Head-to-head
Hayes Recruiting Hub vs Sense
Recruitment-marketing & conversational engagement
Sense is a recruitment-marketing layer — multi-channel nurture (SMS, email, WhatsApp) with engagement scoring. It sits on top of an existing ATS. Hayes is the ATS itself, with the screening and source-attribution layer built in.
Last fact-checked: August 2026
Where Hayes wins
- Multi-tenant agency model — manage every carrier client from one workspace, with branded subdomains per client.
- Native AI voice screening (real two-way calls, English + Spanish) — not a chatbot.
- Carrier voice cloning — record two minutes and the AI recruiter calls in your own recruiter's voice.
- Near-instant recruiter handoff — the agent pre-alerts your team the moment a driver qualifies, then warm-transfers live.
- Per-city job replication — edit one master template, push to hundreds of city-specific postings with full UTM attribution.
- 100% source attribution from ad click to hire, weighted by 30/90/180-day driver retention — not just hire counts.
- AI bid optimizer built into the ATS rather than bolted on.
- Full ATS — applicants, pipeline, hires, retention — not just messaging.
- Native AI voice (two-way calls) on top of SMS + email.
- Driver PWA + referral engine post-hire (retention-aware ATS).
Where Sense wins
- Deeper multi-step branching sequences with built-in A/B testing (Hayes ships rules-based cadences plus agent-level experiments).
- WhatsApp-native conversational flows.
- Engagement scoring across channels for high-volume staffing.
Feature matrix
| Capability | Hayes Recruiting Hub | Sense |
|---|---|---|
Full ATS (pipeline, hires, retention) | Yes | No |
Native AI voice screening | Yes | Partial |
Trucking compliance + DOT verifications | Yes | No |
Multi-channel sequences (SMS + email) | Yes | Yes |
TCPA consent + global opt-out registry | Yes | Partial |
Branching workflows + A/B testing | Partial | Yes |
WhatsApp channel | No | Yes |
60+ board syndication | Yes | No |
AI bid optimizer | Yes | No |
Bottom line
If you have an ATS already and only need the marketing layer, Sense is great. If you want one platform that does post-to-hire-to-retention for CDL drivers, that's Hayes.
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