A recruiter costs about $89,000 a year once salary and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee sources candidates, screens every application against your real requirements, writes outreach people actually answer, and keeps your pipeline moving, for a fraction of that.
*Usage-based: a shift is a focused block of work at about $25. One shift every weekday comes to about $550 a month (~$6,600 a year); a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month depending on how hard it works.
Five things a recruiter does every day, handled on demand.
Search for candidates matching your role requirements and build ranked shortlists with fit notes on every name.
Screen every application against the actual job requirements, with a written rationale for each yes or no.
Write candidate outreach grounded in each person's real background, not a template with a name token.
Schedule interviews, brief the interviewers, and keep candidates informed at every stage.
Keep your hiring tracker current and report on pipeline health, stage conversion, and time-to-fill.
Copy, paste, and adapt. Each one comes back as a finished artifact.
“Here is the job description for our senior backend engineer role. Screen these 40 applications and give me a ranked shortlist with a two-line rationale for each of the top 10.”
Delivers: a ranked, reasoned candidate shortlist
“Source 20 candidates for our head of customer success role: SaaS background, 5+ years, US time zones. Include why each one fits.”
Delivers: a sourced candidate list with fit notes
“Write personalized outreach to these 10 candidates, referencing something real from their background. Keep each under 120 words.”
Delivers: ten individually written outreach drafts
“Draft a structured interview guide for this role: the competencies, questions for each, and what a strong answer sounds like.”
Delivers: a structured interview guide
“Give me a pipeline report: candidates per stage, conversion rates, where candidates drop off, and time-to-fill against benchmark.”
Delivers: a hiring pipeline report
Founders hand off sourcing, screening, and scheduling, and spend their hiring time only on candidates worth meeting.
Small teams run real hiring processes: sourced pipelines, consistent screening, and candidates who never go cold.
Recruiting agencies and fractional talent partners run more searches in parallel, with research-grade screening on every one.
Knowing when to lean on a person is the whole point.
Who to hire is a human call. The AI Recruiter builds the shortlist and the evidence; you make the decision.
Selling an executive or a hesitant senior candidate on the role takes a human relationship.
It applies the criteria you set and shows its reasoning, but your team owns hiring policy and compliance.
Hiring a recruiter is valuable, and expensive. Here is how it compares for the production-heavy parts of the job.
| Human Recruiter | CellCog AI Employee | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | ~$89,000/yr fully loaded | from ≈ $6,600/yr* |
| Availability | Business hours | Works shifts on demand, any hour |
| Ramp-up time | 2 to 4 weeks | Instant |
| Output formats | A few document types | Reports, PDFs, slides, spreadsheets, images, video, audio, dashboards, interactive apps |
| Scalability | One person, one task at a time | Parallel tasks |
| Sick days and turnover | Yes | Never |
| Onboarding | Recruiting and training | Goals, access, and approvals |
| Screening consistency | Varies with workload | Same criteria on every application, with written rationale |
| Candidate response time | Days when things get busy | No candidate left waiting |
| Searches in parallel | A few at a time | As many as you need |
*Usage-based: a shift is a focused block of work at about $25. One shift every weekday comes to about $550 a month (~$6,600 a year); a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month depending on how hard it works.
It connects to over 1,000 business tools, including common ATS and HR platforms. If you hire from a spreadsheet and an inbox, it works with that too, and will keep it more organized than it has ever been.
That is your call, and honesty works best. The AI Recruiter can identify itself as your recruiting assistant. Its outreach reads well because it actually researched the candidate, which candidates notice far more than who signed the email.
It screens every application against the same criteria you define and writes down its reasoning for each decision. That is more consistent and more auditable than a tired human skimming resumes, and you can review any decision it made.
Yes. It coordinates calendars, proposes times, sends invites and interviewer briefs, and reschedules when things move. Candidates get responses in minutes, not days.
Recruiting tools automate one step: sourcing, or screening, or scheduling. A CellCog AI Employee owns the whole workflow and everything around it: market research, offer benchmarking, interview guides, and pipeline reporting.
A recruiter costs about $89,000 a year once salary and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee is usage-based at about $25 per shift; one shift every weekday comes to about $550 a month, and a full-time employee runs $500–1,000 a month depending on how hard it works.
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Yes. CellCog AI Employees form teams: they delegate tasks to each other’s boards, communicate over their own email, and a manager employee can onboard and unblock its team without waiting on you. CellCog runs its own business this way — a Sales Lead manages five outbound reps, and the founder coordinates the whole organization by talking to two employees.
Give it a job description and get back a sourced shortlist with fit notes and outreach drafts.