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With all the excitement around gathering with fellow customers in real life at Ashby One, it’s the perfect time to bring that same energy to your local ACE meetup. ⚡️ Ashby Customer Experts (ACE) is our operator-led community built for learning from each other in the real world. It’s where Ashby customers come together to share what’s actually working, what they’re testing, and where they’re getting stuck. We’ve got a lot happening this quarter 🤩 🚀 New chapters launching in: Atlanta, led by Jade Michel Austin ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e7cqMRaK Chicago, led by Jessica Dickerson ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eMKy484C 🌱 New Chapter Lead, Emily Paik, in Boston ➡️ https://luma.com/BOSACEQ2 And several upcoming meetups across existing chapters, many of which will dive into the features announced at Ashby One 👀 Seattle, led by Mariana "Maia" Miller ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e8Uu8Dae Denver, led by Lizzie Jacobson ➡️ https://luma.com/denACEq2 Toronto, led by Yeniffer Pang-Chung ➡️ https://luma.com/torACEq2 NYC, SF, Austin, LA, links coming soon, check back for updates! And look out, San Diego you’re up next this summer 😎 Want to see an ACE in your city? Drop a comment below.

Last night we closed out April gathering with Talent Leaders in New York! Engaging conversations around hiring unfolded over a multi-course meal at Semma, where guests came together to celebrate the time-honored rituals and flavors of Southern Indian cuisine. Thank you to everyone who joined us! Michael Stopps Alex Brice Whittemore Hall Natasha F. Caitlin Toner Lorraine Buhannic Tania Zivkovic Bobby Carbajal Billy Rodriguez Jeff Soto Dara Jamison Christie Manibusan Jake Harris Amber West Darcy Dobis

One week until the Ashby One Keynote SF 2026. On May 7, we're going live with 75 minutes of new product launches, AI in Ashby, and a look at what's ahead for Ashby. Register here to watch live: https://lnkd.in/e42ksFJq #AshbyOne

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🇫🇷 We had a busy day in Paris yesterday! In the morning, we hosted a TA breakfast at our customer Dust’s office. Reece Batchelor walked us through what’s possible to build in Dust, Conor Riordan shared best practices for AI-assisted application review and candidate fraud signals in Ashby, and we finished with a workshop on discussing where AI can actually remove bottlenecks in the hiring process. Tactical and hands-on. In the evening, we co-hosted a Talent Leaders Dinner at Edith Restaurant with the D2 collective. Ashby customers Estelle Pasteau from Alan and Lucas D. from Voodoo joined a fireside chat on how they’re managing AI transformation and getting buy-in from leadership and the wider business. The strategic side of the same conversation. Two sides of the same challenge. How to actually do it, and how to bring the business with you. Thank you to Reece Batchelor and the Dust team for hosting the morning, to Lucas D. and Estelle Pasteau for sharing their insights at dinner, and to Vivienne Macchiarelli at the D2 collective for putting together a brilliant evening.

3x the application volume. Offer conversion rates at a 5 year high. And more work on recruiters with minimal change to the candidate experience. These are some of the findings in our latest update on Recruiter Productivity. In this Talent Trends Report, we analyzed over 109M applications and 247K jobs from January 2021 through March 2026 to understand how recruiter productivity has shifted. We found: 📈 Recruiters are managing nearly 3x the volume as Applications per Hire tripled from 2021 to 2024 and remained above 300 throughout 2025. 💪 Hires per Recruiter have recovered from 2023 lows with the average recruiter currently closing around 7 hires per quarter. ⚖️ Technical roles average nearly twice the interview hours of business roles, creating a clear interview intensity gap by job function. 🎯 Offer conversion rates reached a 5-year high for business roles. Although getting an interview is harder, those who do are more likely to receive an offer.   The increased burden has landed primarily on recruiting teams, not candidates. And the data shows teams are rising to meet it. Read the full 2026 Talent Trends Recruiter Productivity Report: https://hubs.li/Q04dDqxM0 And if you’re joining us in SF at Ashby One, look forward to hearing from Felicia Menon of Juniper Square and Scott Bonneau of Shopify on some of these findings in our Talent Trends panel!

We didn’t want to make “conference swag." Instead, we partnered with Amsterdam-based ceramicist Milou Broersen to create something we've wanted for a while: a cup that's truly Ashby's own. For this collaboration, she hand-mixed and tested materials until she landed on a color that captures Ashby's signature blurple in ceramic form. The result is the Ashby STACK Cup 200. Handmade in Amsterdam. Designed for daily use, built to last, and made to earn its place on your desk. Get yours at #AshbyOne SF next week! Video captured an edited by: Tomek Whitfield

First dinner of the year with PeopleTech Partners at La Pecora Bianca in NYC! An evening with a great group of People and Talent leaders, incredible food, thoughtful conversation, and time well spent together. Grateful to everyone who joined us! 💜 Michael Stopps, Max Brawer, Matt Hoffman, Anthony Onesto, Marie Gomez, Julia Velloso, Emily Boyer, Nelson Spencer, Chris Kaleel, Lauren Brenner, Mai Ton, Jim Viris, Melanie Oberman, Serena Ziskroit JD, MAPP, Gloria Basem, Cara Brennan Allamano, Katharine (Kelly) Ryan, Katie Noonan Looking forward to many more of these this year.

Last night we spent a great evening with Talent Leaders in Denver! We gathered at Beckon, a converted bungalow in downtown, to celebrate spring with a seasonally inspired 12-course meal and engaging conversations around hiring. Thank you to everyone who joined us! Lizzie Jacobson, Maggie Fish, Chiara Celesia Moore, PHR, Cory R Jaffe, Cynthia Carpenter, Katy Flatau, Taylor Barr, Stephen Kindl, Cameron Karosis

Last night we sponsored Chapter 2's London event on staying human at the speed of change—a panel with Steven Bartlett and Dr Kristen Holmes PhD, hosted by Leo Harrison The room was full of senior talent and people leaders, and there were a few themes that felt worth pulling out: → The hiring bar is shifting—fast. AI fluency is becoming expected (especially at entry level), but adaptability is the real signal. → Most hiring processes haven’t caught up. We’re still optimising for interview performance, not how someone operates in ambiguity. Without more scenario-based assessment, that signal is easy to miss. → 1% a hundred times beats one big bet. Progress is coming from compounding small improvements, not waiting for a step change. → Adoption is a systems problem, not a tooling one. AI tools alone don’t change outcomes—how teams are set up to use them does. → The constraint is how teams work. Without psychological safety and space to experiment, progress stalls. Thanks to Leo, Steven and Kristen for a thoughtful conversation, to Chapter 2 for bringing the room together, to Convene Hospitality Group for hosting and to everyone who joined us—great to see so many Ashby customers there on the night.