Overview
StartupKit, commonly branded as Kit, is a European software platform that bundles four operational workflows into one account: hiring, security report handling, compliance training, and cold email outreach. The product is aimed at small and mid-sized technology companies that would otherwise assemble a separate applicant tracking system, a vulnerability disclosure vendor, a learning management tool, and a sales engagement product. Kit also exposes more than 190 tools through the Model Context Protocol, which lets assistants such as Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot read records and act inside the same workspace. Pricing starts at €6,99 per seat per month after a 30 day trial, and customer data is stored on European Union infrastructure with a data processing agreement offered to every customer. The platform is multilingual, served in English, German, French, Spanish, and Polish.
Services & Expertise
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Hiring and applicant tracking. Each open role receives its own pipeline with configurable stages, candidate records, resume extraction, and structured team review forms. An operator dashboard labelled Needs your attention surfaces reviews waiting on a decision, coding tasks close to expiry, and candidates still waiting for a reply. Candidates move through the process without creating passwords.
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Security and vulnerability disclosure. The security module covers the disclosure lifecycle end to end, from report intake through triage, severity assessment, duplicate detection, acknowledgment SLAs, bounty approval, ledger credits, and audit exports. Researcher and operator views show remaining SLA time, appeal requests, and payout status, and the researcher portal allows payout detail updates and tax document uploads on the same branded domain.
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Compliance training. Kit ships course content mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA expectations, with no per learner fees. Completion appears in a register that records one row per person alongside employee identification, department, role, and completion date. Trainees submit their own proof through a magic link, such as a screenshot of a locked screen with capture date and device name, and administrators export the register as CSV or PDF or download individual evidence bundles for an auditor.
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Interview scheduling. Scheduling is included with hiring rather than sold as a separate add-on. Candidates select from the real availability of interviewers through the candidate portal, interviews attach to the candidate record, and teams can ask an AI assistant to check availability and book a slot through Kit's MCP tools.
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Outreach. The outreach product researches prospects one at a time using sources such as LinkedIn, company websites, and a knowledge base, then drafts an email that must be approved before anything sends. Replies from every campaign land in a single priority ordered inbox tagged with detected sentiment, and silver medalist matching checks campaign prospects against previous applications. Prospects receive email from the customer's own domain and never see a Kit portal.
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Compensation Research (beta). This module collects advertised salary ranges from live job postings and refreshes them daily. Teams track roles and regions, compare ranges across markets, and export the collected data. Coverage varies by role and region.
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Model Context Protocol tooling. More than 190 tools let external assistants work with the same records the internal team uses, covering actions such as reading applications, advancing stages, triaging reports, approving bounties, listing training programs, and finding prior applicants. Tool annotations disclose whether an action reads data, makes a destructive change, or contacts someone outside the company.
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Hiring process templates. Twenty role templates across seven categories and five languages provide ready made stages, candidate instructions, timing guidance, and paid stage details where configured. Templates are copied into a workspace and then edited for the specific team.
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Integrations. Kit connects with Slack, GitHub, Google Calendar, Google Meet, webhooks, and any MCP compatible client, which allows calendar events, code assignments, and notifications to flow between systems.
How They Work
New customers register, enter payment details at signup, and are not charged during the 30 day trial, with the paid plan beginning on day 30 unless cancelled beforehand. Workspaces can be populated from twenty hiring templates or built from scratch, and every role receives a pipeline that the team edits directly. External participants never create accounts. Candidates, security researchers, and trainees each receive a private magic link that opens their own application, report, or enrolled course on a customer branded domain, and they respond, upload evidence, or accept an offer from that view.
Operational work happens either in the browser or through an AI assistant. Connecting an assistant involves pasting a single setup prompt that configures Kit's MCP servers, and a public server is reachable before signup. Tool annotations and confirmation prompts appear before actions that would modify records or email a real person, and access tokens are scoped so permissions can later be revoked. The platform records timelines such as a 17 hour acknowledgment window on a security report or a code task expiring within 16 hours, giving operators a queue ordered by urgency rather than by arrival.
Ideal Client Profile
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A seed stage software company making its first engineering hires. Hiring pipelines, code assignments, resume extraction, and included interview scheduling replace a standalone applicant tracking subscription while the team is small.
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A company preparing for a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit. Training decks with tamper evident completion records and exportable registers give an auditor names, employee identifiers, departments, and completion dates without adding per learner charges.
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A product team running a public vulnerability disclosure programme. Report intake, SLA tracking, duplicate checks, bounty approvals, ledger credits, and a researcher portal replace ad hoc security email aliases.
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A founder led sales effort testing outbound. Researched, approval gated cold email with reply detection and sentiment sorting supports small campaigns without dedicated sales operations staff.
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A lean administrator group handling multiple functions at once. One account covers hiring, security, training, and outreach records, and the included compensation research beta supports salary benchmarking for roles under discussion.
Pricing & Engagement Models
Kit is sold as a per seat subscription. Published rates are €6,99 per seat per month in euros, with equivalent pricing shown in US dollars, Polish złoty, and British pounds, and customers can switch currency displays. A 30 day trial precedes billing, and a card is captured at signup although it is not charged during the trial. Seats can be added or removed at any time and the bill adjusts automatically. Hiring, training, the complete security workflow, and compensation research are included in the seat price. Outreach is the only separately billed component at €17,99 per month, and there is no distinct discount programme for early stage companies.
Why Consider Them
Most small teams assemble four separate vendors to cover recruiting, disclosure, compliance education, and prospecting, and each adds onboarding effort and its own data boundary. Kit's differentiator is consolidation inside one per seat plan, paired with an agent layer that was designed rather than bolted on, since tool annotations distinguish read only calls from actions that modify records or email people. European data hosting, a downloadable data processing agreement, and five language support suit European buyers and distributed teams. Included interview scheduling and a library of twenty hiring templates reduce setup work, while tamper evident training records answer audit requests without extra fees per learner. The trial terms are straightforward and data can be exported before cancelling.
