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Flatchr

HR
Velocity6.3

Recruiting and applicant tracking platform (ATS) for hiring, onboarding and talent management

Flatchr is bolting assessment and self-serve billing onto its French ATS.

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Current state
Flatchr is shipping steadily across three fronts. Candidate assessment arrived as Flatchr Skills, an optional module that scores motivation, strengths, and fit against an offer and writes results back to the candidate file. Administration got a new configuration space for toggling AI features and steering job-offer generation with employer-brand instructions, plus a rebuilt subscription page where monthly customers can add up to 100 seats themselves. The recruitment-authorization workflow (DAR) gained external approvers who act by email without an account, and automatic reminders after two days.
Where it's heading
The pattern is closing loops that previously ended in someone's inbox or an account manager's queue: approvals chase themselves, seats are bought without a call, and AI features are governed by an administrator instead of shipped on by default. Assessment is the one move that widens the product rather than tightening it, extending an applicant tracking system into evaluation. Note that the feed's titles arrive with broken emoji encoding, and the content is translated from French.
Prediction
Expect the sub-folder taxonomy to surface as search criteria in the dashboard currently in beta, which the release notes say outright, and expect the AI configuration page to accumulate more toggles as it was explicitly framed as groundwork.

Recent moves

  1. 21d ago

    Offer settings centralized; tags become nestable sub-folders

    File settings — reasons, tags, members, DAR parameters — collapse into a single entry point, and offer tags become sub-folders that can nest offers by contract type or city. The release notes flag that these sub-folders will become search criteria in a dashboard now in beta, so this is deliberate groundwork.

  2. 1mo ago

    Subscription page adds self-serve seat purchase for monthly plans

    The subscription page now shows plan, billing date, packs, invoices, and available modules in one place, and lets monthly customers add up to 100 seats themselves with the rate calculated before confirmation. Annual contracts still route through an account manager, so this is self-serve for the smaller tier only.

  3. 1mo ago

    Discover Flatchr Skills ✨

    ⚡ SPARK

    Flatchr Skills extends the ATS past tracking into evaluation, analyzing candidate motivations and strengths and scoring adequacy against the offer. It sits next to the existing Flatchr Fit AI summaries, which makes assessment the second scoring surface the product now owns.

  4. 1mo ago

    Admins can toggle AI features and steer job-offer generation

    Administrators get a configuration space to switch Flatchr Fit and automatic candidate tagging on or off, and to give job-offer generation instructions matching their employer brand. Making AI features governable rather than ambient is what unblocks their use in organizations with hiring compliance requirements.

  5. 2mo ago

    External approvers can sign off recruitment requests by email

    Recruitment authorization requests can now be approved by people outside Flatchr, who consult, edit, approve, or refuse by email without creating an account. It removes the most common reason an approval chain stalls — the approver who isn't a user.

  6. 2mo ago

    Job-offer QR codes and French-by-default Flatchr Fit summaries

    A batch covering branded QR codes for job offers, Flatchr Fit summaries defaulting to French instead of returning inconsistent English, and a warning banner about Emploi Territorial redistribution constraints. The language default is the substantive fix — an AI summary in the wrong language is one a recruiter won't trust.