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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. Mira 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.
$49–$299
Published plans, 3 to 75 interview-ready candidates.
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 the pipeline hours onto a per-candidate line.

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 per-candidate line.

The outcome

Same fee, a per-candidate line

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 has always priced two different things, and only one of them is a software problem. Clients pay for judgment, for a consultant who will tell them the brief is wrong, for an offer that actually closes. They also pay, silently, for the hours the desk burns finding names and chasing replies. Metix AI is built to sit under that second line as a per-candidate cost, which is why it cannot replace a retained relationship and why it can still change the unit economics of a mandate that is currently eaten by pipeline work. The published SHRM band, 20 to 25 percent of first-year cash, is the placement fee. Our published plans, $49 to $299 a month, are the pipeline. Mixing those two invoices is how firms overpay for software or underprice their own judgment.

01

A desk running too many searches

Sourcing and first outreach sit on a per-candidate line. Client intake, calibration, and the 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 move only when a candidate is booked.

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. A delivery lead reviews before handoff.
  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 plans. Credits move on the interview.

A credit is one interested, interview-ready candidate. If nobody clears the bar, the credit stays unspent. Yearly billing saves 10 percent. Volume and specialized hiring is quote-only.

Starter

$49/mo
The first role off your plate.
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  • 3 interview-ready candidates / mo
  • 1 active role
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Growth

$89/mo
More than one front.
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  • 12 interview-ready candidates / mo
  • 3 active roles

Professional

$159/mo
Real hiring volume.
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  • 30 interview-ready candidates / mo
  • 6 active roles

Scale

$299/mo
Hiring like it is the job.
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  • 75 interview-ready candidates / mo
  • 12 active roles

Monthly list prices, checked against the pricing page. Trial: 14 days, 3 New Roles, 12 Credits, no card.

Other desks and markets

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FAQ

Before you start.

Can a recruiting agency white-label Metix AI?

Agency-operated and white-label arrangements are a quoted-plan conversation: the published plans are sold to the hiring company, and volume or firm-operated accounts go through a quote. Write to contact@metix.ai with the subject line for sales. What we publish is the per-delivery price list itself, $49 to $299 a month for 3 to 75 interview-ready candidates, which is the number a firm needs to price the pipeline stage of a mandate.

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. A delivery lead reviews every candidate before handoff. 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 per-candidate pricing compare with a contingency fee?

A contingency fee prices the placement; per-candidate pricing prices the pipeline. On this site's published numbers, contingency fees run 20 to 25 percent of first-year cash compensation per placement, per the SHRM band our agency-fee analysis uses, while Metix AI plans run $49 to $299 a month for 3 to 75 delivered candidates. The two are not substitutes: one pays for a hire with the search risk carried by the agency, the other pays for interview-ready candidates with the hiring decision kept in-house.

Keep reading

How the meter works: You pay for candidates worth meeting

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.

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Compress the hours.

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