Zip vs Ashby

Zip is the new intelligent concierge for procurement. Trusted by both startups and large enterprises, Zip orchestrates millions of dollars of spend approvals daily. Increase policy compliance and improve spend control without adding more complexity. With the Zip app, users can seamlessly receive approval notifications, reminders, comments, and approve or reject Zip requests directly within Slack. Employees can also learn about their company's procurement policies, initiate purchase requests, and track request progress — all through a simple conversation with the Zip app. Note: The Zip app utilizes generative AI technology, which may occasionally produce inaccurate responses. Always verify critical information independently.

About Ashby's integration with Slack brings recruiting notifications, approvals, and conversational actions directly into Slack so your team can stay on top of hiring without leaving the app. Notifications and reminders The Ashby bot sends real-time updates to your team in Slack for candidate pipeline activities, mentions and replies, interviewer and task reminders, reporting alerts, and more. Ashby Assistant and custom agents You can also message the Ashby Assistant by starting a conversation directly in the Ashby app in your Slack workspace. If you've set up custom agents in Ashby, you can use them in the same conversation by referring to them by name and asking the Assistant to use them for your request. With the Assistant, you can: Take actions: Add notes on candidate profiles, advance, archive, or reject candidates, draft and send emails, look up candidate details, leave feedback, and search candidates and job postings among other actions. Confirm before anything runs: The Ashby Assistant previews emails, stage changes, notes, and other actions in Slack with confirm and reject buttons. Maintain old conversations by staying within a thread for context, or you can start fresh with a new top-level message. Keep the same permissions as you have within Ashby: Every action runs on your behalf, scoped to your role. Ashby MCP You can also connect to the Ashby MCP server and ask about your hiring directly in Slack. As with the Assistant, everything is scoped to what you can see in Ashby, and any action is previewed for your review before it runs. The examples below show common things you can ask, along with the underlying Ashby tools each one uses. Review pipelines: "Summarize our engineering pipeline and flag where candidates are stalling." get_job_pipeline — Returns pipeline metrics for one or more jobs, including per-stage application counts. filter_records — Finds applications, candidates, jobs, and offers using structured criteria. Prep for interviews and debriefs: "Build an interview brief for [Candidate], including prior feedback and open concerns." get_interview_details — Returns a detailed briefing for a specific interview, including candidate background and instructions. get_submitted_feedback — Retrieves the scorecard feedback you've already submitted for an application. Look up records: "Pull up the details on [Candidate]'s application." search_records_by_name — Resolves a candidate, job, or application name to its record. get_record_details — Fetches full details for jobs, applications, openings, offers, and more. Take actions: "Add a note to [Candidate] and move them to the onsite stage." add_note_to_candidate — Adds a note to a candidate's profile. change_application_stage — Moves an application to a different interview stage. Please note: This app includes AI-powered features that generate responses, summaries, and recommendations based on the information available to it. AI-generated content may be inaccurate and should be reviewed before use.