Greenhouse's Real Talent add-on sorts applicants into five broad bands, using only what's on their resume. SquarePeg works inside Greenhouse and ranks every applicant, past candidate and sourced profile 0–100, adds company data the resume leaves out, shows the evidence behind every score, and checks every candidate for authenticity, with no Greenhouse add-on to buy.
Greenhouse is a structured-hiring ATS for mid-market and enterprise companies. Its paid Real Talent add-on, which needs a Core, Plus or Pro plan, includes Talent Matching, fraud detection and CLEAR identity verification. Greenhouse says Talent Matching "is only using data coming from the resume" and places each applicant in one of five bands: Strong, Good, Partial, Limited or Needs Manual Review.
Based on each company's public website and announcements, checked October 2026. Unknown means we couldn't find it described there.
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Real Talent is Greenhouse's own answer to applicant volume and fraud. SquarePeg works inside Greenhouse and focuses on scoring and finding the right candidates.
Every score shows its evidence. SquarePeg scores applicants as they apply, plus past candidates and sourced profiles, against criteria you write in plain language or generate from the job description, each marked Required, Preferred or Bonus. Every criterion gets a 0–100 subscore with a written explanation and the resume lines it's based on, so you review the best people first and can explain every ranking. Eligibility rules (location or radius, time zone, screening answers, a previous rejection reason or the application source) run first, so ineligible applicants are never scored or charged.
Talent Matching places each applicant in one of five bands based on skills, experience, titles and industry that recruiters calibrate. Greenhouse says it uses only data from the resume, plus a derived industry label for past employers, and leaves out application form answers. A band can't tell you who's best among 80 "Strong" matches, and it can't check an employer's headcount, funding or whether it was public.
SquarePeg connects to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, iCIMS, Recruitee and other ATSs and syncs your jobs and applicants. SquarePeg makes rejections and stage changes in your ATS just as if you had made them there, so your ATS emails and automations still run, and the Chrome extension opens it right next to the job or candidate you're viewing. No migration and no new system for your team to learn.
Greenhouse is the ATS, so Real Talent works natively. Talent Matching requires a Core, Plus or Pro plan plus the paid Real Talent add-on.
Every candidate gets an authenticity confidence rating (High, Mixed, Limited, Low or Unknown), kept separate from their score. It's built from LinkedIn, phone, email and resume signals, and it also flags a phone, email or resume shared with a differently named applicant. It's included in the credit that scores the candidate. Signals inform your review; nothing is rejected automatically.
Real Talent flags spam, bots and fraud, captures IP and device data, and verifies identity with an ID and selfie through CLEAR. Greenhouse says a failed check doesn't automatically disqualify a candidate.
Rediscovery searches past applicants in your ATS for people who fit a new opening and scores them on the same criteria as today's applicants. Outbound sourcing finds new candidates outside your ATS on the same scale, and you reveal an email only for the people you want to contact. Every resume gets company context such as industry, headcount, funding and public or private status. And you can find, compare and fine-tune just by asking: the SquarePeg agent finds past candidates who fit a new role, compares your top applicants, explains any score, and can review and update a job's criteria and eligibility rules, in the web app or inside your ATS.
Greenhouse announced Sourcing in closed beta in October 2026, so it isn't generally available. It sells a voice AI screener, including to other ATSs, and its Candidate Insights and Job Kickoff agents and MCP server bring AI assistants into the ATS.
Credits work across every feature, there are no seat fees and no platform fee, and your whole team can log in. Scoring an applicant or a rediscovered candidate uses 1 credit; sourcing a candidate uses 1 and revealing their email 2. Rediscovery also has a one-time fee to index your ATS, charged at cost. Rescoring is always free, the agent is free, applicants who fail your eligibility rules cost nothing, and new accounts start with 2,000 free credits, no credit card required. See the pricing page for current rates.
Talent Matching needs a Greenhouse Core, Plus or Pro plan and the paid Real Talent add-on. Greenhouse doesn't publish the add-on's price.
"Most of the resumes I send to the hiring managers from the top scoring, they're like, 'Oh, yeah. These are perfect.' So it just makes my job so much easier."
Yes. SquarePeg syncs your Greenhouse jobs and applicants and makes rejections and stage changes in Greenhouse just as if you had made them there, including your Greenhouse rejection email templates. The Chrome extension opens SquarePeg right next to the Greenhouse job or candidate you're viewing.
Talent Matching uses only the resume and returns one of five bands. SquarePeg adds company data, scores each of your criteria 0–100 with a written explanation and the resume lines behind it, runs eligibility rules first, and ranks everyone on one scale.
Yes. The demo on our homepage lets you score up to three of your own resumes or LinkedIn profiles for free, or explore sample jobs that are already scored, without connecting an ATS. When you connect your ATS, you start with 2,000 free credits and no credit card.
Credits work across every feature, there are no seat fees and no platform fee, and your whole team can log in. Scoring an applicant or a rediscovered candidate uses 1 credit; sourcing a candidate uses 1 and revealing their email 2. Rediscovery also has a one-time fee to index your ATS, charged at cost. Rescoring is always free, the agent is free, applicants who fail your eligibility rules cost nothing, and new accounts start with 2,000 free credits, no credit card required. See the pricing page for current rates.
Last checked October 2026. Greenhouse details come from Greenhouse's public website and announcements; SquarePeg details describe the product as it works today.
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Connect your ATS and SquarePeg scores your applicants, flags suspicious candidates, resurfaces past applicants and finds new ones, with the evidence behind every score. Credits work across every feature, there are no seat fees, and rescoring is always free.
