Compare
Agency outcomes, without the agency price.
How Pakt stacks up against a recruitment agency and a legacy ATS — on who does the work, how fast, and what it costs.
Recruitment agency
Legacy ATS
Pakt
Who screens candidates
A recruiter (a handful a day)
A keyword filter
Scout interviews everyone, human-reviewed
Every applicant interviewed
No
No
Yes — all of them
Speed to shortlist
Weeks
However long you take
Days
Culture fit
Gut feel
Can’t see it
Structured signals + human check
Cost
15–25% of salary
Per-seat subscription
Free ATS · 5% on hire for Scout
Your effort
Brief, chase, manage
You do the screening
You just meet the best
Best of both, none of the price.
A free AI-native ATS to run hiring yourself — or Scout to do it all for a flat 5% on hire.