Overview
Nima Chitgar is founder and CEO of Saply.ai, a Belgian SaaS startup providing an AI-powered CV formatting tool for staffing agencies to create client-ready resumes directly within Word.
Chitgar's path into recruitment technology started at KU Leuven, where he and Guillaume built Simply Apply in 2021 as a student project matching computer science graduates with VDAB vacancies. After graduation he joined De Cronos Groep in 2023 and worked on optimising staffing processes with AI.
Nima Chitgar is co-founder and CEO of Saply.ai, a company based in Ostend that builds agentic AI software for CV automation and management. The product formats resumes into branded templates inside Word, Google Docs, Outlook and applicant tracking systems, and adds AI-powered CV editing, job matching and candidate gap analysis. It integrates with the ATS platforms Bullhorn, Carerix, Spott and Loxo. Clients include Cegeka, delaware, Cronos Groep, Cheops, Planet Group, Addon, Bonaja, GA, Bridge351, Connecting Expertise, Sapient and Verheart. Chitgar studied at KU Leuven, where he and co-founder Guillaume created Simply Apply in 2021, a student project that matched computer science graduates with VDAB vacancies. After graduating he joined De Cronos Groep in 2023, where he optimised staffing processes using AI. The idea for Saply took shape in January 2024, the company was admitted to the Start it @KBC accelerator in March 2024, and the first paying clients arrived in September 2024.
Career history
In the news
- Our UK customer Lawes Consulting Group was so nice to provide their ROI in front of the camera They send about 45 CVs a day & every one of them was reformatted by hand Now the CEO Steven Lawes FIRP did the maths with us If they do 45 CVs a day for 20 minutes each That is 75 hours (!) spent on formatting. So almost two full time roles! Today the same CV takes under a minute, eventually saving them almost 75 hours for making connections, prospecting, etc. If your team is still formatting CVs by hand, ask yourself one question: how
- What is your exit strategy? When we raised our first round, an investor asked me that classic question. My answer was one word: Distribution. They looked confused. Let me explain what I meant. Every CV tool on the market wants to be seen. Its own login. Its own dashboard. Another tab a recruiter has to open. We wanted the opposite. Saply should be invisible. Recruiters live in Word. Google Docs. Outlook. Gmail. Not in our app. Not in anyone's app. So the plan was to build the roads into those places. You get a CV in your
- Two full time admins. Just for CVs. That's a real quote from our customer Lawes Consulting Group, a UK recruitment agency, on camera, describing how they handled candidate presentation before Saply. Two salaries. Full time. Copying, pasting, and reformatting CVs, every single day. And here's the part that stuck with me: nobody there found it strange. It was just how the work got done. It still is, at hundreds of staffing agencies right now. When we started Saply, I thought we were fixing an annoying task. Lawes taught me we're
- This summer we decided to go all in on the most crowded HR tech market in Europe. saply.ai started in Belgium. Today the biggest staffing companies here run on it, and we're active in more than 7 countries. The next one is the UK. I'll be honest about what we're walking into. The UK recruitment market is huge, hot, and packed with HR tech companies fighting for the same buyers. A textbook red ocean. So why go there anyway? Because every time we talk to UK staffing agencies, we see the same thing: recruiters still updating candidate
- I mentioned a book once, 24 hours later it was at my front door. Last week my cofounder and I sat down with Toon Verheyen to get some advice on our roadmap. Toon is a former colleague from my Cronos days. We haven't worked together for years, but stayed in contact as friends. Somewhere in the conversation he brought up the book Traction (Get a Grip on Your Business). I told him, "yeah, that's really a book I will start to read." That was it. One sentence. The next day I got a mail. I opened my door and there it was. Here's what
- Yesterday I posted about Sepp asking the team to hit the gym and everybody saying yes Today I tested it again I asked if we should book an Airbnb close to Wintercircus Ghent and just keep working from there Sepp and Manu Devloo said yes within minutes So here we are One table, three laptops, bad lighting, and a lot of work to get through before September We had dinner together, we argued about the roadmap, and then everyone quietly went back to their screen This is the picture at 11pm I keep saying it and I will keep saying it: you
- Last week Friday at 4pm Sepp dropped a message in our channel "Gym at 5?" Sepp is our AE, he joined 1 month ago. Within 10 minutes everybody had said yes The gym is inside Wintercircus Ghent, the same building where we work, so we walked down together, trained for an hour, and walked back up Then we all went back to our laptops and kept working The funny thing is that when building a great team, you stop being the one who pushes Ask them to call 60 agencies in a week and they say yes Ask them to go lift heavy things at 5pm
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