[solved] and AI sourcing tools

A tool that finds people, or a search that proves them.

AI sourcing tools such as Pin, Juicebox and SeekOut search hundreds of millions of profiles in plain language, rank the matches and help your team run outreach, from about $99 to $149 a seat a month on annual billing. [solved] is a complete search service: we work with AI on the tasks it does best, and our senior talent partners do the rest, from defining the role to the signed offer. Every shortlisted candidate arrives with evidence of their work and identity verified.

A match, then the evidence

An AI tool tells you a profile fits your search. Switch views to see what a hiring decision still needs.

Alex P.

Senior ML Engineer, Series B

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PyTorchLLM evaluationProduction MLSeries B
  • Which of this work was theirs?Open
  • Are they who their profile says?Open
  • Would they consider your role?Open
  • Does their compensation expectation fit?Open

What each costs, and what it covers

A tool and a search service cover different parts of a hire. Choose a tool to see both side by side.

Pin Professional

$1,620

12 months of seats, billed annually

  • Define the role and the outcomesYour team
  • Find the people to approachIncluded
  • Run outreachIncluded
  • Assess evidence of each person's real workYour team
  • Verify each candidate's identityYour team
  • Schedule interviewsIncluded
  • Keep every candidate informed, through to an answerYour team
  • Support the offer and closeYour team
  • Interview and decideYou

3 of 9 steps included. Your team carries the other 6.

[solved] Specialist Search

$10,000

One fixed fee per search

  • Define the role and the outcomesIncluded
  • Find the people to approachIncluded
  • Run outreachIncluded
  • Assess evidence of each person's real workIncluded
  • Verify each candidate's identityIncluded
  • Schedule interviewsIncluded
  • Keep every candidate informed, through to an answerIncluded
  • Support the offer and closeIncluded
  • Interview and decideYou

8 of 9 steps carried for you. You interview and decide.

Behind every [solved] search

  • Replacement coverage of 90 days, or 180 with Exclusive Search
  • The retainer returned in full if the shortlist misses the criteria you agreed
  • Three-quarters of the fee due only when your hire signs
  • Your own candidates assessed too: up to three in Specialist Search, five in Leadership
  • A Candidate Evidence Brief with every shortlisted candidate
  • A private Hiring Workspace, current as the search moves
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Tool prices as listed on each vendor's site, October 2026, on annual billing. Team plans are quoted separately. Tool coverage reflects each vendor's own product pages.

Which fits this hire?

Five questions to think through this hire.

  • Is this a consequential hire, one that shapes what your company can do next?

    A hire like this deserves someone accountable for the whole search.

  • Has your team hired for this kind of role before?

    Without a past hire to compare against, it is hard to tell a strong candidate from a polished one.

  • Does everyone who will interview agree on what this hire must accomplish in their first year?

    When interviewers judge against different pictures of the role, good candidates get rejected.

  • Does someone on your team have time to source, screen and run the process?

    Tools speed up the search; someone still has to run it.

  • Do you want every candidate identity verified before you meet them?

    AI now writes many applications, and some candidates are not who they claim.

Answer all five to see which fits. 0 of 5 answered.

AI is on both sides of hiring now

The same technology that finds candidates also writes their applications.

39%

of job candidates said they used AI during the application process. Gartner survey of 3,290 candidates.

6%

admitted to interview fraud: posing as someone else, or having someone pose as them. Gartner survey of 3,000 candidates, 2025.

1 in 4

candidate profiles worldwide will be fake by 2028, Gartner predicts.

That is why every [solved] shortlist is assessed on evidence of real work, and every candidate on it is identity verified before reaching you.

Alternatives to Pin, Juicebox and SeekOut

Each of these tools is strong at what it does. Here is where [solved] differs, tool by tool.

Pin

An alternative to Pin

Pin is an AI recruiting platform that searches 850M+ profiles, runs outreach and follow-ups across channels, and schedules interviews. It starts free, with Solo at $99 and Professional at $135 per user a month, billed annually.

Pin gives your team a capable engine to drive. [solved] runs the whole search for you, with every shortlisted candidate assessed on evidence of their work and identity verified, for a fixed fee per search.

Juicebox (PeopleGPT)

An alternative to Juicebox

Juicebox, known for its PeopleGPT search, lets recruiters describe a candidate in plain English and searches 800 million profiles from dozens of sources. It starts free, with Starter at $99 and Growth at $179 per seat a month, billed annually, and automated agents at $199 a month each.

Juicebox finds people exceptionally well. [solved] carries the search past the find: outreach, evidence-based assessment, identity verification and the process through to a signed offer.

SeekOut

An alternative to SeekOut

SeekOut is an AI recruiting platform with 1B+ candidate profiles, sold to sourcing and talent teams. Sourcing Core is $149 a month, billed annually, with a 14-day free trial; team plans are quoted.

SeekOut equips a sourcing team. [solved] adds a senior talent partner who runs a consequential search end to end, working inside your process and systems.

