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Workable alternative for teams who need screening, not another ATS
Workable is a full end-to-end applicant tracking system. It posts jobs to job boards, moves candidates through pipeline stages, handles offers and onboarding, and adds its own AI recruiter features and AI credits on top. It also publishes its pricing, which is refreshingly rare in this category: Standard is $299 per month, Premier $599, and Enterprise $719, with annual billing saving about 20 percent, plans that scale by company employee count, unlimited active jobs under fair usage, and a 15-day free trial of the Standard feature set. If you need a system of record for the entire hiring funnel, Workable is a mature, well-distributed product and a genuinely good buy.
Held for recruiter review · never auto-rejected
Screen the pile to watch Prescreener parse every resume, apply your criteria and knockouts, and rank the inbound applicants with a transparent reason on each.
Live, interactive · AI assists, you decide · no signup needed
AI assists · you decide · bias-audited (EEOC / NYC Local Law 144)
Workable is a full ATS and the system of record for your hiring funnel. Prescreener is the screening layer that reads and ranks the inbound pile, working alongside Workable or replacing the need for an ATS entirely when screening is the only thing you are short of.
Prescreener is not an ATS and does not try to be. It is the screening layer, and it solves the one job an ATS was never built for: reading the hundreds of inbound resumes that land on a single role. Prescreener parses every application, applies your knockout and eligibility criteria, asks short screening questions, scores role-fit, and ranks the pile so recruiters open the strongest matches first, each with the reasons behind its place. Buyers pick it in two situations: their bottleneck is the inbound pile, so a full hiring suite is overkill, or they already run Workable and want the ranking layer on top. Prescreener sits alongside any ATS, discloses AI use, is bias-audited to support EEOC and NYC Local Law 144, and ranks and flags rather than auto-rejecting. A recruiter always decides.
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Workable vs Prescreener, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.
| What matters | Prescreener | Workable |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A screening layer that reads, scores and ranks the inbound applicant pile | A full end-to-end ATS and HR suite, from job posting to onboarding |
| Reads and ranks the whole inbound pile | Yes. Every resume is parsed, knockouts applied, role-fit scored, pile ranked with reasons | Pipeline stages and AI recruiter features inside a broader hiring suite |
| Pricing transparency | Published: Starter $199, Growth $499, Scale $1,290 per month. No free plan | Published: Standard $299, Premier $599, Enterprise $719 per month, about 20 percent off annually |
| Setup time | Connect, set your criteria and start receiving a ranked pile in days | A full ATS implementation, with a 15-day free trial of the Standard feature set |
| Works alongside your existing ATS | Yes. Not a system of record, so it runs next to Workable or any other ATS | It is the system of record. Teams standardize their stack on it |
| Bias audit and human-in-the-loop | AI disclosure, bias audits supporting EEOC and NYC Local Law 144, never auto-rejects | Compliance and reporting tooling across the full hiring funnel |
Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each product for the latest.
Why teams pick Prescreener
One step that screens the whole inbound pile
Buy the layer you are missing
A full ATS is the right purchase when you need offers, onboarding and a system of record. If what you actually lack is someone to read 400 resumes, Prescreener is the narrower, cheaper fix.
A ranked pile, with reasons
Every applicant is scored on knockouts, eligibility and role-fit, and the pile is ordered so recruiters open the strongest matches first, each with the criteria behind its place shown plainly.
Runs next to Workable
Already on Workable and happy with it? Keep it. Prescreener adds the screening and ranking step in front, with AI disclosure, bias audits and a recruiter making every call.
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Consistent criteria · bias-audited to EEOC and LL144 · human-in-the-loop