Your database isn't dead. Nobody has time to call it.
Every staffing agency owner is sitting on the same asset and the same problem. Tens of thousands of candidates in the ATS. A recruiting team that can realistically hold maybe forty real conversations a day. And a candidate who texts back at 9pm on a Sunday, gets nothing until Tuesday, and is already on assignment with somebody else.
Krayon builds an AI recruiting employee that closes that gap. It answers in about ninety seconds around the clock, works the candidates nobody has touched in a year, qualifies them against your rules, and hands your recruiter a live one with the whole conversation attached. It does not replace your desk. It feeds it.
Or call 813-733-5997 — you will get the person who built it, not a rep.
Three numbers every agency owner already knows
Speed to lead decides who gets the candidate. A candidate who fills out an application is filling out four. The agency that answers first has an enormous structural advantage, and every agency knows it, and almost nobody can staff it — because answering first means answering at 9pm on a Sunday, on a holiday, during your morning huddle, and while your recruiter is already on a call.
The database is the cheapest pipeline you will ever own, and it's rotting. You paid for those candidates once already. The ones who went quiet after one assignment, the ones who ghosted mid-submission, the ones who took a staff job in 2024 and are bored now. Working that list is pure margin compared to buying leads — and it is always the first thing that falls off the desk when reqs are hot.
Another recruiter costs six figures fully loaded and takes months to ramp. Then they leave, and their relationships leave with them. The math on headcount has gotten worse every year, which is exactly why the seat you actually need is one that works nights, never quits, and costs less than a car payment.
This is not a hypothetical product built by developers reading about your industry. It was built to solve these three problems inside a working healthcare staffing operation — by someone who has run the desk, argued with a VMS, and watched a submitted candidate go dark.
What the employee actually does
Two directions, all the time. Most tools sold to staffing do only the first one.
Answers in about 90 seconds. Every hour of every day.
New applicants, replies to a job blast, "is this still open?", clients texting about a req. It answers immediately, in a real back-and-forth, and it knows what it is talking about — the job, the client, the pay range you allowed it to quote, the start date.
When a candidate asks something it should not answer alone — a rate exception, a compliance question, a complaint — it stops and pulls in the recruiter instead of guessing.
Works the list nobody has time to work.
It reads your database, picks the candidates worth talking to for the reqs you actually have, and starts real conversations — personalized, one at a time, at a human pace, during human hours. Not a blast. Nobody replies to a blast.
The quiet ones, the ones who finished an assignment three months ago, the ones your team worked hard two years ago and never got back to. That is where the first placements come from, every time.
Qualifies on your rules, not a vendor's defaults.
You decide what a submittable candidate looks like and it enforces it in every conversation — and the rules are plain English you can change yourself on a Tuesday without a developer or a support ticket.
It asks the questions in the order a good recruiter asks them, and it does not pitch a job the candidate is not credentialed for.
Hands your recruiter a live one, not a lead score.
Every conversation is read for real move signal — asking about pay, asking about start dates, mentioning a contract ending. When it fires, the assigned recruiter gets the full conversation and the recommended next step on their phone.
The moment your recruiter texts into that thread, the AI goes silent. No talking over your staff, no double-texting. Step back out and it picks the follow-up back up.
And it never forgets. "Call me when my contract ends in October" happens in October — same thread, same context, right on time. That is where most staffing pipelines quietly die, and it is the single least glamorous reason this thing produces placements.
The rules are yours. Here is what that looks like in practice.
These are examples from the healthcare operation this was built in, written the way you would actually write them. Yours will be in your vertical's terms, and you can change them yourself.
That last one is worth dwelling on, because it is where automated recruiting tools most often embarrass an agency: two of your own outreach lanes pitching the same candidate in the same week, or an escalation landing on a recruiter who has never spoken to the candidate. Ownership here is enforced at send time, on every message, not left to convention.
The compliance rails are the product, not a feature
A staffing agency that loses its business number to carrier filtering has lost more than a marketing channel. So the controls are not optional and cannot be switched off, including by you:
Opt-outs are permanent and system-wide. A candidate who replies STOP to one lane is suppressed everywhere, forever, including across separate numbers and separate recruiters. A suppression record is never deleted — deleting it is how somebody who asked to be left alone gets contacted again.
Quiet hours are enforced in the candidate's local time, not your office's. A candidate in Seattle does not get a 7am text because your desk is in Tampa.
Frequency is capped per candidate across every lane, so a candidate in three of your talent pools does not receive three messages in a day.
Every outbound message identifies your business and carries a working opt-out path.
What is on you: having a lawful basis to text the people in your database. We cannot verify where your list came from, and we will not pretend otherwise — that division of responsibility is written into our terms rather than buried.
What it has actually done, counted rather than claimed
This machine was not built for a demo. It was built to work a real healthcare staffing database, and it has been doing that at volume.
