Client-ready submittals, in your client's own format, in one draft.
ClearSubmittal turns a CV, interview notes and the job requisition into the candidate submittal your client expects, in the format and tone you describe for that client, with every line linked back to where it came from. A recruiter approves every draft before it goes anywhere.
ClearSubmittal is live for signed-in pilot firms. The interactive preview below uses invented sample data and needs no account — sign in to run it on your own CV, interview notes and requisition.
Built for Crelate and Bullhorn Starter/Core shops — not a JobAdder or Bullhorn Pro replacement.
Try the preview
Pick one of three invented candidates, edit a few facts, and watch the client-facing submittal draft update below. This costs 0 credits and needs no account.
This is a preview on three invented candidates, computed entirely in your browser using a fixed template and simple checks — not the real product, and not AI running in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and there's no way to paste in your own document here: the real product reads your own CV, interview notes and requisition, and during the pilot a person reviews every result before anything reaches a client.
Sample 1 of 3 — invented candidate, no real person, company or client
CV-1Ledger & Vance Partners (fictional) — Financial Analyst, March 2020 to present.
CV-2Six years of financial planning & analysis, corporate budgeting and variance reporting.
CV-3Advanced Excel, SQL, Power BI. CPA in progress.
N-1Interview note: explains a budget-vs-actual example in plain terms, as if to a non-finance manager.
N-2Interview note: notice period three weeks. Salary expectation not given — will follow up.
N-3Interview note: authorised to work in the US, no sponsorship needed.
Draft submittal (sample)
| Fact | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Experience | 6 years of experience CV-2 |
| Key skills | Excel, SQL, Power BI CV-3 |
| Availability | 3 weeks N-2 |
| Work authorisation | Authorised to work in the US, no sponsorship needed N-3 |
| Compensation | [Ask the recruiter: salary expectation not given yet] |
For the recruiter, not the client (1 item)
A real candidate submittal package uses 1 credit ($1.00 at the starter rate, $0.70 at the 2,000-credit pack rate). This preview: 0 credits.
Nothing above is sent automatically. In the real product, a recruiter reviews the draft, resolves every flag, and approves it before anything reaches a client.
Sample 2 of 3 — invented candidate, no real person, company or client
CV-1St. Aldwyn Regional Medical Center (fictional) — ICU Registered Nurse, June 2022 to present.
CV-2Four years of critical care nursing experience.
CV-3ACLS certified; Epic EHR; critical care triage; charge-nurse shifts.
N-1Interview note: comfortable leading a shift of six nurses under pressure.
N-2Interview note: notice period two weeks. Salary expectation $78,000.
N-3Recruiter's private note, not for the client: mentions the candidate's date of birth, marital status and children (the values are withheld on this page).
N-4Interview note: permanent resident, authorised to work in Canada.
Draft submittal (sample)
| Fact | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Experience | 4 years of experience CV-2 |
| Key skills | ACLS certified, Epic EHR, Critical care triage CV-3 |
| Availability | 2 weeks N-2 |
| Work authorisation | Authorised to work in Canada (permanent resident) N-4 |
| Compensation | $78,000 N-2 |
For the recruiter, not the client (1 item)
A real candidate submittal package uses 1 credit ($1.00 at the starter rate, $0.70 at the 2,000-credit pack rate). This preview: 0 credits.
Nothing above is sent automatically. In the real product, a recruiter reviews the draft, resolves every flag, and approves it before anything reaches a client.
Sample 3 of 3 — invented candidate, no real person, company or client
CV-1Solstice Systems (fictional) — Senior Backend Engineer, January 2017 to August 2026.
CV-2Nine years of backend engineering; Go, Kubernetes, distributed systems.
N-1Interview note: led the migration of a monolith to a service mesh.
N-2Interview note: available immediately; left Solstice Systems in August 2026.
N-3Interview note: salary expectation $145,000.
N-4Interview note: says authorised to work in the UK; a later note mentions needing a Skilled Worker visa — conflicting.
