After 20 years placing candidates and working across nearly every applicant tracking system on the market, our founder knew the problem firsthand: the tools recruiters rely on were never designed for how recruiters actually work. Candidate data lived in one place, client relationships in another, and the day disappeared into stitching disconnected systems together instead of making placements. So he built the platform he always wished he'd had.
Recruiting runs on a three-way relationship — candidates, clients, and jobs — and generic CRMs force that relationship into workarounds. Trio was built around it from day one. Your candidates, companies, contacts, and open jobs live as connected records in a single system, so business development and recruiting happen side by side instead of in separate tools. From first contact to final placement, the entire process lives in one place.
Trio's AI handles the parts of the job that pull you away from people — sourcing, tracking, follow-ups, and the administrative work that eats a recruiter's day. It doesn't replace your judgment; it extends your reach, handling the process in the background so you can spend your time where it actually matters.
No algorithm will ever replace the trust you build with a candidate or the rapport you earn with a hiring manager. That's the recruiter's job, and it always will be. Trio simply makes sure you have more time for it — you focus on the personal connection, while Trio and its AI handle the recruiting process behind the scenes.
Candidates, clients, and the recruiter who connects them — meeting in one system. The shape of how recruiting actually works.
The Talent Graph turns your database into a living network of candidates, companies, and roles you can search, filter, and work from directly. Every candidate you touch becomes a connected record you can find again.
Client work lives here too. Track companies and hiring-manager contacts, log every touch, and manage BD alongside recruiting — not in a separate CRM. Job order to the right person, in one view.
AI and Agent Ops handle the process work that pulls you away from people — sourcing support, tracking, follow-ups, and admin. It doesn't replace your judgment; it extends your reach. The AI runs the process. You run the desk.
Keep every conversation moving. Manage open jobs as connected records, then use Sequences to run consistent, automated outreach so no candidate goes cold and no submittal slips. The cadence runs itself.
A placement isn't finished until you're paid. Invoicing and Filing live in the same platform, so the back-office work that usually sits in a separate spreadsheet stays connected to the placement that created it.
You can't improve what you can't see. Reporting turns daily activity into a clear picture of the desk — Open Jobs, Submittals, Interviews, Offers, Placements — with KPI cards and trends that update as you work.
— One workflow, start to finish —
Intake
Job order in
Submit
Candidate out
Interview
Client meets
Offer
Deal made
Start
Placed
For the solo recruiter getting started
$0/ forever
Start freeFor independent recruiters & small teams · 1–5 users
$XX/ user / mo
Choose Small BusinessFor growing recruiting teams · 6+ users
$XX/ user / mo
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Trio isn't a walled garden. Plug in your own API keys and Trio works through the platforms you already pay for — your preferred AI model, your phone system, and your email. No rip-and-replace, no locked-in vendor. Your keys, your tools, your desk.
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