ATS Comparison
How do Ashby and Lever differ?
Both tools are built to simplify TA teams’ workflows, but key differences set them apart. Read on to see how they compare.
Ashby
Ashby enables ambitious talent teams to run a data-driven talent acquisition process with the latest in AI and automation. Ashby All-in-One combines your ATS, CRM & sourcing, scheduling and analytics into a single solution with customizations to fit your business, from startup to enterprise.
Companies that choose Ashby tend to prioritize:
Robust, customizable reporting and dashboards across the full recruiting cycle, enabling data-driven decision-making without the need for spreadsheets or separate tools
Highly configurable workflows and permissions across the tool to support the complexities of growing organizations, without sacrificing on user experience
Rapid pace of product development that keeps customers ahead of regulatory changes and technological advances, with over 130 features shipped in the last year
An ATS that delivers a seamless experience for TA teams, hiring managers, execs and candidates
Lever
Lever was built as a simple and easy-to-use ATS for small businesses to begin recruiting quickly. Employ acquired them in 2022, which some Lever customers have seen impact the pace of development and quality of support offerings.
What some customers have to say about Lever:
A simple, easy-to-use ATS for early-stage companies, but requires integrations with point solutions and reporting tools to achieve the same levels of efficiency and data visibility as Ashby
Offers a “one-size-fits-all” approach to hiring, which enables you to get started more easily but can impede scale and customization to the business as you grow. Larger customers often make substantial investments in additional development and integrations to achieve the customizations and permissions needed at scale
Out-of-the-box reporting that feels less intuitive than the rest of the tool and can be difficult to parse specific data and insights from
Since acquisition by the Employ brand, quality of support has decreased and minimal investments made in new features
What makes Ashby different?
Innovation
Ashby is built on a modern infrastructure, releasing impactful updates to the tool almost weekly. Our commitment to agile development and product innovation allows us to stay ahead of shifting trends and regulations, meeting the needs of modern talent acquisition teams.
Rapid Development
Dozens of improvements shipped across the platform each month. Product innovation and engineering velocity ensure you always have the highest standard of tooling.
Embedded AI
Ashby embeds AI-assistance throughout the All-in-One product. AI in Ashby helps teams efficiently process inbound application volume, scale personalized outreach in sequences, and schedule complex interview panels and debriefs. TA Teams can keep pace with industry changes, reduce individual workloads, and increase their efficiency without compromising effectiveness.
Quality of Hire
Ashby is the only ATS on the market with a solution to help you define, collect, and measure Quality of Hire data for your organization. Use this data to optimize sourcing efforts, improve interview calibration, and reduce costly mis-hires.
Having spent years in a stagnant incumbent that shall not be named, started using @AshbyHQ, and it is such breath of fresh air. Life's too short to not build delightful software, folks.
What makes Ashby different?
All-in-One
Ashby All-in-One centralizes your ATS, scheduling, CRM & sourcing, and analytics into one tool. Managing the entire recruiting process in a single tool streamlines workflows and enables reporting insights that cannot be uncovered with a fragmented tech stack.
Streamlined Workflows
Eliminate the need to integrate multiple tools and hack together workarounds. Source candidates, move them into pipeline stages that kick off interview scheduling automation, conduct interview plans with scoring rubrics built into the system, and execute offer creation and approvals—all without worrying about data syncing issues or context switching across tools.
Scheduling
Where scheduling can be cumbersome in other tools, Ashby streamlines the process with a deep bidirectional integration with Google and Microsoft 365. This enables visual calendar availability, integrated workflows with the rest of your recruiting activities, and advanced automation to manage complex loops and debriefs. The result is fewer steps, less clicking, and more time spent on high-value recruiting activities.
Sourcing
Source ideal candidates from your CRM using powerful AI-assisted search across any field or filter. Use the sourcing chrome extension to surface personal emails for candidates, add them to Ashby in one click, and send email or LinkedIn sequences with embedded AI personalization to maximize response rates.
Reporting & Analytics
Robust analytics native to your recruiting software means you can report on your entire recruiting process in real time. Centralize data from all your recruiting activities and uncover key insights previously not thought possible -- all without a data scientist.
