EP337: How AI & Data-Driven Leaderboards Let Recruiters Recruit! - Jordan Shlosberg, Founder, AtlasEP337: How AI & Data-Driven Leaderboards Let Recruiters Recruit! - Jordan Shlosberg, Founder, Atlas
The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast
Host Lysha Holmes talks with Atlas founder Jordan Shlosberg about CRMs built around real recruiter behaviour, AI-driven data and leaderboards. The conversation focuses on cutting admin, protecting IP and using structured information to help recruiters spend more time actually recruiting.
49:21•7 Sept 2026
How Atlas Lets Recruiters Drop the Admin and Get Back to Billing
Episode Overview
- Traditional CRMs often drain recruiter time and energy, turning valuable conversations into lost or unusable data.
- Atlas aims to capture everything recruiters say and do, removing most admin so they can focus on billable conversations.
- Well-structured, AI-ready data can boost both day-to-day business development and long-term company valuation.
- Objective LinkedIn leaderboards highlight the power of consistent, value-led marketing and engagement for recruiters.
- Future features focus on forecasting revenue using real activity data, helping founders plan with more confidence and less guesswork.
“Everyone needs a CRM, but no one likes their CRM.”
Ever wondered what it takes to build tech that actually lets recruiters recruit? This chat between host Lysha Holmes and Atlas founder Jordan Shlosberg pulls back the curtain on a CRM built around real recruiter behaviour, rather than forcing recruiters to bend to clunky systems.
Jordan explains how Atlas grew out of his previous expert network business and a simple but painful truth: "Everyone needs a CRM, but no one likes their CRM." He argues that great recruiters are part salesperson, part psychologist and part consultant – and those kinds of people usually loathe admin. So Atlas set out to capture everything a recruiter "says, hears, reads and writes" and turn those conversations into usable data instead of forgotten notes and graveyard databases.
You’ll hear why traditional CRMs can strangle scale, how AI changes what’s possible when data is structured properly, and why rebuilding old systems for AI is like trying to lift weights on a treadmill – technically possible, but a terrible idea. Jordan talks candidly about failed earlier ventures, what they taught him about solving the *right* problem, and why he refuses to build every feature customers request.
There’s also a fun detour into Atlas’ LinkedIn leaderboards with Hoxo, ranking recruiters and influencers purely on objective engagement metrics, plus a frank discussion about why more women aren’t appearing near the top – and why that’s a content issue, not a quota issue.
If you’re a recruitment founder or consultant who hates admin, worries about IP walking out the door, or wants better forecasting on future fees, this conversation lays out how AI and data-driven leaderboards can free you up to do what you’re actually paid for: talking to people. So, is your tech helping you recruit, or just getting in the way?
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