Recruitment software for small business teams that hire without HR

Recruitment software for small business is a category of hiring tools designed for teams that don't have a full recruiting function. It usually covers some combination of job posting, applicant tracking, resume screening, one-way video interviews, assessments, and basic team collaboration. The point is to replace the manual parts of hiring without hiring a recruiter to do them. Truffle sits in the screening layer of that stack and covers resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments in one workflow.

Category pricing varies widely. Entry-level applicant tracking systems start around $75 to $100 per month. Full-featured platforms often run $300 to $600 per month or charge per user and per job posting. Many hide pricing behind a demo request. Truffle starts at $49 per month (Starter) and is credit-based: one shared monthly pool spent across resume screening (1 credit), assessed candidates (2 credits), and one-way interviews (5 credits), with credits rolling over on Core and up. Every feature on every plan, unlimited team seats, all three screening methods, every integration. 7-day free trial, 30 credits, no card.

You can use Truffle on its own. Most small business teams pair it with a job board and an email tool and skip the ATS entirely until they grow into one. Truffle handles the screening layer: resumes, interviews, assessments, scoring, team review. It doesn't run offer letters, onboarding, I-9 / E-Verify, or benefits. When you do adopt an ATS, Truffle integrates natively with Ashby, Breezy HR, and Indeed, or connects through Zapier to most others.

Yes. The product assumes you're not a recruiter. Setup takes about three minutes. Paste your job description, accept or edit AI-suggested questions and scoring criteria, add your branding, and share the Position Link. Candidates record from any device with no app and no account. You review a shortlist with AI Summaries and 30-second Candidate Shorts. Most of the people running hiring on Truffle also run office, benefits, or the whole company.

The right answer depends on whether you already have an ATS and how much you hire. A 50-person company hiring three to fifteen roles a year usually doesn't need a full enterprise ATS. You need a screening layer that handles volume without a recruiter, and a place to loop in the hiring manager without paying per seat. That's the shape of Truffle. If you already run Ashby or Breezy, Truffle plugs in. If you don't, you can run Truffle standalone and add an ATS later.

Most category tools are ATS-first. They optimize for tracking candidates through a pipeline and bolt screening on as knockout questions, basic scoring, or an integration with a third-party video tool. Truffle is screening-first. Three methods, one workflow, one visible price, transparent per-criterion scoring, unlimited team seats. If your core problem is deciding who is worth a conversation out of 200 candidates per role, Truffle is the wedge.

AI Check flags patterns of AI-assisted language as a context signal attached to the candidate profile. It's not an automatic rejection. It's a prompt to ask better follow-up questions, look for corroborating signal in the video, or weigh the response against the rest of the candidate's evidence. More broadly, the reason Truffle stacks three screening methods is that each layer is harder to fake than the last.

About three minutes from paste to live. Paste your job description. Accept or edit AI-suggested questions and scoring criteria. Add your logo and colors. Share the Position Link on your job boards, your careers page, LinkedIn, or directly over email. No implementation project, no onboarding call required, no IT involvement.

Yes. Truffle has native integrations with Ashby, Breezy HR, and Indeed, and connects to most other ATSs through Zapier. Candidates still apply through your ATS. Truffle handles the screening layer, then syncs scores, summaries, and Candidate Shorts back into the candidate record in your ATS. Your hiring managers see everything in one place without a second login.