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Startup program
A free ATSfor startups.
Honrly is free for qualifying startups. Post your first roles, track every applicant, and read job-specific written and video answers before you book a single call. No credit card, no sales cycle, no seat math.
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Same dayYour first role can go live
Startup program
Honrly is free
for qualifying startups.
Tell us about your startup. A person reads every application, and we reply within one business day to confirm you qualify and help you post your first role.
Who qualifies
- Pre-seed, seed, Series A, or bootstrapped
- Fewer than 50 people on the team
- At least one role you are hiring for now
Not sure you fit? Apply anyway, or write to nirav@honrly.com.
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How it works
Apply today.
Hire this week.
We confirm you qualifyA person reads every application and replies, usually within one business day.
Post your first rolePaste the job description. Honrly drafts the questions. Send one link.
Read the work, then interviewScore, quote, and full answer sit on each applicant. You meet the people you already understand.
Free startup ATS
Everything a first hire needs.
What a free ATS for startups should include
Most free applicant tracking systems give you a job board and a list of names. That is useful, but it leaves a founder doing the hard part alone: figuring out who can actually do the work.
Honrly’s free startup ATS includes job posts, a careers page, an applicant pipeline, job-specific written assessments, short video assessments, shared reviews, and offer letters. It is the same product growing teams use, not a stripped-down tier.
Why startups need signal more than software
Early hires shape the company. A seed-stage team cannot spend forty hours of founder time on first-round calls with people it has not screened. Resumes are increasingly AI-polished, so they say less than they used to.
Honrly sends every applicant the same short set of questions written from your job description. You read how someone thinks before you open the calendar, which is the most valuable thing an applicant tracking system can do for a small team.
Applicant tracking and assessments in one free tool
Startups often stitch together a free ATS, a separate assessment tool, a spreadsheet, and a shared inbox. Every extra tool is another login, another export, and another place for a great candidate to fall through.
With Honrly, the job, the application, the assessment, the score, the quote behind the score, and the offer live on one record. Founders, hiring managers, and early recruiters review from the same page.
Who the Honrly startup program is for
Pre-seed, seed, Series A, and bootstrapped companies with fewer than fifty people that are hiring for at least one role. Founders hiring a first engineer, first designer, first salesperson, or first support lead. Small teams that would rather spend interview hours with people who have already shown the work.
If you are close to the line, apply anyway. We would rather hear from you.
How Honrly compares to other free ATS options
Many free ATS plans cap jobs, cap users, or hold back assessments as a paid add-on. Enterprise tools such as Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, and Workday are excellent for large recruiting teams, but are priced and implemented for them.
Honrly is designed to be useful on the first role: set up in an afternoon, job-specific questions included, and the review built in. When your hiring grows, you keep the same workspace.
What is included free
The whole product.
Job posts and careers page
Publish roles on a branded careers page that candidates can apply to from any device.
Applicant tracking
Every applicant, every stage, every note, on one pipeline your whole team can see.
Written Skill Rank
Questions drafted from your job description, scored against traits for that role, with the quote behind every score.
Video assessments
Short spoken prompts candidates answer on their own time, with a transcript beside the recording.
Your first ten hires decide your next hundred. You should see their work before you meet them.
Why Honrly is free for startups
Yes. Honrly is free for qualifying startups. Apply with the form on this page, and we confirm eligibility, usually within one business day. No credit card is required to apply.