Crelate + The Cognitive Integration
The Cognitive integrates with Crelate so AI interviewing and sourcing run alongside the workflow direct hire agencies and executive search firms already use: you import active candidates from the Crelate stage you choose, invite them to a live AI interview, and write each score, summary and report link back to the candidate as a note. Crelate is one of The Cognitive's 60+ ATS integrations, all connected through one unified integration from the dashboard. Your Crelate stages and decisions stay yours: the integration never moves or rejects a candidate.
What does the Crelate integration do?
- Import from a stage: pick the Crelate stage to import active candidates from, run a sync, and they arrive in The Cognitive ready to invite.
- Results go back as a note: each interviewed candidate imported from Crelate gets the score, summary and report link added to their record, where the integration can write notes.
- No automatic stage moves: Crelate keeps every stage change and rejection decision; the integration only reads candidates and writes notes.
- Sourcing alongside: The Cognitive also finds people outside Crelate across ~900M public profiles; you choose who to contact and interview.
- Notes next to notes: the interview score, summary and report link sit on the Crelate record beside the recruiter's own call notes.
- No parallel system of record: Crelate stays the source of truth; The Cognitive adds the interview and evidence layer.
The Cognitive in a Crelate workflow
Crelate describes itself as "The Strategic Recruiting Platform", joining applicant tracking and a recruiting CRM, and its Discovery Agent already searches over 1 billion profiles outside your own data. Crelate does not list an AI interview, and that is the step The Cognitive adds: a live, two-way AI video interview of 10 or 20 minutes for the candidates you invite.
Crelate users usually pick the pipeline stage where a candidate has said yes to a role, import from it and invite that group to interview.
Crelate is built around relationships, so a recruiter's notes on a candidate carry as much weight as the pipeline. The Cognitive fits that habit: each imported candidate who interviews gets a note in Crelate with the score, a summary and the report link, next to the recruiter's own notes. Stages stay where the recruiter put them, and nobody is rejected by the integration.
How does candidate sourcing get into Crelate?
That is the gap The Cognitive's AI sourcing fills. A search brief written in plain English runs across ~900M public profiles with contact details enriched from 30+ sources; the role becomes a durable role pool that keeps everyone each search finds. Each candidate a search returns costs 1 credit, an email reveal 5 and a phone number 10, charged only on a successful reveal, so browsing a search result is cheap and only the shortlist you act on is not. People you source stay in The Cognitive's role pool and are not written into Crelate automatically; you decide who to interview and who to add to Crelate yourself.
Crelate already has outside sourcing in its Discovery Agent, so a Crelate team picks The Cognitive's search for its plain-English brief and its "Why this match" line on every result, or keeps sourcing in Crelate and uses The Cognitive only to interview. People found in The Cognitive are not written into Crelate automatically; the recruiter adds the ones worth pursuing.
How does setup work?
- 1. Connect: open the integration from The Cognitive dashboard, choose Crelate, and sign in with the credentials Crelate asks for.
- 2. Pick the source stage: tell The Cognitive which Crelate stage to import active candidates from.
- 3. Run it: sync to import, invite candidates to interview, then send each result back to Crelate as a note with the score and report link.
- Nothing in Crelate moves on its own: stages and decisions stay with your team.
Why teams add The Cognitive to their ATS
Tracking candidates is what Crelate does; finding and evaluating them is the gap The Cognitive fills. Search ~900M public profiles from a plain-English brief, then invite the people you pick, or the applicants you import from Crelate, to a live AI interview that books itself into their calendar. AI Sourcing starts at $49/month and AI Interview at $99/month.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Crelate have AI interviews or screening?
Crelate does not list an AI interview. Its site names Co-Pilot "for screening & interview prep", which helps the recruiter prepare, and no AI that interviews candidates itself. The Cognitive runs a live, two-way AI video interview of 10 or 20 minutes, scores each criterion 1 to 5 with overall written feedback, and gives you a read-only report link to share with a client.
Does Crelate source candidates outside your database?
Yes. Crelate's Discovery Agent invites you to "discover companies and candidates from over 1 billion profiles" beyond your own data. The Cognitive is a second search across ~900M public profiles, read from a plain-English brief, where anyone who misses a must-have drops below the people who meet it. Found people stay in The Cognitive's role pool and are not written into Crelate automatically.
Is Crelate an ATS or a CRM?
Both. Crelate says it "unifies sourcing, Recruiting CRM, and applicant tracking with agentic AI", and it has served more than 25,000 recruiting professionals since 2012. The Cognitive is neither, since it posts no jobs and holds no client records. It interviews the candidates you import from Crelate and writes a note with the score, a summary and the report link back to each record.
Does The Cognitive integrate with Crelate?
Yes. The Cognitive imports active candidates from the Crelate stage you choose, you invite them to a live AI interview, and the score, summary and report link go back to Crelate as a note. It is one of The Cognitive's 60+ ATS integrations.
Can The Cognitive source candidates into Crelate?
The Cognitive sources candidates alongside Crelate: it searches ~900M public profiles from a plain-English brief and enriches contact details from 30+ sources. Sourced people stay in The Cognitive's role pool and are not written into Crelate automatically. Search results cost 1 credit per candidate returned; an email reveal costs 5 credits and a phone number 10, charged only on a successful reveal.
Which Crelate stage should feed AI interviews?
Crelate users usually pick the pipeline stage where a candidate has said yes to a role, import from it and invite that group to interview. You choose the source stage in The Cognitive, each role can use its own rubric, and every decision after the interview stays with your team in Crelate.
Do I need engineering help to connect Crelate?
No engineering is needed: an Crelate admin authorizes the connection from The Cognitive dashboard and picks the source stage.
Which plans include ATS integration?
ATS integration is included on the Scale and Pro interview plans, which are billed monthly and can be cancelled anytime.
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