Draft submittal (sample)
| Fact | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Experience | [Ask the recruiter: years of experience don’t match the CV] |
| Key skills | Go, Kubernetes, Distributed systems CV-2 |
| Availability | Immediately available N-2 |
| Work authorisation | [Ask the recruiter: work authorisation — the notes conflict] |
| Compensation | $145,000 N-3 |
For the recruiter, not the client (2 items)
A real candidate submittal package uses 1 credit ($1.00 at the starter rate, $0.70 at the 2,000-credit pack rate). This preview: 0 credits.
Nothing above is sent automatically. In the real product, a recruiter reviews the draft, resolves every flag, and approves it before anything reaches a client.
Your work
Sign in to upload a CV, interview notes and a requisition, buy credits, and track every submittal package from draft to approval. Drafts are produced by Claude (Anthropic), running on Amazon Bedrock in the EU (processed within EU regions) — your documents are never used to train a model. Your own reviewer approves or rejects every flagged draft before anything reaches a client — ClearSubmittal never sends, scores or ranks a candidate on its own.
A rushed submittal costs more than time
Sending a candidate to a client usually means one recruiter, one CV, one client's format — copied and reformatted by hand, over and over.
How it's usually done today
- Manually reformat the CV and interview notes into a Word document or email template.
- Often 15 to 30 minutes per submittal. That is our estimate, not a measured figure; we'd like to time one with you on a call.
- One client's format at a time, copied into that client's email template by hand.
It becomes urgent when a rushed submittal makes a strong candidate look weak and the firm loses the placement, or a client complains, just before the next batch of candidates goes out.
What we're good at
This is how ClearSubmittal works for pilot firms today.
- One job, done narrowly. We draft the submittal. We're not trying to be a second ATS or a general chatbot.
- Every claim points at its source. Each factual sentence links back to the line in the CV, notes or requisition it came from, the way the preview above shows. Sentences it can't match are flagged, not sent.
- A person reviews every flag. The tool drafts. It never sends, and it never ranks, scores or recommends a candidate — your recruiter decides who gets submitted.
- No integration project. Upload the CV, notes and requisition (PDF, Word, text or Markdown) during the pilot — nothing to configure in Crelate or Bullhorn first.
- Pay only for what you use. 1 credit per candidate submittal package drafted, bought in packs that never expire — no subscription, no seats, no setup fee.
- You work with the two people building it. Bring a submittal you wrote last week to a call and we'll go through it with you on your own screen before you sign anything.
How we compare
If you're already on a plan that includes a submittal feature, the honest answer is often to use what you already pay for. Here is what each option includes according to its own published pages, and what is still done by hand. The ClearSubmittal column describes the pilot as it works today for signed-in firms. The last three rows put every price on one common yardstick — see the footnotes for the reference firm and the math.
