Meet Pilot. The Agent That Runs Your Candidate Outreach.
Connects to your Gmail. Sends multi-touch campaigns. Classifies every reply and hands interested candidates to SAM.
How It Works
From Connected Gmail to Scheduled Interviews
Step 01
Connect Gmail
One click with Google OAuth. Pilot asks for two permissions: send campaigns and read replies. Nothing else.
Pilot · Sends
Personalized multi-touch sequences go out from your address. Each message adapts to the candidate profile, not just a name swap.
Sending · Active
Pilot · Tracks
Opens, replies, and bounces tracked live. Follow-ups stop automatically the moment a candidate responds.
Tracking · Live
Pilot · Classifies
Every reply is read and sorted: Interested, Meeting, Follow up, or Not now. No inbox triage on your side.
Classifying · Live
Step 02
Interested Candidates Move to SAM
Reply detection triggers the handoff. SAM runs the AI voice interview, scores it, and the candidate lands ranked in your shortlist.
Sends Your Campaigns
Pilot builds the sequence, spaces the follow-ups, and sends everything through your connected Gmail. Candidates see your name, not a tool.
Senior React Campaign
Initial Outreach
1 variant · personalized per profile
Day 0
Follow-Up 1
Skipped if candidate replies
+3 days
Follow-Up 2
Final touch
+5 days
Classifies Every Reply
No more reading 80 responses to find the 12 that matter. Pilot tags each reply by intent so your pipeline sorts itself.
Replies
Maya R.
This sounds interesting, I would love to hear ...
Tom B.
Free Thursday afternoon if that works on your ...
Alex K.
Mid-project right now, can we reconnect ne...
Hands Off to SAM
Interested replies flow straight into AI voice interviews. You skip the scheduling ping-pong and review scored candidates instead.
Status: Pipeline Active
Replies classified
38
Interested
12
Moved to SAM
12
Interviews completed
9
Shortlist
READY
From Teams Who Made the Switch
“We were paying $6k/year for a tool that just gave us lists of LinkedIn URLs. Now we get pre-screened candidates ready to interview.”
Head of Engineering
Series B SaaS company
“Before ConnectDevs, I spent Sunday nights sourcing. Now I just review the SAM transcripts on Wednesday mornings.”
Agency Founder
Web3 development agency
“By the time I jump on Zoom, I already know the candidate has the core React chops we need. It saves hours every week.”
VP Engineering
FinTech startup
Your Inbox. Your Rules.
Pilot uses Google OAuth with two narrow permissions. Here is exactly what that means.
What Pilot accesses
Sends campaigns from your address using the gmail.send permission, so candidates reply to you, not a bot domain.
Reads replies to campaign threads using the gmail.readonly permission, so it can classify responses and stop follow-ups.
Encrypted everywhere. AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, hosted on AWS and DigitalOcean in the US.
What Pilot never does
Never shares your Gmail content with external AI providers. Classification runs inside ConnectDevs systems only.
Never exposes your inbox to people. Access is system-only. No ConnectDevs employee can read your Gmail content.
Never sells or trades your data. Your Gmail data exists to run your campaigns. That is its only job.
Disconnect anytime from Email settings. All Gmail data is purged within 90 days of disconnect.
Full details in our Data Security & Privacy page.
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Got questions? We've got answers.
Everything you need to know about our platform features, pricing, and more, all answered here.
Why does Pilot need access to my Gmail?
Pilot needs Gmail access to send outreach emails directly from your account, ensuring higher deliverability and a personal touch. It also monitors for replies to classify them automatically for you.
What exactly can Pilot read in my inbox?
Pilot only reads emails that are part of the outreach campaigns it sends. It identifies replies to these specific threads to classify candidate interest. Your personal and unrelated business emails remain completely private.
How do I disconnect Gmail?
You can disconnect your Gmail account at any time through the platform settings. Once disconnected, Pilot will immediately lose all access to your inbox, and no further emails will be sent or read.
Will candidates know the emails are automated?
No. Pilot sends emails directly through your Gmail server, so they appear as regular one-to-one emails in the candidate's inbox. There are no 'sent via' headers or telltale signs of automation.
What happens when a candidate replies interested?
When a candidate replies with interest, Pilot automatically classifies the response and notifies you. It can also be configured to immediately hand the candidate off to SAM, our AI interviewer, to start the screening process.
Do I need Scout to use Pilot?
While Pilot works seamlessly with our other agents like Scout and SAM, it can be used as a standalone tool to manage your candidate outreach campaigns once you have a list of targets.
What is recruiting outreach automation?
Recruiting outreach automation is software that sends candidate campaigns, tracks replies, stops follow-ups when someone responds, and routes interested candidates to the next hiring step. Pilot handles those workflow steps from a connected Gmail account so recruiters do not have to manually send every touch, monitor every thread, or copy interested candidates into a separate screening process.
How does Pilot reduce fragmented recruiting workflows?
Pilot connects outbound recruiting to the rest of the ConnectDevs hiring workflow. Scout can identify candidate targets, Pilot sends and classifies outreach, and interested candidates can move to SAM for an AI interview and structured report. That keeps sourcing, campaign outreach, reply triage, and screening in one workflow instead of spreading candidate data across disconnected tools.
Can Pilot help agencies and startups run outbound recruiting?
Yes. Pilot is useful for startups that need founder-led hiring without a full recruiting team and for agencies that need repeatable outbound campaigns across many searches. It helps both teams send personalized sequences, track candidate replies, and focus human time on interested candidates instead of inbox administration.
How does Pilot decide which candidate replies matter?
Pilot reads replies to campaign threads and classifies them into statuses such as Interested, Meeting, Follow up, or Not now. Those labels help recruiters prioritize warm candidates quickly, stop irrelevant follow-ups, and move the right people into interviews or manual review.
Does Pilot replace an ATS?
Pilot is not positioned as a full applicant tracking system. It supports the outbound and response-management layer of recruiting: campaign sending, reply tracking, classification, and handoff to SAM. Teams can use it alongside an ATS when they need a source-backed shortlist and organized candidate response workflow before formal pipeline stages.