A global crowd of expert sourcers & AI, delivering pre-screened candidates straight into your ATS.
Every recruiter knows the quiet problem at the center of hiring: the best person for a role is usually not looking for one. Job boards catch the people already searching. The rest - the passive majority - have to be found. Visage was built around that search.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered at 180 Sansome Street in San Francisco, Visage is a candidate sourcing platform with an unusual engine under the hood. Instead of a single recruiter combing databases, Visage routes each open role to a global community of thousands of expert sourcers who compete to submit the best-matching candidates. An AI layer sits alongside them, trained to identify the relevant skills and experience and surface profiles at scale. The output - pre-screened, qualified candidates - lands directly inside the employer's existing applicant tracking system.
The tagline the company uses is plain about the scope: "Source, Screen & Shortlist Candidates - Inside Your ATS." The ambition behind it is larger. Visage treats sourcing less like a task and more like a marketplace, where the unit of work is a matched candidate and the incentive is quality.
An employer defines the job and the must-have skills. The brief goes out to the sourcing community.
AI surfaces matching profiles while sourcers around the world compete to submit the strongest candidates.
Candidates are pre-screened and contact details verified, with sourcers rewarded on quality, not volume.
Shortlisted candidates flow directly into the recruiter's ATS, with automated engagement to keep pipelines warm.
A global community of sourcers competes to submit the best-matching candidates for a role, typically within about 24 hours, rewarded on quality.
An all-in-one tool to source, track and engage passive candidate pipelines, with automated engagement and ATS integration.
Systems trained to identify relevant skills and experience and surface matching profiles at scale, working alongside human sourcers.
Pre-screened, verified candidates delivered directly into the customer's existing applicant tracking system - no tool switching.
The crowd-plus-AI model is aimed at widening the top of the funnel to support diversity and hard-to-fill hiring goals.
An earning community of independent sourcers who join, get certified and compete on live roles across industries.
Visage is a B2B business that sells sourcing to enterprise recruiting and RPO teams. Reported pricing has included a crowdsourcing plan around $250 per job ad and a higher-touch recruiting plan for critical roles around $990 per shortlist, alongside platform subscriptions. On the supply side, the sourcers in the community are paid based on the quality of the candidates they submit - an incentive designed to keep pipelines clean rather than crowded.
Its customer roster leans large: IBM, Siemens and Siemens Energy, Nielsen, Cielo Talent and KPMG have all been named among the companies using Visage to source talent. That places the company in the crowded talent-sourcing corner of HR tech, alongside tools like HireEZ, SeekOut and Fetcher, and adjacent to LinkedIn Recruiter and traditional staffing and RPO firms. Visage's differentiator is structural: rather than handing a recruiter a better search box, it hands them a network.
Series A led by First Analysis; NewFund Capital & Urban Innovation participating. Total-raised figures vary by source ($8.9M-$10.7M reported).
Launched as a collaborative candidate sourcing platform built on a global community of sourcers.
Visage pairs its human sourcing network with AI trained to surface matching candidate profiles at scale.
Led by First Analysis, with NewFund Capital and Urban Innovation participating, to expand AI and crowdsourcing.
An all-in-one tool for sourcing, tracking and automated candidate engagement, integrated with leading ATS systems.
Visage sources passive candidates for employers by combining a global crowd of expert sourcers with AI, then delivers pre-screened, qualified candidates into the company's existing ATS.
Large enterprise recruiting and RPO teams. Named customers include IBM, Siemens, Siemens Energy, Nielsen, Cielo Talent and KPMG.
Its sourcing community competes to submit matching candidates, typically within about 24 hours of a role being posted.
Reported pricing includes a crowdsourcing plan around $250 per job ad and a recruiting plan for critical roles around $990 per shortlist, plus platform subscriptions. Confirm current pricing with Visage.
Visage was co-founded by CEO Joss Leufrancois in 2016. It raised a $7M Series A in March 2021 led by First Analysis, with NewFund Capital and Urban Innovation participating.
Sources: Visage.jobs, PR Newswire, Crunchbase, FinSMEs, Growjo, Tracxn, Dealroom. Figures such as total funding, team size and pricing vary by source and are approximate.