Builder Mindset
We are builders at heart. From product and design to engineering and customer support, we stay close to the problem and take responsibility for finding practical solutions.
Trusted by fast-growing teams to run hiring on AI.
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Our vision
Inspired by the hopeful bluebird, Coo represents our vision for a better way to hire.
A future where recruiters spend less time on repetitive work, candidates receive a better experience and growing companies can hire without constantly expanding their recruiting teams.
Our story
Recruiting is in our DNA.
Our founders have more than 20 years of combined experience across HR technology, recruiting, hiring and AI. We’ve worked as recruiters and hiring managers ourselves, and experienced the frustration of complicated recruiting software—especially for people who don’t use an ATS every day.
As founders, we also faced more than 300 applications for a single role with no realistic way for our small team to review every candidate properly. That experience shaped Cooper.
How we got here
The problem wasn’t a lack of hiring software. It was the amount of work left behind.
Traditional ATS platforms help companies organize candidates. But they still leave recruiters to do most of the sourcing, screening, follow-ups and initial qualification themselves. For lean teams, that quickly becomes the bottleneck.
Too much manual work
Recruiters still spend hours reviewing applications, searching for candidates and repeating the same qualification questions.
Too much complexity
Many recruiting platforms are built for enterprise teams, with long implementation times and features that smaller companies rarely need.
Too little capacity
When application volumes increase, growing companies are often forced to add more recruiters just to keep up.
What we’re building
From an Applicant Tracking System to an AI-powered hiring platform
Cooper began as an intuitive ATS for growing businesses. We built the foundation first: one place to manage candidates, coordinate hiring and keep everyone aligned. Now we’re building AI agents that take on the repetitive work around that foundation.
The ATS keeps the process organized. AI does the heavy lifting. Recruiters remain in control.
AI Candidate Sourcing
Find qualified candidates without spending hours searching databases and professional networks.
AI Application Screening
Review every application consistently and surface the candidates who best match the role.
AI Qualification Calls
Conduct initial candidate calls, ask relevant questions and capture structured answers automatically.
A Complete ATS Foundation
Manage jobs, candidates, interviews, evaluations and team collaboration in one intuitive platform.
Our core promise
Help lean hiring teams hire more people without hiring more recruiters.
We’re building Cooper for growing SMBs with small recruiting teams, high application volumes and limited resources. Our goal is to give a team of five the leverage of a much larger recruiting operation—without adding enterprise complexity.
Less administration. More hiring.
How we build
Bootstrapped, ambitious and close to our customers.
Cooper has been built from scratch by a small, international team without a large funding round behind us. That has forced us to stay focused, make deliberate product decisions and solve the problems that genuinely matter to growing hiring teams.
Customer-Led
Many of Cooper’s most useful features started with a conversation with a customer. We listen closely, move quickly and build around the realities of lean hiring teams.
Ambitious
Recruiting software is a highly competitive market. We’re using thoughtful design, simplicity and AI to build a platform that can compete with the biggest players—while remaining accessible to growing businesses.
Our guiding principle
Every product decision begins with one question.
Does this reduce the workload for recruiters?
If it doesn’t save time, remove repetitive work or help a team make better hiring decisions, it doesn’t belong in Cooper. That principle guides how we design our ATS, build our AI agents and decide what comes next.
- Cooper is an AI-powered hiring platform that combines a complete Applicant Tracking System with AI agents for candidate sourcing, application screening and initial qualification.
- Cooper is designed for growing SMBs with lean recruiting teams, high application volumes and limited hiring resources. It is particularly well suited to companies introducing their first ATS or replacing a complicated legacy system.
- No. Cooper reduces the repetitive work surrounding recruiting while keeping people in control. Recruiters decide how AI is used and make the final hiring decisions.
- Yes. Cooper is designed to be intuitive for recruiters, hiring managers and occasional users. Teams can get started quickly without a lengthy enterprise implementation.
- The ATS forms the foundation of Cooper’s hiring platform. Teams can use its core recruiting workflows while introducing AI automation based on their needs.
- Cooper helps teams organize large candidate pipelines while AI reviews applications and conducts initial qualification. This allows small recruiting teams to process more candidates without increasing administrative workload.
Hire more people. Not more recruiters.
Give your team the structure of a complete ATS and the support of AI agents—all in one intuitive hiring platform.