The products being sold to fix it are making it worse.
Every company needs talent. But recruitment is broken.
For decades, companies used Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to filter through too many applicants.
That world is gone.
Now, there aren’t enough applicants. The systems employers rely on are failing.
- ATS blocks more people than it hires. It filters—but it doesn’t create talent.
- LinkedIn connects—but it doesn’t engage. It’s a network, not a hiring solution.
The market has changed. The tools haven’t.
Legacy providers aren’t fixing recruitment—they’re selling overpriced, bloated contracts.
Holedo lets companies throw out all legacy junk.
One system. Fully connected.
Holedo works the way hiring happens today.
While big tech sell broken tools, Holedo fixes hiring.
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Recruitment isn’t working because today’s tools are built for yesterday’s problem.
Companies are drowning in disconnected products:
- ATS tracks applications—but doesn’t create talent.
- Talent CRMs store contacts—but don’t build pipelines.
- Messaging tools connect teams—but weren’t made for hiring.
- Spreadsheets and emails try to patch the gaps.
Every tool does its job—alone. None of them talk to each other.
The result?
Companies juggle disconnected products—ATS to track, CRMs to store, messaging tools to communicate. None of them create talent.
The market is flooded with tools. But they were all built wrong.
Hiring should be effortless. Instead, outdated systems create bottlenecks.
See how Holedo makes it seamless:
Legacy systems create silos. Holedo connects everything. See the difference:
Holedo ends the chaos.
Not another tool. A total replacement.
- One platform. Fully connected. No more juggling disconnected systems.
- One ecosystem. Shared across industries. No more lost data or broken connections.
- One infrastructure. Built to scale. No more bolted-on solutions. No more friction.
No more ATS upgrades. No more isolated CRMs. No more scattered messaging apps.
Everything is connected—from sourcing to hiring to lowering industry churn.
Live talent pools keep supply refreshed. Employers never start from zero again.
Recruitment doesn’t need another tool. It needs a foundation.
Holedo is that foundation.
Want a direct feature comparison? See how Holedo replaces the entire recruitment stack here.
Market Opportunity
A $48 Billion Industry – Hospitality Leads the Way
HR tech is booming. The global market is worth $48 billion—and it’s still growing. By 2028, it will be even bigger.
Hospitality is the largest sector.
- 330 million people work in hospitality worldwide.
- More than half leave their jobs every year.
- That’s millions of hires, every year, across thousands of companies.
- The cost of high turnover? $2.23 trillion lost annually.
The opportunity?
No industry spends more on hiring—but for all that spending, recruitment is still broken.
Hotels churn through millions of hires a year, yet they’re stuck paying for the same failing systems that haven’t changed in decades. They pay more—but get less.
Legacy providers profit from inefficiency. Their business depends on outdated pricing models, locked contracts, and bloated costs.
The cost of bad hiring systems is already massive. And it’s only getting worse.
Why Hospitality First?
Hospitality runs on people, not products. It’s not a product-driven business—it’s a talent-driven one.
But it’s stuck in outdated hiring systems.
- The highest employee churn of any major sector.
- The most inefficient hiring processes.
- The most money wasted on recruitment tools that don’t work.
Holedo is the first platform built for hospitality’s scale, speed, and reality.
And once we own hospitality recruitment, we scale everywhere else.
Why Holedo Wins
Recruitment keeps industries running.
For decades, companies treated recruitment as a one-time transaction. Fill a role, move on.
But hiring only works when there’s a constant talent pipeline.
The talent pipeline has dried up.
- No pipeline, no recruitment. If the right people aren’t in the industry, there’s no one to hire.
- No engagement, no retention. When employees leave, turnover breaks the system.
Yet recruitment tech was never built for this reality:
- ATS systems track applications—but don’t build pipelines.
- Talent CRMs store data—but don’t sustain industry-wide movement.
- Job boards post vacancies—but don’t create supply.
Recruitment is a continuous system, not a list of tasks.
Other systems handle one or two steps. Holedo connects them all.
Holedo is the new operating system.
The more companies use Holedo, the easier recruitment gets. Employers tap into an active talent pool, build lasting relationships, and keep talent in the industry. This is the network effect in action
Why no one can catch up
The big players are trapped.
What if LinkedIn, Oracle, or SmartRecruiters tried to do this tomorrow?
- They’d be years behind—and they’d wreck their own business in the process.
- They won’t sell it.
- Their model depends on high-cost, complex enterprise contracts.
To compete, they’d have to slash prices by 80%—killing their own revenue.
