Spent 9 hours last week copy-pasting candidate data between tools. Lost a deal. Not doing that again.

I’ll be honest: last week nearly broke me.

One of our top candidates ghosted the final interview. Client was fuming. Internal Slack was melting down. Everyone’s asking what went wrong.

What went wrong is... me.

Or more accurately, me + five different platforms that refuse to talk to each other.

I had their info in a Google Sheet. Sourced from LinkedIn. Notes in Notion. Interview feedback in Greenhouse. Email thread in Outlook. None of it synced. None of it centralized.

I spent nine hours just trying to keep everything up to date.

By the time I realized they’d been double-booked for a different role at another firm... it was too late.

That deal was ours.

But we were too slow.

I was too busy doing admin.

I’m not writing this for sympathy.

I’m writing this because I refuse to spend another 9 hours doing a machine’s job.

Spent my weekend building a simple automation chain. Took me 3 hours.

Now all the profiles flow straight into our CRM, interview notes update in real-time, and the offer letter is one click away.

I didn’t do this because I’m a “tech person.” I did it because I was tired of apologizing to clients for stuff that should be handled by code, not by a recruiter on the edge of burnout.

Let me know if you want a peek at the workflow.

Or just drop a 🔁 if you’ve been there too.

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