Harbour ATS + The Cognitive Integration
The Cognitive integrates with Harbour ATS so AI interviewing and sourcing run alongside the workflow UK social care and healthcare employers already use: you import active candidates from the Harbour ATS 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. Of The Cognitive's 60+ ATS integrations, Harbour ATS is one, connected from the dashboard through one unified integration. Stage moves and decisions stay in Harbour ATS; the integration only reads candidates and writes notes.
What does the Harbour ATS integration do?
- Import from a stage: pick the Harbour ATS stage to import active candidates from, run a sync, and they arrive in The Cognitive ready to invite.
- Note write-back: for imported candidates who have interviewed, the score, a summary and the report link are written back to Harbour ATS as a note, where Harbour ATS accepts notes through the integration.
- Your decisions stay in Harbour ATS: the integration never changes a candidate's stage and never rejects anyone.
- Beyond your applicants: The Cognitive's sourcing reaches ~900M public profiles, so the people you interview are not limited to Harbour ATS applicants.
- Shift-friendly first round: applicants book a live AI interview slot around their shifts, without an account.
- Nothing forks: Harbour ATS keeps being the source of truth while The Cognitive supplies the interview and evidence layer.
The Cognitive in a Harbour ATS workflow
Harbour ATS sells "The Safer Recruitment Solution for Social Care" to care homes, children's homes and domiciliary care, with Right to Work, DBS and reference checks held on the candidate record. The Cognitive adds a first-round conversation before those checks begin: a live, two-way AI video interview of 10 or 20 minutes, in 9 languages.
Care providers usually import from the stage after application review and invite those applicants to interview.
Care workers apply between shifts, which is why Harbour lets candidates book their own interviews. The Cognitive works the same way: the candidate books a slot inside the window the recruiter opens, without an account. Each imported applicant who interviews gets a note in Harbour with the score, a summary and the report link, and Harbour's compliance steps and stages are left untouched.
How does candidate sourcing get into Harbour ATS?
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 Harbour ATS automatically; you decide who to interview and who to add to Harbour ATS yourself.
Harbour fills vacancies from applicants, and The Cognitive searches ~900M public profiles for carers and nurses who have not applied. The people it finds stay in The Cognitive's role pool, and the recruiter adds the ones they pursue to Harbour, where the safer recruitment checks start.
How does setup work?
- 1. Connect: the dashboard opens one integration window; select Harbour ATS and authorize the connection there.
- 2. Pick the source stage: tell The Cognitive which Harbour ATS stage to import active candidates from.
- 3. Sync, invite, write back: run a sync, invite the imported candidates, and push the score and report link back to Harbour ATS as a note once they have interviewed.
- Harbour ATS stays in charge of stages and decisions; The Cognitive adds the interview and the note.
Why teams add The Cognitive to their ATS
Harbour ATS is a system of record, not a sourcer or an interviewer. The Cognitive finds people across ~900M public profiles and interviews them live with AI, scoring every criterion 1 to 5 against the rubric you set, then writes the score and report link back to Harbour ATS. AI Sourcing starts at $49/month and AI Interview at $99/month.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Harbour ATS have AI interviews or screening?
Harbour ATS offers "AI summaries to help you quickly determine a candidate's suitability", but its site does not describe an AI interview. The Cognitive adds a live, two-way AI video interview of 10 or 20 minutes in 9 languages, which applicants book around their shifts without an account. The read-only report link, with scores and the recording, can go to a home manager.
Does Harbour ATS source candidates outside your database?
Harbour's site does not describe a search beyond applicants; its messaging tools are email, text and WhatsApp to people already in the system. The Cognitive searches ~900M public profiles for carers and nurses who have not applied, and verified emails and phone numbers can be revealed. They stay in its role pool until a recruiter adds them to Harbour.
Is Harbour ATS for social care?
Yes. Harbour ATS calls itself "The Safer Recruitment Solution for Social Care" and serves adult and children's social care, including care homes, domiciliary care and supported living. Right to Work, DBS and reference checks sit on its candidate record. The Cognitive runs the first interview before those checks begin and writes the score and report link to Harbour as a note.
Does The Cognitive integrate with Harbour ATS?
Yes. Candidates in your chosen Harbour ATS stage are imported on sync, invited to a live AI interview, and their score and report link are added back in Harbour ATS as a note. Harbour ATS is one of 60+ ATS integrations The Cognitive offers.
Can The Cognitive source candidates into Harbour ATS?
The Cognitive sources candidates alongside Harbour ATS: 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 Harbour ATS 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 Harbour ATS stage should feed AI interviews?
Care providers usually import from the stage after application review and invite those applicants 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 Harbour ATS.
Do I need engineering help to connect Harbour ATS?
Not for the connection itself. An Harbour ATS admin signs in through The Cognitive's integration window and chooses the stage to import candidates from.
Which plans include ATS integration?
ATS integration comes with the Scale and Pro interview plans. Plans are monthly, and you can cancel anytime.
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