Harbour ATS: Instant AI Candidate Summaries via API Integration
How Harbour implemented our AI API to deliver instant, intelligent CV summaries directly within their Applicant Tracking System, transforming how recruiters evaluate candidates.
Harbour ATS interface showing our AI Summary feature integrated via API
Executive Summary
Harbour, a growing Applicant Tracking System provider serving the care and healthcare sectors, needed to differentiate their platform with intelligent features that would help recruiters process high volumes of applications more efficiently.
They integrated our AI API engine to provide instant CV summaries, parsing, and enrichment capabilities directly within their platform. The integration enables Harbour users to see AI-generated candidate summaries the moment an application is received, dramatically reducing time spent on initial candidate screening.
Our API engine supports Applicant Tracking Systems, HR systems, and Job Boards with comprehensive CV parsing and enrichment, candidate match scoring, anonymisation, and AI-powered candidate search.
Integration Highlights
- •Instant AI summaries generated from CV and application data
- •Seamless API integration into existing ATS workflow
- •Processing in seconds, not minutes
- •Structured JSON output for flexible display and storage
The Challenge
Recruitment in the care sector faces unique challenges. High application volumes, varying CV formats, and the need to quickly identify qualified candidates with specific certifications and experience creates significant pressure on recruiters.
Harbour needed to provide their users with tools that would:
- •Reduce time spent reading through lengthy CVs
- •Extract key information consistently across different CV formats
- •Present candidate information in a digestible, actionable format
- •Scale without degrading performance or requiring significant infrastructure investment
Building this capability in-house would require significant data science investment with no guarantee of success. They needed a proven, off-the-shelf solution that could be integrated quickly and reliably.
Our Solution: The AI API Engine
We provided Harbour with access to our comprehensive AI API engine, designed specifically for recruitment technology platforms. The integration was straightforward: Harbour sends CV data to our API, and we return structured, enriched data including AI-generated summaries.
Parsing & Enrichment
Turn messy resumes and job descriptions into clean, structured, enriched data ready for search, analytics, and scoring. OCR and multi-format support processes PDFs, images, and documents in 100+ languages.
AI Summaries & Skills
Generate readable, plain-language summaries and extract technical and soft skills automatically. Each candidate receives a digestible overview for quick assessment.
Match Scoring
Reduce sifting by up to 75% with intelligent 0-100 match scores, reasoning, and interview suggestions. Each score includes factor breakdown for transparency.
Optional Anonymisation
Remove PII to reduce bias while preserving relevant capability data. Hire on capability by removing what shouldn't matter in initial screening.
How the Integration Works
Send CV Data
When a candidate applies through Harbour, the CV is sent to our API via a secure webhook. We accept PDFs, images, and documents in 100+ languages with advanced OCR.
Parse & Enrich
Our engine extracts and normalises all entities: skills, experience, education, tenure, seniority signals, and contact information. We generate AI summaries and skills extraction automatically.
Return Structured JSON
We return clean, structured data including the AI summary, extracted skills, experience breakdown, and any additional enrichment. Processing typically completes in seconds.
Display in ATS
Harbour displays the AI summary directly in their candidate view, as shown in the screenshot above. Recruiters see the summary instantly alongside application details.
What Gets Extracted & Enriched
AI Summaries
Readable, plain-language overviews per CV for quick candidate assessment
Skills Extraction
Technical & soft skills with normalised taxonomy and confidence scores
Experience & Tenure
Job titles, companies, dates, and calculated tenure per role
Education Details
Schools, qualifications, start/end dates, and degree classifications
Seniority Signals
Automated seniority detection and average tenure for quick triage
PII Detection
Identify and optionally redact names, contacts, photos, and addresses
Beyond Summaries: AI Search at Scale
Our API engine also powers intelligent candidate search. We instantly recommend candidates for a job or jobs for a candidate using proprietary match technology — not keywords, not agentic prompts. This delivers better recommendations, fast at scale, directly in the ATS or job board.
Understands skills, seniority signals, tenure, recency & context
Indexes millions of profiles with low-latency retrieval
Each hit includes reasons — skills overlap, title proximity, recency
The Results
Key Outcomes for Harbour Users
- •Instant candidate summaries available immediately upon application
- •Reduced time spent on initial CV screening
- •Consistent extraction across varying CV formats and quality levels
- •Enhanced platform differentiation in a competitive ATS market
- •No internal data science investment required
Why ATS Providers Choose Our API
Save Big and Go Faster
Build vs buy? Data Science teams typically cost around £500k per year with no guarantee of success. Save time and money with a tried and tested off-the-shelf solution.
Reduce Sifting Up to 75%
Enable faster decisions with AI CV analysis and data categorisation. Make CV data easier to digest for your users.
Easy to Implement
Plug-and-play APIs that integrate directly into your ATS or job board, with documentation and dedicated technical customer support to get you up and running quickly.
Add AI Intelligence to Your Platform
Whether you're building an ATS, HR system, or job board, our API engine can provide instant CV parsing, AI summaries, match scoring, and intelligent search.
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