What we do
- Write the ad and put it out
- Multiposting network and LinkedIn
- Search again every day the role is open
- Interviews by our AI recruiter, cleared by a person
- Shortlist, with our assessment attached
€1M pre-seed from Merantix
Recruiting, done for you · Built in Germany
Like a recruiting consultancy.Except it never stops looking.
We write the ad, put it out through our multiposting network and LinkedIn, and search again every day. Every candidate goes through a structured interview with our AI recruiter, and every profile is then cleared by a person. Checked profiles keep arriving until the role is filled.
Interactive previewSwitch jobs, change tabs, open a candidate — it works.
WhyBrilliant
Export to your ATS
Send candidates you've been introduced to straight into Ashby, Personio, Greenhouse or Recruitee.
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hiring@northwind.exampleNorthwind Robotics
Discussing: Senior Backend Engineer
Can we widen this a bit? Two weeks in and I've only met one person I'd hire.
Your 'must relocate' line was filtering out three strong people who would move for the right role. I've relaxed it to 'open to relocating' and re-ran the shortlist — two new matches, both above 85%.
Atlas is thinking…
Ask Atlas anything - draft a role, find a fit, plan an intro…Atlas
Senior Backend EngineerBerlin, HybridActive
AI-matched candidates ranked by brief criteria
3 foundRe-run search
The division of labour
We take the search off your desk. Not the decision.
What stays with you
- Run the interviews
- Make the choice
- Negotiate the offer
- The decision
This is the workspace you get. Nothing here is a screenshot.
Our pool includes people from
How a role runs with us
Six steps. Then it starts again.
The difference from a classic consultancy is step six: they deliver a batch of profiles and go quiet. The search here re-runs every day the role is open, and only surfaces people you have not seen.
Briefing — fifteen minutes, with a person.
You tell us the role once. No form, no template. We write the ad from it. Rather not wait for a slot? Register and give us the role in writing instead — the rest runs the same way.
Out it goes.
The ad goes live through our multiposting network and onto LinkedIn. You post nothing yourself.
We look again, every day.
The search re-runs daily against the pool while the role is open, and skips everyone already scored — so each run brings people you have not seen.
Every candidate is interviewed. No exceptions.
Before a profile reaches you it has been through a full interview: motivation, salary, availability, skills. Nova, our AI recruiter, runs it, which is why every candidate gets the same depth. Then come the checks for duplicates, doctored CVs and throwaway addresses. Whatever reaches you has been cleared by a person.
Shortlist with our reasoning.
Not filter output. Each profile says why we are proposing them and where it does not fit. If someone works: one click and the introduction goes out.
It keeps going.
The search does not stop at the first shortlist. New matches arrive as they appear, until someone signs. You never have to chase us.
runs in the background until you sign
Two ways to work with us
As involved as you want to be.
Stay in the loop.
You see every candidate as they arrive and tell us what was off. Correct the brief in the chat and the next day's search uses it — the criteria are yours to move.
Hand it over.
You do nothing. A mail arrives when there are genuinely new strong profiles, never an empty one, and at most one per role per day. You click invite, or you don't.
Either way it is the same search underneath. The only thing that changes is how much of it you want to see.
What Atlas does for you
Hiring, without the heavy lifting.
01
Candidates who actually fit.
Nova, our AI recruiter, interviews every candidate — their why, their context, what they want next. Atlas forwards only genuine matches.
See a real shortlistSenior Backend Engineer
Berlin · Go, Postgres · fits “small team, real ownership”
MatchedGrowth Lead
Munich · B2B SaaS · fits “early-stage, full funnel”
MatchedProduct Designer
Hybrid · Fintech · fits “0→1, close to eng”
Matched
02
The job ad, built to convert.
Atlas rewrites your role for discovery and conversion: the right search terms, and the language that makes strong candidates apply.
Talk through your roleJob description · drafted by Atlas
Senior Backend Engineer
“Rockstar ninja wanted for a fast-paced, synergy-driven journey.”
Own the core API. Ship to millions. Work directly with the founders, with real say over the roadmap.
↑ Optimised for candidate discovery
03
One brief. Every job board.