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| Criteria | ClearSubmittal (live, pilot firms) | Crelate AI Assistant, or a general chatbot | JobAdder Smart Floats, or Loxo Candidate Submittal Agent | Bullhorn Amplify | Submittal and CV-formatting add-ons: CoRecruit, FormaCV, Candidately | By hand today |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where you get it | A separate tool beside your ATS, for Crelate and Bullhorn Starter/Core shops. Their published plans don't list a submittal-drafting feature.67 | Crelate's Business plan adds a general “AI Assistant”.7 A consumer chatbot works beside any ATS. | JobAdder: part of “Adder Intelligence” in the Recruiter Essential plan (6 to 20 users).2 Loxo: one of the AI agents inside Loxo's own recruiting platform — a separate ATS you'd switch to.3 | In Bullhorn's Pro and Max plans, not in Starter or Core.6 | CoRecruit: a call-recording and note-taking platform for recruiting firms that also writes submittals and pushes them into Bullhorn, Crelate and other ATSs.10 FormaCV and Candidately: tools that reformat a CV into your agency's branded layout; Candidately works with Bullhorn and Crelate.1213 | Works with any ATS: email and a Word template. |
| What it produces | A client cover email and a one-page summary: each requirement next to its evidence, no score or fit rating. | Whatever the prompt asks for. | JobAdder: “float-ready AI-driven candidate overviews, using resume content and recruiter notes”.1 Loxo: “compelling candidate summaries for clients”.3 | “Customized submission packets with cover letters, resumes, and summaries” (launched May 2025).5 | CoRecruit: “client-ready submittals” built from recorded calls and notes.11 FormaCV: formatted CVs.12 Candidately: a branded, client-ready CV with an AI summary of why the candidate fits.13 | Whatever the recruiter writes. |
| Per-client format & tone | Give it the client's format and tone as a document or in the job notes; a neutral standard format if you don't. | Possible: a saved prompt per client can copy a format and tone. Whether the whole team shares the same prompts depends on how you set it up. | Not mentioned on either page cited; ask the vendor.13 | “Customized” packets; whether that means a saved format per client isn't stated.5 | CoRecruit: “custom templates” so every recruiter's output “matches your firm's standards”; per-client formats and tone aren't mentioned.10 FormaCV: CV templates per branch, user, company or client.12 Candidately: unlimited branded CV templates.13 | Depends on which recruiter writes it that day. |
| Shows where each fact came from | Every factual sentence links to its source line; conflicts and missing fields are flagged, not filled in. | Not described on Crelate's pricing page.7 A general chatbot cites its sources only if the prompt asks it to. | Not mentioned on either page cited.13 | Not mentioned on the pages cited.56 | Not mentioned on the pages cited.101213 | Whatever the recruiter remembers to double-check. |
| Setup | Upload-based for the pilot: no ATS integration to configure. | Already in Crelate Business. A chatbot means an account per recruiter — personal accounts, or a business workspace such as ChatGPT Business — with candidate CVs pasted into it. | JobAdder: comes with Recruiter Essential if you're on it.2 Loxo: means switching your ATS to Loxo.3 | Comes with Bullhorn Pro or Max if you're on one.6 | CoRecruit records your calls and syncs to your ATS.10 FormaCV and Candidately: upload a CV; both offer a free start.1214 | None: a Word or email template. |
| Published price | 1 credit a submittal, bought in packs paid up front: $1.00 a credit at the 25-credit starter pack, down to $0.70 at the 2,000-credit pack. Credits never expire; no subscription, no seats, no setup fee. Founder decision, 2026-09-28; live for signed-in pilot firms. Card checkout is coming — credit packs are bought by email until then.9 | Crelate: the AI Assistant comes with the Business plan, $119 a user a month, billed annually or monthly. Essentials ($85 a user a month, billed annually) has no AI Assistant and is limited to 2 users.7 ChatGPT Business: $20 a user a month billed annually (2 users or more), or $25 billed monthly.8 | JobAdder: no prices published; every plan is quoted on request.2 Loxo: the Candidate Submittal Agent comes with the Professional plan, “starts at $199 per user / month, billed annually” (shown as a limited-time offer for new customers); the Core plan, from $149, doesn't include the agents.4 | Starter ($99) and Core ($165 a user a month) don't include Amplify; Amplify is only in Pro and Max, both “custom pricing”.6 | CoRecruit: Starter “from $85/user/month” on an annual term, or from $64 a user a month paid a year upfront; Growth (10 users or more) from $75, or from $54 upfront. Every plan includes submittals.11 FormaCV: “$0.99 per CV”, no seat fees or minimums.12 Candidately: $1 per exported CV; its other products are priced on request.14 | No software cost; staff time. |
