Control over storage and access
Resume files stored outside the public web root, authenticated file serving, and local infrastructure control reduce the distance between policy and implementation.
Source visibility and ownership
Open-source recruiting platform
An open-source recruiting platform matters when hiring workflows cannot be outsourced to a closed vendor stack. Teams with privacy, security, or legal obligations need to inspect how candidate data is processed and where workflow decisions are made.
Self-hosting changes the operational model. The organization owns the application, the workflow execution, the logs, and the underlying data store. That reduces vendor lock-in and makes it easier to align hiring infrastructure with internal standards.
Vekt uses recruitment orchestration to turn those ownership requirements into a practical system. Structured vetting, status updates, audit logs, and retention jobs remain visible in code and in deployment.
Infrastructure
Self-hosting and data ownership
Ownership is not only about where the server runs. It is about who can inspect, change, and audit the workflow that handles candidate records.
Control over workflow changes
Source visibility makes it possible to inspect how screening, notification, and deletion jobs operate without depending on undocumented vendor behavior.
How workflows stay under direct control
The hiring flow is defined by application code and infrastructure the organization can run itself. Candidate submissions trigger workflow functions, status changes schedule emails, and purge operations remove expired data according to retention settings.
Because those mechanisms are part of the deployable system, teams can audit them, modify them, and align them with internal review requirements. That is a stronger posture than relying on a vendor-managed interpretation of process rules.
Category framing
Open source supports recruitment orchestration
Recruitment orchestration emphasizes explicit workflows. Open source complements that by exposing the implementation surface that controls those workflows.
Auditability improves with source visibility
When teams can inspect the code path behind a candidate decision, they can review assumptions, validate changes, and connect workflow outputs with operational logs.
Vendor lock-in becomes a design choice
Choosing a workflow-oriented alternative to ATS software is more effective when infrastructure and execution remain portable.
Vekt is open-source recruitment infrastructure, not a closed hiring appliance. Self-hosting and data ownership matter because hiring workflows carry legal, operational, and architectural consequences.