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One paper search bar feeds three lanes: a wide spread of cards, a short ranked row, and a longer lane to a calendar.
Guides13 min read

Fast Search and Deep Search: how to search for candidates in Metix AI

Fast Search shows who fits a role in seconds. Deep Search scores each person against your criteria. An AI Agent carries the role to booked interviews. Here is how each one works, with real recordings.

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White calendar leaves stand behind three charcoal seats, an indigo folder with a blank quote sheet and a shared glass tray of counters.
Pricing11 min read

Loxo pricing: Core starts at $149; Professional needs a quote

Price the plan you need, keep unanswered fees visible and add Boost allowances only for the seats that carry them.

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An open grey folio connects three abstract candidate records to evidence slips with indigo threads; one slot is empty and a lens rests over a source.
Hiring guide11 min read

Candidate shortlist template: evidence, questions and next actions

Hand a reviewer the evidence and unresolved questions behind each candidate, with an editable CSV and a local record check.

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A charcoal counting tray with transparent dividers and paper tokens beside an indigo waiting compartment with a clock symbol.
Hiring guide9 min read

Recruitment funnel metrics: count one cohort at a time

Give each contact the same observation time, keep the people and stage definitions consistent, and put the denominator next to every rate.

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Professional evidence cards connect through an indigo approval tab to a message in a white envelope.
Hiring guide9 min read

Passive candidate email template: write from evidence

Explain why the opening is relevant without inventing interest or fit. Use the editable worksheet to check the message before you approve it.

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A useful evidence card is diverted by an exclusion gate and returned to a review tray along a separate path.
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Boolean search for recruiters: test your strings

A tighter search can hide the person you hoped to find. Test the field, the wording and the exclusion before you trust the result.

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Translucent account tiles and code-review sheets connect to one evidence card through an indigo thread.
Hiring guide10 min read

GitHub sourcing: people search and project evidence

Find an account, inspect a project, then ask what the evidence actually supports. A public engineering role and a merged change show how to keep those steps separate.

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Public profile cards pass through separate evidence and outreach approval stages, marked by an indigo card and charcoal disc.
Hiring guide10 min read

Free resume search for employers: access limits and a usable log

Separate a free search result from readable evidence, contact access and a paid trial. Then use one approved vacancy to decide what to review next.

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Paper requirements move from a meeting circle through a frame into one structured role brief, with an unresolved strip held aside.
Hiring guide14 min read

Recruiting intake meeting template: from requirements to a usable brief

A useful intake ends with decisions someone can act on. Copy the blank form, inspect the filled example and agree on what evidence would justify contacting a candidate for your real opening.

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Five company-size compartments connect an ATS drawer to a folded annual commitment and a separate renewal envelope.
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Gem pricing: recruiting plans and startup costs

A startup rate answers only the first question. Match the company-size band and ATS scope, then budget the full commitment after the introductory offer ends.

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An archived pricing box with separate allowance trays stands before a bridge carrying records to a replacement workflow.
Pricing11 min read

Fetcher pricing: historical plans and transition costs

Fetcher has announced platform retirement. Use its archived plan prices to understand the old commitment, then budget the records, conversations and work your next system must carry.

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A single recruiting seat beside a larger sealed quote envelope and modular tools.
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hireEZ pricing: $494 Solo, quotes and trial terms

A Solo price is easy to find. A budget for the work around it takes a little more care. Start with the actual offer, then add the software and recruiter hours your team will keep.

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Loose calendar leaves beside a bound annual bundle, contact cards and export folders.
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SeekOut pricing: Core costs, credits and annual billing

The monthly price and annual upfront payment answer different cash questions. Check both against your hiring window, then look closely at contacts, exports and the ATS connection you need.

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Two evaluation benches receive the same candidate cards and shared review criteria.
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AI recruitment tool vendor comparison template

Two demos can make very different products look equally capable. Give both vendors one real role, one review rubric and the same definition of a useful result.

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Engineering roles that stay open too long

Every serious evaluation costs senior engineering hours, so the funnel starves long before the market runs out of names.

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Healthcare AI talent, not a shift-fill desk

Hospital AI and clinical-AI companies need people fluent in both workflow and models. Metix AI maps that pool. It is not a high-volume nurse staffing product.

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Security engineering search on a public talent graph

Find security engineers, detection talent, and security ML on 900M+ profiles. Clearance, if the role needs it, stays an employer check. We do not sell a cleared-talent pool.

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Fintech engineering and the quant-AI corridor

Thirty fintech engineering orgs and a 25-firm quant-to-lab corridor are already mapped on this site. Mira books the interviews. You keep the compliance bar.

