Obvious for recruiters

Your competition is no longer other recruiters. It’s agents.

You’ll want the most capable recruiting AI agent on your team. That’s Obvious.

Join thousands of professionals using Obvious to do their best work every day

Recruiters Workflow

From req to hire, in record time

With Obvious, an AI agent takes on whatever work drags out your hiring process. You’ll be your candidates’ and your hiring managers’ favorite recruiter.

Source qualified candidates while you grab coffee

You need 20 senior engineers who know Rust. Filtering through profiles, checking GitHub activity, and building target lists takes all week.

Obvious searches across platforms, evaluates backgrounds, and delivers a shortlist with personalized outreach—before your coffee finishes brewing.

Source qualified candidates while you grab coffee

Collaborate alongside an AI agent to do your best work every day. Have your agent work through your task list from one central tab.

See how Obvious helps you place more candidates, faster

Memory shared across projects

Every action the agent takes is informed by your account history and preferences you share.

Intuitive chat & artifact interface

While the capabilities Obvious brings to the table are new, the user experience is familiar and simple.

Works across your entire tech stack

Connect to 500+ tools in minutes. Your agent handles the integrations so you can focus on candidates.

Your new agent’s got skills

As the agent learns about you and your workflows, it creates custom skills it can apply to future projects.

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Features that help you hire top talent faster

Writer Pro

Writer Pro

The world is full of AI slop. Obvious is the first AI agent that can write like you would, if you had infinite time.

Tasks

Tell Obvious your desired workflow and it’ll build it for you. Tasks you’re used to doing manually now run while you sleep.

Memory

The agent references your past conversations, uploaded files, and preferences as it works.

Research Mode

Research Mode

Get in-depth research without the all-nighter. Research Mode dives deep into any topic, with sources clearly cited.

“Well that just did my job for the next two months.”

Obvious alpha user

Built to do real work

Obvious doesn’t just advise you in a chat thread. It creates whatever artifacts you need to get a job done.

Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets

Track candidate pipelines, analyze sourcing effectiveness, compare offer packages, and monitor time-to-fill by role. Turn ATS data into insights without pivot tables or broken formulas.

Documents

Documents

Build interview guides, document hiring criteria, create role profiles, and capture evaluation frameworks. Share hiring decisions and candidate assessments without starting from scratch every time.

Presentations

Presentations

Present pipeline updates, report on hiring metrics, and pitch recruiting strategy to leadership. Turn candidate data into compelling narratives without fighting slide layouts.

Code

Code

Build custom sourcing scripts for niche talent pools, create real-time dashboards tracking recruiter performance, and connect your recruiting stack. Get technical solutions without waiting on engineering resources.

Boards

Boards

Organize requisition approvals, candidate pipelines, interview scheduling, or offer negotiations. Track where each role stands and what's blocking progress without manually updating status.

Calendars

Calendars

Coordinate interview schedules, map onsite logistics, and visualize hiring timelines across multiple roles. Spot scheduling conflicts and panel availability before candidates get frustrated.

Timelines

Timelines

Plan multi-stage interview processes, visualize hiring timelines from req open to start date, and track offer-to-acceptance windows. See dependencies between roles and when each step needs to happen.

All your tools in one central tab

You tell the agent what tools are in your tech stack; it takes care of the integrations. Connect to 500+ tools without pulling in Ops or detouring to Zapier.

Integration demo
Recruiters Shortcuts Component

Take a shortcut to your next hire

Shortcuts

Candidate Pipeline Builder

Recruiters

Builds ATS-style system to track candidates from sourcing through hiring

Build a comprehensive candidate tracking system. Use sheet_operations, create_kanban_from_sheet, validate_data, create_timeline_from_sheet. Create: Candidate Database workbook (contact info from LinkedIn Recruiter, current company, skills, experience, salary expectations, source); Recruitment Kanban (sourced → contacted → responded → screening → interview → offer → hired); Interview Schedule timeline with candidate names, interviewers, and feedback deadlines; Source Performance tracker (LinkedIn vs. Indeed vs. referrals vs. GitHub); Candidate Notes sheet with detailed screening and interview observations; Offer Status tracker. Output: Complete candidate pipeline with tracking, interview scheduling, and source performance analysis

