DISPATCH N°001  ·  NEW YORK OFFICE
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01 / THE LANDING · EST. 2026

Spott has landed
in New York.

US agencies kept asking us to cross the Atlantic. So we did, opening in New York, right where the biggest placements happen.

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SPOTT × NYC
02 / THE ARRIVAL
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You asked.
So we opened an office.

The fastest-growing recruiting software in the US: a fully vectorized, AI-first candidate database, built from the ground up for how American desks actually place.

Manhattan skyline
PLATE 0240.71° NLOWER MANHATTAN
03 / THE PLATFORM
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A new category of
recruiting software.

US agencies didn't want another tool. They wanted the whole desk rebuilt around AI, badly enough to bring us over.

01 / DATABASE

Fully vectorized

Every candidate, note and conversation embedded and searchable by meaning. The foundation the rest of the product is built on.

02 / SEARCH

Plain English

"Series-B fintech PMs in Austin, open to contract." No Boolean strings. No filter stacks. Just ask.

03 / MODEL

Bring your own AI

Connect Claude or ChatGPT directly to your candidate data and put your whole database to work in the model you already use.

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Migration
Bullhorn, Vincere, Crelate, Loxo. Data, pipeline and history moved for you.
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The stack
ATS, CRM, sourcing, outreach and scheduling, working as one connected system.
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AI-native
Search in plain English. Bring your own model. Built on a vectorized core.
app.spott.io / pipeline
Notes
Call · Northern Trust
Verbal yes on the AE role. No quote out yet, revisit in five days.
AI-summarised
Ask AI
"Who's ready to move?"
12 candidates surfaced
Reports
$169K
Revenue booked · this month
Outreach
Sequence · step 2 of 4
Sent to 38 · 12 replied
04 / THE MATCH
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Every candidate, scored against the brief.

Spott breaks a role into the criteria that actually matter, ranks your whole database against them, and shows the evidence behind every score. Your shortlist arrives with its own reasoning.

Account Executive · Google 14 matches
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Team Lead, Mid-Market Sales · HubSpot · 3 yrs
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Long list
Short list
Interview
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Score 94 Criteria
B2B sales. Four years at HubSpot in BDR and AE roles, with 120 to 180% quota attainment.
Full sales cycle. Owned mid-market cycles with multiple stakeholders and enterprise deals.
SaaS expertise. Deep SaaS background across sales and revenue operations.
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Account Executive · Ramp · 2 yrs
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Long list
Short list
Interview
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Score 91 Criteria
B2B sales. Drove trackable B2B revenue across fintech and SaaS at Ramp.
Data-driven selling. Revenue growth through acquisition, engagement and retention.
AI matching
05 / THE RECORD
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Everything, in one place.

Notes, experience, communication, tasks, applications and an AI summary of the whole story, on one screen. ATS and CRM in a single workspace, so your whole team runs the desk from one source of truth.

Rachel Sullivan
Chief Financial Officer · Stripe · San Francisco, CA
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Summary Experience Notes Communication Tasks
AI summary

CFO at Stripe overseeing global finance strategy and operations. 24 years of experience across corporate planning, risk, M&A and reporting, having led large teams at Salesforce and Stripe.

9 yr 8 mo
Avg tenure
3 yr 4 mo
Current
24 yrs
Experience
Chief Financial Officer
Stripe
Global finance strategy, planning, treasury and investor relations.
Now · 3 yrs
VP, Finance & Strategy
Salesforce
Corporate planning and reporting across product lines.
2021
Chief Financial Officer
Stripe
Now · 3 yrs
VP, Finance & Strategy
Salesforce
2018
Director, FP&A
Google
2012
Education
MBA, Finance
The Wharton School
2005
Skills
Corporate financeM&AFP&ATreasuryInvestor relations
Intro call · summary
Strong M&A track record, open to relocate. Comp target around $450k base.
Jul 12
Reference check
Former board chair confirmed exceptional finance leadership.
Jul 9
Re: CFO role at Ramp
Thanks for the deck, happy to chat Thursday afternoon.
2d
SMS
Sounds good, talk soon. Looking forward to it.
3d
Call · 12 min
Discussed comp range and timeline, positive on next steps.
5d
Introduction from Sarah
Connecting you with our Head of Talent this week.
1w
Send Ramp intro deck
Completed by you
Jul 14
Prep interview brief
Due in 3 days
Jul 20
Actively looking
Enrich Emails
Enrich Phone Numbers
Enrich LinkedIn URL
Generate CV
One workspace
06 / THE TRANSFER
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Handed over in ~4 weeks.

