In development · 2026

recruit.koiva.tech

From opening to offer.

The recruitment operating system for African employers and agencies. Every application tracked, every candidate vetted, every interview scheduled — in one place, priced in your currency.

Every candidate. One record.
The problem

Hiring runs on an inbox.

Not because teams don't care — because the tools that fix it are priced in dollars per seat, for markets that look nothing like ours.

Volume without signal

One opening draws hundreds of applications. They land in an inbox, get copied into a spreadsheet, and the best candidate is found by luck rather than by process.

Scheduling eats the week

Three panellists, one candidate, six emails to find a time — then someone forgets to send the meeting link. Multiply that by every shortlisted applicant.

No defensible trail

When a donor, a board, or a rejected applicant asks how the decision was made, the answer is scattered across inboxes nobody can reconstruct.

A shortlist you cannot explain is not a shortlist. It is a guess with better handwriting.

Why the trail matters
How it works

Five stages. One record.

Every application, note, rating, and interview lives against the candidate — from the day they apply to the day the offer is signed.

01

Advertise

Post once, publish to your careers page and job boards

02

Collect

CVs and cover letters into one structured pipeline

03

Vet

Checklists, knock-out questions, panel ratings

04

Interview

Candidate picks a slot, meeting link created automatically

05

Offer

Decision recorded with the full trail behind it

Features

Built for how African teams actually hire

Mobile-first for candidates on modest devices and metered data. Local billing. Support in your time zone.

Candidate-selected interviews

Panellists set availability once. Candidates pick a slot in their own timezone. Google Meet or Zoom links generate automatically, with email and SMS reminders — and reschedules that don't restart the thread.

Applications in one pipeline

CVs, cover letters, and structured answers captured against every candidate. Source tracking shows which channel actually delivers hires.

Vetting that leaves a trail

Knock-out questions, screening checklists, panel notes and ratings — so a shortlist can be explained, not just asserted.

Hiring managers included

Managers review, comment, and rate without needing a full seat or a training session. Decisions happen in the system, not in side chats.

An experience worth having

Applicants apply from a phone, track their own status, and never wonder whether the application arrived. Free for candidates, always.

Defensible by design

Every action logged against the requisition. Export the full hiring trail for a board, a donor, or an audit — in minutes, not weeks.

For agencies

Your clients. Your pipeline. Your tool.

Agencies and HR consultancies currently choose between global software priced in dollars, or a local tool owned by an agency they compete with.

Agency mode

Independent by design.

Koiva Recruit is built by a technology company, not a staffing firm. We have no placement business, no competing desk, and no reason to look at your pipeline. Run every client from one workspace, brand the candidate-facing side as your own, and keep placement history where it belongs — with you.

Agency mode includes
Multi-client workspaces
Per-client candidate branding
Client-visible shortlists & feedback
Placement tracking & history
Per-recruiter seat pricing
Who it's for

Built for teams that hire often.

Recruitment firms & consultancies

Hiring continuously across many clients, needing one tool that scales without a per-client licence.

  • Multi-client pipelines
  • Client feedback loops
  • Placement history

High-volume employers

BPOs, retail chains, logistics, hospitality, and security firms hiring year-round at scale.

  • Hundreds of applications per opening
  • Panel interviews at pace
  • Source performance data

NGOs, schools & institutions

Organisations whose hiring must be documented and defensible to donors, boards, or regulators.

  • Structured, auditable process
  • Exportable hiring trail
  • Fair, consistent screening
KenyaUgandaTanzaniaRwandaNigeriaGhanaBuilt to travel across Africa
Design partners

We are choosing five design partners.

Koiva Recruit is being built with recruiters, not for them. Five organisations will run real openings on it before anyone else sees it.

  • Your hiring rounds shape what ships first
  • Founding pricing, locked for three years
  • Direct line to the team building it
  • Free for the full design-partner period
Koiva Recruit — From opening to offer