Job Requisition Package

Recruiters

Creates complete job requisition with JD, interview plan, and evaluation criteria

Build a complete job requisition and intake process. Use write_document, sheet_operations, create_timeline_from_sheet, validate_data. Create: Job Requisition Form (role requirements, comp bands from ADP Workforce data, must-have vs. nice-to-have skills, team fit, growth path); Job Description optimized for LinkedIn/Indeed with clear requirements and selling points; Interview Plan document (screening questions, technical assessment, panel composition, evaluation criteria); Hiring Timeline with sourcing, interview, and offer phases; Scorecard template for consistent candidate evaluation; Offer Approval workflow. Output: Complete job requisition package with JD, interview plan, timeline, and scorecard

Recruiting Dashboard

Recruiters

Tracks recruiting performance with pipeline health, source effectiveness, and team productivity

Build a comprehensive recruiting analytics system. Use run_sql_with_duck_db, sheet_operations, write_document. Create: Recruiting Metrics workbook (time to fill, source effectiveness, interview-to-offer ratio, offer acceptance rate, cost per hire); Pipeline Health sheet (candidates by stage, conversion rates, bottlenecks); Sourcing Performance by channel (LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, referrals, agencies); Hiring Manager Satisfaction scores; Diversity Metrics tracking; Recruiting Team Productivity (reqs per recruiter, screens per week). Output: Complete recruiting dashboard with metrics, pipeline health, sourcing performance, and team productivity
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How does Obvious
stack up?

Obvious is the only AI-first workspace where an agent collaborates with you to create real, ready-to-send work product.

Obvious vs. ChatGPT

ChatGPT offers Projects and Canvas for organizing chats and editing content. Obvious creates interconnected work deliverables—workbooks with SQL, documents with charts, presentations, views—plus a dev sandbox for custom integrations.

  • ✓Native artifact types (workbooks, docs, slides, views) vs. conversation organization
  • ✓Direct data transformations with SQL, validation, and enrichments—no external tools
  • ✓Cross-artifact relationships where docs reference sheets and charts pull live data
  • ✓Custom integrations with any API via dev sandbox and secrets management, not just plugins

Obvious vs. Gemini

Gemini enhances Google Workspace with AI assistance and Workspace Flows. Obvious creates AI-first deliverables from scratch—workbooks with data ops, documents with visualizations, custom views—plus a dev sandbox for custom integrations.

  • ✓AI-first artifacts designed for generation vs. AI assistance in Workspace tools
  • ✓SQL queries, JavaScript transformations, and validation beyond Sheets formulas
  • ✓Custom integrations and code-based automation beyond Workspace Flows' no-code limits
  • ✓Project-centric artifact ecosystem with typed relationships vs. Drive folders

Obvious vs. Claude

Claude offers Projects and Artifacts with MCP integrations. Obvious powers a complete work environment with interconnected deliverables, advanced data ops, real-time collaboration, and a full dev sandbox for custom integrations.

  • ✓Interconnected project deliverables vs. standalone artifacts in conversations
  • ✓Native SQL querying, validation engines, and schema management without external execution
  • ✓Custom integrations with any API via full Linux sandbox and secrets management, beyond MCP connectors
  • ✓Real-time team collaboration with presence, commenting, and version control

Obvious vs. Perplexity

Perplexity excels at research with real-time search and cited answers. Obvious transforms research into structured deliverables—workbooks with SQL, presentations, data pipelines—plus automation for web scraping and API integrations.

  • ✓Research to structured deliverables (docs, workbooks, slides) vs. cited answers
  • ✓SQL querying, validation, and visualizations beyond file analysis
  • ✓Automated research workflows with API integrations and web scraping beyond manual search
  • ✓Multi-surface workspace connecting research to execution across artifact types

Peace of mind included

We can’t promise a totally worry-free workday, but you won’t need to stress about data security.

ISO 27001

ISO 27001

Certified

SOC 2 Type II

SOC 2 Type II

Certified

Data encrypted

Data encrypted

in transit & at rest

Role-based access

Role-based access

controls & MFA

GDPR & CCPA

GDPR & CCPA

Compliant

HIPAA

HIPAA

Ready

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