Ashby is the ATS your team works in. MetaDay is the engine that does the hiring — it sources, interviews and shortlists candidates itself, then runs on top of the ATS you already keep.
Ashby is software your team operates. An agency is people you pay 15–25% per hire. MetaDay is the third option — a system that does the hiring itself, then hands results to your team on top of the ATS you keep.
Capability
MetaDay
Ashby
Sources candidates
Automated outreach
AI screening calls
AI interviews & scoring
Offer negotiation
Ranked shortlist delivered
Job description → interview, autonomous
System of record & compliance
Runs on top of your ATS
Full Limited No2026
Platform Overview
What is MetaDay?
MetaDay is an AI hiring execution engine — it doesn't manage your work, it does it. From role to shortlist, executed: it sources candidates, runs first interviews, and hands your team a ranked, ready-to-hire list.
→ AI sources candidates across the open market
→ AI runs first interviews and structured scoring
→ You receive a ready-to-hire shortlist
→ Runs on top of the ATS you already keep
→ Replaces the recruiter admin — not the recruiters
What is Ashby?
Ashby is a modern Applicant Tracking System used by fast-growing companies. It provides candidate tracking, interview stage management, and strong analytics. Ashby organises what's already in your pipeline — but it doesn't source, interview, or actively move candidates.
Key Differences
How They Compare
Manage vs Do
MetaDay
Does the hiring — sources, interviews, scores, and delivers a shortlist. Execution, not a pipeline view.
Ashby
Manages hiring — tracks candidates already in your pipeline. Waits for your team to act at every stage.
Talent Discovery
MetaDay
AI discovery surfaces the best candidates from multiple sources before they apply.
Ashby
No discovery. Ashby tracks applicants — it doesn't find them.
AI Interviews
MetaDay
Runs the first interviews and scores them — no recruiter calendar required.
Ashby
Schedules and scorecards interviews — but every interview is run by your team.
Works Together
MetaDay
Runs on top of the ATS you keep — does the sourcing and interviewing, and hands the results to your team.
Ashby
Stays your system of record and compliance layer — where hires are tracked once MetaDay delivers them.
Platform Guide
When to Choose Each
★ MetaDay
AI Hiring Execution Engine
Choose MetaDay when you want AI to actively run your hiring — sourcing, interviewing and shortlisting — on top of the ATS you already keep. Not a record of what happened; the work itself.
Keep Ashby as-is
Modern ATS · System of record
Stick with Ashby alone when you mainly need a system of record and structured analytics, you hire only a handful of people a year, or you're running confidential executive search. In most cases you keep Ashby and add MetaDay on top.
Keep your ATS. Let MetaDay do the hiring.
Ashby tracks the pipeline. MetaDay fills it — sourcing, interviewing and shortlisting on top.
MetaDay is not an ATS. It's an AI hiring execution engine — it sources, interviews, and shortlists candidates itself. Teams choose it as an alternative to Ashby when they want hiring done, not managed — and it runs on top of the ATS you already keep.
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Do we have to replace Ashby?
TLDRNo — run it on top.
No. Keep Ashby as your system of record. MetaDay runs on top of it — doing the sourcing, interviewing and shortlisting Ashby only tracks, then handing the results to your team. If you'd rather consolidate, MetaDay can also stand alone — but you never have to rip out your ATS to use it.
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Will this replace our recruiters?
TLDRRemoves the work, not the team.
It removes the work — sourcing, screening, scheduling, and the agency invoices — not the people. Your recruiters stop doing admin and go do the human parts: closing candidates, building relationships, protecting culture. Same team, redeployed to the shortlist.
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How fast can we realistically hire?
TLDRDays, not months.
"MetaDay turned a complex hire into a controlled, predictable process." — Richard Deakin, CEO, Cambridge Space Technologies. Lead Hydrogen Engineer hired in 3 days. MetaDay sources and interviews continuously, so a ranked shortlist arrives in days while your ATS keeps the record.
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