Gene Dai.
Co-founder & CPO, Metix AI
Gene Dai leads product at Metix AI. He built hiring products at BOSS Zhipin, Liepin and Zuoyebang before this, and studied at Beihang University.
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Talent mapping is a picture of the market, not a hire
A map shows who works where and who is stuck. It does not book the interview. Use it to write the bar. Then run the search.
Read →Pay-per-candidate recruiting: what the credit actually buys
Pay per candidate covers several different meters. Metix is included as a contrast because it now charges a $99–$499 subscription with usage Credits, not per candidate. Picked is $0.99/inbound vet; Recruo is $300–$2,500; Hire22 uses INR unlocks.
Read →Best AI recruiting tools 2026, ranked by the job they do
Fourteen tools, five jobs, no single winner. The pick is whoever publishes a price for the work you cannot do yourself. Every figure carried from our August 2026 vendor-page reads.
Read →What AI recruiting tools actually cost in 2026, read off the vendors' own pages
Fourteen AI recruiting tools, every price read off the vendor's own page, most of them on 10 August 2026. Eleven publish at least one number, Paradox, Findem and GoPerfect publish none, and the gap between sticker and spend comes from three places: seats that multiply, quotas that run out, and tiers that only exist behind a sales call.
Read →The real cost of LinkedIn Recruiter, from Lite to Corporate
Recruiter Lite is $170 a month, published on a help-center page rather than the marketing site; Recruiter Corporate publishes no price at all. The full LinkedIn Recruiter ladder priced from LinkedIn's own pages, with the annual math derived in the open. Checked August 2026.
Read →Per-candidate vs per-seat pricing: compare the full cost
A seat and an AI-agent subscription both bill for access, but include different work and usage. Published prices: Recruiter Lite $170 a month, SeekOut Core $149 annual, hireEZ $494, versus Metix AI at $99 to $499 with Credits and AI Agents.
Read →ATS pricing compared, and what the per-seat number leaves out
Five of eight ATS vendors publish a price, three publish none, and not one puts an implementation fee on its pricing page. Entry prices, what each meter counts, and what the list price leaves out, checked August 2026.
Read →Metix AI vs hireEZ: recruiting engine or finished interview
One arms the recruiting team you already have on top of the ATS you already run; the other books qualified, interested candidates through subscriptions with usage Credits and AI Agents. Published pricing and trade-offs, checked August 2026.
Read →Juicebox alternatives in 2026, priced from the vendors' own pages
Nine tools people move to when Juicebox stops fitting, with every price read off the vendor's own page on 27 July 2026, plus the widely repeated figures that do not survive a check.
Read →Metix AI vs LinkedIn Recruiter vs Juicebox (PeopleGPT): who does the work?
One is a network, one is a search engine, and one books interviews on your calendar. Published pricing and the trade-offs for all three, checked July 2026.
Read →Every hiring tool sells one slice of the work
Every hiring tool sells one slice of the work and hands the rest back. How the market really splits, how usage-based pricing works, and how Metix AI delivers interview-ready candidates.
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