Kestrel

Run every part of people ops with Kestrel

Kestrel holds everything your people team needs to source, hire, onboard, and look after employees — one system, built by a group that has shipped HR software since 2013.

Since 2013, 23,700 growing companies have trusted Kestrel to find, hire, and look after the people they count on.

Northbeam

Halden & Roe

Vellum Air

Carrick Labs

Bright Harbour

Okapi Systems

23,700Companies

92Countries

1.38 millionHires

Source, hire, and look after people in one system

Reach the candidates who actually fit

Kestrel pushes each role out to 240+ job boards and ranks applicants against 380m profiles, alongside a careers site and referral portal your team can edit without a developer.

Put hiring and onboarding on rails

Custom workflows, self-scheduling, e-signed offer letters, and structured scorecards mean a new hire moves from applied to first day without anyone chasing a spreadsheet.

Run the whole organisation

Employee records update themselves, org charts redraw as people move, and time-off runs on the accrual rules you actually use — not the ones a template assumed.

Prove compliance without the paperwork

Consent capture, retention windows, audit history, and anonymised reporting are already wired in for GDPR, EEO, OFCCP, and CCPA obligations.

Hand payroll a clean file

Export pay-ready reports or sync straight into the major payroll providers, so salary changes, new starters, and leavers land once and stay consistent.

Performance reviews

Coming soon

Set review cycles, track goals against real outcomes, and let managers write feedback in the same place the employee record already lives.

Reporting that answers questions

Time to hire, offer acceptance, leave liability, and headcount cost come as scheduled reports — or as a custom cut you build once and share with finance.

Assisted by Kestrel Copilot

Copilot drafts job descriptions, interview kits, and candidate emails in your own tone of voice, then shortlists profiles it can explain — every suggestion is traceable.

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Find and attract the right people

Kestrel Recruiting

Post once, appear everywhere

Publish a role to 240+ job sites in 31 languages in a single step. Agency recruiters get their own access, and every applicant lands in the same pipeline for review.

Careers pages that convert

Rebuild your careers site with the drag-and-drop editor, or ship something bespoke on the API — both keep the apply flow to two screens on a phone.

Instant sourcing with Copilot

Get a shortlist of passive candidates the moment a role opens, launch a paid social campaign from the same screen, and search 380+ million profiles by skill.

Make your team your best recruiter

The referral portal tracks rewards, opens to every employee without a seat, and shows each referrer exactly where their person has got to.

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Kestrel Recruiting

Evaluate candidates together

The pipeline board is readable on day one — job status, candidate stage, and every note sit three clicks away, so hiring managers stop asking for status updates.

Fair, consistent scoring

Anonymised screening, structured scorecards filled in during the interview, and clear next actions keep evaluation comparable across panels and locations.

Scheduling on autopilot

Self-scheduling links, calendar sync, and automated status emails cut the back-and-forth. Candidates pick a slot; interviewers see it appear in their own calendar.

Texting, video, and assessments built in

Message candidates by SMS, run one-way video interviews, and send cognitive or work-sample assessments without buying three more tools.

Hiring plans in one place

Plan headcount, manage requisitions, track budget, and keep finance in the loop at each approval step with workflows you set once per department.

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How would you describe your background?

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Reporting and analytics that hold up

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Track, share, and improve every people process against live data. Standard reports — time to hire, leave balances, diversity surveys — arrive filtered and scheduled, and anything unusual can be built as a custom cut.

Pull a full view of your hiring plan to see salary budgeted against salary offered, days spent filling each requisition, and how that reads department by department.

Onboarding that runs itself

Kestrel People

Offer letters your legal team signed off once

Upload branded templates with placeholders, fill the specifics in a minute, and route the offer through a chain of approvers before it ever reaches the candidate.

A joining portal for every new hire

Personal welcome pages, e-signature documents, and pre- and post-start task lists, all tracked on one dashboard so nobody starts a Monday without a laptop.

Employee records from day one

New starters complete their own profile during onboarding, and it becomes the record the rest of Kestrel reads from — no second round of data entry.

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Welcome aboard, Priya!

Employee information

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Look after employees, safely

Kestrel People

Organise employee information

Use profile templates to collect exactly what a location or employment type requires. Employees keep their own record current, which is how it stays accurate.

Company file storage

Handbooks, policies, and shared agreements live in one place everyone can reach — and can be e-signed there too, with a record of who signed what.

Org charts that draw themselves

As people join or move, the chart redraws and links out to each profile, with every change tracked. New starters get a map of the company on day one.

Time-off tracking and approvals

Employees request leave in two taps, managers approve or decline from their inbox, and the shared calendar shows who is away before anyone books a workshop.

Policies and accrual rules that match reality

Set different leave policies per country or contract type, assign them to the right people, and let employees preview a future balance with the accrual calculator.

Coming to Kestrel this year

Performance reviews

Kestrel People

Give people a clear view of their own career timeline. Track progress one-to-one, run review cycles on the cadence you choose, and let automated reminders do the nagging so managers do the thinking.

Time and attendance

Kestrel People

Let employees log hours from wherever they work, generate timesheets a manager can approve or correct in one pass, then send attendance straight to payroll or read it alongside the rest of your reports.

Finish your HR stack with 240+ integrations

Connect Kestrel to the tools you already run — payroll, email, calendars, job boards, internal messaging, and the rest of the stack your team lives in.

Messaging & calendars

Ripple

Beacon Mail

Cobalt

Payroll

Payrail

Ledgerline

Ovation Pay

Performance management

Trellis

Compass Loop

Cadence

Learning management

Atlas Learn

Skillwell

Studio Nine

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