The talent landscape is global, but your Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is typically limited to the applicants you’ve already captured. This creates a colossal gap: the hundreds of millions of qualified, passive candidates who exist on the open web but are invisible to your internal recruiters.
Relying on expensive, manual sourcing efforts to bridge this gap is slow and unsustainable. The real competitive edge lies in transforming your ATS from a closed filing system into a dynamic, externally-connected Talent Data Cloud.
At Fastr.ai, we specialize in using AI to automatically pull in, cleanse, and enrich vast pools of global talent data, making it instantly searchable and actionable inside the ATS your recruiters already use.
The High Cost of External Sourcing and Why It Fails
When recruiters struggle to find candidates quickly, the default reaction is to look outwards. This creates a cycle of expense and inefficiency:
- Agency Fees: Paying 20-30% of a hire’s salary to an external recruiter severely inflates the Cost-per-Hire (CPH).
- Sourcing Tool Overload: Subscribing to multiple job boards and databases leads to subscription fatigue and redundant candidate data.
- Wasted Time: Recruiters spend hours sifting through newly sourced, low-context profiles when highly qualified candidates are already tagged and filed away in their own ATS.
The core issue? Most ATS systems lack the contextual intelligence to effectively search and rank a global, multi-lingual, and historically diverse candidate pool. A simple keyword search can’t account for varying job titles across different countries or the nuances of transferable skills from a different industry.
Fastr.ai: Your AI Engine for Global Data Acquisition and Enrichment
Fastr.ai solves this problem by using contextual AI and advanced data integration to continuously bridge the gap between the open web and your private ATS. We turn disparate external information into a unified, rich profile set that supercharges your recruiting process.
1. Automated Global Sourcing at Scale
We leverage sophisticated AI crawlers and integrations to continuously scan and ingest data from a wide variety of global sources—from specialized technical forums to professional networks.
- 100% Passive Pool: We bring in profiles for candidates who have never applied to your company but possess the exact skills your jobs require.
- Global Reach: The AI understands and normalizes titles and skills across different languages and geographic markets, giving you true visibility into the global talent landscape.
- Continuous Refresh: Profiles are not static. Our system constantly monitors the external sources for updates to job titles, contact information, and skills, ensuring the data inside your ATS is always fresh and reliable.
2. Automatic Profile Enrichment and Standardization
The true power isn’t just finding the data; it’s making it usable. When a new profile is brought in, or when the AI finds new information on an existing candidate in your ATS, the following happens automatically:
- Contextual Skills Mapping: The AI parses text—not just keywords—to understand the context of a candidate’s experience. A developer who “contributed to the Apache Kafka project” gets a specific, high-value skill tag, going far beyond a simple “Software Engineer” title.
- Data Cleansing and Verification: Duplicate entries are merged, and contact details (email, phone, social URLs) are verified in real-time. This eliminates wasted outreach attempts and boosts recruiter productivity.
- A Single Source of Truth: Every candidate profile, whether an existing applicant or a newly sourced passive lead, is instantly standardized into a rich, comparable data format right inside your ATS.
The Fastr.ai ROI: Smarter Spending, Better Outcomes
The investment in a contextual AI layer is quickly offset by the massive savings it generates.
| Area of Savings | Before Fastr.ai (Manual/External Sourcing) | After Fastr.ai (Contextual AI) |
| Sourcing Costs | High spend on job boards, premium databases, and agency fees. | Dramatically reduced due to first-source internal matching. |
| Time-to-Hire (TTH) | Slow, manual screening and new sourcing cycles. | Accelerated by instant, ranked shortlists from existing data. |
| Talent Pool Size | Limited by current job board access and recruiter effort. | Maximized by activating the entire, often global, history of your ATS. |
By maximizing the value of the data you already own, Fastr.ai ensures you are always finding the best candidate—faster, more efficiently, and without the unnecessary overhead. Stop paying to find people you already have.
Ready to unlock your global talent pool and drastically cut your cost-per-hire? Request a demo of Fastr.ai.
