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Guide vs Modernloop

Everything ModernLoop does. Run by an agent

Guide builds the panel, catches declines before you wake up, and keeps the schedule right after it’s booked. All from inside Greenhouse and Ashby.

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Features
The ask
Side by side
Setup
Pricing
The pick
FAQs

Why teams switch

Three reasons to choose Guide over Modernloop

Slack message asking to move SWE interview with conflict and proposed times and buttons to confirm or decline.

An agent, not a trigger

ModernLoop starts scheduling when a candidate changes stage. Aria decides what the schedule should be, proposes it, and runs it if you let it.

  • Triggered by stage changes, availability, declines or manually

  • Aria Copilot approves each action, autopilot runs after 20 seconds

  • Ask in plain language for a break, a swap, or a panel spread across days

Coordination that lives in your ATS

Your team never leaves Greenhouse or Ashby. Guide runs inside the ATS, every action logs back to it, and nobody learns a second dashboard.

  • No separate app and no Chrome extension to keep enabled

  • Recruiters and interviewers each get a native portal

  • Reporting filters by every attribute already in your ATS

User interface showing candidate Jamie Reynolds moved to onsite interview stage with scheduling notifications.
App message about location change asking to update interview availability with workdays, hours, timezone, and buttons.

The schedule stays right after it’s booked

Booking the panel is the easy part. Guide watches what happens next, when an interviewer drops at 11:00PM and the loop has to hold together.

  • Declines monitored around the clock, not just flagged

  • Tries a qualified same-slot swap before it moves anything

  • Then a new slot, then a fresh availability request

From the reviews

What GoodTime users ask for

We read 72 public ModernLoop reviews. Most are positive, and support is praised constantly. Four requests recur, and they’re design decisions.

The ask

The post-booking edit

The most persistent theme, running from 2022 through 2025. Reviewers say the tool is excellent at building a schedule and awkward once that schedule exists. One says it’s terrible at rescheduling and adjusting. Another can’t update a calendar invite already sitting on everyone’s calendars.

8 of 72 reviews, 2022 to 2025

How Guide handles it

The panel is never finished

Aria treats a booked loop as live. Declines, swaps, room changes and added breaks all run through the same agent that built it. Take over in the full calendar view whenever you want, or tell Aria what to change in plain language and let it rebuild.

The ask

Emails that carry the recruiter’s name

Reviewers want candidate touchpoints that sound like their company. One asks to customise them to speak more to their employer brand. Another is more specific: the automatic emails don’t include the recruiter’s signature.

3 of 72 reviews, 2022 to 2025

How Guide handles it

Sent as the recruiter, not the robot

Scheduling emails go out under the recruiter’s identity. Aria’s automation preserves the candidate experience your team already has. Guide’s magic signature links every message back to that candidate’s own interview details, inside a portal you brand at org, department, job or individual level.

The ask

Reporting worth opening

Several reviewers ask for deeper metrics and custom filtering. One says they pull their interview analytics from Gem instead. Another is waiting on expanded reporting that was on the roadmap.

4 of 72 reviews, 2022 to 2025

How Guide handles it

Reschedules are reported, not reconstructed

The dashboard slices by job, stage and department, covering queue time, reschedules, swaps, admin changes and the reasons behind them. Interviewer reporting carries decline rates, RSVP rates, no-shows, notice time and leaderboards. Aria’s own adoption reports by scheduler and action type. CSV export included.

The ask

Fewer clicks, less lost work

Reviewers describe too much clicking to get a manual email out, and a sync delay between a candidate submitting availability and it appearing. Two ask for saved drafts. Close the tab mid-setup and the work is gone.

5 of 72 reviews, 2022 to 2025

How Guide handles it

Aria does the first draft

The default path isn’t a form to fill in. Aria proposes a complete schedule and you approve, edit or swap from there. Nothing to rebuild if you step away, because the work lives in your ATS rather than in a session.

SOURCE: 72 public ModernLoop reviews on G2, Nov 2022 to Jul 2025. Themes paraphrased, not quoted.

“We used to spend a crazy amount of time juggling calendars. Guide freed up countless hours a week for us and significantly increased the bandwidth of our coordinators”
Stephanie Lehman, Recruiting Manager at Glossier

At a glance

Side by side

Every row is verifiable from public documentation. Sources are listed at the foot of this page.