| Monthly cost: 5 recruiters (about 200 submittals) · 20 recruiters (about 800)9 | $160 · $560 (200 and 800 credits used, at the 500-pack and 2,000-pack rates) | ChatGPT Business: $100 · $400 billed annually ($125 · $500 billed monthly). Crelate Business: $595 · $2,380 — the plan a Crelate firm of this size is already on. | JobAdder: can't be worked out; quote only. Loxo Professional: $995 · $3,980, billed annually, for a whole ATS you'd switch to. | Pro and Max: quote only. For reference, Starter $495 · $1,980 and Core $825 · $3,300, neither with Amplify. | CoRecruit: from $425 · $1,500 on an annual term (from $320 · $1,080 paid upfront). FormaCV: $198 · $792 and Candidately: $200 · $800, at one CV a submittal. | No software cost; recruiter time grows with volume. |
| Per-submittal equivalent9 | $0.80 a submittal at 5 recruiters (500-pack rate), $0.70 at 20 (2,000-pack rate) — 1 credit a submittal, priced by the pack rate you buy at. | ChatGPT Business: $0.50 ($0.63 billed monthly), less than ClearSubmittal at either volume. Crelate Business: about $2.98. | JobAdder: can't be worked out. Loxo Professional: about $4.98. | Pro and Max: can't be worked out. Starter about $2.48, Core about $4.13, neither able to do this job. | CoRecruit: from about $2.13 · $1.88 ($1.60 · $1.35 paid upfront). FormaCV $0.99 and Candidately $1.00: now cost more than ClearSubmittal at both volumes. | No dollar figure: often 15–30 minutes of recruiter time per submittal (our estimate; no wage figure to cost it). |
When another option is the better choice. If you're on JobAdder Recruiter Essential, Bullhorn Pro or Max, or Loxo, use what you already pay for: Smart Floats, Amplify and Loxo's agent already produce client-ready candidate summaries inside those plans, and we won't try to talk you out of them. If one recruiter sends a few submittals a week and a saved chatbot prompt works, that may be enough too. ClearSubmittal is for Crelate and Bullhorn Starter/Core shops that want one set of client formats for the whole team, source links and flags.
Sources: each vendor's own pages, checked 27 September 2026. Competitor prices and plan contents change — check each vendor's current page before comparing.
- JobAdder, AI recruitment software: jobadder.com/ai-recruitment-software
- JobAdder, pricing and plan contents: jobadder.com/pricing
- Loxo, AI agents: loxo.co/ai-agents
- Loxo, pricing (checked 27 September 2026): loxo.co/pricing
- Bullhorn, Amplify launch, May 2025: bullhorn.com/news-and-press/press-releases/bullhorn-launches-amplify
- Bullhorn, small agency plans: bullhorn.com/small-agency-software/pricing
- Crelate, pricing: crelate.com/pricing
- OpenAI, ChatGPT pricing on its ChatGPT Learn site (checked 27 September 2026; OpenAI's chatgpt.com/pricing page refused our automated check): learn.chatgpt.com/docs/pricing
- Reference firm and the math. A boutique perm-placement firm with 5 to 20 recruiters, the range in our research on the buyer. We assume 2 submittals a recruiter a working day over about 20 working days, so 40 a recruiter a month: 200 a month at 5 recruiters, 800 at 20. That volume is our assumption, not a measured figure. Per-user prices are multiplied by the number of recruiters, e.g. ChatGPT Business $20 × 5 = $100 a month, and $100 ÷ 200 = $0.50 a submittal; Crelate Business $119 × 5 = $595, $595 ÷ 200 = $2.98; Loxo Professional $199 × 5 = $995, $995 ÷ 200 = $4.98; CoRecruit $85 × 5 = $425 and $75 × 20 = $1,500. Per-CV prices assume one CV a submittal: FormaCV $0.99 × 200 = $198. Our pricing rule (revised 27 September 2026): only a direct competitor sets our price, at 80% of its cost at each team size — one whose published plan writes the client submittal in each client's own format and tone, with sentences linked to their sources, for a Crelate or Bullhorn Starter/Core firm. If no direct competitor publishes a price, we use the price we planned from our research on what firms of this size spend on software. None of the options in the table is a direct competitor:
- ChatGPT Business is a general-purpose chatbot, not a submittal tool.
