How Vouch works
The best people come recommended. So Vouch keeps it simple: ask the people you trust, let them reply however they like, and watch good names land tidy and credited on your side. Here is the whole village, one little house at a time.
1Your village, the people you trust
It all starts with your village: a small pool of referrers whose taste in talent you would bet on. Each one is just a name, maybe an email or mobile, a tag or two (frontend, adelaide), and whether they are around right now. No logins. No forms. Nothing for them to fill in.
And because you already know each villager, whatever they send back ties straight to them. That is all attribution really is.
2One little link, paste it anywhere
Open a role and Vouch hands you one little link: vouch/for/senior-sre. Nothing to integrate, no webhooks to wire up. Drop it into an email, a WhatsApp, a group chat, a DM, wherever your people already hang out.
Send someone their own personal link and it quietly carries a tag, so anything they reply gets credited to them without a soul lifting a finger. Share the plain link in a group and it still works a treat: people pop their name on, and Vouch matches it to your pool.
One link, everyone in your village.
Email, chat, SMS, socials. The link does not mind which. Every reply tumbles into the same place, so you are never stitching together five inboxes.
3They reply the way people actually talk
No form, no fields. Your villagers just answer in their own words, usually a few names in one breath:
Three referrals, thirty seconds, zero fields. The kind of message a clunky form would have scared right off.
4The windmill turns. One mess in, clean rows out.
Vouch reads that little ramble and splits it into one tidy row per person. It pairs a name with a LinkedIn link when they clearly belong together, keeps the half-remembered bits, and never makes upa profile or a URL. When someone is hedging (“he’s on LinkedIn somewhere”), it gets a low-confidence flag for you to peek at, never a quiet guess.
5Every name remembers who vouched
Here is the bit we care about most. Every candidate row carries the name of whoever pointed you their way. If two villagers vouch for the same person, Vouch keeps both and tags the later one a duplicate, so nobody loses credit for a good intro.
Every row keeps a thread back to who vouched.
6You take a peek. Nothing leaves without your nod.
Names land in a simple review list. Approve, tweak, or pass on each one. Nothing goes anywhere until you say go. Give a candidate the nod and Vouch can mirror them straight into your Google Sheet, or pop them into your CRM. Both optional, both happily quiet until you set them up.
7Email replies are welcome too
Some folks just hit reply, and that is grand. An emailed answer finds the right role and the right villager on its own, from the address it came from or the tag on the reply. Do not recognise the sender? They wait politely in an Unmatched tray instead of vanishing. And if the same message turns up twice, Vouch only ever logs it once.
Email, chat, smart link, all one pipeline.
8Private by design
Vouch is single-tenant, built for one recruiter and their village. Access is a simple allowlist, candidate details stay yours, and the raw replies are kept around just so you can re-read what someone actually said.
That is the whole loop: ask your village, let them talk, and get back a tidy, credited list of people worth meeting. No forms. Just good people pointing you toward other good people.