Folders that file themselves
Locations, then positions within each, with counts. Applications from your website land in the right folder the moment they arrive. Search, date range and sort work inside any folder.
Gosling · the Lite edition of Gooseplicant
Every applicant, neatly filed.
Gosling is a file cabinet that learned to search. Everyone who applied, sorted by location, then by position. Open a folder, find the person, read the resume. No pipelines, no stages, no ceremony.
What it does
The paperwork part of hiring, and nothing else.
Some teams don't want a pipeline. They want to know who applied where, open the resume, and hand a tidy folder to whoever asks. That's Gosling.
Preview, then download
PDF resumes open right in the applicant pane, next to the application answers in the order the applicant saw the form. Drag the pane wider and the preview taller (it remembers), or expand the PDF to fill the screen. One click downloads the file.
Wrong folder? Drag them
Applied to Georgia but meant Ohio? Drag one applicant or a whole selection onto the right location or position folder, use Set location… / Set position…, or change it right in the applicant pane. Files and answers move along, with Undo, and every change is logged.
Needs sorting, in one place
A Needs sorting folder gathers everyone still missing a location or a position, with chips to narrow it down. Work through it until the goose says every gosling has a nest.
Your locations, your order
Admins drag locations, and the positions inside each, into the order that makes sense (or move them with the keyboard or a menu), and everyone sees that order, in every list and picker. No position stays last.
Always current, never jumpy
A refresh button (or r) and a quiet check every minute. New applicants wait in a small pill until you want them, instead of moving the list under your cursor.
Old emails, welcome
Drop in last year's application emails and PDFs. Gosling reads them in your browser, sorts them by location and lets you check before anything is saved.
A zip with the folders intact
Export a selection, a folder or everything: location and position folders, one folder per applicant with their files, and a spreadsheet of everyone on top.
Clear out many, carefully
Admins can delete a whole selection for a right-to-erasure request: a plain confirmation that names who else goes with it, a typed check from ten people up, and one audit entry per person.
The same guardrails
Roles scoped per location, sensitive answers masked until revealed, an audit log of who looked at what, automatic retention and right-to-erasure deletes. Lite on features, not on care.
Import
The shared mailbox, sorted.
Drop Outlook emails (.msg, .eml), PDFs or a whole folder. Everything is read in your browser; nothing is uploaded until you press Import.
- Add files. Folder names count as hints, so a folder per location works nicely.
- Review. Each application arrives pre-filed with a confidence chip (Sure, Likely, Guess, or Pick one). Fix the odd one, or set a location or a position for a whole selection, picked from the positions you already use. No idea where some belong? Admins can import them as Unsorted and sort them later.
- Import. A few at a time, with progress, and a retry for anything that didn't make it.
- Done. Counts, a link to the folder (and to Needs sorting for anything unsorted), and a list of stragglers if there were any.
Export
Hand it over in one zip.
For an auditor, a new HR system or a hiring manager who wants “everyone for Georgia”: the zip mirrors your folders, with an applicants.csv on top. Sensitive answers stay out, and every export lands in the audit log.
applicants-2026-10-14/
applicants.csv
Fieldstone Georgia/
Forklift Operator/
Hernandez, Luis — 2026-10-14/
application.txt
Luis_Hernandez_Resume.pdf
Okafor, Nadia — 2025-03-04/
application.txt
Nadia_Okafor_Resume.pdf
original.eml
Two ways to run it
Alongside Gooseplicant, or on its own.
Gosling isn't a separate product to install. It's a second, simpler app on the same server, API and database, and the EDITION setting decides what else is switched on.
Alongside
Every Gooseplicant install serves Gosling at /ats/lite/, next to the HR app at /ats/. Colleagues who just need to look someone up get the calm view; recruiters can jump to the full record with Open in Gooseplicant.
EDITION=fullOn its own
Only the file browser: /ats/ redirects to /ats/lite/, stages, jobs, notes and email are switched off, and only the audit and retention modules run. Your website form still posts applications in.
EDITION=liteWhen it's time to fly
Goslings grow up.
When you want stages, ratings, notes, jobs, the talent pool or applicant email, change EDITION=lite to EDITION=full and restart or redeploy. Nothing is migrated, re-imported or re-uploaded: it's the same database, so every applicant, file and audit entry is already there. Applications you collected in Gosling simply start in the first pipeline stage.
Who can do what. Viewers browse, preview and download. Recruiters and admins can also reveal sensitive answers, file applicants by location and position, import and export. Admins manage and reorder locations and their positions (and the locations' import aliases), users and retention, and can erase a person, or many at once, on request.
Not in Gosling: pipeline stages, ratings, notes, jobs, the talent pool and emails to applicants or HR. That's what Gooseplicant is for.
Small bird. Tidy nest.
Gosling ships in the same kit as Gooseplicant. Install it with Docker, Node.js or Cloudflare, set EDITION=lite if that's all you need, and connect your form.