Find the one.
Effortlessly.

Slow hiring costs you candidates, time and money. Rafa makes sure it doesn't.

No credit card Works with your ATS
  • Interview scheduled
    Sr. Backend Engineer
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  • Follow-up sent
    Growth Manager
    11 MIN AGO
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    Product Lead
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Trusted by hiring teams at growing firms

MeridianNorthwallAspect & Co.Linde PartnersHalden GroupVerity Capital
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Rafa brings structure and speed back to hiring.

It sits on top of your existing ATS and recruiting workflows, so nothing falls through the cracks while your team focuses on people.

Rafa · pipeline overview

Senior Associate

London · 9 active candidates

AllNeeds follow upScheduled
  • MK
    Maya Khan
    Senior Associate · Interview
  • JT
    James Turner
    Consultant · Screen
  • AS
    Aisha Said
    Manager · Offer
  • RP
    Ravi Patel
    Analyst · Sourced
Pipeline
Live
Sourced
Screen
Interview
Offer
  • MKReplied
  • JTScheduled
  • ASNudged
  • RPMerged

Most companies do not need more recruiting software. They need operational clarity.

They need someone to map the workflow, identify where strong candidates are getting lost, and show where AI actually helps instead of adding more noise.

What Rafa does

Four things, done well, every day.

01

Follow up, handled.

Rafa replies, nudges and keeps every candidate warm so nothing goes cold while your team focuses on interviews.

0 candidates left cold
02

Scheduling, sorted.

Interviews booked across calendars and timezones with no back and forth. Reschedules and reminders handled automatically.

Booked in minutes
03

Pipelines, tidy.

Duplicates merged, stages updated, old applicants resurfaced. Your ATS kept in order, every single day.

ATS, always in order
04

Reporting, surfaced.

Pipeline visibility across roles and stages. Stalled candidates flagged before they go cold, so nothing slips through.

Clarity, every day
Think
  • Workflow coordination
  • Candidate communication
  • Pipeline visibility
  • ATS workflow support
  • Operational hiring infrastructure
Not
  • Another ATS
  • Another recruitment agency
  • Another staffing platform
  • Another dashboard full of complexity

Less an HR tool, more a recruiting operations partner working in the background so your hiring system keeps running.

Signal 1
Where pipelines slow down

Surfaces stages losing momentum before they stall the quarter.

Signal 2
Where candidates disengage

Flags silent drop-offs and unanswered threads in real time.

Signal 3
Where bottlenecks form

Pinpoints the operational friction slowing your team down.

Why Rafa

Technical depth meets recruiting reality.

Built by operators who have spent years inside recruiting, automation, candidate operations, and AI infrastructure, including work alongside firms like Anthropic, Citadel, and Meta.

That is where Rafa is different.

Sometimes you need someone technical enough to diagnose the issue, but practical enough to understand the recruiting problem underneath it.

We also know how to explain AI and automation clearly to non-technical teams, without jargon, overengineering, or vague “AI transformation” language.

How we got here

Modern hiring is noisier, slower, and more chaotic than ever.

Hiring did not become broken overnight. AI changed candidate behaviour faster than recruiting systems evolved to handle it.

Candidates are using AI to optimise resumes, personalise applications, and beat ATS filters with keywords and formatting tricks. The incentives push everyone in that direction.

Most recruiting workflows were not built for an AI-native world.

Almost every resume now looks polished.

What hiring teams are really facing

  • AI-Polished Resumes

    Almost every application now looks credible on paper.

  • Slow Hiring Cycles

    Top candidates are often off the market before companies respond.

  • Rigid Filtering

    Keyword-heavy workflows can overlook capable candidates.

  • Pipeline Chaos

    Duplicate candidates and messy workflows create operational noise.

Average hiring cycles take 42 to 68 days. Top tier candidates are frequently off the market within 10 days.

Legacy screening

What teams still rely on

  • 01Keyword screening
  • 02Knockout questions
  • 03Prestige filtering
  • 04Proxy credentials
  • 05Manual review bottlenecks

Non-technical HR often screens roles in ML, AI or quantitative finance.

AI vendor pitfalls

And new tools bring new problems

  • 01Opaque scoring systems
  • 02Hidden bias risks
  • 03Weak workflow logic
  • 04Black-box decision making

Most ATS systems were built to store candidates, not surface signal.

The best candidates rarely wait around, and slow hiring now directly impacts hiring quality.

That is why operational clarity matters more than ever.

Who It's For

Every open role hits the bottom line.

Talent acquisition leaders, recruiters, founders and CEOs all feel the same thing: slow hiring loses candidates, burns time and quietly drains revenue.

Rafa keeps your pipeline moving without adding more tools your team has to learn.

Built for:

Talent Acquisition LeadersRecruitersFoundersCEOsHeads of PeopleStaffing & Recruitment FirmsLean, fast-growing teams

For Talent Acquisition Teams

  • Cut the cost of every day a role stays open
  • Stop losing candidates (and revenue) to slow replies
  • Reduce time to hire without adding headcount
  • Rediscover talent already paid for in your ATS
  • Give founders and CEOs real pipeline visibility
  • Free recruiters from operational busywork

For Recruiters & Staffing Firms

  • Increase placements per recruiter
  • Surface relevant candidates faster
  • Reduce time spent searching databases
  • Improve recruiter productivity
  • Stay on top of candidate follow-up
  • Increase revenue without increasing recruiter headcount
What teams say

Calmer pipelines. Faster hires.

Rafa took our pipeline from chaos to calm. We stopped losing candidates to slow follow up almost overnight.
HT
Head of Talent
Boutique consulting firm
It feels like having two more recruiting coordinators, without the cost or the management overhead.
TL
Talent Lead
Financial services scale up
We finally have one source of truth across our roles. Our hiring managers can actually trust the pipeline now.
PO
People Operations
Professional services group
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Do we need to download anything?+

No. Rafa works alongside your existing ATS and workflows. Setup is lightweight and takes a single onboarding session.

Is Rafa another ATS?+

No. Rafa is not an ATS replacement. It sits on top of your existing hiring stack and keeps it organised.

Does Rafa replace recruiters?+

No. Your team still controls hiring decisions and interviews. Rafa handles the operational workflows around the process so your recruiters can focus on people.

Does Rafa help rediscover old candidates?+

Yes. Most companies already have hundreds or thousands of past applicants sitting unused inside their ATS. Rafa helps bring those pipelines back to life.

How quickly can we get started?+

Most teams are live within a week. We handle the integration with your ATS and configure your workflows together.

Is our candidate data secure?+

Yes. Rafa is built with enterprise grade security and treats candidate data with the same care your ATS does.

Join the waitlist.

We are opening Rafa to a limited number of additional teams.