01 / Who this is for
Brainis vs Greenhouse
You use Greenhouse today and want to know if Brainis replaces it, works next to it, or isn’t for you. The honest answer is below, including where Greenhouse wins.
Greenhouse is the model for structured hiring. This page is about when hiring is the problem, and when it's a symptom.
02The difference
Greenhouse tracks your hiring. Brainis helps run the company.
In Brainis, Greenhouse's job belongs to Hiring AI. Greenhouse is built on a strong view (structured interviews, scorecards, fair and consistent evaluation), and that view is right. Brainis doesn't beat it on the craft of hiring. What I add is the layer above: whether this role is the right next hire at all, what it costs next to the other things that money could do, and doing the hiring work inside limits you set, with each result checked.
Greenhouse is a applicant tracking system. In Brainis, that job belongs to Hiring AI, working with the rest of Brainis.
03When Greenhouse is enough
Stay on Greenhouse if this is you.
This isn't a setup. If one of these sounds like your company, Greenhouse is the better buy, and we'd rather you hear it here.
Hiring well is the problem you're actually solving
Structured interview kits, scorecards and interviewer training are the difference between hiring well and hiring loudly. Greenhouse has spent a decade on exactly this, and it shows.
You have a recruiting team with a process that works
If recruiters live in the ATS all day and the process works, changing it costs more than it gives back. Greenhouse's reports and integrations are built for exactly that team.
Compliance and consistency matter more than breadth
Consistent evaluation across a hiring panel, with a record you can check, is a real requirement in many companies, and it's what Greenhouse is built for.
You hire steadily and decide headcount elsewhere
If headcount is planned by the board or in a spreadsheet and the ATS just carries it out, a system that models the headcount decision solves a problem you've already solved.
04When you need Brainis
What Brainis adds, and the part that does it.
Each one names the part of Brainis doing the work (Company State, missions, Verify, what I do on my own) and links the page that proves it.
When the real question is whether to hire at all
An ATS starts once the role is approved. I map the options (hire, contract, automate, wait) against where your company stands, before the role is even opened.
See Strategy Engine →When hiring work should run itself, inside your limits
Sourcing, scheduling and follow-up become missions with owners, budgets and what done looks like, carried out by my agents inside the real ATS, with each step checked.
See Brainis MCP →When AI touches candidates and the stakes are real
Anything an agent sends or writes is checked separately against what you asked for before it counts as done, and the AI that did it never checks it alone.
See Verify →When you want the hire graded against what you predicted
The Decision Ledger keeps what I predicted next to what happened, so the next headcount call rests on evidence.
See Memory →
05Side by side
Grouped by what Brainis actually does.
Only things you can check. The Greenhouse column says what Greenhouse does, and never claims a weakness we haven't checked. Where Greenhouse is better, the row says so.
Understand
What I know about your company.
One live picture of the company: goals, customers, money, promises
Greenhouse
Candidates, jobs, interviews, scorecards and hiring reports: the main hiring record, and focused on hiring on purpose.
Brainis
One live picture, where each fact shows where it came from, how fresh it is and how sure I am.
See Company State →
The craft of structured hiring
Greenhouse
Interview kits, scorecards, structured evaluation, interviewer training and hiring reports. This is Greenhouse's craft, and it's better at it than we are.
Greenhouse is better here
Brainis
Hiring AI runs the ATS, interviews and offers as a real product my agents work in.
See Hiring AI →
Decide
How the next move gets chosen.
Options mapped before a path is recommended
Greenhouse
Not what an ATS is for. The role arrives already approved.
Brainis
I map the options first. Change a limit, and my recommendation changes with it.
See Strategy Engine →
Deliver
How the work actually gets done.
How an approved plan becomes work
Greenhouse
Recruiters and hiring managers drive the pipeline; automations handle notifications and stage moves.
Brainis
Each plan you approve becomes missions, with the steps in order, an owner, a budget, and what done looks like.
See Missions →
Where the AI does its work
Greenhouse
Greenhouse has AI help for people working in the ATS. The recruiter still runs the process.
Brainis
Inside real products (the CRM, the hiring system, work management, campaigns), with each step checked.
See Brainis MCP →
What an automation may touch
Greenhouse
Integrations and automations act on Greenhouse records with the access they're given.
Brainis
You can set my limits by action, area, amount, risk, whether it can be undone, time and owner.
See what I do on my own →
Verify
What has to be true before it counts as done.
A separate check before work counts as done
Greenhouse
Not what an ATS is for. A stage moves on when a person moves it.
Brainis
A separate checker holds each piece of work to what you asked for, and can send it back.
See Verify →
Who checks the work
Greenhouse
Not what an ATS is for. A stage moves on when a person moves it.
Brainis
Never the AI that did it. Risky work is checked by a different family of AI models.
See Verify →
Your own standards as checks
Greenhouse
Not what an ATS is for. A stage moves on when a person moves it.
Brainis
Your own rules for done become Verify checks: written once, grouped into libraries, applied area by area.
See Verify →
How finished work reaches you
Greenhouse
Scorecards review the candidate. Reviewing an agent's work against what you asked for is a different thing.
Brainis
As a before-and-after you can review: old next to new, comments in line, Verify's notes on the exact lines.
See Missions →
Learn
What the result changes.
What happens to a decision after it is made
Greenhouse
Hiring reports show the funnel's history. Recording a prediction and grading it against the result isn't part of the product.
Brainis
I record what I expected and what really happened in the Decision Ledger, and both shape my next recommendation.
See Memory →
Whether the forecast was any good
Greenhouse
Hiring reports show the funnel's history. Recording a prediction and grading it against the result isn't part of the product.
Brainis
Each prediction comes with a range and the model version that made it, and stays unchanged when the real result comes in.
See Memory →
06Using both, and moving over
Running both is normal, not a failure.
- How deep the connection goes today
- There's no Greenhouse connector today. What connects now: messaging, calendar and email, data warehouses and AI providers.See Integrations →
- What you can bring over
- Candidates and contacts come across by CSV, matched field by field, through the product's candidate importer. Interview kits, scorecard templates and structured-interview setup don't move.
- What stays in Greenhouse
- If Greenhouse runs structured hiring well, the honest advice is to keep it and let Brainis handle the decisions above it.
- Leaving anytime
- Your data stays yours. Export it anytime from admin, and running out of AI credits never locks your data or your non-AI work.See Pricing →
07Pricing
What each of us charges for.
Greenhouse is priced by quote, usually by company size on yearly contracts, so you'll need a conversation to get a number. Brainis publishes its prices: each plan sets a number of seats and how much I may do on my own, AI credits pay for the AI work, and you see each cost before I run it. Seats beyond the plan's number cost extra, per seat. Published prices are easier to compare, but this isn't the same product: if you need the best hiring craft, price isn't what the decision turns on.
Brainis is free to start. Paid plans start at $29 a month. See Pricing →
Start with an idea or the business you run.
Keep Greenhouse running while you find out if Brainis is worth it.
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