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Keep the fee. Move the cost line.

Your fee prices two things: the judgment clients trust, and the hours spent finding and chasing people. One of those is compressible. The other never was, which is why a firm that lets software take the client relationship has already sold the wrong part of the mandate.

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A VP Engineering search brief goes in. Metix AI runs the pipeline hours. Booked interviews come back on a calendar. I looked for people a search firm would put in front of a Series B board, not staff engineers who might grow into the seat. Scaling a team through 40 was pass-fail. 88 cleared the bar and were contacted. The 6 who came back are first interviews the firm can walk into the client with.

VP Engineering mandate. Booked interviews out.

I looked for people a search firm would put in front of a Series B board, not staff engineers who might grow into the seat. Scaling a team through 40 was pass-fail.

20–25%
SHRM band for contingency fees, first-year cash. Not a Metix number.
$99–$499
Published monthly subscriptions.
860M+
Profiles in 190+ countries, under a brief you approve.

Compare cost per delivered interview, not cost per seat. The two fees are not substitutes.

The split

What you keep. What Mira runs.

The client, the intake, and the placement stay with the firm. Mira compresses pipeline hours through a usage-based subscription.

You

The client and the placement

Intake, trust, and the fee stay with the firm. That is the part a retained search actually prices.

Mira

The compressible hours

Sourcing, first outreach, screening, and booking sit on a usage-based subscription.

The outcome

Same fee, a usage-based subscription

Compare cost per delivered interview, not cost per seat. The two fees are not substitutes.

When firms use this

Four mandates where pipeline hours dominate.

A search-firm fee pays for judgment, client trust, and placement. Metix AI supports the pipeline through a subscription with usage Credits and AI Agents; it does not replace the retained relationship.

01

A desk running too many searches

Sourcing and first outreach sit on a usage-based subscription. Client intake, calibration, and placement stay with the consultant.

02

A retained search that still needs names this week

The fee still prices judgment and the close. Mira compresses the hours between brief and first interviews. It does not take the client.

03

A contingency search where the list is the cost

You still carry placement risk. You do not have to carry every hour of Boolean. Credits meter contact unlocks, Deep Search lists, and additional AI Agents.

04

White-label or firm-operated volume

That is a quoted-plan conversation: write to contact@metix.ai. Published self-serve plans are sold to the hiring company.

The split

What the fee should still buy.

  1. 01 Client and intake The firm Trust, the mandate, and the briefing stay with the firm. That work is not ours.
  2. 02 Sourcing, first outreach, screen, schedule Mira, after you approve The compressible hours: Mira screens replies and books the interview so those hours leave your desk.
  3. 03 Client-facing interviews The firm You still run the process the client bought.
  4. 04 Placement The firm Offer, guarantee, and the client relationship stay with the firm. The fee still prices this. We do not.
Pricing

Published subscription plans.

Credits meter usage: 10 per contact unlock, 100 per Deep Search list, and 3,000 per additional AI Agent above the plan allowance. Annual prices are billed yearly.

Starter

$99/mo
The first role off your plate.
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  • 5,000 Credits / mo
  • 1 AI Agent
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Growth

$199/mo
More than one front.
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  • 10,500 Credits / mo
  • 2 AI Agents

Professional

$299/mo
Real hiring volume.
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  • 16,000 Credits / mo
  • 3 AI Agents

Scale

$499/mo
Hiring like it is the job.
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  • 27,000 Credits / mo
  • 5 AI Agents

Monthly list prices. Annual equivalents: $89 / $179 / $269 / $449 per month, billed as $1,068 / $2,148 / $3,228 / $5,388 yearly. Trial: 14 days, one-time 1 AI Agent + 500 Credits, no card.

Other desks and markets

Hiring Managers → Founders → Recruiting Teams → Tech Companies → Healthcare → Cybersecurity → FinTech → Cross-border →
FAQ

Before you start.

Can a recruiting agency white-label Metix AI?

Agency-operated and white-label arrangements are quoted. Published self-serve plans run $99 to $499 monthly with 5,000 to 27,000 Credits and 1 to 5 AI Agents.

Does outreach go out under our firm's name?

Every message is approved by you before it sends, so the voice candidates hear is the one you chose. How the account is named on a client-facing or white-label arrangement is part of the quoted-plan conversation, not the self-serve plans.

Does Metix AI compete with search firms?

On sourcing hours, yes. On the rest of the mandate, no. Metix AI delivers qualified, interested candidates booked for first interviews. It does not manage the client relationship, run the intake, negotiate offers, or guarantee a placement, which is the work a retained fee actually prices.

How does subscription pricing compare with a contingency fee?

A contingency fee prices the placement. Metix AI is a subscription with usage Credits and AI Agents, starting at $99 per month. The hiring decision stays in-house.

Keep reading

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Hiring managers who still need interviews this month August 24, 2026You own the bar and the interviews. Mira runs sourcing, outreach, and booking so the req is not stuck behind someone else's queue. Hiring when nobody on the team owns recruiting August 24, 2026Nobody on the team has the continuous hours a search actually takes, and a paused search decays fast. The bottleneck was never finding candidates.

Keep the mandate.
Compress the hours.

Quoted plans for firm-operated volume. Or test one mandate on the trial.

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