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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Spark Hire: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/spark-hire/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/spark-hire/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/spark-hire.md",
  "title": "Spark Hire: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Spark Hire is on the AI hiring software map. We record 5 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 12, 2026.",
  "period": "Aug. 7, 2025 to Oct. 12, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
    "id": "CDS4JPW",
    "slug": "spark-hire",
    "name": "Spark Hire",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://www.comeet.com/",
    "summary": "\"Finally, an ATS that hiring managers love to use.\" Comeet, a collaborative ATS, joined Chicago-based Spark Hire in June 2023 and is now sold as Spark Hire Recruit to lean, globally distributed hiring teams. Spark Hire AI reviews and ranks resumes, writes job descriptions, drafts interview questions and scorecards, takes interview notes (add-on), scores one-way video interviews and suggests candidate follow-ups. A Recruit MCP connection is in beta.",
    "founded": null,
    "categories": [
      "ats"
    ],
    "status": "active",
    "price_note": null,
    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
    "off_map": null,
    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "Applicant tracking systems"
    ]
  },
  "confirmed_product_launches": 0,
  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
  "launches": [],
  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Finally, an ATS that hiring managers love to use.\" Comeet, a collaborative ATS, joined Chicago-based Spark Hire in June 2023 and is now sold as Spark Hire Recruit to lean, globally distributed hiring teams. Spark Hire AI reviews and ranks resumes, writes job descriptions, drafts interview questions and scorecards, takes interview notes (add-on), scores one-way video interviews and suggests candidate follow-ups. A Recruit MCP connection is in beta.",
    "source": {
      "name": "comeet.com",
      "url": "https://www.comeet.com/"
    },
    "from": "record"
  },
  "maps": [
    {
      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-spark-hire",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Spark Hire",
      "site": "https://www.comeet.com/",
      "category": "Applicant tracking systems",
      "what": "\"Finally, an ATS that hiring managers love to use.\" Comeet, a collaborative ATS, joined Chicago-based Spark Hire in June 2023 and is now sold as Spark Hire Recruit to lean, globally distributed hiring teams. Spark Hire AI reviews and ranks resumes, writes job descriptions, drafts interview questions and scorecards, takes interview notes (add-on), scores one-way video interviews and suggests candidate follow-ups. A Recruit MCP connection is in beta.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "comeet.com",
        "url": "https://www.comeet.com/"
      },
      "price": "Published, billed annually: Recruit Pro from $335/month (up to 200 employees), Recruit Growth from $499/month (up to 500), Enterprise custom.",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "AI assessments",
          "Assistant",
          "Job posts and ads",
          "Screening and ranking",
          "MCP and agent APIs",
          "Interview notes",
          "AI outreach",
          "Rediscovery",
          "Scheduling",
          "AI sourcing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Part of Spark Hire, which reported 7,000+ customers; Comeet had nearly 800 customers at the 2023 merger.)",
      "founded": null,
      "founded_source": null,
      "fate": null,
      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "comeet.com",
          "url": "https://www.comeet.com/"
        },
        {
          "name": "sparkhire.com",
          "url": "https://www.sparkhire.com/applicant-tracking-system/"
        },
        {
          "name": "sparkhire.com",
          "url": "https://sparkhire.com/news/spark-hire-and-comeet-merger"
        },
        {
          "name": "sparkhire.com",
          "url": "https://www.sparkhire.com/news/"
        },
        {
          "name": "sparkhire.com",
          "url": "https://www.sparkhire.com/news/ai-video-review/"
        },
        {
          "name": "sparkhire.canny.io",
          "url": "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog"
        }
      ],
      "more_sources": 8,
      "cross_listed": false
    }
  ],
  "off_map_url": null,
  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/spark-hire/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-12",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Recruit MCP connection in beta",
      "summary": "\"Spark Hire Recruit now supports a secure MCP connection\" so teams can query live candidate, position and pipeline data from ChatGPT and Claude, with role-based access.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-spark-hire"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor changelog",
        "url": "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/spark-hire/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-09-25",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Spark Hire AI Notetaker gets consent controls",
      "summary": "AI Notetaker (beta) adds candidate consent requests, manual add or remove, and transcript downloads.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-spark-hire"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor changelog",
        "url": "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/spark-hire/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-09-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "AI-suggested candidate follow-ups",
      "summary": "In Recruit, \"Spark Hire AI suggests a follow-up message that you can enable with a click\" to re-engage candidates who have not answered invites.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-spark-hire"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor changelog",
        "url": "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/spark-hire/#event-4",
      "on": "2026-08-11",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Spark Hire adds role-aligned AI ratings",
      "summary": "AI Video Review now uses the job description, scorecard and questions \"to generate role-specific ratings and takeaways\" for one-way video answers (beta).",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-spark-hire"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor changelog",
        "url": "https://sparkhire.canny.io/changelog"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-5",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/spark-hire/#event-5",
      "on": "2025-08-07",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "AI Video Review scores one-way video interviews",
      "summary": "Spark Hire launched AI Video Review, which \"scores candidates' one-way video interview submissions against several key factors\"; its insights \"are fed back into the ATS.\"",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-spark-hire"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.sparkhire.com/news/ai-video-review/"
      }
    }
  ]
}