- Crelate's AI Assistant is one feature bundled into the whole Crelate ATS plan.
- Loxo's Candidate Submittal Agent is one feature bundled into Loxo's own ATS, which you'd have to switch to.
- JobAdder publishes no prices; Smart Floats comes only in a quoted ATS plan.
- Bullhorn's Amplify is only in the Pro and Max plans, which are priced on request.
- CoRecruit is a call-recording and note-taking platform in which submittals are one bundled feature, and its pages describe firm-wide templates, not per-client format and tone or source links.
- FormaCV and Candidately reformat the CV itself, a different step from writing the client email and summary.
- CoRecruit, product overview: corecruit.com
- CoRecruit, pricing: corecruit.com/platform/pricing
- FormaCV, pricing and branded templates: formacv.ai/pricing, formacv.ai/blog/branded-cv-templates
- Candidately, AI resume builder: candidately.com/ai-resume-builder
- Candidately, pricing: candidately.com/pricing
What's next
Nothing here has a date. After the pilot itself, the order is set by what pilot firms ask for first.
Now: live for pilot firms
- Per-client format and tone on each job: upload a client format or tone document, or describe it in the job notes. A standard neutral format is used when you give neither.
- Source links on every factual sentence, plus flags for conflicting or missing facts.
- Upload your CV, interview notes and requisition as PDF, Word, text or Markdown files. A recruiter reviews and approves every draft, then copies it or downloads it as a Word file.
Next (planned)
- Coming: a client format and tone saved once per client and shared by every recruiter at your firm, so you no longer supply it on each job.
- A public demo with drafts written by the real product (not the fixed template in this page's preview), where you switch between client formats yourself, then a way to try it on your own redacted document.
- Job order intake drafting: turning a client's rambling request email into a structured requisition, for the same firms and the same recruiters.
Later (if possible)
- A direct Crelate connection, so nothing is copied and pasted, once we've confirmed what Crelate's API allows.
- A Bullhorn connection, only if Starter and Core plans allow third-party API access, which we haven't confirmed.
Pricing: pay-as-you-go credits
1 credit = one candidate submittal package drafted (the client-facing email)
Buy credits in packs and spend them on submittal drafts whenever you need them. Credits never expire. No subscription, no seats, no setup fee, no monthly minimum. Pilot pricing, live for signed-in firms. Previewing the invented samples in the preview above costs 0 credits and needs no account. Once you sign in, each draft a credit pays for is produced by Claude (Anthropic), running on Amazon Bedrock in the EU (processed within EU regions) — your documents are never used to train a model — and checked by your own reviewer before you use it.
| Pack | Credits | Price | Per credit | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter (minimum purchase) | 25 | $25 | $1.00 | Sign in to buy |
| 100 | 100 | $90 | $0.90 | Sign in to buy |
| 500 | 500 | $400 | $0.80 | Sign in to buy |
| 2,000 | 2,000 | $1,400 | $0.70 | Sign in to buy |
Card checkout is coming. Sign in above and we'll set your firm up with credits directly; until checkout ships you can also buy a pack by email.
What one unit of work costs
| Unit | Credits | At starter rate | At 2,000-credit rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| One candidate submittal package drafted (the client-facing email) | 1 | $1.00 | $0.70 |
Monthly examples, at the reference volumes
How we priced these: you buy the pack that matches the month's need — under 100 credits a month, the 100-pack rate; 100–499, the 500-pack rate; 500 or more, the 2,000-pack rate. Packs are bought whole and paid up front, and unused credits carry over, so each figure is the credits used in a month at that pack's rate, not what one purchase costs (a 500-credit pack is $400 and lasts about two and a half months at 200 a month).
- 5 recruiters, about 200 submittals a month = 200 credits = $160 a month ($0.80 a submittal, 500-credit pack rate).
