What does “own the base” actually mean for us?
Everyone who ever applied, was referred or was sourced sits in one place that belongs to you — not in a recruiter's spreadsheet and not in an agency's system. The profile itself belongs to the person, which is why they keep it current. You can search it in free text, you can see the evidence behind every entry, and you can take it with you if you ever change your ATS.
We can't fill roles from inbound applications at all. What does sourcing mean here?
It means going to find the CNC operator or welder who is not applying anywhere, with evidence for every claim we make about their background, and an outreach message that names a real, specific reason for reaching out. Against four competing tools on the same three roles, Atlas covered 38 percent of what the others found; the best of them covered 9.
Does it actually check whether a welding certificate is still valid?
It asks for the certificate, the procedure and the issue date, and flags anything approaching its two-to-three-year expiry. Recorded as a fact with the exact quote, not inferred from a CV line that might be years out of date.
Can it verify three-shift readiness before we schedule an interview?
Yes. It is asked directly and recorded as a fact, along with any hard constraint such as childcare, a second job or a health condition, rather than left for a shift lead to discover after the offer.
Many of our operators aren't native German speakers. Is B2 a hard cut-off?
Only where you set it as a requirement, and it is assessed separately from the technical screening, so a strong operator is not screened out over an accent. The conversation itself runs in twelve languages and the report comes back in German.
What does the works council say?
IG Metall trains works councils specifically for AI-supported hiring, so bring them in early. What usually settles it is that the process is more transparent than the one it replaces: the same questions for everyone, scores tied to quotes, and a documented record of what was and was not considered. We supply the works-agreement template scoped for §87 (1) 6 and §95 (2a) BetrVG.
How does the EU AI Act change what we have to document?
From 2 August 2026, recruitment AI is high-risk under Annex III. That means documented criteria, human oversight and traceable scoring, which is what this process produces by default rather than as an add-on.
Do we need all the doors at once?
No. In manufacturing most teams start with sourcing, because the people they need are not applying, and switch screening on as soon as applicants do arrive. Referrals run on the same base, without a new setup.