White-glove, zero downtime. You keep placing while we move everything across in the background.

DAY 01

Kickoff & audit

We map your current ATS, fields and pipeline stages, and agree the migration plan.

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DAY 07

Data moved & vectorized

Candidates, companies, notes and history imported and embedded, nothing left behind.

45%
DAY 18

Workflows rebuilt

Views, automations and templates recreated the way your desk actually works.

82%
DAY 24

Live next Monday

Team onboarded, running in Spott, with your old system still there as a safety net.

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WATCH · HOW MIGRATION WORKS
07 / ON THE GROUND
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Built for American desks.

01

Enterprise-ready security

GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 aligned, with everything encrypted at rest and in transit.

02

A team in your timezone

A New York office means support, onboarding and product feedback on Eastern time, not overnight.

03

Every recruiting model

Permanent, executive search, staffing, RPO and temp or contract. Spott adapts to your pipelines, splits and fee models, not the other way around.

04

Integrates with your stack

Email, calendar, VOIP, SMS and the sourcing tools your recruiters already live in.

08 / THE MOMENTUM
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The US became our
fastest-growing market.

"Spott was born at Y Combinator in San Francisco, so the US has been home since day one. As demand from American agencies compounded, we stopped serving it from across an ocean and put a team back on the ground, in New York."

Tycho De Saeytyd
Tycho De SaeytydHead of US · New York
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Month over month
US new-business growth, sustained through 2026.
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Market
The US is on track to become our largest market.
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Less admin
Automate up to a third of the busywork and put that time back into the human side of recruitment, where revenue is made.
Spott founders
THE FOUNDERSBUILDING FOR THE US
Founding team trained at
McKinsey & CompanyBCGBain & CompanySalesforceMicrosoftAmazon
Backed by
Base10Y Combinator
09 / THE FILE
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Everything US teams ask
before they switch.

In their words

The founders on why US recruiters run their entire desk inside Spott, one AI-native workspace instead of six disconnected tools.

Isn't this just an ATS with AI bolted on?+
No. Spott was built from scratch with AI at the core, on a fully vectorized database. Semantic search, matching, call notes and enrichment are how the product works, not features stapled onto a legacy ATS. That is why the search and matching feel different.
Does Spott replace our CRM as well as our ATS?+
Yes. ATS and CRM live in one workspace, built for how agencies really run: many clients, pipelines and revenue models across exec search, perm, temp and contract. One system instead of two you have to keep in sync.
What does the AI actually do day to day?+
It ranks your whole database against each role, enriches profiles and finds contact details, records and summarises your calls, and drafts multi-channel outreach. The admin that used to eat your day runs in the background.
Can we keep our email, calendar, LinkedIn and phone?+
Yes. Spott connects to mail, calendar, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and VOIP, so outreach, scheduling and call intelligence happen where your recruiters already work.
How fast can we get candidates in front of clients?+
In minutes. Spott reformats CVs, builds a branded company portal and lets you send speculative shortlists in a couple of clicks, so clients see your best people while they are still warm.
How long does switching take, and is our data safe?+
Migration is done for you in around four weeks with zero downtime, and your old system stays live as a safety net. Spott is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant and built to enterprise security standards, with role-based access for your team.
Scenes from the arrival · Spott × New York
10 / THE MEETING
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We're in New York now.
Let's grab time in person.

Tycho De Saeytyd
Tycho De Saeytyd
Head of US · New York
Tycho moved to New York to meet the agencies who asked for Spott by name. If you run a US desk, he'd like to meet you.