Applications got noisier.
Generative tools make it easy to ship high volumes of polished applications — so HR teams see more volume and less signal in every pile.
Sits alongside your ATS / HRIS — built for HR & talent teams
Stop paying recruiters. Hire on referrals.
Launch a referral program in an afternoon. Set roles, set a flat bonus, invite employees, and track every warm intro. No agency fee. No ATS migration. Pilot is free. No credit card.
Pilot · ATS sync is manual today (status updates + export). API integrations are on a waitlist.
- Pricing
- Free during pilot
Why now
The AI hiring shift.
Skills beat pedigree.
Skills and demonstrated fit matter more than degrees or years of experience — and warm referrals are how that signal surfaces at the top of the funnel.
AI shifts the work humans do.
AI picks up more of the early-pipeline work, but trusted human judgment still decides who advances — the layer that human signal runs through.
NexusPath turns that human signal into a tracked, rewarded, end-to-end process. Start free pilot
Why referrals
Why HR teams add a referral layer on top of modern, AI-shaped hiring funnels.
Spend less per hire.
Agency and recruiter fees run 18–25% of base salary — that's $18K–$25K on a single senior hire. As AI-shaped applications crowd every funnel and dilute screening signal, that per-hire bill hits harder. A structured referral program pays out a flat bonus after the new hire lands, with no upfront fee — and sits on top of the ATS / HRIS you already run, so the stack you trust stays put.
- Cut 18–25% agency fees with a flat success bonus — your ATS stays the system of record.
- Pay only when the referred candidate converts — no upfront recruiter invoice, no HRIS migration.
- Per-hire cost stays predictable even when cold screening piles grow harder to read.
Hire on a colleague's read of the work, not a cold screening pile.
Every referred candidate arrives carrying a colleague who already knows the work and the culture. They skip the resume lottery, ask better questions, and convert faster — and become warm intros on the candidate records in the ATS / HRIS you already use.
- Each referred candidate arrives with a colleague's read — the human context a resume can't carry forward.
- Referrals skip 2–3 rounds of cold screening; warm intros reach your ATS within days.
- Email-loop tracking means no intro goes dark — your HRIS sees the same end-to-end status.
Skills-first hiring needs a champion, not just a keyword sift.
Skills-first hiring filters by surface, not by fit — and keyword-heavy screening can't see the context a colleague carries. A referral delivers a colleague's read on skills and culture, complementing or outperforming the keyword sift, on top of your existing ATS / HRIS — no replacement of the systems you trust.
- Adds a colleague's explanation of skills and culture — context keyword-heavy screening alone can't capture.
- Skills-first candidates enter pre-championed — the warm read an ATS scan can't supply.
- Each successful referral earns the referrer a tracked payout — credited back into your HRIS.
How it works
Four steps from signup to first warm intro.
A program an HR partner or talent lead can launch in a single afternoon — no agency contract, no recruiter pipeline to manage.
Step 1
Create your workspace
Sign up and tell us about your company — name, size, your role. The workspace is yours; you can invite teammates once that's wired up.
Step 2
Define roles and rewards
For each open role, set the title, a short brief, and the success bonus you pay when the referred hire lands. Bonuses are flat — no percentages, no surprises.
Step 3
Invite your employees
Send a single invitation link to your team. Employees browse open roles and submit warm intros — names, contact, and a one-line note on why they're a fit.
Step 4
Track every warm intro
Every intro is tracked end-to-end — submitted, in review, interviewed, hired, paid out. No email threads. No 'who owes who a bonus'.
Referral journey
What an employee's referral looks like, end-to-end.
Four moments an employee, a candidate, and your HR team share — from discovery to payout.
Step 1
Employee spots an open role
An employee opens the company referral board and finds a role that fits someone in their network — same board your public profile page already uses.
Step 2
Employee submits the warm intro
The referral form dumps straight into your workspace — candidate name, contact, resume link, and a one-line note on why they're a fit.
Step 3
Your team reviews the candidate
HR screens, interviews, and advances the intro through the funnel — every status change logs into the pipeline tracker the referrer sees.
Step 4
Hire converts, bonus tracks to payout
Once the candidate is marked hired and the probation window clears, the sign-on bonus queues against the role's reward config — and exports cleanly to finance.
Savings at a glance
Estimate your savings.
Three illustrative examples, drawn from the same cost-comparison math that powers the in-product ROI dashboard. Every salary band and recruiter fee here is a sample assumption — not guaranteed pricing. Run the live numbers once you sign up.
| Level | Salary midpoint | Sample bonus | Agency @ 20% | Pilot cost | Savings vs agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | $50,000 | $1,500 | $10,000 | $1,500 | $8,500 |
| Mid | $110,000 | $3,500 | $22,000 | $3,500 | $18,500 |
| Senior | $190,000 | $7,500 | $38,000 | $7,500 | $30,500 |
Agency fee is modeled at 20% of midpoint salary. Marketing copy may still say agencies often charge 18–25%. Platform fee is $0 during pilot. These figures are illustrative examples, not a quote.
How we calculated this
Submission → hire (assumed)25% — same assumption /for-employers and the in-product ROI dashboard use
Platform fee per hire$0 — no fee during pilot
Figures are illustrative examples, not guaranteed pricing or saved results. The pilot is free right now; commercial pricing ships after pilot teams wrap.
FAQ
What HR teams ask before joining the pilot.
If yours isn't here, write to us — a human responds within one working day.
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Run referrals on top of your ATS / HRIS.
NexusPath sits alongside the ATS and HRIS you already run, so they keep their system of record and referrals come in on top. Sign up is free, the pilot product is free, and the first warm intro lands within a couple of weeks. One workspace, layered onto your existing stack — that's the whole funnel.
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