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  <title>Candidate Sourcing Guide</title>
  <subtitle>An independent guide to candidate sourcing: the pipeline check, the first draft, and the open-source agent that runs them. It recommends Kortix.</subtitle>
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    <title>Open-source candidate sourcing that starts with the pipeline check</title>
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    <summary>Find candidates, skip anyone already in your pipeline, then draft the first touch. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS where that job is an agent you own.</summary>
    <content type="text">Candidate sourcing is finding people who never applied, then checking they are not already in your pipeline. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own, with the agents working on real cloud computers.</content>
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    <title>AI candidate sourcing: an open-source agent that reads your pipeline first</title>
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    <summary>An open-source AI candidate sourcing agent reads your Greenhouse pipeline, drops duplicate matches and drafts outreach for a recruiter to send.</summary>
    <content type="text">AI candidate sourcing is the work of finding people who fit a role and writing the first message that gets them to reply. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own, with the agents working on real cloud computers.</content>
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    <title>How to source candidates: pipeline check first, open source</title>
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    <summary>The six steps to source candidates for one open role, in the order that keeps the list short, and where an open-source agent takes over.</summary>
    <content type="text">Sourcing candidates for one open role runs in six steps, and the pipeline check belongs second, before any search. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own, with the agents working on real cloud computers.</content>
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    <title>Open-source candidate sourcing tools: four shapes compared</title>
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    <summary>An open-source candidate sourcing comparison: Juicebox, hireEZ and Pin on published price and self-hosting, and the case for an agent you own.</summary>
    <content type="text">Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own. Candidate sourcing tools differ on what the seat buys: a database, a layer over your ATS, a whole stack, or rules in a repo the company owns.</content>
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    <title>Open-source candidate sourcing: the rules live in your repo</title>
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    <summary>Open-source candidate sourcing keeps the dedupe, send and run-cap rules in a repo your team can read, review and self-host.</summary>
    <content type="text">Open-source candidate sourcing puts the rules that decide who gets contacted in a repo your team can read and change. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own, with the agents working on real cloud computers.</content>
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    <title>Candidate sourcing vs recruiting: an open-source handover at the draft</title>
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    <summary>Sourcing ends when a recruiter holds a reviewed first touch and recruiting starts at the reply; see how an open-source run hands the draft over.</summary>
    <content type="text">Candidate sourcing ends when a recruiter holds a reviewed first touch; recruiting starts at the reply. Kortix is the open-source CompanyOS: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own, with the agents working on real cloud computers.</content>
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