For agencies and employersCustom development by the Vitae team

If Vitae doesn't do it,
we build it for you.

Agency, employer, or enterprise: every team hires its own way, and Vitae configures to most of it. For the rest, our team builds the exact module, workflow, or app you need, straight into your workspace. Scoped in one call. Priced flat. Shipped in weeks, not quarters.

01Who this is for/ any size, any side of the desk

Built for whoever does the hiring.

From a three-person agency to an enterprise talent function, the offer is the same: tell us how you hire, and we make Vitae fit it.

Recruitment agencies

Fee models, client reporting, compliance desks, and niche workflows, built in.

Embedded recruiters and RPOs

Per-client tooling under your brand or theirs, replicated across engagements.

In-house talent teams

Hiring-manager tools, approval chains, and reports that match how your company actually hires.

Enterprises

Complex requirements, deep integrations, phased rollouts. We assign engineers to larger engagements.

02Why this exists/ the off-the-shelf trap

Your process is your edge. Software keeps flattening it.

Agencies win clients by running differently. Employers win talent the same way: how you vet, how you present, how you approve, how you report. Generic software makes everyone work the same way. So the parts that make you different end up outside the system.

The demo objection

Every ATS demo ends the same way: can it do the thing we do? The honest answer is usually a workaround.

The spreadsheet tax

Your real process lives in spreadsheets, shared docs, and one person's memory. It breaks every time the team grows.

The roadmap graveyard

You ask your vendor for a feature. It goes on an ideas board with 4,000 votes. It never ships.

03What we build/ six kinds of builds

A module, a workflow, or a whole app.

If it is part of how your team finds, hires, places, or bills, we can build it. These are the requests we hear most: examples of shape, not limits.

01Build type

Custom modules

New screens and records for the work you do that nobody else does. A compliance desk for healthcare hiring: right to work, DBS, visa expiry, chased automatically.

02Build type

Portals and external tools

Somewhere to log in for the people outside your team: clients approving shortlists, hiring managers scoring candidates, partners tracking their roles.

03Build type

Deep workflows

The self-serve builder covers triggers and actions. When your process needs real logic (fee splits, headcount approvals, sign-off chains, exceptions), we code it.

04Build type

Integrations

Your HRIS, payroll, invoicing, job boards, assessments, and background checks, connected to Vitae. If it has an API, we can usually reach it.

05Build type

Reports and dashboards

The numbers you actually run on: consultant leaderboards and fee splits, or time to hire, cost per hire, and headcount against plan. In your inbox every Monday.

06Build type

Data work

Old ATS data cleaned, deduped, and moved in. Custom CV parsers. Enrichment passes over the people you already have on file.

04How it works/ four steps

From one call to shipped.

No discovery phase that bills by the week. One call, one flat quote, then we build.

01

Tell us how you work

A 30 minute call with the people who build Vitae. Bring the spreadsheet, the workaround, the thing you wish existed.

02

Get a flat quote

We come back with a fixed price and a delivery date. No day rates, no scope drift, no surprise invoice.

03

We build it in your workspace

It ships inside Vitae as a real part of the platform, not a bolt-on. Larger engagements get named engineers and a phased plan. You test on live work and we adjust.

04

We keep it running

We maintain what we build as part of the platform. Updates do not break it. When your process changes, it changes too.

05Why we can/ and legacy vendors cannot

Why we can promise this and your old vendor cannot.

This is not a professional services arm with a partner network and a rate card. It is how Vitae is built, offered to you.

We build with AI

Our engineers ship with AI doing the heavy lifting. Work that takes a legacy vendor a quarter takes us days. That speed is the whole reason this offer can exist.

One platform underneath

Every Vitae module runs on the same foundation. Your custom build becomes a first-class module on that foundation, not a script taped to an API.

No middlemen

No marketplace apps, no certified consultants, no integration partners. You talk directly to the team that builds the product.

Your request joins our roadmap

Legacy vendors park requests on an ideas board. We put yours in the build queue, and you watch it ship.

Engineers, not account managers

Larger engagements get named engineers who learn your hiring process properly. You are not handed to a partner network or a support queue.

06What it costs/ three ways it goes

Flat quotes. Sometimes free.

Custom software has a reputation for open-ended invoices. We price the opposite way, and the bigger the engagement, the more structure you get.

Helps everyone

We often build it free.

If your request would make Vitae better for every customer, we usually build it into the product at no charge, and you get it first. Most requests land here.

Specific to you

You get a flat quote.

If it is unique to how your business works, you get a fixed price and a delivery date before we start. It ships private to your workspace.

Larger engagements

We assign engineers.

Multi-team rollouts, deep integrations, and enterprise requirements get named engineers, a phased plan, and a schedule you can hold us to.

07Custom development FAQ/ twelve questions

Fair questions.

What agency owners and talent leaders ask before their first scoping call.

New modules and screens, portals for people outside your team, coded workflows, integrations, reports, and data work. If it is part of how your team finds, hires, places, or bills, the answer is usually yes. The scoping call is where we say yes or no honestly.

Tell us how you work. We build the rest.

Book a 30 minute scoping call and bring your messiest workflow. If a custom build is the answer, you leave with a flat quote. If configuration covers it, we show you that instead, free. Larger engagements get engineers assigned.

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