Crelate Serves Recruiting.

Encore Focuses on Retained Search.

Crelate supports executive search, staffing, and other recruiting teams. Encore is built exclusively for retained executive search, bringing your firm’s relationships, research, and institutional knowledge into one place.

Two Platforms. Two Trajectories.

A clear-eyed look at where each platform comes from, who it's built for, and where it's heading.

Feature Crelate Encore
Built exclusively for retained executive search ✗ ✓
A company invested in your future ✗ ✓
Your firm's institutional knowledge, centralized ✗ ✓
AI built for how search actually works ✗ ✓
One migration. Done. ✗ ✓
Purpose-built for retained search, not adapted from a staffing platform ✗ ✓
30+ years of independent ownership and roadmap stability ✗ ✓

Trusted by Some of the Biggest Names

in Executive Search

"Encore is a force multiplier for our recruiters."


-K.D. Director, Executive Research

“I have never before worked with a software company whose Support team is this consistent with quickly delivering solutions. This speaks volumes about Cluen being a company based on its customers.”


-Dorothy W.

“There is no other system I want to use. It’s a no-brainer."


-D.T., Veteran Encore user

"[Encore is] by far the most thoughtfully designed system suited to executive search firms."


-COO of a Canadian-based firm

"Encore is a force multiplier for our recruiters."


-K.D. Director, Executive Research

“I have never before worked with a software company whose Support team is this consistent with quickly delivering solutions. This speaks volumes about Cluen being a company based on its customers.”


-Dorothy W.

4 Reasons Why Firms Prefer Encore

Encore centralizes your firm’s knowledge — not just public data. Because years of curated insight, deep relationships, historical context, and recruiter judgment can’t be replaced by a profile scrape.

Purpose-built for retained search

Designed around what actually drives the work: clients, candidates, relationships, research, and placements.

Future-proof AI innovation

State-of-the-art updates that augment recruiter judgment rather than replace it — built specifically for retained executive search.

Your firm’s knowledge, centralized

Connect email, calendar, LinkedIn, documents, AI tools, and transcriptions in one place — so your institutional knowledge lives where you work.

Aligned with how you actually work

Encore is already proven and feature-complete — not a roadmap of promises. And Cluen migrates FileFinder firms without forcing them to rethink the way they operate.

If you’re going to invest in a platform change, make it count.

Move directly to Encore, the platform designed for retained executive search. Cluen’s team are the world’s experts in smoothly completing FileFinder upgrades.