Founder & CEO, Metix AI
Kin Fu has spent two decades in recruiting and talent, at Career International, Hudson and Kelly Services, and founded the search firm Falcon Talent. He studied at Tsinghua University.
LinkedIn profile of Kin Fu (opens in a new tab) · 6 articles
SHRM's benchmark average is $4,683 and its median is $1,244 (2021 data, published 2022), but the biggest cost-per-hire line appears on neither: hiring-manager and interviewer hours, which nobody invoices. The full component list, tool prices checked August 2026, and the hours-times-loaded-rate method for pricing the invisible slice.
Read →A contingency fee is 20 to 25 percent of first-year pay in SHRM's 2016 guidance, and a year of recruiting software runs $1,680 to $5,928 at list, checked August 2026. We work the break-even at three salary levels and show why the sticker comparison misleads.
Read →SeekOut searches a claimed 1B+ profiles behind 300+ filters and hands the campaigns back to your recruiters; its quote-only Spot service delivers screened candidates instead. Metix AI prices the delivered interview itself, $49 to $299 a month, checked August 2026.
Read →Metix AI and Deel announce a global strategic partnership that enables enterprises to recruit, onboard, and pay talent across 130+ countries through a single AI recruiter.
Read →OpenJobs AI is now Metix AI. We closed $5.5M across two oversubscribed rounds, the latest led by Rsquared Investment. What the new name means, the traction behind it, and where the money goes.
Read →Same team, same product, same login and API. A truer name for what the product has become, drawn from Metis, the ancient Greek idea of practical intelligence.
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