Company profile
Lever AI recruiting features, agents and launches
lever.co · Applicant tracking systems
The short answer
The map puts Lever in applicant tracking systems, from its own headline, "Every stage of hiring has its own hurdles. Lever clears them" [1]. Its core hiring stages are Source, Screen and Interview [2]. Since May 2025 the map dates 6 events for Lever, 4 of them product launches [2]. The latest launch is "Employ launches AI Screening Companion, first for Lever", dated Nov. 13, 2025 [3].
| Lever | |
|---|---|
| Category | Applicant tracking systems [1] |
| Core stages | Source, Screen and Interview [2] |
| Partial stages | Hire and Report [2] |
| AI capabilities sold | AI analytics, Fraud and identity, Screening and ranking, Interview notes, Rediscovery [2] |
| Agent or always-on launches since May 2025 | 1 [2] |
| Scale | Tier 2, established. Owned by Employ Inc., which says its JazzHR, Lever and Jobvite suite is "trusted by more than 23,000 customers". [2] |
| Price on record | Not published; "Lever offers customized pricing based on your company size, hiring volume, feature needs". [2] |
| Site | https://www.lever.co/ |
What Lever sells
“Hiring That Doesn’t Hijack Your Week.” Lever is an applicant tracking system and candidate CRM owned by Employ Inc., sold to mid-market talent teams. Its AI is delivered as Employ “AI Companions”: Talent Fit ranks applicants against job requirements with a written reason, the AI Interview Companion writes interview guides, transcripts and summaries and flags biased language, and the AI Screening Companion launched on Lever first. Lever also syncs LinkedIn Hiring Assistant evaluations and offers fraud signals. [1][2][4]
Its AI. Talent Fit, “Lever’s new AI-powered matching engine”, ranks candidates; the AI Interview Companion and AI Screening Companion are built with IBM watsonx.governance. Lever adds AI ROI insights, a Talent Fit Dashboard and fraud signals. [2]
The AI capabilities it sells today, as the map reads its site: AI analytics, fraud and identity, screening and ranking, interview notes and rediscovery [2].
Where Lever fits in hiring
Core means the product is built on that stage of hiring. Partial means the stage is there but secondary. Not found means the map did not find it on Lever’s own site.
| Stage | Lever | What the stage covers |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Core | Find and attract candidates: sourcing, job ads, career sites, CRM, outreach. |
| Screen | Core | Decide who moves on: resume review, matching, chat screening, AI interviews, assessments. |
| Interview | Core | Run the interviews: scheduling, interview intelligence, notes, scorecards. |
| Hire | Partial | Close and start: offers, background checks, onboarding, compliance, HR records. |
| Report | Partial | Report on hiring and the workforce: recruiting analytics, people analytics, workforce planning. |
Every dated event since May 2025
The map dates 6 events for Lever, newest first [2]. Each links to the page that prints its date.
- July 22, 2026. Partnership. Lever syncs LinkedIn Hiring Assistant evaluations. Through LinkedIn RSC+, “LinkedIn Hiring Assistant [can] evaluate your entire pool of applicants” and the evaluations are “synced and visible within Lever in real-time”. [5]
- June 17, 2026. Partnership. VONQ AI screening comes to Lever and JazzHR. Employ and VONQ “deliver automated early stage candidate screening for recruiters directly within Employ’s applicant tracking systems”, now in JazzHR and Lever. [6]
- Nov. 13, 2025. Employ launches AI Screening Companion, first for Lever. The AI Screening Companion “continuously matches candidates to open roles”, flags top candidates at risk of dropping off and sends feedback to rejected candidates. Always-on, live. [3]
- Oct. 21, 2025. Lever gets a Talent Fit Dashboard and onboarding. Employ added the Talent Fit Dashboard in Lever to show how AI matching affects hiring metrics, onboarding in Lever, and an AI Interview Assistant that “delivers live insights with agentic AI”. Assistive, live. [7]
- July 29, 2025. Lever adds AI interview transcripts and AI ROI insights. Employ’s summer release brought AI Interview Transcripts & Summaries “directly in your Lever ATS” and AI-powered insights in the ROI dashboard. Assistive, live. [8]
- June 26, 2025. Lever ships AI Interview Companion and Talent Fit matching. AI Interview Companion writes interview guides and flags biased language; Talent Fit, “Lever’s new AI-powered matching engine”, ranks candidates against job requirements. Assistive, live. [9]
Scale and ownership
The map puts Lever in scale tier 2, established. Its basis is this: Owned by Employ Inc., which says its JazzHR, Lever and Jobvite suite is “trusted by more than 23,000 customers”. [2]
Lever is owned by Employ Inc. [2].
On the map
Lever is one of 35 companies in applicant tracking systems on the AI hiring software map [2]. The company profiles list every company on the map with a profile.
Comparisons: iCIMS vs Lever, Greenhouse vs Lever, Ashby vs Lever.
What this profile does not cover
Not flagged for hourly, technical or compliance-heavy hiring
The map flags a company for hourly, technical or compliance-heavy hiring only when its own pages say so. Lever's pages did not, as the map read them.
No published price
The map's price note for Lever: Not published; "Lever offers customized pricing based on your company size, hiring volume, feature needs". [2]
Events before May 2025
The map dates events from May 2025 on. Earlier launches and deals are not on this page.
We did not test the product
This profile is built from Lever's own pages and dated announcements, as recorded on the map. We did not use or test the product.
Questions people ask
What does Lever sell?
The map puts Lever in applicant tracking systems [1]. "Hiring That Doesn't Hijack Your Week." Lever is an applicant tracking system and candidate CRM owned by Employ Inc., sold to mid-market talent teams. [2]
Has Lever launched an AI agent?
Yes. The map labels 1 agent or always-on launch from Lever since May 2025 [2]. The latest is "Employ launches AI Screening Companion, first for Lever", dated Nov. 13, 2025 [3].
How big is Lever?
The map puts Lever in scale tier 2, established. Owned by Employ Inc., which says its JazzHR, Lever and Jobvite suite is "trusted by more than 23,000 customers". [2]
Does Lever publish its prices?
No, not in full, as the map records it. Its price note: Not published; "Lever offers customized pricing based on your company size, hiring volume, feature needs". [2]
Which companies are comparable to Lever?
On the map, other companies in applicant tracking systems with profiles include iCIMS, Greenhouse and Ashby. Side-by-side pages: https://www.newsprint.com/compare/icims-vs-lever/, https://www.newsprint.com/compare/greenhouse-vs-lever/, https://www.newsprint.com/compare/ashby-vs-lever/.
Sources
- lever.co. lever.co. Read .
- Lever on the AI hiring software map. Newsprint. Read .
- Employ launches AI Screening Companion, first for Lever. Vendor release (Employ). Read .
- k1.com/lever-joins-employ-to-accelerate-growth. k1.com. Read .
- Lever syncs LinkedIn Hiring Assistant evaluations. Vendor blog. Read .
- VONQ AI screening comes to Lever and JazzHR. Vendor release (Employ). Read .
- ROI dashboards arrive in Jobvite. Vendor release (Employ). Read .
- Jobvite gets automated onboarding in Employ AI release. Vendor release (Employ). Read .
- Lever ships AI Interview Companion and Talent Fit matching. Vendor blog. Read .