Side by side

What it is
AI sourcing toolsSoftware your team uses to find and contact people
[solved]A complete search service, run by one of our senior talent partners
What it costs
AI sourcing toolsPin and Juicebox from $99, SeekOut from $149 a seat a month, billed annually. Team plans are quoted
[solved]$10,000 for Specialist Search, $20,000 for Leadership Search, per search
What it does best
AI sourcing toolsSearching hundreds of millions of profiles in plain language, ranking matches and automating outreach
[solved]Proving who fits: evidence of personal work, confirmed identity and a search carried to a signed offer
How candidates are judged
AI sourcing toolsAI ranking against your search criteria, then your team's own process
[solved]Structured interviews and work-based exercises, measured by the outcomes you approved
Identity verification
AI sourcing toolsArranged separately by your team, through your ATS or a background-check provider
[solved]Included in every search: document validation, facial matching and liveness detection, before any candidate reaches your shortlist
Outreach
AI sourcing toolsAutomated sequences, sent from your team's mailboxes
[solved]Personal outreach to every person we approach, written by our team
Replies to outreach
AI sourcing toolsIndustry baseline for recruiting email outreach: 16.9% of people approached reply
[solved]67% of the people we contact reply
Who runs the search
AI sourcing toolsYour team
[solved]One of our senior talent partners, from the first working session to the signed offer
Use of AI
AI sourcing toolsThe core of the product
[solved]We work with AI on the tasks it does best; our senior talent partners do the rest
Best fit
AI sourcing toolsRecruiters and teams sourcing continuously across many roles
[solved]Consequential hires, where evidence and accountability matter

How each works

AI sourcing tools

You describe the person you need in plain language, and the tool searches hundreds of millions of profiles, ranks the matches and helps you reach them with automated outreach. Your team reviews the results, screens the replies and runs the process from there.

[solved]

One of our senior talent partners defines the role with you in one working session and confirms the direction with a few calibration profiles before anyone is contacted. Each shortlisted candidate is assessed on the outcomes you approved, identity verified, and arrives with a Candidate Evidence Brief. We work with AI on the tasks it does best, and every recommendation you receive is made by a person.

When an AI sourcing tool is the better choice

  • You want to start today, on your own, with a free plan or trial and no engagement to set up.
  • You are mapping a market with no open role, researching talent ahead of a hiring plan.
  • You recruit for clients, as an agency or recruiting firm.

When [solved] fits better

  • The hire is consequential, and you want evidence before your team spends interview time.
  • You want a fixed fee, known before the search begins.
  • You want your team's time on the interviews and the decision.
  • You want most of the fee tied to a signed hire. Three-quarters of the fee is due only when your hire signs, and the retainer is returned in full if the shortlist misses the criteria you agreed.
  • You want to see the search as it moves, in one Hiring Workspace.

The résumés all said roughly the same thing: models, agents, production, scale. The interviews finally separated the people who had used the language from the people who had made the decisions. That saved us from being impressed by the wrong things.

Head of AI, Series A vertical software company

Questions

Software that searches large sets of professional profiles with plain-language queries, ranks the matches and automates outreach. Examples include Pin, Juicebox (PeopleGPT) and SeekOut.

For finding people, yes: they search faster and wider than any person can. A ranked match is a starting point. Confirming whose work it was, whether the person is who they say, and whether they want the role still takes time and judgment.

Pin and Juicebox start at $99 a seat a month and SeekOut at $149 a month, each billed annually, with team plans quoted. Prices as listed on each vendor's site, October 2026.

A match score confirms that a profile fits a search. Confirming the person takes identity verification: in a 2025 Gartner survey, 6% of candidates admitted to interview fraud. Every [solved] shortlisted candidate completes document validation, facial matching and liveness detection.

Yes. AI handles the tasks it does best. Our senior talent partners handle the rest, and remain accountable for calibration, market direction, assessment quality and candidate communication. Every recommendation you receive is made by a person.

If you want the search run for you rather than a platform to operate, [solved] runs it end to end for a fixed fee, with every shortlisted candidate assessed on evidence of their work and identity verified.

Juicebox excels at finding people. If you want the outreach, assessment and process to a signed offer handled too, [solved] runs the whole search for a fixed fee.

For a consequential hire, [solved] adds a senior talent partner who runs the search end to end inside your process, with every shortlisted candidate identity verified.

Yes. Many talent teams keep their tool for daily sourcing and bring in [solved] for the consequential search. Candidates your team finds can enter the same assessment as everyone we find.

A retainer begins the search: $2,500 for Specialist Search or $5,000 for Leadership Search. The balance is due when your hire signs. If the shortlist misses the criteria you agreed, the retainer is returned in full, and if you stop a search, the retainer carries over when the role reopens or a new search begins.

Start a Search

Tell us about the role. Within one business day, we confirm whether we are the right firm to lead the search.

Talk Through a Role

Bring the job description you have, or the role in your head. We define the role with you.

Sources: pricing pages of Pin, Juicebox and SeekOut, read October 2026; Gartner, press release of July 31, 2025, on candidate AI use and interview fraud; Gem, Email Outreach for Recruiters, 2026; our team's record, as set out in How we measure. Last reviewed October 2026. Pin, Juicebox, PeopleGPT and SeekOut are trademarks of their respective owners. [solved] is not affiliated with them.