What Selectus does

abler operates a Brazilian Applicant Tracking System (ATS) SaaS platform that manages end-to-end recruitment and selection workflows. The product covers job posting across 11+ job portals (LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Google for Jobs, Brazilian portals including Empregos.com.br and Trabalha Brasil), candidate sourcing, pipeline management via Kanban, integrated communication (WhatsApp via 'abler Conversas'), behavioral assessment (DISC and BigFive with AI-enhanced DISC.ia), and recruitment analytics across more than 25 dashboards. A proprietary AI assistant named 'ju' performs candidate matching, web/LinkedIn hunting over a 70 million-profile index, and AI-generated job descriptions. The platform is anchored by an 8 million+ candidate database (Banco de Talentos), positioned as the largest of its kind in Brazil, accessed via candidatos.abler.com.br.

The customer base includes more than 2,500 HR professionals, 160+ HR consultancies, and 110,000+ candidates hired cumulatively through the platform. Named customers span mid-market and enterprise: Traktor (technology/agriculture), American Pet (pet care/consumer goods), and Evoq (HR consulting). The company segments primarily target small and medium-sized businesses and HR consultancies in Brazil, with secondary pursuit of tech-startup and retail/industrial buyers with high-volume hiring needs.

Revenue is generated through a two-tier SaaS subscription: the Essencial plan at R$500/month (up to 5 vacancies/month) and the Elite plan with custom multi-year pricing that unlocks unlimited vacancies, AI features, WhatsApp mass messaging, LinkedIn integration, and public API access. Distribution is direct-to-buyer digital via website demo requests, HubSpot forms, and inside-sales consultant outreach, supplemented by a content-marketing engine spanning a blog, free HR certification courses ('abler Ensina'), e-books, infographics, and a candidate-facing job portal. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds or investors, operates as a Brazilian entity headquartered in Curitiba, and serves the Brazilian market primarily with latent international reach via global job portal integrations.

Name

Selectus

Legal name

abler

Website

https://selectus.abler.com.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

abler is a Brazilian ATS SaaS platform providing end-to-end recruitment and selection software to SMBs and HR consultancies, featuring an AI assistant (ju), an 8M+ candidate database, native WhatsApp and LinkedIn integrations, and behavioral assessments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recruitment Software (Applicant Tracking System)

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

Keywords

• Applicant tracking system
• Recruitment software
• AI candidate matching
• Talent acquisition platform
• HR automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Curitiba

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription (Per-Plan Pricing): abler operates on a SaaS subscription model with two main plans: Essencial (Essential) at R$500/month (up to 5 vacancies/month) and Elite (custom/unlimited pricing with unlimited vacancies, users, and tests, plus advanced AI and automation features). Both plans include access to the talent database, ATS features, and dashboards. The Elite plan adds AI features (hunting with AI, matching with AI, mass WhatsApp messaging), LinkedIn integration, and enterprise security controls. This is the primary revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Selectus (operating under the abler brand) provides an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System (ATS) SaaS platform for end-to-end recruitment and selection in Brazil. The platform centralizes job posting across multiple portals, candidate pipeline management via Kanban, AI-driven candidate matching, active sourcing from a proprietary 8M+ resume database (Banco de Talentos), and native WhatsApp communication within the ATS. It is sold through a tiered subscription (Essencial at R$500/month up to 5 vacancies; Elite with unlimited vacancies, users, and AI features at custom pricing) targeting HR departments, consultancies, startups, and mid-market/enterprise companies.