Automation Guide ModernLoop
AI agent for scheduling Aria Not offered. Scheduling automation is rules-based.
What triggers it ATS stage change, candidate availability, interviewer decline, or manual start. Zero Click Scheduling, triggered as candidates move stages in the ATS.
Manual control Copilot approves each action. Autopilot self-executes after 20 seconds. Automation runs on configured rules.
AI interviewing Taylor AI screens candidates by phone, priced separately.
Role setup ATS anatomy pulled by default. Save a template only when the role repeats. Interview modules and interviewer pools configured per role.
Where the work happens
Recruiter workspace Inside Greenhouse or Ashby, via a deep Chrome extension. ModernLoop's own app, plus a Chrome extension for requests.
Panel building Aria proposes the schedule, you approve or adjust. Side by side calendar view with drag and drop editing.
Changes after booking A booked loop stays live. Swaps, breaks and room changes run through Aria. Helps find the best replacement when an interviewer can't make it.
On-call awareness PagerDuty excludes on-call interviewers, with override.
Candidate experience
Candidate portal Live schedule, bios, prep unlocking by stage, stage-level inbox. Branded portal with interview details, LinkedIn profiles and one consistent meeting link.
Message identity Sends as the recruiter, with a signature linking back to their portal. Emails designed to appear to come from the recruiter or hiring manager.
Slack Conflict drafts, RSVP and decline notifications, candidate channels. A private Slack channel per candidate and interviewer.
Channels Email and candidate portal inbox. Email and candidate portal.
Reporting
Scheduling metrics Queue time, reschedules, swaps, admin changes and reasons, by job and stage. Interview analytics against company goals.
Interviewer metrics Decline and RSVP rates, no-shows, notice time, leaderboards. Interviewer insights covering declines and reschedules.
Agent adoption Aria usage by scheduler, job, stage and action type. Not applicable.
Platform and commercials
ATS integrations Greenhouse, Ashby. Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters. iCIMS coming soon.
Microsoft 365 Outlook, Teams, Entra ID and GCC High supported.
Coding assessments CoderPad, CodeSignal, Codility, HackerRank.
Security SOC 2 audited, GDPR, CCPA. SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR, CCPA.
Pricing model Flat by headcount. Every seat and module included. Quote only, tailored to team and hiring volume.

Setup

Three steps to your first scheduled interview

Figures below come from live Guide deployments at roughly 300 to 500 FTE.

Your team's setup time

~8 hours

Onboarding

~3 weeks
1

Connect and sync

Experience the power of a true storytelling with unified collateral that helps you deliver the right brand content at the right time.

2

Set your defaults

You tell Guide how your interviews usually run once. Every new role inherits those rules instead of starting from scratch.

3

Launch and pilot

Guide builds scheduling plans for the roles you're hiring, reviews your candidate portal, and train your coordinators before you go live.

“I've never seen anything like this before. Guide is more automated than any tool we've used in the past. We're huge fans.”
Kimberly Prelosky, Senior Manager of TA Operations at Duolingo

Pricing

One number versus a quote

The models differ more than the prices do. One scales with your company, the other with your hiring volume.

Flat, by headcount

Priced on full-time headcount, not candidate or interview volume.

  • Every seat and module included: portal, messaging, reporting

  • No add-ons

  • No mid-contract true-ups when hiring spikes

  • Price changes only at renewal

  • 30-day opt-out, no invoice until day 60

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Custom quote

Tiered by candidate volume, with capabilities sold separately.

  • No public price for the scheduling product

  • Taylor AI starts at $450 a month on its own plan

  • Taylor AI is metered in credits, five per completed interview

  • Bill tends to rise with hiring volume

  • Suits teams buying scheduling and AI screening as separate lines

The scenario worth modelling

A 500-person company hiring 40 roles this year and 120 next year pays Guide the same either way, because price follows headcount.

The honest recommendation

Which one to choose

Choose Guide if

  • You run Greenhouse or Ashby on Google Workspace and want coordination inside your ATS

  • You want an agent that owns the loop after booking, not automation that fires at stage change

  • You want automation you can dial per workflow, with a manual escape hatch at any point

  • Reporting on declines, reschedules and notice time matters to how you run the team

  • You want flat, predictable pricing with no volume true-ups

Choose ModernLoop if

  • You run Microsoft 365, Outlook or Teams. Guide does not support it as of August 2026

  • You run Workday, Lever or SmartRecruiters

  • You need native coding assessment integrations with CoderPad, HackerRank, CodeSignal or Codility

  • Your procurement requires ISO 27001 or ISO 27701

  • You want an AI phone screener for high-volume hourly hiring

FAQ

Questions we get asked

Is Guide a good alternative to ModernLoop?

Does ModernLoop have an AI scheduling agent?

What happens when an interviewer declines?

Can I change an interview after it has been booked?

Can I schedule manually in Guide when I need to?

How long does Guide take to implement?

Methodology

How we compared these

Every claim about ModernLoop comes from its own public documentation, product pages, press releases or public user reviews, checked on the dates below. Review themes are paraphrased and counted, never presented as individual endorsements.

  1. modernloop.com product, integrations, security and comparison pages, checked 23 Oct 2026
  2. Curious, “Announcing Our Investment in ModernLoop”, 21 Oct 2026
  3. modernloop.ai pricing page, checked 23 Oct 2026
  4. G2, 72 ModernLoop reviews, Nov 2022 to Jul 2025, retrieved 23 Oct 2026
  5. guide.co product documentation, pricing and customer deployments, 25 Aug 2026