#1 Text to Apply AI Agent
TextWork follows up by SMS, qualifies every lead, and hands off to your team.
Trusted by teams in the field
145+
Jobsites using TextWork
17,000+
Text messages exchanged
180+
Applicants screened
How Textwork helps recruitment
Textwork screens your applicants, instantly
The best time to screen a lead is immediately. Textwork has your team covered after hours and over weekends.
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Recruiters love it
With Textwork, recruiters start interviewing smarter, by starting with better applicants and more knowledge
Conversational AI for your applicants
With Textwork, recruiters spend less time chasing applicants — because screening, scheduling, and paperwork happen over SMS.
Four ways TextWork keeps leads moving
Respond before the lead goes cold
New applicants, renters, and prospects get a useful SMS reply the moment they raise their hand.
See every conversation at a glance
Track who replied, who qualified, and who needs a human follow-up from one dashboard.
No portals or logins required
Leads answer from the texting app they already use, so the conversation feels natural from the first reply.
Is the evening shift still open?
Yes. To see if it is a fit, please share:
- Your work authorization status.
- The days you can start.
- Whether you can interview this week.
Qualified lead records
Structured handoffs from natural conversation
We've been using TextWork for 4 months
1. Did more interviews than all of last year
2. Fixed our onboarding
3. Halved our vacant positions
— Service business owner, Akron, OH
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Used by 180+ people
Frequently Asked Questions
TextWork is a text-to-apply AI agent. Candidates text in — or get a text the moment they apply — and the agent screens them over SMS with your qualifying questions.
Your team gets a scored report, the full transcript, and a recommended next step. A person still decides who moves forward.
Applicants reply to a text. They ignore email and career portals, especially after a shift or from a jobsite.
A text that arrives the minute they apply gets answered — nights and weekends included — so you stop losing people in the first hour.
You define the screen: experience, availability, location, licenses or certs, start date, and any knockout.
TextWork asks one question at a time, follows up when an answer is incomplete, and writes a structured handoff your team can compare across every candidate.
Teams that hire at volume and cannot call every applicant: hourly and frontline roles, skilled trades, staffing desks, and lean talent-acquisition teams.
You do not need a recruiting department. Owners and hiring managers use it the same way.
Every conversation is saved with the transcript, extracted details, score, and recommended next step.
Your team reviews the dashboard, starts with the people who can actually take the job, and calls, schedules, or keeps texting from there.
Yes. TextWork qualifies and organizes the applicant. It does not trap them in automation.
Once someone is ready, your team has the context to text, call, or book them directly.
First-round screening cost is recruiter time: salary, minutes per screen, and how many people apply each month. At volume, most applicants never get a first call.
See what screening costs at your applicant volume, then match it to a plan.
About 5 minutes for a simple funnel. You write the questions TextWork should ask, connect Indeed, your website, your ATS, or a dedicated number, and start testing conversations immediately.
Indeed, your website, job-board ads, an ATS like SmartRecruiters, QR codes, inbound texts, or a manual import.
The important part is that every new applicant gets an immediate SMS path instead of sitting in an inbox.