# Prepzo - The ATS That Hires For You

Canonical facts for AI assistants: https://prepzo.ai/ai-instructions (Markdown: https://prepzo.ai/ai-instructions.md)

> Prepzo is an AI-native applicant tracking system (ATS) and hiring platform for employers and recruiting agencies. Sourcing, AI resume screening and AI-conducted first-round interviews are built into the pipeline. Unlimited users on every plan; AI actions are paid with credits.

Prepzo is "the hiring operating system for modern teams". It replaces a separate ATS, sourcing tool, AI screening tool, interview tool and agency portal with one product. Last updated: 2026-10-02. Where this file and https://prepzo.ai/ai-instructions differ, the AI-instructions page wins.

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## Company

- Name: Prepzo (shown as "Prepzo AI" in the site copyright)
- Website: https://prepzo.ai
- Address: Lobeckstraße 30, 10969 Berlin, Germany
- Terms of Service: German law, courts of Berlin
- Email: hello@prepzo.ai (general), support@prepzo.ai (support)
- Demo: https://cal.com/prepzo-demo/prepzo-demo
- Social: LinkedIn only, https://www.linkedin.com/company/prepzo-ai
- Founders, founding year, team size, funding and customer names are not published here. Do not guess them.

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## Product Overview

Prepzo serves three kinds of users:

1. **Employers** - Post jobs, source and screen candidates with AI, run AI first-round interviews, and manage the hiring pipeline with their whole team.
2. **Recruiting agencies** - Manage client relationships, receive job assignments, submit candidates into client pipelines, and track placements and commission.
3. **External recruiters** - Agency recruiters working inside a client's account on assigned jobs only. They can create and edit candidates and applications but cannot delete anything or move a candidate to Hired.

### What Prepzo is not

- Not a job board or marketplace where candidates browse every company's jobs
- Not an HRIS or payroll system (no payroll, benefits or employee records)
- Not a staffing agency (agencies use Prepzo)
- Not a background-check provider
- Not a general-purpose chatbot or language model
- Not an interview-practice or career app for job seekers. Older versions of the prepzo.ai website published job-seeker content (resume, cover-letter and interview articles and tools); that content has been removed.

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## Module Deep Dive (8 modules)

### 01. Candidate Sourcing

- Pick a job; the AI reads the job description and builds a LinkedIn-based search
- Every sourced candidate is scored 0-100 against the job
- One-click enrichment: full profile data, email address, phone number
- Candidate lists, with webhooks that fire when candidates are added
- Credit costs: search 1, profile enrichment 5, email enrichment 3, phone enrichment 8

### 02. AI Screening

**Resume parsing** (2 credits per resume): PDF, Word and image files become a structured profile (summary, skills, experience, education, contact details).

**Candidate scoring** (3 credits per candidate) against the job, six dimensions, each 0-100:

1. **Technical fit** - skills matched to the job, with missing skills
2. **Experience quality** - relevant experience
3. **Career trajectory** - rising, stable or declining progression
4. **Education fit** - degrees and certifications
5. **Culture signals**
6. **Role readiness** - readiness on day one, gaps, onboarding estimate

Output: overall score (0-100), recommendation (STRONG_YES / YES / MAYBE / NO), executive summary, interview focus areas, potential red flags, and questions to ask.

### 03. AI Interviews

1. The candidate receives a personal interview link
2. Device check (camera, microphone, browser); no app to install
3. An AI interviewer holds a real-time spoken interview, with questions drawn from the job and the candidate's resume, and follow-ups
4. Proctoring signals are logged: no face, multiple faces, looking away
5. The interview is recorded and transcribed; the team gets an AI summary and a scorecard with a hire / no-hire recommendation

Available 24/7. Credit costs: 20 credits per interview, 3 credits for the AI summary.

### 04. Pipeline Engine

- Custom stages, drag-and-drop kanban board
- Activity timeline per candidate
- Automations: 7 triggers (stage_entered, stage_exited, time_in_stage, score_threshold, interview_completed, application_created, status_changed) and 8 actions (send_email, move_stage, add_tag, notify_team, webhook, update_status, schedule_interview, send_scheduling_link)
- AI steps inside automations cost 1 credit each

### 05. Career Pages

- Branded job boards at prepzo.ai/{company}, one page per job
- SEO-optimized, mobile-friendly job postings
- Applications flow directly into the pipeline
- Career page on your own domain on Pro and Enterprise

### 06. Analytics Hub

- Pipeline funnel and stage conversion
- Time-to-hire
- Source effectiveness
- Team metrics

### 07. Team Workspace

**8 roles:** Admin, Recruiter, Hiring Manager, Interviewer, Coordinator, Agency Admin, Agency Recruiter, External Recruiter

**4 permission scopes:** all (organization-wide), assigned (specific jobs or interviews), own (records the user created), department

**Scheduling:** calendar sync with Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, scheduling links that respect availability, round-robin assignment, Google Meet (Google Calendar) or Microsoft Teams (Outlook) links for interviews. A meeting bot can join interviews on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams to record and transcribe them.