Straight counts out of the messaging database for 1 June to 14 August 2026. Not a projection, not a case study, not a number a marketing department rounded up. The reply figure is deliberately conservative — it undercounts one inbound channel that doesn't write to the table we counted, so the true figure is higher than 7,200.
What that means practically: the compliance rails, the ownership locks and the handoff behaviour on this page were all forced by running that volume through a real business with real recruiters and real carriers. They are not design intentions. They are scar tissue.
Then judge it the only way that counts
Because volume is still somebody else's number, and you should not buy on it. Here is a better offer.
Text the live demo. It is running right now, and it is the same conversational system, pointed at a fictional company. Play the difficult candidate. Ask it something off-script. Try to make it sound like a bot. It takes four minutes and it will tell you more than any deck.
Then put it on your own number for thirty days. Give it one talent pool — one specialty, one state, the segment you have already given up on. If it does not produce conversations your team would have wanted to have, you have lost a month and a fixed fee, and you will have learned exactly where the ceiling is.
And ask me hard questions on the call. Ask what happens when two lanes want the same candidate, what happens when a candidate says something legally sensitive, what it does with a candidate whose license lapsed. The answers are specific, because these problems were solved in production rather than in a roadmap.
Pricing, published
One fixed monthly number. No per-recruiter seats, no per-message metering, no annual contract required to start.
PER MONTH
ONE TIME
For context on the math: at $1,500 a month this needs to produce roughly one additional placement a quarter to pay for itself at typical placement margins. Most agency owners can decide from that sentence alone whether the rest of this page was worth reading.
What agency owners ask first
Will it sound like a bot to candidates?
Candidates get blasted constantly and can spot a template in one line. This holds a real back-and-forth — it answers the question actually asked, handles "who is this?" and "what's the pay?" without deflecting, and does not walk a script, because there is no script. Do not take that on faith: text the live demo and try to break it.
Does it work with Bullhorn, JobDiva, or whatever we run?
It works from an export on day one — a spreadsheet of candidates is genuinely enough to start, which means you can be live before any integration conversation happens. Direct ATS integration is part of setup where an API exists, including Bullhorn and JobDiva. You do not change systems and you do not migrate anything.
How do you stop it double-texting a candidate my recruiter is already working?
Candidate ownership is enforced at send time on every single message, not by convention or by a nightly sync. A candidate assigned to a recruiter is not contacted by any other lane. And the instant a human replies inside a thread, the AI goes silent on that thread until the recruiter steps back out. This is the failure mode that makes agencies distrust automation, so it is enforced at the choke point rather than in a policy document.
What about TCPA, opt-outs, and keeping our number alive?
Opt-outs are honored permanently and system-wide across every number and lane, quiet hours run in the candidate's local time, frequency is capped per candidate, and every message identifies your business with a working opt-out. Those controls cannot be switched off, including by you. What is yours: having a lawful basis to contact your list. That split is spelled out in our terms.
Does it replace my recruiters?
No, and an agency buying it for that reason will be disappointed. It does the part of the job that does not need judgment — being awake, being fast, working a list that is too big to work by hand, and never dropping a follow-up. Closing a candidate on an offer, handling a client relationship, and rescuing a submission still take a person. What changes is how many live conversations that person starts their day with.
What does the data situation look like?
Straight answer, because the marketing version of this is usually misleading: our document processing service runs entirely on hardware we own with nothing sent to a public AI service. The conversational product you would be buying here may use commercial language-model providers under agreements that prohibit training on submitted content — and text messages necessarily travel over carrier networks, which no vendor can honestly claim otherwise about. We do not train on your data or use it for any other client. If you need a deployment that also runs entirely on our own hardware, that is buildable and priced differently. Full detail on the security page.
How fast is it live?
Typically two weeks from signature: rules and credential logic configured, escalation routing set, carrier registration filed on your business number, first talent pool loaded. Carrier registration is usually the long pole and it is outside anyone's control, which is why it starts on day one.
Why should I believe a small Tampa company over a funded SaaS vendor?
You probably should not, on the basis of a web page. What you can do is text the demo, take the free assessment, and put a fixed monthly fee against one talent pool for thirty days. Against a funded vendor you get an SDR, a six-week procurement cycle, and a per-seat contract. Here you get the person who wrote it answering the phone at 813-733-5997, and rules you can change yourself on a Tuesday.
Built by an operator
Not licensed from a chatbot vendor and not built by developers who read about staffing. Built to solve these exact problems on a working desk.
Fixed, published pricing
$1,000–$2,000 a month plus a $2,500 setup. No per-seat pricing, no metering, no annual contract to start.
Compliance you cannot switch off
Permanent system-wide opt-outs, local-time quiet hours, per-candidate frequency caps. How we handle data.