The candidates who never make it into your system are rarely the ones who applied. They're the ones who arrived as an email.
A colleague forwards you an introduction: "you should talk to Marius, he's leaving Bekk in the autumn." A former client sends a CV with two lines of context. Someone you met at a conference follows up. Every one of those is worth more than an average inbound application, and every one stops at your inbox, because adding them properly means opening the ATS, clicking Add candidate, typing the name, uploading the file, and pasting the context into a note.
Nobody does that at 17:40 on a Thursday. So the good ones stay in the mailbox, and six months later you remember there was someone, but not who.
The address
Every Vouch workspace now has its own intake address. Forward the email to it, or CC it when you reply, and the candidate ends up in your talent pool.
Vouch reads the message and its attachments and works out who it's about, which is not always the sender. When your colleague forwards you Marius's CV, the candidate is Marius. The CV comes in as a file on the profile, and the context in the message body is kept, because "he's leaving Bekk in the autumn" is exactly the sort of thing that's useless in an inbox and valuable on a record.
If the person is already in your pool, the email attaches to them rather than creating a second copy.
The interaction is forwarding an email. There is no second step.
The careful parts
An intake that guesses badly is worse than not having one, so when the identity is ambiguous Vouch would rather leave you a duplicate to merge than write one person's details onto another person's record.
Only people in your workspace can send to the address, and every message stays visible with what happened to it, including the ones that were skipped or failed.
What it's for
Three habits tend to form within a week. You forward the referral in the same second you read it, instead of writing a note-to-self. You forward the client's introduction, because that takes one second where "add them properly later" takes fifteen minutes and never happens. And you finally empty the folder of people you meant to remember.
Once someone's in the pool they turn up in candidate search, get evaluated against the roles you're working on, and the note your colleague wrote counts as evidence the same way an interview does. Vouch's search reads your history, and this is a cheap way of making that history bigger.
The intake address is under Inbox → Sourcing, along with everything that's come through it. The rest of this release is on our changelog.