If you run Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, Teamtailor, or any modern ATS, it probably ships with AI screening—and the obvious question is why you would pay for another AI tool on top. The short answer: your ATS's AI reads resumes. Mokka is the layer that interviews every applicant, verifies they are who their resume says they are, re-works the candidates already in your database, and fills the top of the funnel. Your ATS stays the system of record. Nothing gets replaced.
What your ATS's AI actually does
Built-in ATS AI is real and useful: it parses resumes, matches them against the job description, ranks applicants, and drafts outreach or rejection notes. If your bottleneck is triaging a stack of PDFs, it helps.
But it evaluates the resume, not the person. In a market where a large share of applications are AI-written or AI-optimized, resume-only screening rewards whoever prompts best. The candidates who look perfect on paper are exactly the ones you need to verify—and a resume matcher has nothing to verify them against.
What Mokka adds on top
Conversational AI pre-interviews with every applicant. Voice, text, or video—candidates choose. Mokka collects accomplishment evidence, probes for specifics, and scores against a rubric your recruiters sign off on. You rank people on what they can show, not what they typed into a template.
Integrity verification. Every answer is cross-checked against the resume, the LinkedIn profile, and third-party data. Mismatches get flagged before they reach a hiring manager. This is the trust layer resume-matching AI cannot provide.
Talent rediscovery. Mokka re-screens candidates already sitting in your ATS against new openings—people you already paid to attract once.
Outbound sourcing. When inbound isn't enough, Mokka's sourcing agent finds and engages passive candidates from 850M+ profiles, pre-screens them through the same pipeline, and delivers interested, verified candidates—priced per job ($500 upfront or a $3,000 success fee per hire, with a 90-day replacement guarantee on success-fee hires).
How the integration works
Mokka connects to your ATS in a few clicks (Business plan). Applicants flow from your ATS into Mokka's screening and pre-interview pipeline automatically; scores, transcripts, and ranked shortlists sync back onto the candidate record in your ATS. Decisions made in either system reflect in both. Your recruiters keep working where they already work—your ATS remains the system of record for every candidate, stage, and note.
Setup is measured in minutes, not quarters: connect the ATS, review the screening criteria Mokka drafts with you, and turn it on for a role. Hiring-manager seats are free and unlimited on every plan.
What it costs next to your ATS
Mokka's usage-based Business plan—the one most teams with an ATS pick—starts at $129/month (billed annually) plus $0.49 per screened candidate and $1.99 per AI interview. You pay for hiring activity, not shelf space.
Concretely: a startup running 6 roles a year with ~120 applicants per role and AI-interviewing the top 15 per role pays about $2,080 a year—roughly $173 a month for interviews, integrity checks, and rediscovery layered onto the ATS you already have. Prefer a flat bill? Business Unlimited is $499 per recruiter seat/month (billed annually) with unlimited screening and unlimited AI interviews. Screening and pre-interviews of sourced candidates are free either way.
Both plans start with a 30-day free trial that includes real usage (200 screenings and 30 AI interviews on Business), so you can run an actual role through the pipeline before paying anything.
When not to add Mokka
Honest scoping: if your roles draw 20 applicants and your recruiters know most of them by name, your ATS alone is probably enough. Mokka earns its keep when volume outruns human attention—100+ applications per role, suspicious application quality, a cold database you keep re-paying to rebuild, or hard roles where inbound never fills the funnel. It is also not an executive-search tool; it is built for knowledge-worker volume hiring.
Conclusion
The question isn't Mokka or your ATS—the ATS manages where candidates go; Mokka decides who should get there and why, with evidence. Keep the system of record you have. Add the interviewing, verification, and sourcing layer it was never built to be.
See exact numbers for every plan on the pricing page, or start a 30-day free trial and connect your ATS today.