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A search lens selects profiles from a broad field before first contact.
Hiring guide6 min read

What is candidate sourcing? A list is not a hire

You have a role to fill and too few relevant applicants. Sourcing is the work of finding people who have not applied and opening a conversation with them.

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A paper market map connects expertise clusters at the overlap of hardware and ML skills.
Hiring guide7 min read

Talent mapping: know where to look.

Where should you look before you search? A practical guide to finding skill concentrations, questioning source-company assumptions, and writing a sharper hiring brief.

Gene DaiCo-founder & CPO, Metix AI
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An outreach envelope bridges a role brief to profiles and an ongoing reply.
Hiring guide5 min read

Active sourcing vs passive sourcing: why outbound stalls

Posting the role has not produced enough relevant applicants. Active sourcing gives someone responsibility for finding and contacting people directly, then keeping those conversations moving.

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A tentative role brief and market research sit before a future hiring gate.
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Proactive recruiting: search before the req opens

A likely role is taking shape, but headcount has not been approved. Use that time to test the brief and understand the market without promising candidates a job that does not exist yet.

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Semantic AI sourcing across 900M+ profiles

Keyword search finds people who used your words. Semantic sourcing reads 900M+ profiles by meaning and finds the people who do the work, with the biggest expected gains on long-tail roles.

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A small hiring workbench matches a few tools to one open role.
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Best AI recruiting tools for startups: 7 options, priced

For a small team, a cheap tool can still be expensive to operate. Start with the recruiting work nobody currently has time to do, then compare the capacity each plan actually includes.

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A connected recruiting desk combines candidate history, review, search and outreach.
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Best AI sourcing tools for recruiters: 5 tools and 2 alternatives

Start with the work your recruiter wants to keep. Compare the actual package, current billing terms and remaining operator time, then put two finalists through the same approved role.

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Five distinct recruiting jobs are represented by five different tools in a curated cabinet.
Rankings13 min read

Best AI recruiting tools 2026: 8 options, costs and fit

Compare eight current platforms for sourcing and recruiting operations. Check the plan you would buy, the work your team retains and the evidence for one approved vacancy.

Gene DaiCo-founder & CPO, Metix AI
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An open evidence atlas contrasts with a connected professional network and its messaging route.
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hireEZ vs LinkedIn Recruiter: which one fits your team?

Compare the package you can buy, the work it completes for your role and the work your team keeps. Public starting prices alone do not answer that decision.

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Candidate records and conversations cross from an archived platform to a replacement workflow.
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Metix AI vs Fetcher: historical comparison and transition

Fetcher has announced that it is retiring its platform. Treat the product comparison below as historical context and start an active buying decision with continuity, data and a replacement workflow.

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Different billing meters sit above one shared recruiting budget sheet.
Pricing15 min read

AI recruiting tools pricing 2026: what 14 vendors actually publish

The same monthly figure can buy a recruiter seat, an open role or a company-wide plan. Record the payment term and work included before comparing the bill.

Gene DaiCo-founder & CPO, Metix AI
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A deep candidate archive contrasts with an operated interview handoff.
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Metix AI vs SeekOut: talent search versus delivered candidates

SeekOut's search products and its managed service answer different needs. A Metix AI plan covers the search your team runs and the Agent that carries an open role through the next handoff.

Gene DaiCo-founder & CPO, Metix AI
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ATS-centered recruiting modules and a role workflow connect to a hiring-manager handoff.
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Metix AI vs hireEZ: recruiting engine or booked interview

If your ATS is already established, the next purchase should add hands for new roles. Compare the actual hiring workflow and the people who will operate it.

Gene DaiCo-founder & CPO, Metix AI
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A retained network can be supplemented, used alongside another tool or replaced with record continuity.
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LinkedIn Recruiter alternatives for small teams (2026)

A small team can add a sourcing workflow or change systems. Compare five external providers and a Lite downgrade, with a filled pilot brief and the cash you still owe.

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A sourced list contrasts with a workflow that continues through outreach, qualification and scheduling.
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AI sourcing tool vs AI recruiter: what's the difference?

A candidate list is the right output when a recruiter is ready to act on it. When those hours are missing, the buying question extends through outreach, qualification and scheduling. Metix AI covers both in one plan.

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A search need branches into sourcing, a broader stack, records and operated workflow options.
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Juicebox alternatives: eight current options and Fetcher status

Compare the workflow, public price basis and person responsible for the next step. Fetcher belongs in a retirement transition, and a cheaper search seat does not buy someone to run the role.

Gene DaiCo-founder & CPO, Metix AI
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Mira-Embeddings-V1: Domain-Adapted Semantic Reranking for Recruitment via LLM-Synthesized Data

A recruitment-domain semantic reranking system that uses LLM-synthesized supervision and boundary-aware reranking to improve candidate retrieval recall.

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