end-to-end suite that brings Recruit, Hire and Deliver together for staffing and recruiting agencies.
- **Crelate Hire** — Interview, scorecard, credentialing, e-signature, compliance and onboarding workflows tailored by job, client and location.
- **Crelate Deliver** — Assignment management, time and expense tracking, invoicing, commissions and connections to payroll and back-office providers.
- **Crelate Co-Pilot** — Contextual generative-AI assistance inside Crelate records for tasks such as resume summaries, drafted outreach, data cleanup and suggested next steps.
- **Crelate Discovery Agent** — A natural-language candidate and company discovery tool that searches internal data and a claimed external pool of up to one billion professional profiles.
- **Crelate Insights Agent** — An agent designed to clean and enrich records continuously, detect signals and surface possible next actions from a recruiting database.
- **Crelate Labs** — Professional services for implementation, data migration, workflow design and return-on-investment consulting.

## Achievements

- Grew from a three-person startup to a platform used by more than 25,000 recruiting professionals.
- Reached 1,500 staffing and recruiting firm customers by 2021, according to the company's history.
- Built a marketplace of more than 80 integration partners; the current homepage describes more than 100 integration partners.
- Earned hundreds of software awards and badges from G2, Capterra, GetApp, Software Advice and SourceForge since 2012.
- Maintains SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications and states compliance with GDPR and CCPA.
- Launched an integrated Recruit, Hire and Deliver suite in 2021, extending the product beyond placement into onboarding and delivery.
- Released Co-Pilot in 2024 and the Discovery and Insights agents in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Crelate's LinkedIn page announced Ian Remington's promotion to chief operating officer after ten years with the company.
- **2026-06** — The company published new guidance on AI recruiting workflow automation and the total cost of recruiting software, sharpening its positioning against larger enterprise platforms.
- **2025-11** — Crelate launched Insights Agent as the next component of its Living Platform strategy.
- **2025-09** — Crelate joined the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants as regional partner for the Americas.
- **2025-07** — Crelate launched Discovery Agent, its first marketed AI agent for natural-language candidate and company discovery.
- **2024-09** — Crelate introduced Co-Pilot, bringing contextual generative-AI assistance into recruiting records and workflows.

## Links

- Website: https://www.crelate.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/crelate
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/crelate
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/crelate

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Last updated: 2026-08-18