Vouch
- 09:14The email drops into the brief.
- 09:15Vouch reads it. Drafts qualifiers, ad, screening, interview plan.
- 09:17You sharpen one must-have, hit save.
- 09:18Live ad. Out to Finn, Arbeidsplassen and The Hub.
◆ Compare · Vouch vs Webcruiter
Vouch vs Webcruiter. Process, or memory.
Webcruiter is built to make a hiring process correct and traceable. Vouch is built to make what you learn along the way reusable. Here's the split, and what it means if your client is the one running Webcruiter.
Last updated · 15 August 2026 · Written by the Vouch team
◆ Two categories, not two contenders
Vouch
The AI-native system that does the screening work and keeps what it learns, so the next role starts ahead of the last one.
Webcruiter
An established Norwegian ATS, common in large organisations and the public sector, built around a documented, compliant process.
- Every searchstarts from what you already know · past applicants come back up
- 98.9%of our last 1000 candidates rate the application experience highly
- One linklive shortlist · you control what's shared, and with whom
- Publicpricing on the site · no sales call to see what it costs
◆ Same moment, different posture
How each one handles the moment.
09:14, A hiring manager sends half a page of email about a role they need filled.
Webcruiter
- 09:14Email lands.
- 09:30Open the system. Start a new requisition.
- 10:00Work through the fields the process requires, in order.
- 10:40Set the approval chain. Wait for the approver.
- TueApproved. Publish.
◆ What we built around
Three things, plainly stated.
- 01
A documented process and a system that remembers aren't the same thing.
You can run a process that is entirely correct, fully logged, defensible to anyone who asks, and still start every new opening from nothing. Vouch keeps the screening evidence, the notes and the interview transcripts on the candidate, so the next role begins with the people you already assessed and the reasons you assessed them that way.
- 02
The candidate side is where reputation is made.
Most applicants to most organisations never hear anything back. In Vouch everyone gets a real answer, written in your voice, and 98.9% of our last 1000 candidates rated the application experience highly. For an employer that cares how it's talked about afterwards, this is the cheapest reputation you will ever buy.
- 03
Compliance should be a surface, not a project.
Retention windows per source, a queue for records approaching their limit, a public page where candidates ask what you hold or ask to be erased, and a privacy notice generated from your own settings. Change a setting and the notice changes with it. It tends to shorten the DPIA conversation rather than start it.
◆ Questions to ask yourself
Short answers, about us.
- 01
Is your process the problem, or is the reading the problem?
If what you need is a defensible, auditable process, that's a solved problem and you may already have it. Vouch is aimed at the other half: 140 applications and one person to read them. We screen against criteria you set, with a verbatim quote behind every verdict, and hand you a shortlist worth your afternoon.
- 02
How much does it matter that support picks up the phone?
Worth saying plainly: being able to call someone who knows the system, and having them sort it out, is a real thing to value, and organisations that have it are right to weigh it. We're a smaller company. What you get instead is direct access, Håkon takes the first calls himself, and a Slack or Teams channel straight to us on Growth and Scale. Different shape, not a replacement for a large support desk.
- 03
What happens to your applicants after the role closes?
In Vouch they stay useful. The next opening surfaces people you already assessed, with the reasoning attached, and retention windows keep that lawful as the records age. Somewhere in your archive right now are people you'd hire today, and nothing is bringing them back to your attention.
- 04
You're an agency, and your client runs Webcruiter. Then what?
Then nothing has to change on their side. You run the search in Vouch, the brief, the screening, the interviews, the notes, and send the shortlist over as one live link you still control after sending. Your client keeps their system. You keep the intelligence, and it's still yours on the next assignment for a different client.
- 05
Do you want to see the price before you talk to anyone?
Vouch publishes its pricing, and you can start free on real roles before speaking to us at all. If your organisation requires a formal procurement round, we can do that too, but you'll know the number before you start it.
◆ Pricing posture
Vouch
Public pricing. Starter free for life with 30 credits. Growth €249/mo, Scale €499/mo. Seats, roles, candidates and storage are unlimited; the only thing metered is AI work. Four things keep that from becoming a worry: AI can be switched off per workspace or per role, unused credits roll over up to 3× your monthly quota, auto top-up takes a monthly ceiling you set, and the price is on the site.
Webcruiter
Webcruiter doesn't publish pricing. It's quoted per organisation and shaped by size and scope, and for public bodies it usually arrives through a procurement round or an existing framework agreement. Worth establishing the first-year total, setup included, early.
◆ What moving actually involves
The honest version of switching.
In a large organisation "what do we lose" is a formal question with a security review attached. Migration is free on Growth and Scale, and you can prove the case on one opening before anyone signs anything.
- Candidates, CVs and attachments come across. On import you record on what basis you hold the list, which sets the retention window and goes into the compliance audit log.
- Full process history from another system doesn't transfer cleanly, and we won't claim otherwise in a procurement document.
- You don't have to replace anything to start. Run one opening in parallel and compare the shortlist and the time it took.
- If a framework agreement or renewal date governs the decision, work backwards from it. Have the evidence ready before the window opens.
◆ When each one fits
Honestly.
Pick Vouch if…
- One or two people carry all the hiring, and the volume of reading is the real constraint.
- You want past applicants to come back up on their own, instead of being archived and forgotten.
- You're an agency working inside your clients' systems, and you want somewhere your own knowledge lives.
Run both if…
This is the common case, not the exception. Large organisations keep the system of record where it is and put Vouch in front of it for scoping, screening and candidate communication. Agencies do the same by necessity: the client's process stays in their system, the search runs in yours.
Pick Webcruiter if…
- You're a public body or a large organisation, and process compliance is the requirement the system exists to meet.
- A named support line you can call, from a vendor your organisation already has an agreement with, is worth a great deal to you.
- Your hiring is steady and well-staffed, and reading the applications isn't the bottleneck.
"Vouch gives us structure and speed without compromising on quality."
Meet the founder
Håkon Høgetveit
Founder · Vouch
Building Vouch, the AI-native ATS for the Nordic recruiter.
Book a chat →↘ Off the record
- Håkon's family has a long tradition with mattress production. Ask about spring vs foam mattresses and he'll talk for an hour straight.
- Studied in Bath, big fan of British alternative rock. Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys are usually on repeat on his headset.
- Hosts his own podcast about founder journeys, Støttehjulet. Maybe you're the next guest?
- Has a million side projects on the go. Currently football coach, marathon runner, pizza baker, and slide producer in his spare time.
Spot something wrong about Webcruiter? Tell us, hakon@vouch.careers. We'd rather be right than rhetorical.