ERIN, AI Employee Referral Platform
Solutions · Recruiters

Recruiting software for recruiters who hire from employee networks.

ERIN gives recruiters a full pipeline of referral candidates, AI-powered sourcing through employee networks, warm introductions, and ATS-integrated workflows, so you close reqs faster and stop living in cold outreach.

Recruiter workspace
Live
Open reqs
28
in your queue
Referrals in
47
this week
Warm intros
12
active
Offers out
5
this month
Senior RN, PhoenixWarm intro
Software Engineer IIIReferral
Plant Supervisor, OHReferral
AVP, Clinical OpsWarm intro
01The reality of modern recruiting

Too many reqs, too little time, and cold pipelines that won't convert.

Recruiters today are asked to do more with less, more reqs, harder roles, tighter time-to-fill, smaller agency budgets. Employee-powered hiring is the only channel that fixes most of it at once. ERIN is the recruiting software built around that motion.

Cold pipelines that don't convert

Hours of InMail, mass email, and database scraping for a handful of replies. Cold outreach has the lowest conversion in recruiting and the highest recruiter effort.

Too many reqs, not enough time

Recruiters are juggling 20–40+ open reqs at a time. Manual sourcing, scheduling, and admin work crowds out closing.

Hard-to-fill roles that never close

Niche clinical, technical, leadership, or geo-specific reqs sit open for months while traditional channels under-deliver.

Low candidate response

Cold candidates ignore generic outreach. Warm intros from an employee convert at 5× the response of cold InMail.

Pressure on time-to-fill

Hiring managers want hires last week. Time-to-fill is the metric you're measured on, and every channel that adds days hurts.

Agencies eating budget

When in-house channels under-deliver, recruiters get pushed to agencies, and the line item explodes on the same roles.

02Why employee referrals matter to recruiters

Lower effort. Faster closes. Stronger candidates.

Employee referrals and warm intros are the highest-converting candidates a recruiter sees. They show up to interviews, accept offers, and stick around , which is why every modern recruiter's workflow is increasingly built around employee networks first, cold sourcing second.

higher response on warm intros vs. cold InMail
55%
faster time-to-fill on referral hires
45%
lower cost-per-hire vs. agency placements
70%
higher 1-year retention on referred hires
Employee network sourcing
Open req
Employees
Network
Warm intro
Hire
warm response
more candidates
55%
faster fills
03How ERIN Source works for recruiters

Paste a job URL. Find employees who know qualified candidates. Convert.

ERIN Source is the recruiter's day-to-day sourcing workspace. Drop in a job link, see the employees most likely to know matching candidates, and trigger warm introductions or direct outreach with an employee anchor, without rolling out a full referral platform first.

  • Paste any job URL and start sourcing in seconds
  • AI ranks employees most likely to know qualified candidates
  • See named 1st-degree connections inside employee networks
  • Trigger warm introductions from the employee directly
  • Or run direct candidate outreach with an employee anchor
  • No platform-wide rollout, works on individual reqs immediately
04How ERIN Refer feeds your pipeline

A steady stream of referral candidates, wired into your ATS.

ERIN Refer is the employee referral platform that delivers candidates to you, automatically tracked, eligibility-checked, and routed into your ATS as native referral records. You stop chasing referrals. You start closing them.

  • Referral candidates land in your ATS as native referral records
  • Automatic dedupe, eligibility, and bonus tracking
  • AI campaigns push your hot reqs to the right internal networks
  • Mobile, SMS, and QR-code participation for deskless workforces
  • Recruiter views for referral status, owner, and stage
  • Real-time notifications when employees submit candidates
Referral hiring flywheel
Referral lands in your ATS
01
Recruiter reviews + screens
02
Faster interview loop
03
Higher offer-acceptance
04
Stronger retention
05
05Metrics that move with ERIN

The numbers on a recruiter's scorecard, improved.

