Hiring teams sometimes ask us a version of this question: If we already have Greenhouse, why do we need Dealt?
It's a fair question, and the answer is short: because they do different jobs.
What an ATS is for
An applicant tracking system organises and executes a hiring process. Once a candidate is in your funnel, your ATS:
- Tracks them through stages.
- Schedules interviews.
- Stores feedback.
- Routes offers.
- Generates reports your CFO will eventually ask for.
It's a system of record for the activity inside your hiring funnel. The good ones (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable) are excellent at this.
What an ATS is not for
None of those tools change who is in the funnel. They don't verify employment. They don't validate skills. They don't confirm references. They are passive consumers of whatever the candidate claimed.
That's not a flaw — it's a scope decision. An ATS is a workflow tool. The verification problem sits earlier.
Where Dealt sits
Dealt is upstream of your ATS. Candidates verify their credentials with us — employment history, skills, references — and apply to your roles with that verification attached. The application that lands in your Greenhouse pipeline arrives pre-screened in a way Greenhouse can't do for you.
It's the difference between sorting your inbox and changing what gets sent to it.
What this looks like in practice
Most teams who use both:
- Post the role on Dealt and on their existing channels.
- Receive verified applications from Dealt that pipe directly into Greenhouse with the verification report attached.
- Continue to receive unverified applications from other channels, which get the standard screening treatment.
- Notice, after a few weeks, that the Dealt cohort moves through stages faster and converts to offers at a higher rate.
Nothing about your existing process needs to change. You just stop wasting screening time on applicants you can't trust at the basic level.
The mental model
If your ATS is the kitchen, Dealt is the supplier. A great kitchen with bad ingredients can only do so much. The two roles are distinct, and replacing one with the other doesn't work.
So no — we're not trying to be Greenhouse. We're trying to be the input layer Greenhouse never had.
— The Dealt team