Product overview

abler is a unified ATS (Applicant Tracking System) platform for end-to-end recruitment and selection management. The core product is the abler ATS, around which the product portfolio is organized into tiers (Essencial and Elite plans) and a set of integrated add-on modules. The Elite plan bundles all major AI-powered capabilities: ju (AI assistant) for candidate matching, web hunting, and job description generation; abler Conversas for WhatsApp communication; and LinkedIn integration for job posting and candidate outreach. All plans include the proprietary Banco de Currículos (Talent Bank) with 8M+ professionals, Triagem Inteligente de Currículos, Kanban de Seleção, and Dashboards with 25+ reports. Additional products include DISC and BigFive behavioral assessments with AI-powered DISC.ia analysis, customizable career pages, a candidate-facing job portal (abler vagas), a client access module for consultancies, and an admission/onboarding module. Free resources such as the abler Ensina certification courses and the planner RH & DP calendar are also offered. The platform integrates natively with major Brazilian and international job portals (LinkedIn, Google for Jobs, Glasdoor, Empregos.com.br, Jooble, etc.) and is positioned for HR consultancies, SMEs, startups, and large enterprises.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• abler ATS Platform (Plataforma de Recrutamento e Seleção) The core Applicant Tracking System SaaS subscription product for end-to-end recruitment and selection management. Covers job posting, candidate tracking via Kanban stages, communication, hiring analytics, and integration with job portals and social networks. Sold via two subscription tiers: Essencial (R$500/month, up to 5 vacancies/month with core ATS resources, customized careers page, mass emails, dashboards, and access to the 8M+ talent database) and Elite (custom pricing with unlimited vacancies/users/tests, AI matching, AI hunting on LinkedIn and Web across 70M profiles, AI mass WhatsApp messaging, LinkedIn integration and posting, behavioral assessments, approval workflows, IP restrictions, and public API access). Targets HR departments, consultancies, SMBs, and enterprises in Brazil.
• Testes DISC e BigFive (Behavioral Assessments) Standalone behavioral assessment offering integrated into the ATS for candidate personality evaluation. Provides DISC and BigFive personality tests for candidate evaluation, augmented by DISC.ia — an AI-enhanced analysis layer that identifies candidates whose behavioral profile aligns with the company culture and role requirements. Available as an add-on (DISC assessments are not included in the Essencial plan) and used by HR teams to reduce mis-hire risk and turnover.
• Módulo de Admissão (Onboarding Module) Standalone employee onboarding module that handles post-hire administrative processes following candidate selection through the ATS. Positions as the next step after hiring within the abler recruitment workflow and has been offered with zero implementation cost during promotional periods (e.g., free admission module offer in June 2024). Sold as a complement to the ATS subscription.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% reduction in recruitment time (recruitment process optimization)
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration14 records

AI capability7 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• LinkedIncoreTechnology or Integrationabler integrates directly with LinkedIn as a core part of its product. The integration enables: (1) AI-powered active sourcing across LinkedIn's professional network (70 million professionals accessible via abler's hunting feature); (2) Job posting to LinkedIn Company Pages directly from the ATS; (3) First-approach outreach to candidates via LinkedIn without leaving the abler platform. This is a deep product integration that is a central differentiator of abler's Elite plan.
• Google for JobscoreTechnology or Integrationabler integrates with Google for Jobs to distribute job postings, increasing organic visibility of posted vacancies and driving additional candidate applications to abler-hosted job postings.
• WhatsAppcoreTechnology or Integrationabler embeds WhatsApp communication natively within its ATS platform (abler Conversas), enabling recruiters to communicate with candidates via WhatsApp directly within the recruitment workflow. This is a platform feature rather than a formal partnership, but WhatsApp is a critical technology component of abler's differentiated communication offering.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Recruiterflow: Modern ATS built for staffing agencies and SMBs with multi-channel sourcing and automation. Comparable to abler on the consultancy-segment use case, multi-channel sourcing, and SMB-friendly pricing.
• JobConvo: Brazilian recruitment platform focused on WhatsApp-based candidate engagement and screening. Overlaps with abler on WhatsApp-native recruiting workflows in the Brazilian SMB market.

Direct peers

• Gupy: Brazilian ATS and talent acquisition platform serving similar SMB, enterprise, and consultancy segments. Gupy is the most direct local competitor in the Brazilian recruitment tech market, overlapping heavily with abler on AI matching, multi-portal posting, and ATS workflows.
• Solides: Brazilian HR tech platform offering ATS, behavioral assessments (DISC, BigFive), and people analytics. Directly comparable to abler on assessment-based hiring and end-to-end recruitment workflows targeting Brazilian SMBs and consultancies.
• Vagas.com: Major Brazilian job board and recruitment platform with employer ATS integrations. Comparable to abler on the candidate-sourcing and job-distribution side, with overlapping Brazilian SMB and enterprise customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Workable: Global ATS and sourcing platform with AI-powered candidate matching and a broad SMB-to-enterprise footprint. Directly overlaps with abler on AI matching, multi-job-board posting, and SMB pricing tiers.
• Greenhouse: Global ATS incumbent with structured hiring, integrations marketplace, and enterprise focus. Competes with abler for mid-market and enterprise deals in Brazil and globally; lacks abler's WhatsApp-native localization.
• SmartRecruiters: Enterprise global ATS with CRM, AI matching, and a marketplace of integrations. Overlaps with abler at the enterprise tier on multi-portal posting, AI sourcing, and analytics dashboards.
• LinkedIn Recruiter: LinkedIn's flagship talent sourcing and ATS-integrated solution. Competitor and dependency for abler: abler integrates with LinkedIn for its hunting feature, but LinkedIn Recruiter is also an alternative platform for active sourcing in Brazil.

Others

• Lever: Global ATS and talent relationship management platform combining ATS + CRM for mid-market and enterprise. Comparable to abler on structured hiring workflows and AI-assisted candidate evaluation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ableroficial
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/selectusap
• Instagraminstagram.com/ableroficial

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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