Kello - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Kello is a cloud-based AI recruiting and applicant tracking platform hosted on AWS, designed for hiring and talent acquisition teams that use ATS systems such as Lever, Greenhouse, or Freshteam. It centralizes past applicants, referrals, and inbound contacts into a deduplicated, continuously updated talent pool, eliminating the need to re-source candidates from scratch for every open role. Candidate profiles are auto-refreshed to reflect current roles and companies, and all data is searchable via plain-language queries with AI-powered semantic matching, per-candidate relevance ranking, and match explainers. Integrations span two-way ATS sync, Gmail inbox (read-only, Google-verified, CASA Tier 2), Google Forms, LinkedIn Easy Apply via Chrome extension, and a Claude connector for natural-language workspace search.

Beyond search and consolidation, Kello provides job analytics dashboards covering pipeline health, stage velocity, sourcing channel performance, and candidate composition by industry, experience, location, and company stage. Code Sight scans public GitHub repositories to extract code quality signals including tech stack, test habits, security, and maintainability, delivering plain-English summaries and pass/fail quality gates for engineering roles without requiring take-home assignments. A paid TalentGPT capability extends candidate discovery across broader datasets using OpenAI and Google Gemini APIs.

Kello Picks is a managed sourcing service available without a subscription: hiring teams submit a job description and receive up to 100 ranked candidates delivered in batches of 20, with candidate outreach and interview scheduling handled by the service, targeting first interviews within days of job description receipt. Candidate data remains customer-owned, is exportable, and access controls mirror existing ATS permissions, supporting data governance requirements across recruiting operations.