Tell it about a job. It remembers everything else.

ATS Engine is the assistant that keeps a job search straight:
  • Catches duplicate applications before a new record is ever created
  • Keeps one continuously updated status per role — never a pile of duplicates
  • Remembers everything, session after session, weeks or months later
ats-engine — conversation
Add this one: Senior Delivery Manager at Northgate Health, via Hays, found it on LinkedIn.
Hold on — I've already got a Senior Delivery Manager role at Northgate Health, added 3 weeks ago through a different agency. Here they are side by side.
Sr. Delivery Manager
NORTHGATE HEALTH
Agency: Reed · 18 Jun
Sr. Delivery Manager
NORTHGATE HEALTH
Agency: Hays · Today
Update the existing one — Hays is representing me now.
Done. One record, updated — no duplicate created.

Spreadsheets don't ask questions

They just let you make the same mistake twice. Job hunting generates its own paperwork — postings, agencies, CV versions, half-remembered phone calls — and most people end up tracking it in a list that only tells them what they typed in.

The same role, twice

One agency puts you forward for a role. A second agency sends the exact same posting a month later, reworded just enough to look different. Applying twice can trigger automated flags — or outright rejection — in the employer's own applicant-tracking system.

Where did that one get to?

Applied, waiting, interviewing, gone quiet — a busy search has applications at every stage at once, and a plain list doesn't tell you which is which without you doing the updating by hand.

Which CV did I send them?

You tailor your CV per role, per sector, per recruiter. Six months later, remembering which version went where is close to impossible without something keeping notes for you.

How it works

No forms, no dropdowns. Four things happen every time you mention a job.

Talk to it like a person

Paste in a job posting or just describe it — the employer, the role, where you saw it, who's putting you forward. It reads plain, ordinary language, not a form.

It weighs the posting against your own background

Before it's filed away anywhere, it checks the posting against every CV you've built — not just one. Track as many tailored CVs as you like across different career streams — Delivery, Engineering, Coaching, whatever paths you're working — and it automatically pulls the most relevant detail from each to sharpen the match. You get a clear fit score, shown as a percentage, right alongside the posting.

It checks its memory before it writes anything down

Before a single new record is created, it looks back through everything you've logged before — matching on employer and job title, where you found it, or the agency behind it. If something matches, it stops and shows you both, side by side.

It keeps the story updated, not duplicated

Say "heard back from Hays" or "got an interview" — or just forward the email that confirms it — and it moves the right record along. One continuously updated entry, never a new row for every change. Got several updates at once — a batch of rejections, a run of interviews booked in the same week? Tell it in one go and it works through the lot, updating each matching record individually.

Why it's different

Most trackers are just a list. ATS Engine is the only one that pauses on purpose, before creating anything, to ask whether it's already seen this role.

  • Matches on employer and job title, even across different agencies
  • Scores your fit as a clear percentage — 94%, say — using every CV in your CV Library at once. Ideal if your own skills span multiple career streams, or the role itself is a hybrid job spec blending more than one stream, which is more common than most job seekers expect.
  • Matches on where the posting came from — job board, referral, agency
  • Compares general wording when nothing else lines up exactly
  • Can spot a status change from a forwarded email, not just a direct instruction
  • Never merges, deletes, or overwrites anything without you saying so
Possible match found — awaiting your instruction
Product Delivery Lead
Meridian Council
Source: council portal
Logged 4 weeks ago
Status: Applied
88% fit — Delivery CV
Product Delivery Lead
Meridian Council
Source: Reed Agency
Seen just now
Status: —
91% fit — Delivery CV

One record, the whole journey

Every application has a status. Only one, at a time, always up to date.

Evaluating
seen, not yet sent
Evaluating
Applied
application submitted
Applied
Interviewing
conversation arranged
Interviewing
Closed
the story's finished
Closed

These four stages cover most searches. Want a fifth — an Offer stage before Closed, say — and it holds that too, on the same single record.

However you like to work

A conversation by default. Just as happy working quietly in the background.

As a conversation

Type or paste postings straight into an ordinary chat, the way you'd message a colleague, and see the existing record and the new posting laid out together, right in the thread.

Alongside a webpage or browser

Built into a job board or tucked into your browser as you scroll listings, so the same check happens quietly at the moment you're actually looking at a posting.

Connected to other systems

Wired into a recruiter's own software or another company's applicant-tracking tools, so the same duplicate check and status record work behind the scenes of a system you didn't build yourself.

It doesn't forget over the weekend

Everything you've ever logged stays available, session after session — not just for this conversation, but for every one after it. Mention a role you added weeks ago and it's found instantly, ready to be checked against, updated, or left alone.

Your applications, remembered

  • Senior Delivery Manager
    Northgate Health · via Hays · Delivery CV · 91% fit
    Interviewing
  • Product Delivery Lead
    Meridian Council · via Reed · Delivery CV · 88% fit
    Applied
  • Agile Programme Lead
    Aldgate Group · direct · Coaching CV · 84% fit
    Closed
  • Scrum Master, Data Platform
    Kestrel & Vane · LinkedIn · Engineering CV · 79% fit
    Applied

Before you choose a plan — see what you are actually getting.

Pricing only tells part of the story. The real difference is seeing how ATS Engine works when you are searching, tailoring CVs, tracking applications, and trying to remember where every opportunity stands.

Walk through the real screens, from sign-in to application tracking, and see how ATS Engine replaces scattered spreadsheets, old email searches, and forgotten CV versions with one place that remembers your entire job search.

Better still — watch it earn the subscription before you pay a penny. The narrated walkthroughs are live captures with a voice-over: a real role scores 100% and unlocks a tailored, evidence-checked CV in about ninety seconds; 422 real emails file themselves; a spoken "Jobster, add new application" opens the form hands-free. If those ten minutes don't convince you, no pricing table will.

Watch It Work — Narrated See Every Screen Before Choosing

Stop trusting a spreadsheet to catch your mistakes for you.

ATS Engine is built by someone who was tracking dozens of live applications by hand and got tired of it. Get in touch to find out more.

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