Free Tools

A req that lands at 9am shouldn't cost you the afternoon.

Free, open-source tools for technical recruiters across sourcing, automation, workflow and team enablement. They install in minutes, and one of them, Requisition Intelligence, has cut my own time from job description to outreach by up to 90%. No sign-up, nothing to buy, and more landing over time.

Built by a working technical recruiter Used in real searches MIT licence Your data stays yours
01Tools

Take them. Use them today.

Each one is a plain-English instruction file for an AI assistant. Install it once, then work in normal language. No code and no technical setup.

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Requisition Intelligence

Paste a job description, get a full sourcing toolkit back.

The problem it solves

The gap between the JD landing in your inbox and you actually sourcing is hours of reading, decoding requirements you half understand, and second-guessing who is really a fit. This closes it in one paste.

What one paste gives you

  • A plain-English requisition breakdown, plus the hidden requirements and red flags
  • Ready-to-send clarification questions for the hiring manager
  • A realistic, sourceable candidate persona, not a unicorn
  • LinkedIn Boolean strings, a primary and a broadened variant
  • Free sourcing channels beyond LinkedIn you can open in a browser
  • A character-counted InMail and follow-up, and a LinkedIn post
  • ATS screening questions tuned to gate to roughly the top 15%

Then, when you need it

Paste a profile for a strict fit read with a clear pursue, caution or pass verdict. Or ask for interview questions written so a technically literate recruiter, not an engineer, can judge the answers.

No sign-up MIT licence Sharpened over 5 versions in real searches
Get the toolkit ↗ How to install Runs in Google Gemini or Claude
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Candidate Shortlister

Point it at a folder of CVs and a JD, get back a ranked shortlist you can send.

The problem it solves

You pull a batch of profiles and then read every one against the JD to decide who to put forward. It is slow, it is inconsistent, and your reasoning, which requirements matter and which can flex, rarely reaches the hiring manager.

What you get

  • A shareable shortlist message for Slack, Teams or email, with a short rationale per candidate
  • A scored table of everyone considered, as an audit trail
  • An honest "nobody clears the bar" verdict when that is the truth, no forced shortlists

What it will not do

It shortlists only and never contacts candidates. It reads locally and uploads nothing. It is read-only on your source folder and moves no files.

No sign-up Runs on your machine No candidate data stored MIT licence
Get the tool ↗ How to install Works in Claude Desktop, Cowork or Claude Code
02Maker

Why these are free, and why they are any good.

I build these because I do this job. I am a technical recruiter, and every tool here started as something I needed on a live search, then got sharpened over real reqs until it earned its place in my own workflow.

They are open source because the fastest way to make a tool better is to put it in front of other recruiters and let them break it. Use them, fork them, tell me what is wrong with them. That is the deal.

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04Next

These free tools solve one req at a time. Why your time-to-hire actually moves, and what to do about it, is the harder question I am building for next, under Visari.

See what I am building at Visari ↗