I'm really impressed with the [Ashby All-in-One] tool. They really addressed all of my pain points from Greenhouse and Lever.
What makes Ashby different?
Data and Reporting
Ashby is an industry-leading ATS with analytics at its core, while other providers play catch-up to deliver on customers’ reporting needs. Unlock data-driven decision-making and true partnership with the business with out-of-the-box reporting to get your team started quickly, and advanced customizations as you grow.
Visibility
Give your leadership team confidence with access to real-time data on interactive dashboards. Align your TA team without needing to submit data requests to a data analyst.
Accurate and Trustworthy
Other tools may lack specific data points or require integrating data sets from multiple tools with conflicting data architectures. This leads to inaccurate and inconsistent reporting across tools. Ashby’s native, all-in-one data gives consistency to your reporting and analyses and transparency into how reports are built from your candidate and job data. The result is data and insights you can trust when making decisions.
Customization and Granularity
Segment, drill-down and analyze data across any field or activity within the ATS – including custom and calculated fields. Gain insights from across the entire funnel. Foster curiosity and get granular with your data. Fully customize reports and dashboards to meet any team or stakeholder's needs.
Investigate, Implement, Measure
Ashby was built from the ground up with analytics at its core, spanning across the entire end-to-end hiring process. This makes Ashby the only ATS on the market that gives you real-time insights and alerts to identify and investigate trends, implement improved processes, and measure their impact, all without leaving the tool for spreadsheets or integration partners.
We just moved from Lever to Ashby and it's awesome! Much better flexibility with workflows, better scheduling, and data analytics.
What makes Ashby different?
Scalability
Ashby is built to support TA teams’ needs at scale, whether you’re a high-growth company with evolving needs, or a large enterprise. Avoid the “one-size-fits-all” approach in other ATSs and future cumbersome implementations by choosing an ATS partner that will grow with your business.
Customizable
TA Teams using Lever are beholden to a single pipeline across every role, limiting the ATSs scalability. In Ashby, teams can fully customize multiple pipelines depending on the role, department or geography they are hiring for. Manage configurations in-house and at scale with centralized controls, while all-in-one data enables consistent reporting across all pipelines.
Collaboration
Functionality like the deep Workday integration and headcount management help build a bridge between TA Teams and other departments. Build a recruiting plan from historical data to align with finance and leadership on targets, resources and timelines. Unlock visibility so Finance Teams can see how TA executes against the headcount plan in real-time. Customize and schedule dashboards and reports for specific individuals, teams or key use cases.
Data-Driven Decision-Making
Other ATSs often offer basic out-of-the-box reporting that may suffice in low-growth environments - but fails to inform effective decision-making as you scale. Everything in Ashby is reportable, with native BI-tool-level flexibility baked into the product. Quick, easy, and self-serve access to real-time data enables hiring managers, TA Teams, executives, and Finance Teams to explore trends and make better, strategic, data-informed decisions.
Approvals
Across Jobs, Openings and Offers, Ashby allows TA teams to build dynamic approval processes, ensuring consistency across your team. Implementing dynamic approvers in your recruiting process prevents delays that can occur when relying on a single, static individual for approvals.
The need for specific information can change day-to-day or role-to-role. Our Recruiters all work from standardized templates we built with the Ashby team – it’s great that they can also add new fields or double click into specific metrics where the pipeline looks off or they are trying to make a decision on process and workflow.
A growing base of happy customers
Trusted from startup to enterprise, the fastest growing companies in the world use Ashby to unlock hiring excellence. Ashby has a growing customer base of 1900+ businesses, with over 100 organizations switching from Lever in the last year.
1900+
Happy Ashby customers
100+
Lever customers switching to Ashby in the last year
Support & Customer Service
Ashby customers are supported by a world-class customer success and support organization.
Customer Success Team Access
All customers receive onboarding support and access to our Customer Success Team.
Top Rated Customer Support
Our customer support team consistently delights customers with thorough solutions and technical help.
Professional Services
Expert help is available to further your hiring goals. We’re proud to serve as an extension of your team.
Recently implemented Ashby and couldn’t be happier! 🙌 Shout-out also to the amazing support their CS provides!
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