Hire your first 50 people.
Without hiring a recruiter.
ATS and CRM built for startups and small teams. AI matching, visual pipelines, and zero setup complexity. Be live in 24 hours — not 24 weeks.
Spreadsheets, founder intuition, and prayer.
Early-stage hiring is where startups lose the most time and make the most expensive mistakes. The tools built for enterprise won't help you — and spreadsheets break the moment you have three roles open at once.
Live in 24 hours. No IT. No consultants.
Sign up. Import your data. Start hiring. That's the entire setup process. We handle migration from spreadsheets or your old system — no project plan, no six-week implementation, no consultants billing by the day.
See all start fast features"We were up and running before lunch on the first day. I expected weeks of back-and-forth. It just worked."
Simple enough for a 5-person team.
Powerful enough for when you're 50.
No training required
Your team opens Yena and starts hiring — not because they watched a 40-minute onboarding video, but because the interface is obvious. Non-recruiters get it immediately.
AI when you need it
Smart candidate matching, automated follow-ups, GDPR compliance, profile enrichment — all available when you're ready for them. Never forced on you before you are.
Your process, not ours
Rename stages. Add custom fields. Set your own scoring criteria. Yena shapes around how your team actually works — not how a product manager thought you should.
Enterprise tools take 16 weeks.
You'll be live this afternoon.
No consultants. No implementation project. Sign up, import your data, and start moving candidates through a pipeline. We stick around to make sure it works.
"We evaluated three ATS tools. Two required multi-week onboarding calls and annual contracts. Yena was live before the other vendors had sent their second proposal email."
Secure. Proven. Ready for your compliance team.
Frequently asked questions
Plans start at €49/user/month. Most early-stage startups run on one or two seats — that's less than €100/month total. There's no per-role fee, no implementation charge, and no long-term contract. You can cancel any time. Free trial available with no credit card required.
Greenhouse is built for enterprise TA teams processing hundreds of inbound applications with complex approval workflows. If you're a 20-person startup making 5-10 hires a year, most of Greenhouse's functionality doesn't apply to you — and you'll pay for it anyway. Yena is built for proactive hiring: sourcing candidates, working a small pipeline, and making fast decisions. Setup in 24 hours, not 16 weeks.
No. Yena is designed for founders and non-recruiters doing their own hiring. The AI match explains why a candidate is a good fit in plain language. Pipelines are visual and obvious. You don't need to know recruiting jargon or best practices — the system guides you through the process.
SOC 2 Type I certified, EU-hosted infrastructure. Yena handles candidate consent management, configurable retention policies, right-to-erasure workflows, and full audit trails automatically. You don't need to build a GDPR compliance layer on top — it's baked in.
You won't outgrow Yena at 50 people. We work with companies up to a few hundred employees hiring dozens of roles a year. The platform scales: add users, roles, custom pipelines, and integrations as you grow. If you ever reach the scale where enterprise VMS and 50-seat TA teams make sense, we'll tell you honestly — but that's a very different problem than the one you have today.
LinkedIn (Chrome extension for one-click profile capture), major job boards for posting, calendar integrations for interview scheduling, and Zapier for custom workflows. GDPR-compliant email sequences built in. We're adding integrations continuously — if something specific matters to your stack, ask us.
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