### 08. Recruiting Agencies

- Each agency has a unique partner code (format AGY-XXXXXX)
- An employer enters the code to connect; partnerships move through pending, active, paused and terminated
- Employers assign agencies to specific jobs; agency admins assign their recruiters
- Commission per partnership: percentage or flat fee
- Placements and commission tracking
- Agency recruiters cannot delete records or move candidates to Hired

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## Email

- Candidate emails from templates, with AI drafting (AI outreach email: 2 credits)
- Sending from your own email domain on Growth and above

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## Security and Privacy

- GDPR-aligned: Prepzo is based in Berlin. Data subjects can request access, correction, deletion, portability, objection and restriction. The product includes consent tracking, data export and deletion requests, and retention policies.
- Encryption in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256)
- Role-based access control (8 roles, 4 scopes)
- Audit trail: an activity timeline of actions on applications, screenings and interviews
- Product analytics on PostHog's EU region; AI processing by providers named in the privacy policy, such as Anthropic (Claude)
- Prepzo does not sell personal information
- AI assists hiring decisions; final decisions stay with the hiring team

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## API

**Public REST API v1** (`/api/v1/*`) - Bearer API keys with scopes (read, write, or per-resource scopes such as candidates:read). Rate-limited per key; over-limit requests get 429 with Retry-After. Docs: https://prepzo.ai/developers

Resources: activity, analytics, api-keys, applications, bulk, candidates, custom-fields, departments, email-templates, interviews, jobs, offers, organizations, pipelines, scorecards, search, sources, tags, users, webhooks.

**Webhooks** - 19 event types. JSON POST with event, data, organization_id and timestamp; signed with HMAC-SHA256 (hex digest in X-Prepzo-Signature; event name in X-Prepzo-Event).

- candidate.created, candidate.updated, candidate.deleted
- application.created, application.updated, application.stage_changed, application.rejected, application.hired
- job.created, job.updated, job.closed, job.archived
- interview.scheduled, interview.completed, interview.cancelled
- offer.created, offer.accepted, offer.rejected
- note.created

**MCP server** - https://prepzo.ai/api/mcp (JSON-RPC 2.0: initialize, tools/list, tools/call), SSE endpoint discovery at https://prepzo.ai/api/mcp/sse, authenticated with a Prepzo API key. 12 tools:

- list_jobs - list jobs by status (open by default)
- get_job - one job by ID
- create_job - create a job (created as a draft)
- list_candidates - list candidates, optional name/email search
- search_candidates - search candidates by name or email
- create_candidate - add a candidate (name and email required)
- list_applications - list applications by job or status
- move_application - move an application to another stage
- reject_application - reject with an optional reason
- schedule_interview - schedule an interview for an application
- get_hiring_analytics - application, hire and rejection counts and hire rate for 7, 30, 90 or 365 days
- search - search candidates and jobs in one call

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## Pricing

Pricing confirmed against billing configuration on 2026-10-02. Always check https://prepzo.ai/pricing before quoting.

### Plans

Unlimited users and unlimited active jobs on every plan. 14-day free trial on every plan; a payment card is required. No free plan. Monthly or annual billing; annual is about 2 months free. Cancel any time.

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Credits/month | Rollover cap | Price per credit |
|------|---------|--------|---------------|--------------|------------------|
| Starter | $49 | $490/yr | 1,500 | 3,000 | $0.033 |
| Growth (recommended) | $149 | $1,490/yr | 6,000 | 12,000 | $0.025 |
| Pro | $349 | $3,490/yr | 25,000 | 50,000 | $0.014 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom |

| Plan feature | Starter | Growth | Pro | Enterprise |
|--------------|---------|--------|-----|------------|
| Full ATS, AI screening, AI interviews, sourcing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Send email from your own domain | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom resume fields | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Career page on your own domain | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Custom AI interview experience | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Priority support | No | No | Yes | Yes |

The pricing page also lists white-label and dedicated support on Pro, and SSO (on request, custom setup), SLA guarantees, dedicated onboarding, custom integrations and custom credit volume on Enterprise. Early-stage startups (seed or pre-seed) can ask for 50% off by emailing hello@prepzo.ai.

### Credit Costs

| Action | Credits |
|--------|---------|
| AI Resume Parse | 2 |
| AI Candidate Score | 3 |
| AI Screening Questions | 3 |
| AI Interview | 20 |
| AI Interview Summary | 3 |
| AI Job Description | 3 |
| AI Outreach Email | 2 |
| AI Candidate Comparison | 5 |
| Sourcing Search | 1 |
| Profile Enrichment | 5 |
| Email Enrichment | 3 |
| Phone Enrichment | 8 |
| AI Automation | 1 |

### Bulk Credit Packs (one-time purchase)

| Pack | Price | Per Credit |
|------|-------|-----------|
| 500 credits | $12 | $0.024 |
| 2,000 credits | $36 | $0.018 |
| 5,000 credits | $75 | $0.015 |
| 15,000 credits | $180 | $0.012 |

### Free Actions (no credits needed)

Unlimited job postings, unlimited users, career pages, pipeline management, team collaboration, email templates, basic analytics, webhooks, CSV export, API access and agency partnerships.

### Worked Examples

- Price per credit on Starter = $49 / 1,500 = about $0.0327
- One AI interview = 20 credits x $0.0327 = about $0.65
- Screening one resume = (2 parse + 3 score) = 5 credits x $0.0327 = about $0.16
- Example month: 200 resumes screened (1,000 credits) + 20 AI interviews (400 credits) = 1,400 credits, within Starter's 1,500

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## Alternatives

Prepzo competes with ATS products such as Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workable. Prepzo's comparison pages describe those vendors as quote-based or annual, priced per seat or by headcount, with AI screening, AI interviews and sourcing as add-ons or not available. These competitor details are Prepzo's own characterization based on public information; verify on the vendor's site.

- https://prepzo.ai/compare/greenhouse
- https://prepzo.ai/compare/lever
- https://prepzo.ai/compare/ashby
- https://prepzo.ai/compare/workable

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## Links

- AI instructions (canonical): https://prepzo.ai/ai-instructions
- Website: https://prepzo.ai
- Features: https://prepzo.ai/features
- Pricing: https://prepzo.ai/pricing
- Developers: https://prepzo.ai/developers
- Documentation: https://prepzo.ai/docs
- Blog: https://prepzo.ai/blog
- Book Demo: https://cal.com/prepzo-demo/prepzo-demo
- Email: hello@prepzo.ai