Keelzo VS https://open-gpt.app/

Keelzo's answer

Keelzo searches your existing candidate pipeline first — past applicants, rejected candidates, talent pool members, and career page visitors — before sending you to job boards. Most ATS tools treat past candidates as dead data. Keelzo turns them back into live matches the moment a new role is posted, with explainable AI scoring across 6 dimensions. The result: 22-second rediscovery instead of 30-minute manual searches, and defensible shortlists you can hand to a hiring manager without flinching.

Keelzo's answer

Traditional ATS platforms like Zoho Recruit, Greenhouse, and Lever are built around storing candidates. Keelzo is built around resurfacing them. Three differences matter:

1. Rediscovery happens automatically. The moment you post a job, Keelzo matches it against every past applicant, rejected candidate, and talent pool member in your pipeline — no manual search needed.

2. Scoring is explainable, not a black box. Every match comes with a 6-dimension breakdown (skills, experience, seniority, industry, education, stability) so you can defend your shortlist to hiring managers.

3. Built-in AI assistants for both recruiters and candidates. Recruiters get help asking better interview questions. Candidates get instant answers about your role and company, freeing your team from repetitive Q&A.

Plus a 14-day free pilot with no credit card.

Keelzo's answer

Keelzo is built for three types of recruiters:

• In-house recruiters at growing companies (50–500 employees) sitting on ATS databases full of forgotten candidates
• Agency recruiters managing candidates across multiple client engagements who need to resurface past relationships when new requirements come in
• TA leads and hiring managers who want defensible, explainable shortlists instead of gut-feel resume skims

Keelzo is especially useful for teams that hire frequently, have 500+ candidates accumulated in their pipeline, and are tired of paying for LinkedIn Recruiter when better candidates already applied.

Keelzo's answer

Keelzo started after a conversation with a recruiter friend in Bangalore. She had spent 6 weeks trying to fill a senior backend role using LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri, and cold outreach. Nothing was working.

I asked her one question: "How many candidates are in your ATS right now?"

She checked. 847.

Thirty minutes of manual filtering across past applicants, "good but not now" candidates, and career page visitors revealed 11 strong matches she had never looked at. She emailed five of them that night. One is interviewing this week.

Her words: "I've been paying for LinkedIn Recruiter for 2 years and the best candidate was already in my own database."

That conversation made it clear: recruiting isn't broken because there aren't enough candidates. It's broken because the best ones are already in your system, invisible. Keelzo exists to make them visible.

Built from Kochi, India.

Keelzo's answer

Keelzo is built on a modern web stack with AI/ML at its core

Keelzo is web-based, accessible from any modern browser, and built with security and data privacy as foundational principles.

Keelzo's answer

• Keelzo is in early access, working with select recruiters and TA teams across India, UAE, and Singapore who are piloting the platform on real hiring requirements.