Reqs filled per recruiter

More hires per recruiter per quarter, without burning out, by replacing cold sourcing with employee-powered candidates.

Time-to-fill

Referral hires close materially faster than external channels, especially on hard-to-fill and senior reqs that drag your average.

Outreach response rate

Warm introductions through employees convert at multiples of cold InMail. Less outreach, more replies, faster closes.

Candidate quality

Higher offer-acceptance, fewer no-shows, and stronger manager satisfaction on referred and employee-network candidates.

Personal pipeline strength

Live referral and source pipelines per req, so you always know what's moving, what's stuck, and where to push.

Agency spend offset

Every referral or employee-network hire is an agency invoice you didn't have to send to finance.

06Built for the way recruiting teams actually work

Pods, regions, multi-policy programs, all in one platform.

Global reqs

Run sourcing and referrals on global reqs, multi-language, multi-country, multi-currency bonuses.

Multiple policies

Different referral policies by population, corporate, hourly, clinical, contract, without juggling tools.

Compliance

Auditable referral records, eligibility logs, and bonus payouts ready for legal and finance review.

Team workflows

Recruiter assignments, owner routing, and shared visibility across pods, regions, and business units.

Sourcer-friendly

Built for sourcers as well as full-cycle recruiters, fast, keyboard-friendly, focused on candidate discovery.

Enterprise security

SOC 2, GDPR, SSO, and role-based permissions out of the box.

07What's in the recruiter toolkit

Everything a modern recruiter needs in one platform.

ATS Integrations

Two-way sync with Workday, iCIMS, Greenhouse, SAP SuccessFactors, Lever, UKG, Bullhorn, Oracle, and 70+ more.

HRIS Integrations

Eligibility, lifecycle, and payroll powered by your HRIS, no manual list management for recruiters.

Employee-Powered Sourcing

Find qualified candidates inside employee networks for any open req.

Warm Introductions

The highest-converting outreach in recruiting, driven from employee networks.

Referral Inbox

A unified view of every referral candidate across your reqs, with status, owner, and stage.

AI Campaigns

AI-launched referral campaigns that surface the right reqs to the right teams automatically.

SMS Referrals

Text-to-refer and SMS nudges that reach the workforce email doesn't.

Mobile Referrals

Mobile-first employee experience, referrals in under 30 seconds.

Bonus Automation

Tiered, automated bonus tracking and payroll handoff so recruiters don't chase payouts.

Recruiter Analytics

Personal pipeline, source-of-hire, time-in-stage, and conversion dashboards.

Direct Outreach

Send direct candidate outreach with an employee anchor for higher conversion.

Eligibility Automation

Policy-aware eligibility rules so referrals stay clean, no manual policing for recruiters.

08Recruiting teams running on ERIN

Real recruiting teams. Real hire numbers.

ResultsCX
ERIN customer

Global recruiting team scaled a referral-led pipeline across a 70k+ employee workforce.

385,530
referrals submitted
8,116
referral hires
73%
employee participation
Vi Living
ERIN customer

Recruiting team rebuilt its sourcing motion around employee-driven hiring.

35%
of hires from referrals
98%
employee adoption
10×
increase in referral volume
ERIN Studio · Free

An AI assistant for recruiters and recruitment marketers.

ERIN Studio is a free AI toolkit for recruiters. Generate outreach, follow-up sequences, and campaign copy in minutes, and get program optimization recommendations grounded in your data.

  • Free AI assistant for recruiters and recruitment marketers
  • Generate outreach, follow-up, and campaign copy in minutes
  • Optimize messaging by role family and audience
  • Bonus benchmarks and referral policy templates on demand
Explore ERIN Studio
09FAQ

Recruiting software for recruiters, answered.

10Resources

Guides for recruiters

The recruiting platform built around employee networks.

ERIN helps recruiters close more reqs, faster, with referral candidates and employee-powered sourcing, and an ATS-integrated workflow that doesn't add work.