April 2026 Product Release Highlights: Optimize AI in Your Recruiting Process for Both Candidates and Recruiters

Welcome to the April Product Release! At SmartRecruiters, we’re continually investing in our platform so talent acquisition teams can hire smarter and faster — not just once a year, but month after month. Launching a product is just the beginning. This release adds practical, AI-driven enhancements that make it easier for customers to get value from what we’ve already built, while we keep scaling our roadmap to meet what’s coming next.

This month, we’re expanding how AI shows up across the SmartRecruiters platform, from a more robust, accessible knowledge base to greater transparency for candidates.

Product Release Highlights

Winston Companion: Knowledge Base Agent

With Winston Companion’s Knowledge Base Agent, customers have a powerful new way to access trusted SmartRecruiters expertise instantly. Embedded directly within Winston Companion, this AI-driven agent answers questions about features and workflows in your natural language, eliminating the need to dig through documentation or wait for support. By citing relevant Help Center articles and providing direct links, it not only delivers fast, reliable answers but also makes it easy for users to validate information and explore topics in more depth. The result is a more self-sufficient team, with recruiters and hiring managers able to retrieve the guidance they need on demand, reducing reliance on admins and keeping workflows moving without interruption.

AI Disclosure (Global Compliance)

AI Disclosure for global compliance helps your organization build trust with candidates while staying compliant across regions. With a clear candidate-facing notice, companies can transparently communicate how AI is used throughout the application experience, an increasingly important expectation in today’s hiring landscape. The feature ensures a consistent disclosure message that is automatically reused across channels and localized for different markets, creating a seamless and trustworthy candidate journey. At the same time, regional controls make it easy for global organizations to tailor disclosures to specific legal requirements, simplifying compliance without adding operational complexity.

Looking Ahead
Here at SmartRecruiters, we’re all about facilitating our customers’ smarter and faster hiring process. These updates are one more proof point in our ongoing mission to simplify recruiting and empower TA professionals. We release enhancements monthly, be sure to explore the details of our What’s New section here.

Also, if you joined our recent Spring 2026 Product Preview, you also got a deeper look at our AI roadmap and the next wave of experiences we’re building for enterprise hiring. That preview was a peek into our most forward-looking innovations in action, while releases like this one ensure customers see continuous, practical improvements in their day-to-day workflows.

Missed the Product Preview? Watch the replay here.