Nod for recruiters

Intake, debriefs, panels — the calls the ATS never sees.

A role is decided in the conversations around it: the intake call where the hiring manager says what they actually want, the debrief where the panel talks itself into or out of someone, the sync where the bar quietly moves. Nod captures those from your Mac's own audio — no bot in the call — and keeps them askable, so what was agreed in week one still holds in week six. It is a memory layer for hiring conversations, not a scorecard or an ATS.

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  • Who said they need remote, and who said they'd relocate
  • Notice periods and salary expectations, across the pipeline
  • The candidate you screened in March and forgot about
  • Feedback written from the interview, not from memory

  • For in-house recruiters

    “What did this candidate say about notice and salary?”

    Both came up in minute forty of a screen you took three weeks ago. It's still there when the offer stage arrives.

  • For agency recruiters

    “Who have I spoken to about this role?”

    Twelve screens in a week stop being twelve separate memories and become one thing you can ask.

  • For hiring managers

    “How did the two finalists differ on the system design question?”

    Compare what each of them actually said, instead of the impression you were left with.

Ask it the way you'd say it.

  • What did this candidate say about notice and salary?
  • Who have I spoken to about this role?
  • How did the two finalists differ on the system design question?
  • Who needs visa sponsorship?

A day with Nod

Four moments where the notes would otherwise be on you.

  1. 09:15Phone screen

    Listen to the candidate, not your keyboard.

    • Salary, notice, location, motivation — captured
    • Better follow-up questions, because you're present
    • Works on a phone call on speaker too
  2. 11:00Panel interview

    What they said, not what you remember.

    • The full answer, kept in their own words
    • Everyone's questions, in one write-up
    • Ready before the next candidate joins
  3. 14:30Hiring manager debrief

    The bar, agreed and written down.

    • What you agreed to change about the profile
    • Who's moving forward, and who isn't
    • The commitment you made about timing
  4. 17:00Ask Nod

    Ask the pipeline, not the ATS.

    • “Who needs visa sponsorship?”
    • “Which candidates asked about equity?”
    • Answers across every screen you've run

Candidate memory

The pipeline stays legible

Five screens in a day is where notes turn into fragments and candidates turn into a blur. Nod keeps each conversation distinct and searchable, so writing feedback is reading what happened rather than reconstructing it — and last month's strong-but-not-now candidate is still findable when the role reopens.

Ask Nod

Ask across every candidate at once

“Who needs sponsorship?” and “who could start in four weeks?” are pipeline questions, not candidate questions. Nod answers them from what was said in the screens, with the interview each part came from, so you can check before you promise a hiring manager anything.

Action items

Nobody gets left without an answer

The worst part of recruiting is the candidate who never heard back because you owed them an email on a busy Thursday. Nod ends every interview with what you committed to — the feedback, the next step, the date — so the follow-through doesn't depend on your inbox.

No bot in the candidate's call

A recorder in the participant list makes an interview feel like an assessment centre, and candidates behave accordingly. Nod listens through your Mac instead, so it stays an ordinary conversation — which is when people tell you useful things. Nod captures the audio your Mac is already playing through native macOS APIs, so nothing dials into the call or shows up in the participant list. Each segment goes through a European proxy to hosted transcription, and Nod discards it when the text comes back. No model trains on the data. Groq may retain transient error or abuse logs for up to 30 days unless Zero Data Retention is enabled. Only the transcript and summary are kept by Nod, encrypted at rest in the EU. The full detail is on the security page.

  • Nothing joins the interview — no participant, no banner
  • No audio stored; notes encrypted at rest in the EU
  • Candidate data isn't used to train anything
  • Notes in the language the interview was in — 14 supported

Interview like it's the first one of the day.

Nod takes the note-taking, the write-up, and the recall, so the fifth conversation gets the same attention as the first — and the feedback you send is about the person you actually spoke to.

Frequently asked questions

  • Does Nod score candidates or replace our scorecard?

    No, and it should not be used that way. Nod has no rubric, no scoring model, no structured-interview templates, and no ATS write-back. It does not compare candidates or make a recommendation. If you want interview intelligence built around scorecards and hiring decisions, use a hiring-specific tool — Metaview and BrightHire are built for that. Nod covers the conversations around the decision: intake, debriefs, hiring-manager syncs, and the follow-ups that come out of them.

  • Does it write back to Greenhouse, Lever, or Ashby?

    No. Nod has no ATS integration. Notes stay in Nod, where you can search across every conversation on a role, and you paste what you need into your ATS yourself.

  • Does a bot join the interview?

    No. Nod captures your Mac's system audio instead of dialling in, so nothing appears in the candidate's participant list. No bot doesn't mean no consent. Recording law varies by country and by state, and some of it asks everyone on the call to agree — so tell people you're taking notes. See recording consent laws.

  • Can I look things up across a whole role?

    Yes — as recall, not as ranking. Every intake, screen, panel and debrief lands in one searchable memory, so you can ask what was said across the role: who needs sponsorship, what notice period came up, what the hiring manager asked for at intake, what the panel actually agreed. Nod retrieves what was said; the judgement stays yours and stays in your scorecard.

  • Does it work for agency recruiters?

    Yes. Nod signs in with any Google account, personal or work, so there's no Workspace plan to buy and no IT ticket to file. An agency recruiter and an in-house talent lead get the same thing on the day they download it.

  • What about phone screens?

    They work if the call is on speaker, because Nod captures your Mac's audio rather than joining a meeting. So do Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, and in-person interviews. It's macOS only.

Less writing up. More interviewing.

  1. 1

    Download

    One Mac app. Any Google account — no IT ticket.

  2. 2

    Run the screens

    Nothing joins the call. You just talk to the candidate.

  3. 3

    Write feedback

    From the notes, not from memory. Then ask across the pipeline.

Related

More detail on the keyword page: AI recruiting assistant. Guides: how to take interview notes and recording consent laws. For the general tool, see the AI meeting assistant.

Nod is also built for founders, sales, product managers, and recruiters.

Useful on day one. Hard to work without by month three.

Start free on macOS, no card. Every conversation you capture today is one you can still ask about a year from now.

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