Truffle is for small teams doing high-volume hiring, whoever does the hiring there. Founders, GMs, and franchisees at small businesses doing it themselves, the one-person people team or in-house recruiter at a small company, and small owner-run staffing agencies, all filling the same roles over and over, usually with no real ATS. It fits best when resumes alone don't tell you enough and you want to replace the first-round phone screen with structured screening.

Where does Truffle sit in a hiring stack?

Truffle is the screening step. It reads every applicant against the resume criteria, one-way interview questions and assessments you set, and hands you a ranked shortlist with the evidence shown. Posting, pipeline, offers and onboarding stay in the job board, ATS or HRIS you already use; Truffle connects natively to Ashby, Breezy HR, Workable, Bullhorn, JazzHR, Recruitee, Teamtailor and Indeed, and to 7,000+ other apps through Zapier. It works on its own too, with a Position Link you paste into any job board. The hiring decision always stays with you.

About Truffle

We built Truffle for small teams that are always hiring

Easy-apply and AI-generated resumes flooded every role with hundreds of candidates who all look the same on paper. Most tools answered by handing the decision to an algorithm. But when you're the one doing the hiring on a small team, you don't want a machine making a call you can't afford to get wrong. You want the evidence to make it yourself, with confidence.

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Truffle candidate screening dashboard with ranked shortlist, AI Match scores, and Candidate Shorts

The story

Why Truffle exists

Sean Griffith spent years inside high-volume hiring at SimpleTexting, with nobody to hand the pile to. He saw the same pattern everywhere. Small teams drowning in applications. Phone screens that revealed less every quarter. AI tools promising to make the hiring call for them.

01

The signals broke

Resumes got AI-polished. Cover letters got AI-written. Even take-home assessments got fed to ChatGPT. Every traditional screening method got easier to game in two years.
02

The volume got worse

Owners used to be able to muscle through application volume themselves. Easy-apply changed that. The pile got bigger and there was still nobody to hand it to. The old workflow stopped working and nothing emerged to replace it.
03

The industry got it wrong

Every competitor decided the answer was an algorithm that picks for you. But the owner doesn't want a machine making a hire they can't afford to get wrong. They want the evidence to decide themselves.
04

We built a different answer

Truffle gives you three layers of evidence in one workflow. Resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments. AI handles the busywork. You make the call.

Who it's for

Built for small teams doing high-volume hiring

Truffle is for whoever does the hiring on a small team. The founder, GM, or franchisee who got stuck with it. The one-person people team or in-house recruiter with nobody to delegate to. The small owner-run agency screening for clients. Same pile, same stakes.

A strong fit if you're

Doing the hiring on a small team, whether you're the owner, the office manager, or the one recruiter
Filling the same roles over and over, often at volume, where resumes alone don't tell you enough
Ready to replace the first-round phone screen with structured one-way interviews
Tired of stitching together a video tool, an assessment tool, and a spreadsheet

Where Truffle sits in your stack

Truffle is the screening step: resume criteria, one-way interview questions and assessments, read against every applicant, ranked with the evidence shown.
Posting, pipeline and offers stay in your job board or ATS. Truffle connects natively to Ashby, Breezy HR, Workable, Bullhorn, JazzHR, Recruitee, Teamtailor and Indeed, and to 7,000+ apps through Zapier.
Payroll, onboarding and benefits stay in your HRIS. Truffle stops at the shortlist.
It earns its keep on repeat roles: the same job filled several times a year, at volume, is where the hours come back.

Truffle works next to your existing tools or on its own. AI surfaces the evidence. You make the call.

Principles

How we build, decide, and show up

Four things we hold ourselves to. Every product decision and customer conversation runs through them.

Trust over everything

Every match score shows its reasoning. Every AI summary cites its source. We don't ship a black box and hope you trust it.

Confidence, not just speed

You don't have hours, and you can't afford to hire wrong. We measure success in confident decisions reached in minutes, not features shipped per quarter.

Say the hard thing

When a customer's process is broken, we say so. When AI in hiring is overhyped, we say so. Calm, direct, no corporate hedge.

Be intentional

We're remote-first, self-funded, and slow to add complexity. Every feature has to earn its place in your day.

The team

Small team, focused on one thing

Truffle is led by Sean Griffith, formerly at SimpleTexting, where he watched hiring break under volume firsthand. The team is remote, self-funded, and accountable to customers, not to investors with a five-year clock.

Founded: 2024
Funding: Self-funded
Team: Remote-first
Pricing: From $49/month

"We build Truffle for the long run. The small team doing its own hiring deserves software that respects their judgment, gets out of their way, and ships every screening capability without a contract negotiation."

Sean Griffith, Founder & CEO

See what screening looks like when AI surfaces and you decide

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We built Truffle for small teams that are always hiring

Why Truffle exists

The signals broke

The volume got worse

The industry got it wrong

We built a different answer