The major boards, the niche ones, your careers page. You write the role once; you post nothing yourself.
Ask about distributionOne brief everywhere
- The major boards
- Niche & industry boards
- Professional networks
- Your careers page
- + the WhyBrilliant pool
04
Your recruiter, around the clock.
Discuss a candidate at midnight, adjust a post on a Sunday, add a role. No back-and-forth, no waiting for a reply.
See Atlas in actionAtlas
Today · 23:47
Tightened the brief: your ‘must relocate’ line was filtering out three strong people who’d move for the right role. Re-ran the shortlist.
Two new matches added. Want me to walk you through why they fit?
Pricing for companies
You pay nothing until you hire.
Companies
10%
of first-year base salary, paid on hire
- No setup, no retainer, no posting fees. Nothing at all until someone signs.
- Then 10% of first-year base. Consultancies charge 20–30%.
- If they leave inside 90 days you get the fee back in full — tell us in writing within 14 days. Once per hire.
- On request we then look again for the same role at no extra cost.
- No fee if we introduce someone you were already talking to.
Next to the alternative
What the same hire costs elsewhere.
On a €70,000 role, the fee difference is roughly €7,000 against €14,000–21,000.
| WhyBrilliant | Recruiting agency | Posting it yourself | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fee | 10% of first-year base | 20–30% of first-year base | Board fees per posting |
| When you pay | On hire | On hire, often with a retainer | Upfront, hire or not |
| If the hire leaves | Full refund inside 90 days | Usually a replacement, not cash | Nothing back |
| Who screens | Every candidate given a structured interview, every profile cleared by a person | Depends on the consultant and how busy they are | You do |
Fee
- WhyBrilliant
- 10% of first-year base
- Recruiting agency
- 20–30% of first-year base
- Posting it yourself
- Board fees per posting
When you pay
- WhyBrilliant
- On hire
- Recruiting agency
- On hire, often with a retainer
- Posting it yourself
- Upfront, hire or not
If the hire leaves
- WhyBrilliant
- Full refund inside 90 days
- Recruiting agency
- Usually a replacement, not cash
- Posting it yourself
- Nothing back
Who screens
- WhyBrilliant
- Every candidate given a structured interview, every profile cleared by a person
- Recruiting agency
- Depends on the consultant and how busy they are
- Posting it yourself
- You do
Agency figures are the published market range for contingency search in Germany.
What you are not signing up for
The four things people ask first.
No pile, and no fakes.
You see three to five people, not two hundred applications. Nobody reaches you who has not been interviewed by our AI recruiter, checked for duplicates and doctored CVs, and cleared by a person.
No job ad to write.
Atlas drafts it from the call and posts it. You approve it — that is the whole of your writing.
No lock-in.
No retainer, no exclusivity, no minimum. Keep your agency and your own pipeline running alongside.
No fee until it works.
Nothing owed until you hire, a full refund if they leave inside 90 days, and no fee for anyone you were already talking to.
Integrations
From shortlist to your ATS in one click.
The moment an introduction is accepted, export the candidate into your own ATS as a proper application — CV attached, WhyBrilliant recorded as the source.
More integrations on the way.
JKExported ✓
Senior Backend Engineer
Intro accepted · CV attached
Works with
Data & compliance
Where your data sits, and who sees it.
Processed in the EU
Candidate and company data is processed in the European Union, under GDPR.
A German company
WhyBrilliant GmbH — a real entity with a real address, named in the imprint.
Consent before contact
A candidate agrees to the introduction before you receive their details. Nobody is passed on quietly.
Your brief stays yours
Your role, your requirements and your feedback are used to fill your role — not sold on or listed.
Who is behind this
A small team, and you can see who.
WhyBrilliant is built by two founders and a small core team in Germany. There is no call centre and no SDR layer between you and the people who make the product — whoever picks up can answer the pricing, the data and the technical questions.
Patrick Böert
Founder & CEO
LinkedIn ↗Aleksander Heimrath
Founder & CTO
LinkedIn ↗
One call to start.Hire your next person.
For startups and scale-ups hiring in Germany. No obligation, no prep needed.