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Running a one or two-person recruiting team in 2026 is no joke.
You’re filling reqs across the company. You’re answering every applicant. You’re trying to evaluate AI-generated resumes that look real until they don’t. And the tools that were supposed to help either price you out, offer crippled functionality in their base versions or never quite work for the kinds of roles you actually hire for.
We’ve heard this from small teams and solo recruiters for a while now, and the message has been clear: you want SeekOut’s sourcing power without the enterprise wrapping. So we built it.
Meet SeekOut Recruit Core, a new plan designed for small businesses and solo recruiters who need to source, evaluate, and engage candidates without an elaborate contract or a six-figure budget.
Everything you need to source, in one plan
Recruit Core gives you the full SeekOut talent index. Not a trimmed-down version, not a “starter” search, not a paywall every time you try to get something useful from the product. The same 1B+ profiles, the same AI search, the same data sources our enterprise customers use. We just packaged it for teams that need to move fast and stay lean.
• The full 1B+ talent index. Public profiles, GitHub developers, academic and expert profiles, and specialized healthcare data. The same depth and breadth that 750+ leading customers rely on, now available to a one-person TA function.
• Smart Match search. Paste in a job description and let SeekOut build the search for you. Titles, skills, and partial matches handled in seconds. No Boolean strings, no toggling filters one at a time.
• AI Assistant powered by SeekOut MCP. Search from inside Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any AI assistant you already use. Ask in plain language, get ranked candidates back, refine, retrieve contacts and even generate personalized messages without ever leaving the chat.
• Workspaces. One place to run a search, score candidates against a rubric, build your shortlist, and launch a multi-step outreach sequence. Per role, in your browser, ready when you are.
• Verified contact info and built-in outreach. Personal email addresses, real phone numbers, and an outreach tool that handles multi-step sequences with per-candidate tracking. No need for yet another tool.
Built for the roles you actually hire for
A lot of sourcing tools fall apart the moment a req gets specific. Need an engineer with active GitHub commits in a specific framework? A bilingual nurse practitioner with a particular certification? A researcher with a niche publication history?
Other SMB sourcing tools tend to be fast at the surface but shallow underneath. They lean on one data source, and they struggle the second a req asks for anything outside the obvious. Recruit Core indexes people they don’t see.
In our internal testing on complex job descriptions, Recruit Core delivers dramatically better relevance and fewer false positives than the SMB tools our customers most often compare us against. That’s not because we’re flashier. It’s because we more deeply understand the talent pool and the requirements of your roles.
A credit card is all you need to get started
For a long time, SeekOut was priced for enterprises with enterprise budgets. Solo recruiters and small TA functions wanted us but couldn’t make the math work. With Recruit Core, we fixed that gap.
Recruit Core starts at $179 a month. With a swipe of your credit card, you get all of SeekOut’s sourcing and engagement capabilities, plus 500 verified contacts a month and 1,000 exports a month. No annual commitment required. No procurement gauntlet. No implementation fee. Pay monthly, cancel any time, run it on a credit card. Or pay $1,788 upfront which works out to $149 per month.
It might not be the least expensive tool in the category, but it is decidedly the deepest and the broadest. It’s the one that actually finds the people you’re trying to hire, at a price small teams have budgetary authority for or can defend to a CFO.
Try Recruit Core free for 14 days
Free trial without a credit card. Paste in a job description, see candidates in under a minute, run an outreach sequence, and decide for yourself.
If it earns its keep against a real role you’re trying to fill, upgrade when you’re ready. If it doesn’t, walk away without paying a dollar.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is AI-powered candidate sourcing?
AI-powered sourcing uses machine learning to search across billions of candidate profiles, identifying the best matches for open roles based on skills, experience, and potential — far beyond what keyword-based boolean search can achieve.
How does SeekOut's AI sourcing differ from LinkedIn?
SeekOut searches across 1B+ profiles from multiple sources, not just one network. Its AI understands skills context and adjacencies, finding qualified candidates that boolean search on any single platform would miss.
What types of roles benefit most from AI sourcing?
AI sourcing excels for hard-to-fill roles, technical positions, diversity hiring, and high-volume recruiting. It's especially effective for passive candidate discovery — reaching the 70% of professionals who aren't actively job searching.