The feature directory

The whole desk.
Every considered detail.

Find the part of Sonder that fits the work in front of you. From the first requirement to the next conversation, the joining date and the invoice.

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Browse the 12 workflow areas

Open a row for the details and the boundaries. Compare what each plan includes.

Your day, in focus

Pick up the work that needs you, with a reason and a next step.

6 features
Today & your next moveRoles needing candidates, stale screening and shortlists waiting for a decision, together.

Each job has a next-move card with a reason and a button to continue. The desk is grouped by client, then work state.

Keep in mindA clear reason to act, without losing the client’s context.

Explore the daily desk
The daily radarSpot missed deadlines, joining risk, unanswered offers and overdue money.

Also see quiet clients, roles with nothing sourced and candidates with no contact logged.

Keep in mindRadar items bring work to your attention. They do not contact anyone.

See the radar
Nudges you can tuneChoose when an unanswered offer, quiet client, stuck stage or missing document needs attention.

Tune waiting days for four rules. A rule raises a radar item and at most one bell notification a day.

Keep in mindNudges never send outreach automatically.

Explore daily decisions
A useful daily digestAn email when there is work that needs action.

The digest gathers outstanding work so you can return to the right records.

Keep in mindAt most once a day, and only when there is something to act on.

Explore daily decisions
Ask your own recordsUse suggested questions to find invoices, interviews and candidate decisions.

Open with Ctrl K or ⌘K. Answer cards draw on ledger rows, pipeline dates and invoice amounts.

Keep in mindA suggestion-led record lookup, not an open-ended AI chatbot. Answers follow workspace permissions.

Try Ask Sonder
A desk that feels like yoursGlass, Studio, Editorial or Signal, each in light and dark.

A Warmth slider lets you tune the workspace further. Your choice is saved in your browser.

Keep in mindThese are styles inside the recruiting product; this website uses one consistent light theme.

Explore the four styles

Understand the requirement

Make a clear brief before the search begins.

4 features
Private client intakeA branded link asks for the requirement and the details it leaves open.

Sonder reads the JD and asks about missing budget, notice, work mode and must-haves versus nice-to-haves.

Keep in mindNo client account needed. The link reveals no candidate pool or other clients.

Walk through intake
Review before creating a jobThe parsed brief and client answers arrive in a review queue.

See the role, skills, answers and pool readiness together. Accepting creates the job with those constraints.

Keep in mindAn incoming requirement does not become a live job until you accept it.

See the review step
An editable, structured briefKeep title, skills, experience, location and recruiter instructions together.

Separate must-haves from nice-to-haves. Instructions such as notice under 30 days are shown back with checks.

Keep in mindReview what was read. A parsed brief still benefits from your judgement.

Explore the brief
One role, four working viewsMove from Brief to Source to Review to Deliver with the same context.

Requirements, sourcing, candidate comparison and delivery belong to one job workspace.

Keep in mindFour views organize each job. The nine-stage workflow describes the wider desk.

Explore the workflow

Know the people you already have

The next shortlist may begin with someone you have already met.

7 features
Pool readinessSee strong and possible matches before taking on a requirement.

Check top names and rediscover people from earlier work while planning the role.

Keep in mindA readiness signal helps plan a search; it does not promise availability.

Explore your talent pool
Every candidate’s whole storyKeep screenings, decisions, feedback and joining milestones on one timeline.

The timeline connects existing records: verdicts, stages, offers, keep-warm touches, client feedback and placement billing.

Keep in mindHistory gives context. A previous rejection is not a permanent verdict.

Explore candidate memory
Seen before, with contextSee whether a person is already known to your workspace before saving a CV.

Read when they joined the pool, earlier screened roles, recorded drops and client feedback.

Keep in mindIdentity matching depends on available information. Review the record before proceeding.

See how the pool remembers
Read a CV, then review itRead PDF, DOCX and TXT CVs into editable candidate fields.

Correct parsed fields and validation flags, remove unwanted rows and review before saving. Two-column layouts are supported.

Keep in mindScanned or image-only CV reading is not offered here. Parsing is followed by human review.

Explore candidate review
Contact-based duplicate checksCheck email and phone details before growing the pool.

Phone normalization recognizes common Indian formats. Review helps resolve repeated profiles.

Keep in mindMissing or changed contacts can limit matching. No universal duplicate-free guarantee is implied.

