Curately is an AI recruiting platform that integrates with Bullhorn to help recruiters find, engage, and convert talent more efficiently. Recruiters can search for candidates using natural language, describing the skills, experience, qualifications, and location they need instead of building complex Boolean strings.
Bullhorn remains your system of record, while Curately adds AI-powered sourcing and candidate engagement capabilities to your existing recruiting workflow.
A Smarter Way to Search Your Bullhorn Database
When a client sends an urgent requisition for a specialized role, recruiters need to identify qualified candidates quickly. The right person may already be in the database: a previous applicant, a candidate considered for a similar role, or someone placed successfully in the past.
Curately makes it easier to discover relevant talent by letting recruiters describe their requirements in plain English. Its AI-powered search helps surface candidates based on the context of a role, including skills, qualifications, and experience.
Every Bullhorn environment reflects the team's unique processes, custom fields, and workflows. Curately works alongside these established systems, helping recruiters bring a more intuitive search experience to their existing recruiting operations.
The goal is simple: help teams get more value from their candidate database while expanding their sourcing capabilities.
What Curately Adds to Bullhorn
Curately connects three essential stages of recruiting: Find, Engage, and Convert.
Find: AI-powered candidate discovery
Recruiters can describe the candidate they need in natural language, including role, skills, licenses, location, and other relevant qualifications.
For example: “Find me a licensed Pediatric Occupational Therapist in Georgia with IEP and sensory-motor integration experience.”
Curately helps identify relevant candidates from available database records and provides access to a network of more than 200 million sourced profiles, expanding sourcing opportunities beyond an organization's existing talent pool.
Engage: Build candidate relationships
Timely, consistent communication helps maintain candidate interest throughout the hiring process. Curately helps recruiters initiate and manage candidate conversations, supporting outreach and follow-up across active requisitions.
Convert: Move qualified candidates forward
AI-powered screening, qualification, and scheduling capabilities help recruiters progress candidates toward interviews and placements. This supports a more organized recruiting process and allows teams to focus on meaningful candidate interactions.
Together, these capabilities help recruiters move from candidate discovery to engagement and conversion within a connected workflow.
How iDEAL Hire Put Curately to Work
iDEAL Hire is a staffing firm supporting healthcare, education, direct hire, and internal recruiting. As the organization expanded across multiple business lines, it sought a consistent approach to sourcing both active and passive candidates.
The team also wanted to improve its return on sourcing investments and streamline the process of moving candidate information into Bullhorn.
Because Bullhorn was central to its recruiting operations, iDEAL Hire chose to retain its existing ATS and integrate Curately into its technology stack. This allowed recruiters to enhance their sourcing process while continuing to use familiar workflows.
One of the most significant changes was the candidate search experience. Recruiters could describe the person they needed instead of constructing Boolean strings for every search.
Austin Fowler, Director of Marketing at iDEAL Hire, said:
“The platform’s ease of use stood out immediately; it is intuitive enough that our recruiters adopted it right away into their daily workflows without a steep learning curve.”
A Real-World Example: Finding a Specialized Healthcare Candidate
A Georgia school district needed a Pediatric Occupational Therapist with a master's degree in Occupational Therapy, an active Georgia license, and practical experience with sensory-motor integration and IEP-related support.
Using Curately's AI Sourcing, the iDEAL Hire team identified, engaged, and placed a candidate who met the role's requirements.
According to the iDEAL Hire case study, within six months:
- Curately became the first platform recruiters turned to when filling a new role.
- 16 recruiters adopted the platform across three business lines.
- More than 20,000 candidates were sourced.
Heather Jennings, President and Partner at iDEAL Hire, said:
“We partnered with Curately to scale our contingent hiring. What we didn’t anticipate was its impact on our internal hiring. It brought clarity to the skillsets we need and helped us identify talent we may have otherwise missed, strengthening our team at iDEAL Hire.”
Building on this adoption, iDEAL Hire is preparing to introduce Voice AI for automated candidate screening.
Practical Takeaways for Bullhorn Teams
- Unlock more value from your existing database. Use AI-powered search to rediscover previous applicants, qualified candidates, and talent from earlier placements.
- Make candidate search more intuitive. Natural-language search helps recruiters describe their requirements directly, making candidate discovery accessible across teams with different levels of Boolean expertise.
- Expand your sourcing reach. Access an external profile network when you want to explore candidates beyond your existing Bullhorn database.
- Build on your existing workflows. Enhance your sourcing capabilities while retaining the custom fields, statuses, and processes your team already uses.
- Connect sourcing with candidate engagement. Bring discovery, outreach, screening, and scheduling into a more connected recruiting workflow.
Curately and Bullhorn: Working Together
Bullhorn continues to serve as your system of record for candidate information, notes, and placements. Curately complements that foundation with AI-powered sourcing, candidate engagement, and recruiting automation capabilities.
The combination helps staffing teams build on their existing technology investment while introducing a more intuitive way to discover and progress talent.
The best way to evaluate the fit is to explore Curately using real requisitions from your team. This lets you see how its search capabilities perform against your specific roles and recruiting requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does natural-language search replace Boolean search in Bullhorn?
Curately gives recruiters an alternative to constructing Boolean strings for candidate discovery. They can describe the candidate they need in plain English and use AI-powered search to identify relevant matches. Teams can continue using their existing Bullhorn search workflows where appropriate.
Do I need to replace Bullhorn to use Curately?
No. Curately integrates with Bullhorn, allowing teams to enhance their sourcing and recruiting workflows while retaining Bullhorn as their system of record. iDEAL Hire adopted this approach to build on its existing technology investment.
Where does Curately get its candidate data?
Curately's candidate sourcing includes data from licensed third-party providers and publicly available professional information. Its external profile network extends sourcing opportunities beyond the candidates already present in an organization's ATS. For details about data handling, permissions, and integration-specific data flows, consult Curately's current documentation and applicable agreements.
Does Bullhorn offer its own AI capabilities?
Yes. Bullhorn offers AI-powered search, matching, and automation capabilities. Curately provides an additional option for teams looking to incorporate natural-language candidate search and access external professional profiles within their recruiting workflows. Teams can evaluate both platforms against their specific sourcing and operational needs.
How can I evaluate Curately for my team?
Book a demo and request searches using real, open requisitions from your team. You can explore how Curately identifies candidates, supports engagement, and fits into your existing Bullhorn workflow.
