Rose's Capabilities
A complete tour of what Rose can do — from interpreting a brief and sourcing real candidates to running outreach, holding conversations, and booking interviews on autopilot.
This page is the complete tour of what Rose can do. If How Rose Works is the overview, this is the deep dive — every capability, in the order Rose uses them across a hire.
Rose is an agent, not a search box. That means she doesn't answer in one shot — she works a brief across many steps, calling on specialised skills as she goes, the same way a recruiter moves between researching companies, shortlisting people, writing outreach, and chasing replies. Here's what's in her toolkit.
Understanding your brief
Rose starts by making sure she actually understands the role — not just the words you typed.
- Natural-language intake. Describe the role however you'd brief a colleague. Rose extracts the role, seniority, location, must-haves, and nice-to-haves.
- Smart clarifying questions. When something's ambiguous, Rose asks focused questions — often with suggested answers you can tap — instead of guessing.
- Profile archetypes. Rose can propose a few candidate "archetypes" for your role (different backgrounds that could all succeed) and let you pick the direction before she searches.
- Your company, baked in. If you've filled out your Knowledge Base, Rose silently carries your company's industry, stage, size, and story into every search — so she never asks you to repeat yourself, and her targeting and outreach reflect who you are.
Sourcing real candidates
Rose searches a database of 800M+ indexed professionals, but the magic is in how she searches.
Discovers the right companies
Rose identifies the companies your ideal candidate works at today — competitors, adjacent players, and alumni networks — and uses them as a high-signal starting point.
Previews the pool before committing
Before running a full search, Rose can take a cheap "preview" — the size of the pool plus the top companies and titles in it — so she can tune the angle without wasting time on dead ends.
Retrieves and judges real profiles
Rose pulls real profiles and runs a fast per-candidate judgement pass against the things you care about, noting evidence and gaps rather than slapping on a pass/fail score.
Packages the results
Matching candidates are grouped into clearly labelled Candidate Packages, each representing a coherent interpretation of your brief.
Relevant experience, not raw totals. Rose recomputes each candidate's years of experience to count only post-graduation, in-function work — excluding internships, student jobs, and time in unrelated roles. The number you see reflects experience that actually counts.
Shaping results in conversation
Because sourcing happens in a chat, you can steer Rose like you would a person:
- Ask her to narrow by location, seniority, or specific companies.
- Tell her what you liked and didn't like about a package, and she'll iterate.
- Ask her to filter a pool — cap how many candidates come from any one company, exclude certain employers, or set a minimum years-of-experience bar.
- Ask her to reveal more from a package's reserve when you need additional volume.
Running outreach
Once you launch, Rose owns the outreach.
- Personalised, multi-touch sequences. Rose writes a three-email sequence tailored to each candidate and to your specific role, responsibilities, and selling points.
- Deliverability by design. The opening and closing of each email are optimised by Rose for inbox placement and aren't editable; the body is yours to shape. Rose actively avoids hype and pressure language that trips spam filters and depresses reply rates.
- Sensible send timing. Emails go out across business hours on a multi-day cadence, not all at once — so outreach feels human and lands well.
- Personalisation tokens. Details like the candidate's first name are filled in automatically for every recipient.
Holding the conversation
This is where Rose goes far beyond a mail-merge. When a candidate replies, Rose reads and reasons about the message:
Is this a real reply?
Rose filters out auto-responders, spam, and manipulation attempts before anything else happens.
What does the candidate mean?
Rose classifies intent — interested, asking questions, not interested, or requesting to opt out — and updates the candidate's pipeline stage accordingly.
Did they share availability?
Rose extracts any dates, times, and time zone from the reply. If a time zone isn't stated, she infers it from the candidate's location.
She responds
Rose drafts a reply in your voice — answering questions and, when appropriate, inviting the candidate to book — then either sends it, queues it for your approval, or steps aside, based on your settings.
Opt-outs are always honoured automatically. If a candidate asks to be removed, Rose stops contacting them and suppresses future outreach — no action needed from you.
Booking the interview
When a candidate is ready, Rose closes the loop:
- Finds mutual availability by matching the candidate's stated times against your connected calendar.
- Respects your rules — buffers between calls, minimum notice, and a daily cap on how many interviews can be booked.
- Books the call — creating the calendar event, attaching a video link, and sending confirmations to both you and the candidate in their own time zone.
Rose can run booking three ways, depending on your interview preferences:
Rose books the first slot where you're both free and confirms it immediately.
Rose offers you a shortlist of the best mutual slots and waits for you to pick before confirming.
Rose notifies you that a candidate is ready and hands off, so you can book on your own terms.
Keeping you informed
Rose works in the background, but she keeps you in the loop:
- The Inbox surfaces only the conversations that need you — everything Rose handled herself stays out of your way. See Inbox.
- Notifications reach you by email and, if connected, in Slack when a candidate is ready for review or booking.
- Live analytics show the full funnel for every sequence, from sourced to booked. See Sequence Analytics.
Working safely
Rose is designed to be powerful and trustworthy:
- Hardened against manipulation. Rose treats candidate messages as untrusted and is protected against attempts to hijack a campaign through email content.
- You stay in control. You review candidates before outreach, choose how much of the conversation Rose runs, and can change that at any time.
- Honest about limits. Rose is AI and can make mistakes — always give profiles and important replies a glance before they go out.
New to Rose? Start with Finding Candidates to run your first search, then head to Sequences to launch outreach.