Explore pool controls
Text & meaning-based pool searchFind people by words or by the role you have in mind, then save useful searches.

Search semantically—for example, a payments backend lead—and return to saved searches for another requirement.

Keep in mindSearch covers your own workspace. Sonder Jobs Talent Search is separate.

Try the pool search example
A person, then the right roleFind open roles that may fit someone already in your pool.

Reverse matching starts with the person and checks open requirements.

Keep in mindCompare fit in each role’s context; scores across different jobs are not interchangeable.

Explore reverse matching

Bring the right people into view

Open a route in, then review what arrives.

6 features
Job & talent-pool apply pagesGive candidates a public route to a role or your general pool.

Public links capture consent and send incoming profiles to a review inbox. Links can be revoked.

Keep in mindAn application is a profile to review, not an automatic hiring decision.

Explore sourcing
Your Resdex side panelManual installationKeep JD-based strings, filters and form-fill help beside the search you run.

A Chrome panel assists in the Resdex tab you opened, on your own account. You choose each step.

Keep in mindInstalled manually, not through the Chrome Web Store. No scraping or unattended searching.

See the sourcing walkthrough
Quick Rank & pool radarManual installationReview the page you are reading with job-fit signals and pool hints.

Quick Rank compares visible profiles. Pool radar can flag a possible sighting of someone in your workspace.

Keep in mindA hint is not an identity claim. It reveals no stored contacts or CV text.

Explore the side panel
Send to SonderManual installationSend an open profile from the Chrome panel to your review inbox.

The profile enters the same review flow used for other incoming candidates.

Keep in mindYou trigger the action. The manually installed extension does not approve a profile for you.

Explore candidate intake
Screen a Resdex exportPaid plansReview a downloaded portal export against the job.

Upload the export you chose to download and screen against the role’s requirements.

Keep in mindRequires a paid plan. This is not a background portal connection.

See import boundaries

A shortlist you can explain

Read the score, inspect the evidence and challenge the brief.

12 features
The published fit formula40% must-haves, 30% role match, 20% experience and 10% nice-to-haves.

Skills use a vocabulary; role match compares title, skills and context; experience follows published rules.

Keep in mindDefault weights can change per job. Scores never auto-reject, advance or hide people.

Inspect the formula
Weights for the roleAdjust four weights for a job and let them normalize to 100%.

Save, then re-screen to apply. A skill component with no requirements drops to zero weight and the others rebalance.

Keep in mindChanging the controls alone does not re-screen existing records.

Try the weight controls
Your team’s skill vocabularyMap your clients’ words to the skills they mean.

An alias such as k8s maps to Kubernetes. Core must-haves count double; excluded skills have a visible, capped penalty.

Keep in mindJava is distinct from JavaScript. Aliases improve consistency; they do not prove experience.

Inspect skill matching
The CV behind the scoreOpen supporting CV lines and see missing must-haves as gaps.

Evidence connects matches to text. Upload a full CV to re-score an incomplete profile.

Keep in mindThe leading 40 rows get full evidence by default. Other rows say “evidence pending”, including in client view.

Read the annotated CV
Screening & freshnessScreen one job or up to 20 active jobs, with progress.

Changes to a brief, candidate or rules flag stale scores so you can refresh.

Keep in mindRe-screen before sharing changed results. Saved scores are not assumed to stay current.

Explore screening
Keep & PassShape the review queue while keeping the decision human.

Keep raises a candidate in the working shortlist; Pass moves them down.

Keep in mindA low score never takes this action for you.

Try a shortlist review
Why one candidate ranks above anotherCompare the leading two people, requirement by requirement.

Read the points behind the order and the evidence that could change it.

Keep in mindThe comparison explains ranking for a role; it does not decide who gets the job.

Explore the review tools
Evidence strength, role relevanceRead the shortlist on a two-axis signal map.

See direct relevance, evidence-rich profiles, adjacent promise and profiles needing verification.

Keep in mindThe position explains evidence. It is not another hiring score.

Explore the signal map
Is the brief the problem?Test what changes if one requirement is relaxed.

Re-screen with a relaxed requirement and inspect how the viable matches change.

Keep in mindThese are re-screen comparisons. A scenario does not change the actual job.

Explore brief testing
What to ask on the callTurn unsupported claims and missing must-haves into verification questions.

