Candidate Sourcing for the Agentic Age

How Tink's Agentic Sourcing Works

Tink is a sourcing platform that connects employers with qualified, interested candidates through a network of AI career agents and curated candidate databases via the Tink career agent. Instead of posting jobs and waiting, employers submit a role and receive a shortlist of vetted candidates — sourced, engaged, and qualified through conversational AI.

1. Submit Your Job

Share your open role with Tink via our portal or XML. Just tell us what roles you need help with.

2. We Identify Qualifying Criteria

Tink analyzes the role requirements and matches your job to the candidate sources most likely to have the right people.

3. AI Agents Engage Candidates

Partner agents and the Tink Agent reach out to potentially qualified candidates, engaging them in real conversation about the opportunity.

4. Qualifications Verified

Candidates confirm their interest and qualifications are verified by AI — configured to avoid bias, with full transparency and explanation for every data point.

5. Shortlist Delivered

Your shortlist of qualified + interested candidates is delivered to your recruiters for follow-up or your hiring platform's candidate agents to instantly move candidates to the next step.

Why Employers Choose Tink Over Traditional Sourcing

Traditional sourcing means posting jobs and hoping the right people see them, or spending hours querying databases and writing outreach campaigns. Tink eliminates that work entirely. Give us the job, and we deliver a shortlist of qualified, interested candidates — so your team can focus on hiring for culture fit and selling top candidates on the role.

Next-Gen Sourcing — Beyond Job Boards & Social

Job boards were first-generation recruiting technology. Social sourcing was second. Sourcing from AI career agents — where candidates openly express their professional background, career aspirations, and personal job constraints — is the next frontier. Tink is the first platform built for this new era.

Built for Hard-to-Fill Roles — Skilled Frontline & Corporate

Tink is designed to support skilled frontline roles — nurses, diesel mechanics, electricians, installation technicians, physical therapists — as well as harder-to-fill corporate positions. Currently supporting the U.S. market.

A Permission-Based Network — Not 800 Million Scraped Profiles

Tink does not scrape the '800 million online profiles' like other AI sourcing tools. That approach has three problems: it's not permission-based so response rates are low, the data may be inaccurate with no way for candidates to correct it (a potential FCRA violation), and importantly, the most in-demand frontline workers aren't on LinkedIn or GitHub.

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Tink delivers shortlists of qualified + interested candidates, priced between $150 and $350 per job depending on candidate supply and role complexity. No long-term commitments. Pay as you go.

Candidate Shortlist — from $150 per shortlist

Satisfaction guaranteed. Just ask.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything employers need to know about Tink's agentic sourcing platform -- how it works, what makes it different, and how candidates are qualified.

What is Tink?

Tink is a B2B agentic sourcing platform that delivers shortlists of qualified and interested candidates to employers. Rather than posting jobs on boards or scraping online profiles, Tink sources candidates through a permission-based network of AI career agents and curated professional databases. Employers simply submit a job and receive a vetted shortlist -- no querying, outreach campaigns, or guesswork required.

How does agentic sourcing differ from traditional recruiting?

Traditional recruiting relies on a "post and pray" model -- listing jobs on boards, sourcing on LinkedIn, or searching through scraped LinkedIn and GitHub profiles. You either get too many unqualified candidates or waste days or weeks of recruiter time sending mass outreach with low response rates. Agentic sourcing is fundamentally different: Candidates are engaged through AI agents they already use and trust - job copilots, career concierges and generalist agents like ChatGPT and Gemini. Conversations happen in real time, confirming interest and qualifications before any introduction. Sourcing is permission-based, meaning candidates have opted in to share their professional background and preferences. Employers receive only candidates who are both qualified and actively interested in the role.

What ATS platforms does Tink integrate with?

Tink shortlists can be delivered in multiple ways: Directly to the recruiter's email inbox. Through the Tink portal. To recruiter and hiring manager AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. Via agent-to-agent (A2A) handoff to your hiring platform's candidate agents. As leads to your CRM or completed applications submitted directly to your ATS via connectors for platforms like Workday, Oracle, iCIMS, SmartRecruiters, and others. The completed application option requires an ATS connector integration and may have an associated cost.

How does Tink verify candidate qualifications?

Tink uses AI-powered qualification criteria to verify each candidate on the shortlist. The process is designed to be: Bias-free -- Qualification criteria are configured to avoid any potential sources of discrimination. Transparent -- Every qualification point includes a full explanation of how it was assessed. Conversational -- Candidates confirm their qualifications and interest through real dialogue with AI agents, not just resume keyword or vector matching. This ensures employers receive candidates who genuinely match the role requirements.

What types of roles does Tink support?

Tink is designed for three categories of hard-to-fill positions: Skilled frontline roles -- Nurses, diesel mechanics, electricians, installation technicians, physical therapists, and similar occupations. Harder-to-fill corporate roles -- Specialized positions where traditional sourcing methods struggle to find qualified candidates. Quiet hiring -- When online job posts cause your ATS to get hopelessly clogged with AI-applies, unqualified candidates, and candidates who won't return your call, Tink shortlists are a quiet way to source the right candidates without the drama. Tink currently supports the U.S. market only.

How is Tink different from other AI sourcing tools?

Most AI sourcing tools claim access to "800 million online profiles" -- but Tink takes a fundamentally different approach. Permission-based network: Tink sources from candidates who have actively engaged with AI career agents, not scraped public profiles. This means higher response rates and genuine interest. FCRA compliance: Scraping profiles creates data accuracy risks. Candidates can't correct information they don't know is being used, which raises Fair Credit Reporting Act concerns. Tink's conversational approach lets candidates provide and verify their own information. Reaching hidden talent: The most in-demand frontline workers -- nurses, electricians, mechanics -- aren't spending time on LinkedIn or GitHub. Tink's partner network reaches these populations where they actually are.