HRMS migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Adapt and Recruit CRM & ATS. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Recruit CRM & ATS.
Adapt
Source
Recruit CRM & ATS
Destination
Compatibility
7 of 10
objects map 1:1 between Adapt and Recruit CRM & ATS.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Moving from Adapt to Recruit CRM is a migration between two recruiting platforms with materially different data models and API availability. Adapt's data model centers on Employees, Departments, and Contact records enriched via a browser extension; Recruit CRM uses a Candidate-centric ATS+CRM structure with Jobs, Clients, and Placements. Adapt has no confirmed public REST API in current research, so we plan for a CSV-based extraction as the primary export path, which limits field coverage and requires post-migration validation. We preserve enrichment metadata from Adapt's email-find history as custom fields on Recruit CRM Candidate records, and we deliver a written inventory of Adapt's workflows, sequences, and automations requiring manual rebuild in Recruit CRM's automation builder. Timeline ranges from three to six weeks depending on record volume and data cleanliness.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Why teams make this switch
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What's pushing teams away
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What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Adapt object lands in Recruit CRM & ATS, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Adapt
Employee
Recruit CRM & ATS
Candidate
1:1Adapt Employee records map to Recruit CRM Candidate records. Standard fields including name, email, job title, phone, and hire date migrate directly. We preserve any custom employee properties as custom fields on the Candidate record, maintaining data type where Recruit CRM supports the equivalent type (text, date, number, picklist). Enrichment metadata from Adapt's browser extension history migrates to a custom long-text field on Candidate capturing the email-find history, source, and confidence score so recruiters retain context on data provenance.
Adapt
Department
Recruit CRM & ATS
Team or Custom Field
lossyAdapt Department records map to Recruit CRM Teams if the customer's plan supports team-based assignment, or to a custom picklist field on Candidate. We preserve the full department hierarchy as a hierarchical picklist or as separate custom fields (department, division, cost_center) based on how the customer organizes reporting in Recruit CRM. Department-to-team mapping is confirmed during the scoping session.
Adapt
Contact Record
Recruit CRM & ATS
Candidate or Client
1:manyAdapt Contact records tagged as candidate-facing migrate to Recruit CRM Candidate; those tagged as client-facing migrate to Recruit CRM Client. We use a contact_type or category field from Adapt as the split key. Any Contact without a type designation is flagged in the extraction audit for manual classification before import.
Adapt
Company/Account
Recruit CRM & ATS
Client
1:1Adapt Company records map to Recruit CRM Client records. Company name, domain, industry, and address fields migrate directly. Custom company properties require field-level transformation during migration; we map these to Recruit CRM custom fields on the Client object. The client's domain becomes the Client Website field and serves as the dedupe key during import.
Adapt
Job/Position
Recruit CRM & ATS
Job
1:1Adapt Job or Position records map to Recruit CRM Job records. Job title, status (open/closed/filled), and job description migrate directly. If Adapt stores job requirements or skills as structured fields, we map them to Recruit CRM's Skills picklist or custom fields. Job status workflow (opening to placement) maps to Recruit CRM's job stage pipeline.
Adapt
PTO Balance
Recruit CRM & ATS
Not migrated
1:1Adapt PTO balance records (current balance and accrual history) have no equivalent in Recruit CRM's ATS+CRM data model. Recruit CRM is a recruiting platform and does not include HR or time-off management modules. We export PTO balances as a CSV snapshot that the customer's HR team retains separately and recommend migrating to a dedicated HRMS if PTO tracking is required post-switch.
Adapt
Compensation History
Recruit CRM & ATS
Custom Field or Not migrated
1:1Adapt compensation and salary records (available in higher tiers) have no standard equivalent in Recruit CRM's Candidate object. If the customer uses Recruit CRM's Custom Fields feature, we map the most recent compensation value to a custom currency field on Candidate as a reference snapshot. Full compensation timeline does not migrate to Recruit CRM and should be archived in the customer's HRIS.
Adapt
Custom Employee Properties
Recruit CRM & ATS
Custom Fields on Candidate or Client
lossyAdapt supports custom fields on the Employee object. We migrate these as custom fields in Recruit CRM, preserving data type where the destination supports the equivalent (text, date, number, picklist). We pre-create the destination custom field schema in Recruit CRM before any data import. Custom field naming follows Recruit CRM's field-naming conventions and is validated against their field-type restrictions during the scoping phase.
Adapt
Owner
Recruit CRM & ATS
User
1:1Adapt Owners referenced on Employee, Contact, and Company records map to Recruit CRM Users by email match. We extract every distinct Owner from the Adapt export and reconcile against the Recruit CRM User list. Owners without a matching Recruit CRM User are held in a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before Candidate import resumes.