No company sets fire to its own cash cow.
They won’t go lean.
Their massive sales and support teams exist because their tools are bloated.
Holedo runs lean. A bloated enterprise won’t suddenly shrink.
They won’t keep their customers.
- Their clients already pay more for less.
- Offer a better product for less? Customers would demand refunds, renegotiate contracts, or cancel outright.
Switching means self-destruction.
They won’t move fast enough.
Big tech corporations take years to restructure, approve pricing changes, and rebuild tech stacks.
- Holedo moves in days.
- They won’t compete on cost—or value.
- Big players burn cash on bloated teams and legacy overhead.
Holedo runs lean because we built it that way from day one.
And here’s the real killer:
We pile on value. They can’t.
Holedo includes ATS, TMR, CRM, project management, guest-facing tools, and more.
All for $500/month per hotel.
For legacy systems, that price barely covers a sales call.
The only way they could match us?
They’d have to give away their own revenue.
They can’t afford to offer what we include by default.
- Clone Holedo? They’d bankrupt themselves trying to sell it.
- Restructure? Too late.
- Try anyway? They’d destroy themselves.
Everyone saw the talent crisis. No system adapted.
Holedo built the first platform for how recruitment works today.
Going to Market
Holedo is fully operational and already solving critical industry challenges.
Adoption Strategy
- Industry first, revenue second – We focus on traction over immediate monetisation, ensuring Holedo becomes the industry standard before scaling pricing.
- Anchor clients – We are securing five major hotel groups as early adopters. Their adoption drives industry-wide credibility and momentum.
- Direct sales to hotels & groups – Holedo is priced for frictionless adoption, embedding the platform across hospitality with no barriers to entry.
By deeply integrating into the industry, we create the momentum needed for long-term market dominance.
Market Validation
Hotels are signing up.
20+ properties are already in active discussions, with early adopters moving forward on paid pilots.
Major hotel groups are engaged. Holedo is embedded in their strategy discussions, and implementation is underway.
The demand is real. Every conversation leads to the same conclusion: existing solutions don’t work, and Holedo is the only platform built for hospitality’s reality.
We’re not pitching a theory. We’re deploying the future.
Investment Opportunity
Raising €250,000 through a Convertible Note
- Valuation Cap: €2.5M
- Discount Rate: 20%
- Annual Interest: 5%
Use of Funds
- Expand our talent ecosystem – Cement Holedo as the industry standard for hospitality recruitment.
- 12-month runway – Drive platform adoption and accelerate growth.
- Financial foundation – Cover €50,000 in existing debt, ensuring a clean balance sheet.
Why no one else could fix this
Because they couldn’t.
Hotel groups spent millions on recruitment tech. Their hiring teams worked around it. Because it didn’t work, they built their own messy solutions—spreadsheets, WhatsApp threads, LinkedIn DMs. Anything to bridge the gaps.
They had to use their systems to stay compliant. But when it came to actually hiring, they abandoned them.
Recruiters became system integrators—hacking together tools that weren’t designed to work together. Every workaround made hiring harder.
They called us. Over and over.
Even with all the friction, their hacked-together workarounds still worked better than the tools they were paying for.
The tech they were sold couldn’t get them talent.
So they paid us for what their systems didn’t have: lists of candidates.
Not recruitment. Not hiring. Just names.
ATS data is accurate for a second. Then it’s outdated everywhere.
Holedo fixes that.
So we built the tools we needed.
Then we built Holedo—for everyone.
Why Didn’t Anyone Else Build It?
Because nobody built what the industry actually needed.
Startups can’t afford it. They chase trends. This took years of testing, real-world use, and depth they don’t have.
Hotels don’t build software. They know the pain, but they aren’t tech companies.
Legacy players optimized for the wrong thing. They saw recruitment as a data problem, not a talent problem. So they optimized for databases, compliance, and process—then chased the trend of the month: AI, automation, speed.
Automating the wrong thing just makes the wrong thing happen faster.
Nobody else built it.
Because nobody else knew what to build.
Join us in redefining recruitment
Holedo is replacing recruitment tech entirely.
This investment round is the launchpad for scale. Recruitment tech is failing. Holedo already replaced it.
Invest now to be part of the shift.
“With Holedo positioned as the only scalable solution to this industry-wide failure, the natural trajectory is dominance—or acquisition by the very companies trying to catch up.”
Holedo fixes a billion-dollar market failure.
Holedo doesn’t need an exit. Either the industry catches up, or we own the space outright.
Legacy hiring systems are broken. Holedo is the fix.