Get two or three candidate-specific questions and keep a standard question set for the JD.

Keep in mindCurrent question drafting uses templates; it is not presented as generative AI.

Explore verification questions
Correct the evidenceMark “they have it” or “not real” on an evidence row.

Calibration re-scores the record, records the reason and can be undone.

Keep in mindCorrections should reflect evidence you checked; they remain visible.

Explore feedback & calibration
Learning with visible limitsVerdicts nudge per-skill weights within your workspace.

The nudge is capped at ±5 points per candidate, visible on the dashboard and reversed if feedback is cleared.

Keep in mindNo other agency learns from your pool. Adjacent roles on the same platform can still look similar.

See the limits

Keep the client in the conversation

Deliver a shortlist, collect decisions and retain the reasons.

7 features
Private client shortlistsShare an anonymized ranked page with Yes, Maybe and Pass decisions.

The revocable link shows title, years, fit, verdict, strengths and evidence count. Optional notes return to your pipeline.

Keep in mindNames, contacts, recruiter notes, gaps and probe questions stay out of this view.

Switch to the client view
Know when a shortlist was openedSee “not opened” or the latest opening date.

Your own preview is separate from the client’s visit.

Keep in mindAn opening is a viewing signal, not a hiring decision.

Explore delivery
A standing client portalOne passwordless page for a client’s jobs and published shortlists.

Show job status, pipeline counts and the current shortlist. Rotating the link invalidates the old one.

Keep in mindNothing appears until you publish. Clients cannot browse the whole workspace.

Explore the client portal
Branded shortlist exportsDeliver PDF, Excel or an ATS-ready CSV for your own systems.

Shortlist files include names, fit and evidence without contacts. ATS CSV includes contacts for Zoho Recruit, Keka or BambooHR import.

Keep in mindA file differs from an anonymized online link. Check the destination before sharing.

Explore delivery formats
Review before you sendA client-style challenge catches weak points before delivery.

Ghost Chair checks notice versus deadline, CTC versus budget, missing contact/consent, similar profiles and earlier passes.

Keep in mindThe checks cite records. They do not use AI to impersonate a client.

Explore the delivery check
Learn what this client actually acceptsRead verdict rates, response lag, pipeline stalls and accepted or rejected skills.

Patterns link back to the decisions behind them.

Keep in mindPatterns appear after about six client decisions. Sparse history is not a reliable preference.

Explore client memory
Keep client records togetherNormalize familiar client-name variations and resolve split historical records.

Case, punctuation and legal suffixes normalize when resolving accounts. Existing duplicates can be explicitly merged.

Keep in mindAutomatic name normalization and an explicit historical merge are different operations.

Explore workspace memory

From interview to joining

Keep dates, conversations and commitments connected.

7 features
A shared, dated pipelineTrack six default dated stages and add your own rounds.

Internal selection, scheduled interview, L1 cleared, final interview, client approval and onboarding are the defaults. Read time between stages.

Keep in mindNine describes the wider workflow, not the number of default pipeline stages.

Explore the pipeline
A shared contact historyRecord calls and no-answer attempts for the next recruiter.

Contact attempts sit beside the person’s work and feed the “no contact logged” signal.

Keep in mindLogging does not place a call or record its audio.

Explore interview work
Interviews & dates in one viewUse a 14-day agenda for upcoming work.

Interview and joining dates connect with the calendar feed, touchpoints and deadlines.

Keep in mindCalendar subscriptions read recorded dates; they are not two-way scheduling sync.

Explore the agenda
Keep-warm touchpointsFollow the time from offer acceptance to joining with considered tasks.

Cover congratulations, resignation, mid-notice checks, documents, pre-joining and joining confirmation. Copy, mark done or skip.

Keep in mindOpen a WhatsApp draft or add a calendar reminder. No automatic messaging.

Try the keep-warm timeline
A reason behind joining riskSpot a joining that needs attention while there is time to act.

Risk is surfaced with reasons, alongside recorded contact history.

Keep in mindA prompt for a conversation, not a prediction or guarantee of joining.

Explore joining support
A private joining checklistCollect and verify joining documents through a private link.

Track education, identity, bank, photo and experience documents. Files are encrypted before storage.

Keep in mindIdentity downloads are owner-only. Every download is logged.

Read document controls
Your offer, on your letterheadUse your own offer template and agency identity.

