Hi! It’s Rich here,

you’ll have to forgive me, this is a rare one-off message to the studio owners (and soon-to-launch studios) that follow BP&O. I wanted to introduce you to something that I’ve been working on over the last year, something that I think you might find useful.

My co-founder Christian and I found a gap in the market for a new Applicant Tracking System (ATS), software that helps studios post jobs and collaboratively manage applications. We call this Wittl, and we’ve designed it for small to medium-sized studios, those who, through great work, are finding that one job post is getting a lot applications.

Our research indicated that, while studios are growing at the rate of many other businesses already using ATS, the pipeline of job posting, sifting through applications and setting interviews has remained a very manual process.

This creates a lot of inbound emails, with someone having to sift through, select and forward potential candidates to others involved in the hiring process, and then setting up long threads discussing these. Potential hires are then e-mailed and further chains created. When applicants become manifold, a decentralised system creates points of failure, and the perfect hire can slip through the cracks. You also have a lot of people left hanging, not knowing were they stand.

Our app brings all applicants together in one place; affords studios a customisable space and pipeline where work can be collaboratively discussed and reviewed; and the applicant replied to. This can then be done for multiple jobs, and published on a hosted jobs board.

Wittl has been designed to be light, beautiful and affordable. No enterprise-level pricing. We’re currently running seven day free trials, and we would love to invite you to jump in and see for yourself.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Oh, and one last thing. If you’re a designer and think your studio might benefit from Wittl, or able to post a link on relevant forums and/or Slack channels, we’d be deeply grateful.