Sourcing power against predictable cost per seat

Loxo's compiled pricing is $149 Core and $199 Professional per user per month with a custom Enterprise tier. AI credits are metered per seat, and billing is annual. Each of those is a normal commercial choice, and together they change the shape of the commitment: the entry number is materially higher, the AI cost varies with use, and the whole thing is a yearly decision rather than a monthly one.

Surhires's provisional ladder is $39, $49 and $99 per user per month, with annual pricing at $32, $41 and $82 for firms that want it and monthly billing for firms that do not. AI matching on Professional comes with one hundred credits per user per month stated on the pricing page rather than metered against a balance you have to watch.

Neither model is dishonest. A metered model can be cheaper for light users and more expensive for heavy ones. What a buyer should do is model twelve months at their real volume, on both, before signing anything.

Rediscovery is where most agency value is left on the table. A firm with sixty thousand records places from the same two thousand it can remember, because search returns everything that mentions a keyword and nothing that answers the brief. Structure at capture time is what fixes that: normalised skills, seniority, location, notice period and salary expectation as fields rather than as prose.

The Match Scorer scores a candidate against a live requisition and shows which requirement drove each point, so a recruiter can disagree with the ranking and act on it. AutoShortlist produces a working shortlist from a new requisition against the existing database. Duplicate detection runs at import so the same person does not arrive four times with the notes split across four records.

None of that replaces sourcing new people. It changes how much new sourcing a desk needs to buy in the first place.

Sourcing produces contacts. Placements come from the follow-up, and the follow-up is where most CRMs quietly hand the work back to a recruiter's phone. Surhires ships WhatsApp Business API as a first-class channel on Professional, with templates, opt-in capture and every message written to the candidate activity stream so a conversation survives a desk change.

Email cadences and candidate communication are shipping and being extended. Nurture sequences are in build for Wave 1. Multi-channel sequencing that runs email, WhatsApp and SMS inside a single flow with shared suppression is planned rather than live, and if that is your requirement this quarter you should treat it as a gap.

The Reply Handler agent reads inbound replies, classifies interest and moves the record or raises a task. That is the part that keeps a cadence from turning into an inbox a recruiter stops reading.

There is no proprietary contact database. Surhires does not sell you personal phone numbers or verified private emails, and it will not pretend that enrichment is a feature we ship. If contact data is the reason you are looking, that is a point for Loxo and you should weigh it accordingly.

The AI Sourcing Agent is planned rather than built, and the AI Notetaker is planned too. Talent pools, the client portal, consent and retention tooling, structured data import and the Chrome extension are in build for Wave 1. Surhires is not an HRIS, a payroll system, a background-check provider or an assessment platform, and there is no pay-and-bill module.

SOC 2 is a readiness programme in progress with a Type I report as the first deliverable. Nothing on this site claims a Type II report until one has been issued.

If your bottleneck is reach rather than conversion, Loxo is the better product. An executive search firm or a headhunting desk that lives on outbound into people who are not in any database, and that values built-in contact data over a lower per-seat price, gets more from Loxo than from us, and paying $149 or $199 a seat for that is a rational decision rather than an overspend.

The same is true if your team is small enough that annual billing is not a constraint and heavy sourcing use makes metered AI credits good value. Loxo's sourcing and outbound engine is a genuine strength, and we would rather say that than build a table designed to hide it.

Surhires is the better fit for a desk whose value is in the database it already owns, where predictable per-seat cost, explainable matching, duplicate control and WhatsApp-native follow-up matter more than another sourcing channel.