Release Notes: Spring 2026

Our spring release gives power users a way to triage Talent Search without losing candidates, gives enterprise teams tighter control over what lands in their ATS, and gives admins a single switch for candidate-facing AI disclosure.

New Features

Skip Candidates in Talent Search

When you run a lot of searches, you end up seeing the same people over and over. Now, every candidate card in Talent Search has a Skip action alongside Unlock. Skipped candidates move to a new Skipped tab within the search. Your skips are per-recruiter and persistent — if you skip someone today, they'll land in the Skipped tab the next time they match one of your searches, even if the query is different. Changed your mind? Open the Skipped tab and click Restore to move them back into your Matches. Nothing is ever deleted from the talent pool.

Learn more: How to search the FactoryFix talent pool

'Reviewed' ATS Sync Trigger

Enterprise teams who wanted AI screening on without flooding their ATS now have a third sync trigger option. Configured with your Account Manager, the Reviewed trigger holds candidates back from your ATS until a recruiter on your team promotes them to the Reviewed stage in FactoryFix — the human-controlled shortlist that sits just after 'Engaged.' Every Reviewed candidate still lands in your ATS with the full rich profile: resume, AI screening assessment, complete conversation transcript, and a link back to FactoryFix. This option sits alongside the existing 'New' and 'Engaged' triggers, which are unchanged.

Learn more: How candidates are synced to my ATS

Candidate AI Disclosure Policy

Admins can now set a company-wide policy for informing candidates that AI-assisted tools are helping review their application. Under Settings > Permissions > AI Recruiting, the new Candidate AI disclosure policy offers three states — Disabled (default, existing behavior), Optional (teams choose per job), or Required (always on account-wide). When enabled, a short disclosure sentence is automatically inserted into the first AI-generated candidate message across outreach and screening, reads as if it's coming from the employer, and never repeats in later messages.

Learn more: Set company-wide permissions for AI recruiting