Generate letters and assign sequential employee codes that do not change once assigned.

Keep in mindThe offer and employment terms remain your responsibility.

Explore offers & joining

Make the work visible in the numbers

From the agreed fee to the report that explains it.

5 features
Placement fees & guaranteesTrack fees, invoices and guarantee windows for placements.

CTC and joining date determine the fee and guarantee end. Read earned, billed and still-to-bill totals and monthly revenue.

Keep in mindNumbers come from recorded placements, not projected performance.

Explore placement money
GST invoices from a joined placementCreate a tax invoice and track draft, sent, paid or void status.

SAC 9985, 18% tax, IGST or CGST plus SGST. Consecutive numbers are never reused; overdue invoices reach the radar.

Keep in mindPlacement invoicing supports the desk. Accounting books stay in Tally or Zoho.

Explore invoicing
A monthly report for each clientDownload submittals, interviews, offers, placements and fees in one branded PDF.

The report assembles that client’s work for the month from recorded activity.

Keep in mindNames appear only for candidates the client has already met.

Explore client reporting
A view of the whole deskRead funnels, outcomes, timings, workload, revenue and feedback learning.

Break down work by account and job, including average days between stages.

Keep in mindDashboards reflect your team’s records, not benchmarks from other agencies.

Explore reporting
The reason behind the decisionKeep stage calls, drops, offers, client verdicts and data-path changes together.

The append-only ledger allows you to add the “why” later without rewriting the action.

Keep in mindIt records activity inside Sonder, not conversations that were never logged.

Explore the ledger

A place for roles and job seekers

Publish opportunities while keeping candidates in control.

9 features
Publish your active rolesAn owner-controlled setting makes active roles public on Sonder Jobs.

Publishing starts off. Choose named or confidential roles, with stated, custom or hidden salary.

Keep in mindContacts, private notes and the client’s budget are not shown.

Explore publishing
Role pages built for discoveryPublished roles include JobPosting markup and a jobs sitemap.

Open roles have public pages. Closed roles return not found.

Keep in mindStructured data supports discovery; it does not guarantee search-engine placement.

Explore role pages
Applications in the review inboxRead the match score and verified skills alongside each applicant.

Applications enter the recruiting workflow, including clearly labelled auto-applied submissions.

Keep in mindApplying does not auto-advance someone in your pipeline.

Explore applications
A visible first-submission recordRecord when a Sonder Jobs candidate is put forward to a client.

The first undisputed submission holds 90 days. Later agencies get a warning; candidates can void submissions they never agreed to.

Keep in mindOnly Sonder Jobs candidates matched by verified email. Private agency pools are never compared.

Read submission rules
One free job-seeker profileFill from a CV, edit, find matching roles and track applications.

Sign in by email code or Google. Apply, withdraw and see status updates including “not taken forward”. Your edits take priority.

Keep in mindThis profile is separate from an agency’s private candidate records.

Explore the candidate experience
Candidate-controlled auto-applyChoose a 60%, 70% or 80% match bar for new roles.

Auto-apply respects candidate locations and a daily limit. Both sides see the label.

Keep in mindOnly inside Sonder Jobs; never on external job portals.

Explore auto-apply
Prove a skill onceAdd a timed-test badge or a human-reviewed public project beside a skill.

Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, React and AWS tests: 10 questions, 12 minutes. 70% is verified; 90% advanced; test badges last a year.

Keep in mindBadges provide evidence but never change the fit score.

Read how proof works
Visibility is a separate choiceApplying and letting agencies find you are different decisions.

Reconfirm availability, unsubscribe from email alerts, see agency openings/submissions, sign out everywhere or delete your profile.

Keep in mindMonthly “still looking?” emails invite confirmation. Without a recent confirmation, profiles are hidden from agency search.

Explore candidate controls

Works alongside your desk

Clear connections, with a person still in charge.

5 features
Your own Gmail or OutlookOpen drafted outreach in the account you already use.

Compose links prefill the recipient, job-title subject and body in Gmail or Outlook on the web.

Keep in mindNot a mailbox connection or email-history sync. You review and send.

Explore outreach
WhatsApp, with your words firstOpen a prefilled message for one candidate.

Read and edit in your own WhatsApp before sending. Keep-warm touches can prepare the relevant message.

Keep in mindNo connected Business API sender or automated sequences are promised.