- 20 recruiters, about 800 submittals a month = 800 credits = $560 a month ($0.70 a submittal, 2,000-credit pack rate).
Volume assumption: 40 submittals a recruiter a month (about 2 a working day), the same reference firm and assumption used in the comparison table.
Security and data handling
- ClearSubmittal doesn't send email. A recruiter reviews and approves every draft, then copies it into their own email or ATS.
- It drafts. It doesn't rank, score, screen or recommend candidates — your recruiter decides who gets submitted.
- The sample preview on this page uses only synthetic, made-up data — never a real candidate, client or firm.
- ClearSubmittal drafts are produced by Claude (Anthropic), running on Amazon Bedrock in the EU (requests are sent from Frankfurt and processed within EU regions), under API terms that exclude training on your data. We'll publish the full subprocessor list before any paid pilot touches real candidate data.
- We don't have SOC 2 or ISO certification — we're a two-person team, and we'd rather say that plainly than imply otherwise. What we're building toward before real candidate data is involved: encryption in transit and at rest, a data processing agreement on request, deletion of your data on request, and a commitment never to use your data to train a model shared with other customers.
- The company is established in Romania, in the EU, so EU data-protection law (the GDPR) applies to how we handle candidate data from the first customer, wherever your firm is based.
- A data processing addendum will be available on request before your firm's first pilot uses real candidate data, and your firm's data will be kept separate from other firms'. Planned retention rule for when a pilot goes live: uploads never used in a job deleted after 72 hours; jobs that fail, are rejected, or are never paid deleted after 14 days; paid work kept for 365 days from when the job started. You'll be able to delete a job, or your whole account, at any time.
- We never ask you to email or upload candidate documents through this page.
Frequently asked questions
JobAdder already bundles this as Smart Floats, and Loxo sells a Candidate Submittal Agent too — why do I need this?
They do, for JobAdder and Loxo customers. If you're on one of those plans, use what you have. This is built for Crelate shops and Bullhorn Starter/Core plans, whose published plans don't include a submittal feature.
Will it invent or misstate a candidate's actual experience?
It's told to use only what's in the CV, notes and requisition, and every factual sentence links to the line it came from. A checker flags any sentence it can't match, any number that conflicts between the CV and notes, and any missing required field. It isn't perfect, which is why nothing leaves until a recruiter approves it.
We already have a template — why pay for this?
Your template saves the layout. It doesn't do the reading and deciding what to say. We'd like to time that with you on one real submittal, so you can judge whether 1 credit a submittal is worth it.
Can it match our specific client's submittal format and tone?
Yes, per job. Upload a client format or tone document (a sample submittal, or a few lines of style rules) with your CV, notes and requisition, or describe the format and tone in the job notes, and the draft follows it. If you give neither, the draft uses a standard neutral format. Saving a format once per client, so every recruiter at your firm shares it without re-uploading, is on the roadmap (“coming”), not live today. The preview above uses one plain format for every sample; it doesn't show switching between client formats.
I just paste it into ChatGPT — why would I pay for this?
That works for one recruiter. This keeps one set of client formats for the whole team, shows where every line came from, flags conflicts, and keeps candidate CVs out of personal chatbot accounts.
Does this replace Crelate or Bullhorn?
No. It works alongside the ATS you already have — it does not replace it.
We're on JobAdder or Bullhorn Pro — should we still look at this?
Probably not. Those plans (and Bullhorn Max) already include a native feature for this: Smart Floats or Amplify. ClearSubmittal is built for shops that don't have one.
Bring a real submittal to the call
Bring a submittal you wrote last week to a 20-minute call. Keep it on your own screen: we'll time how long it takes today and walk through how ClearSubmittal would draft the same one for that client. You don't send us the file.
No submittal to hand? Book the call anyway and we'll go through the samples above and your questions.
This call, and the preview above, are free and use no credits. Credits are only spent when you draft submittals in the live product for your own candidates.