#123- What Every Recruiting Firm Needs to Know About Their ATS
From Digital Recruiter Podcast by Digital Recruiter
May 15, 2026 · 48 min
About this episode
Sanket Chauhan discusses the development of an AI-native ATS and its implications for recruiting firms.
Episode Summary Sanket Chauhan didn't set out to build an ATS. He set out to solve a research problem. Three years ago, when AI models were just starting to get good, he and his co-founder built a Chrome extension to automate sales research and a wave of recruiters found it first. That accidental discovery turned into a research agency, which turned into a hard truth: not a single recruiting firm they worked with actually liked their ATS. So they built a better one from the ground up. StarDex is an AI-native ATS and CRM built specifically for search firms. The difference between AI-native and AI-augmented isn't just marketing language, it's architecture. Legacy systems were built on structured databases and are now reverse-engineering their way toward AI. StarDex was designed from day one so that every record lives in both a structured and a vector database simultaneously, meaning recruiters can search by similarity, not just by keyword, and stop relying on perfect data entry to surface the right candidates. In this episode, Sanket joins Clark to break down what that actually means in practice and why it matters more than ever in 2026. They get into why most recruiters go to…
People in this episode
Host: Clark
Guest: Sanket Chauhan
Topics covered
- ATS
- AI in recruiting
- recruitment technology
- database management
- customizable workflows
Keywords
- ATS
- AI-native
- recruiting
- StarDex
- database
- recruitment technology
- vibe coding
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: StarDex, LinkedIn
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