Explore keep-warm outreach
Google, Outlook & Apple CalendarSubscribe to interviews, joinings, touchpoints and deadlines through ICS.

The feed updates from recorded dates without OAuth. Regenerating the link revokes the old feed; touches support Add to Google Calendar.

Keep in mindA subscription feed, not two-way calendar editing.

Explore the calendar connection
A workbook from the live deskDownload Summary, Accounts, JDs, Pipeline, Placements and Timeline sheets.

Generate a workbook from live workspace data with real Excel formulas.

Keep in mindNo edit synchronization back from Excel or preserved comments on regeneration.

Explore the master workbook
Your agency’s identityUse agency and client logos on documents and public pages.

Shortlists, monthly reports, offers and invoices use letterhead with a quiet Powered by Sonder footer.

Keep in mindBranding presents your work; example clients are not customer endorsements.

Explore workspace branding

Move your existing desk

Four routes in. A review step before saving.

4 features
Desk tracker → workspacePaid plansReview clients, jobs, owners, dates and starting pipeline counts.

Choose a tab, inspect grouped rows and include or skip before saving. Earlier tracker imports can be recognized on reimport.

Keep in mindPaid plans only. Anonymous counts do not recreate people or CVs; refresh can change status, deadline and owner.

Explore the tracker route
JD files → open jobsPaid plansRead PDF, DOCX and TXT requirements into drafts.

Correct titles and clients before confirming the jobs.

Keep in mindExisting-data import is on paid plans. The trial starts fresh.

Explore the JD route
CV folder → candidate reviewPaid plansSelect a local folder and bring its CVs into review.

Read selected files, including subfolders, then review parsed candidates.

Keep in mindPaid plans only. A locally synced folder can be selected; no background Google Drive connector.

Explore the CV route
Candidate export → mapped fieldsPaid plansMap spreadsheet or CSV columns before reviewing candidates.

Correct mappings, remove unwanted rows and save clean records while retaining flagged ones.

Keep in mindPaid plans only. Requisition-shaped sheets belong in desk-tracker import.

Explore the export route

A workspace you can trust

Keep access, data and decisions visible.

8 features
Team roles & handoffsInvite owners and members, manage access and retain history.

Disabling denies the next request and revokes extension access. Re-enable within available seats, keeping past work.

Keep in mindBilling profile, branding, offer templates, identity downloads and bulk document export are owner-only.

Read access controls
Sign-in & session controlsGoogle or email sign-up, with optional authenticator two-factor protection.

One-time backup codes support recovery. Password changes end other sessions; sign-in/code requests are rate-limited.

Keep in mindSession limits are configurable. No LinkedIn sign-in is promised.

Read sign-in protections
Workspace isolationRecords stay scoped to the agency they belong to.

Cross-workspace requests return not found. Feedback learning stays in that workspace.

Keep in mindThis is a hosted web app. Providers may process data outside India.

Read privacy details
Know where scoring happensMatching and scoring run inside Sonder on our servers.

A local embedding model and vocabulary produce scores. CVs are never sent to an AI provider for scoring; a local TF-IDF fallback is disclosed.

Keep in mindOptional narration is separate, off by default and owner-controlled. It never changes ranking; path changes and cloud calls are logged.

Read the data path
Your data remains exportableDownload a workspace backup even after a trial or plan ends.

Weekly snapshots support recovery. Owner-only bulk document export requests a password again and has a 24-hour cooldown.

Keep in mindDo not assume every backup is encrypted. Joining documents are encrypted before storage.

Read export & backup controls
Deletion that reaches the recordRemove evaluations, notes, pipeline records and documents with a candidate.

Whole-workspace deletion is available on request within 30 days.

Keep in mindJob seekers control their Sonder Jobs profile separately from agency-held data.

Read deletion controls
Try the workflow, then choose a planPlan detailsStart fresh for 14 days, with no card and one seat.

The trial includes 10 Talent Search openings and optional sample data: one job and three candidates. Trial work is kept.

Keep in mindImports need a paid plan. Plus ₹2,999 and Pro ₹4,999 per recruiter/month before tax; Enterprise custom. Choose inside the workspace.

Compare plans & trial limits

Bring the work together

A feature makes sense
when you see it at work.

Follow a role through the product, inspect the scoring, or start with the candidates you already know.

14 days. One seat. A fresh workspace. No credit card required.