About Evander
What is Evander?
Evander is an AI-native applicant tracking system (ATS) for startups and fast-moving teams. You describe a role in one sentence and Evander writes the job post, sets up interview stages and scorecards and publishes it. AI screens every applicant against your brief and shows the evidence, automations are written in plain English, and the whole product also works from Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor through an official MCP server.
Who is Evander for?
Startups and lean teams of up to about 500 people that hire without a large recruiting department: founders, hiring managers and the first recruiters. Companies with more than 500 people or with procurement and security requirements use the Scale plan.
Who builds Evander?
Evander is built by a small team in San Francisco. It launched in 2026.
How is Evander different from Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever or Workable?
Evander was built around AI from the start. Jobs go live from one sentence, every applicant is screened against a written brief with the evidence shown, automations are written in plain English, and every action is available to AI assistants over MCP. It has a free plan and published prices from $79 a month. Ashby, Greenhouse and Lever are broader and more mature, with deeper analytics and larger integration marketplaces.
Evander vs Ashby: which is better for a startup?
Ashby is the more complete and proven product, with deep analytics, a sourcing CRM and scheduling, from $300 a month for 1–10 employees and with no free plan; it is the stronger choice for a funded startup with a recruiter or a growing recruiting team. Evander suits founders and lean teams who want AI to screen every applicant with the evidence shown and to run hiring from Claude or ChatGPT, with a free plan and paid plans from $79 a month billed yearly. Evander launched in 2026 and is invite-only. Full comparison: getevander.app/blog/evander-vs-ashby.
Is Evander available now?
Evander is invite-only. You need an invite code to sign up; there is no waitlist and no public sign-up.
Pricing
How much does Evander cost?
Evander has a free plan. The Startup plan costs $79 a month billed yearly for 1–10 people ($99 billed monthly), $129 for 11–25, $199 for 26–50 and $299 for 51–100. The Growth plan for 101–500 people starts at $449 a month billed yearly. Jobs and teammates are unlimited on every plan.
Is there a free ATS plan?
Yes. The Free plan is free forever for any team size and includes unlimited jobs, unlimited teammates, a careers page, swipe screening and 50 AI resume scorings a month.
How is team size counted?
By the number of people at your company, not by seats in Evander. Everyone on the team can use Evander at no extra cost.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. The Startup plan is free for 14 days with no credit card. After the trial you keep everything and move to the Free plan unless you pick a paid plan.
What happens when we reach the AI limit?
Screening pauses until the next month or an upgrade. Everything else keeps working and nothing is billed by surprise. Startup includes 500 resume scorings a month and Growth 5,000.
AI screening
How does Evander screen applicants?
You write a brief the way you would brief a recruiter: must-haves, either/or profiles and bonuses. Evander checks every application against each requirement and links each check to the evidence in the resume. You get a ranked list with reasons instead of a pile of PDFs.
Does the AI make hiring decisions?
No. AI summarizes, scores against your criteria and suggests, always with the reasoning shown. A person decides who moves forward and who gets an offer. A rejection proposed by an assistant or an automation waits for a person's approval. The one exception is a screening rule you write yourself, such as "reject applicants missing a must-have": it rejects on its own while no person has reviewed that applicant, logs the rule and the checks, and can be undone. Its rejection email waits for approval unless you set that job's rejection mail to automatic.
Does the AI consider age, gender or ethnicity?
No. Screening judges only job-relevant evidence and is instructed never to consider age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion or similar characteristics. Voluntary equal-opportunity answers are stored apart and are never shown to the screening model.
Do you train AI models on our data?
No. Evander never trains models on your candidates, notes or emails. AI features use Anthropic's Claude models.
Claude, ChatGPT and automations
Which AI assistants work with Evander?
Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor and Claude Code, through Evander's official MCP server. Each assistant gets its own private link under Settings → Integrations and has the same or fewer permissions than you.
How do automations work?
You write the rule in one sentence, for example "When someone moves to onsite, send a booking link and the prep doc, and remind interviewers after 24 hours." Evander turns it into a workflow you can read and edit, and logs every run.
What does Evander integrate with?
Gmail and Outlook for email, Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar for interviews, Slack for alerts and approvals, a Chrome extension, CSV import, XML and JSON job feeds for job boards and Google Jobs, a REST API and the MCP server.
Switching and data
Can we move over from our current ATS?
Yes. Import candidates and jobs from a CSV export, which every major ATS can produce; an Ashby export keeps applications, stages, outcomes and notes. Connect Gmail and Calendar and Evander picks up ongoing conversations and interviews.
Is Evander GDPR-ready?
Evander records consent on every application, links the candidate privacy notice, erases candidates on request, deletes candidates automatically after the retention period your workspace sets, exports a candidate's data and keeps an audit log of every change.
Where is the data stored?
In the United States (US East): the app on Railway, the database on Neon and files on Cloudflare R2. All traffic is encrypted with HTTPS and tokens for connected Gmail, Outlook and Slack accounts are encrypted at rest.
Does Evander have a careers page?
Yes. Every workspace gets a hosted careers page with an application form, resume upload, your questions and a privacy notice. Jobs are also published as XML and JSON feeds and marked up for Google Jobs.