What Is OpenATS?
OpenATS is an open-source applicant tracking system for organizations that want to run hiring in one clear, shared workspace. It replaces disconnected spreadsheets, inboxes, and point tools with a process that follows a candidate from an open role through interview and final decision.
Who it is for
OpenATS is for internal hiring teams, recruiting teams, and organizations building their own recruitment platform. It can be used as a ready-to-run applicant tracking system or as a foundation that your engineering team can extend to fit an existing process.
How it helps
For every open role, OpenATS gives the hiring team a structured pipeline and a single source of truth. A candidate record keeps the resume, contact information, interview feedback, notes, activity, and decision together. Hiring Managers can see progress across a role, while Interviewers receive the context they need to evaluate candidates.
The platform also supports career pages for applications, configurable hiring teams, role-based access, interview coordination, and optional AI notes on CVs. AI work is off unless you turn it on, and runs separately from the normal web application, so a slow analysis request does not interrupt candidate-facing flows.
What you control
OpenATS is built with standard open-source technology: Next.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, and BullMQ, with sign-in built in. You control the code, database, storage configuration, authentication setup, and integrations rather than adapting your process to a closed vendor system.
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What OpenATS provides
- Job management and configurable pipelines
- Candidate records, resumes, notes, and activity history
- Interview scheduling and structured feedback
- Hiring-team collaboration and role-based access
- Optional AI notes on CVs (off by default, never part of the score)
- Branded career pages for published openings