Adapt
Workflow, Sequence, Automation
Recruit CRM & ATS
Not migrated
1:1Adapt workflows, sequences, and automations do not migrate to Recruit CRM because the two platforms use different automation models with incompatible trigger types, conditions, and actions. We deliver a written inventory of every active Adapt automation with its trigger, conditions, and actions, plus a recommendation for the equivalent Recruit CRM automation. The customer's admin rebuilds these post-migration. This is standard scope for all FlitStack AI migrations and is not a pair-specific limitation.
| Adapt | Recruit CRM & ATS | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employee | Candidate1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Department | Team or Custom Fieldlossy | Fully supported | |
| Contact Record | Candidate or Client1:many | Fully supported | |
| Company/Account | Client1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Job/Position | Job1:1 | Fully supported | |
| PTO Balance | Not migrated1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Compensation History | Custom Field or Not migrated1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Custom Employee Properties | Custom Fields on Candidate or Clientlossy | Mapping required | |
| Owner | User1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Workflow, Sequence, Automation | Not migrated1:1 | Fully supported |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
Adapt gotchas
Browser extension reinstall breaks email tracking activation
100 credits/month hard cap limits email-find volume
No publicly documented API in current research data
Platform lineage unclear — potential acquisition or rebrand
Recruit CRM & ATS gotchas
API rate limits are license-scaled and can throttle bulk migration
Custom field schemas vary per organization and require field-level mapping
Files and email attachments require separate extraction and re-upload
Email sequences and automation logic do not transfer between platforms
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and Adapt export audit
We audit the Adapt database to identify all object types in scope (Employees, Departments, Contacts, Companies, Jobs, custom properties), estimate record volumes per object, and confirm the extraction method. Since Adapt has no confirmed public API, we work with the customer to request a full CSV export directly from Adapt, validate which fields are included in the export versus what requires a separate extraction, and assess the enrichment metadata availability. We also identify any Adapt workflows, sequences, or automations for the written inventory document. The discovery output is a written migration scope with object list, record counts, and extraction method confirmation.
Data quality audit and cleansing
We load the Adapt CSV export into a staging environment and run data quality checks: duplicate detection (matching by email, phone, name), required field completeness, format standardization (phone numbers, dates, addresses), and orphaned record identification (Contacts without a parent Company, Employees without a Department assignment). We deliver a pre-migration data cleansing report to the customer with row-level flagged records and recommendations. Cleansing decisions (merge duplicates, fill missing fields, archive incomplete records) are made by the customer before transformation begins. We do not modify source data without explicit customer approval.
Recruit CRM schema preparation
We create the destination schema in Recruit CRM before any data import. This includes configuring custom fields on Candidate and Client to receive Adapt's custom employee properties, setting up Teams or department-based picklists, configuring Job record types and stage pipelines, and provisioning any Recruit CRM Users required for owner reconciliation. Custom field naming follows Recruit CRM conventions and data types are validated against their field-type restrictions. Schema is deployed into the customer's Recruit CRM environment and spot-checked before the import sequence begins.
Transformation and enrichment metadata mapping
We transform the Adapt export data into Recruit CRM-compatible format. This includes splitting Adapt Contacts into Recruit CRM Candidates and Clients based on contact_type, mapping Company records to Client records, mapping Job positions to Recruit CRM Jobs, and applying enrichment metadata (email-find history) from Adapt as a custom long-text field on each Candidate record. Owner email addresses are resolved against the Recruit CRM User list; any unresolved owners are flagged in a reconciliation queue. PTO and compensation records are exported as separate CSVs for HR retention and are not loaded into Recruit CRM.
Import in dependency order and reconciliation
We import into Recruit CRM in record-dependency order: Client records first (to satisfy lookup relationships), then Candidates (with ClientId resolved for client-linked candidates), then Jobs (with owner resolved), then custom fields and enrichment metadata. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report showing records imported, records skipped, and records held in error. Errors are reviewed, corrected in the staging data, and re-imported before the next phase begins. We do not proceed to the next phase until the current phase's reconciliation report is clean or the customer has approved the error tolerance.
Cutover, validation, and automation inventory handoff
We freeze Adapt writes during the cutover window, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration, then hand over Recruit CRM as the system of record. We deliver the written automation inventory document listing every Adapt workflow, sequence, and automation with its trigger, conditions, and recommended Recruit CRM equivalent. We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve reconciliation issues raised by the customer's recruiting team. Workflow rebuild in Recruit CRM's automation builder is handled by the customer's admin or a Recruit CRM implementation partner and is outside standard migration scope.
Platform deep dives
Adapt
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Recruit CRM & ATS
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard HRMS migration. 1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Adapt and Recruit CRM & ATS.
Object compatibility
1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
7-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
Adapt: Not publicly documented — typical SaaS limits assumed and confirmed during scoping.
Data volume sensitivity
Adapt doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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