Newly added/Week by week/September 14, 2026

New tools: week of September 14, 2026

111 tools were added to the Work Insiders directory this week. Each listing has our own write up, a starting price where the vendor publishes one, and the tools it competes with.

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Tools added this week

Bouncer

Deliverability · Verification

Email verification with never-expiring credits, a real-time API, form-level blocking and an official MCP server.

From $8/1,000 credits

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Agent Manager

Grok bots · AI people ops

by sdrth. Reads across the agents you already run, finds the ones duplicating each other, and names the ones that have stopped earning their place.

SERP Watch Team

Grok bots · AI sourcing

by ShehjadTaus. Tracks both halves of being found: where your pages rank in search, and whether AI assistants name you when asked the same question.

Negotiator

Grok bots · AI interviewing

by danizhu. Works a negotiation through with you before you walk in: what you actually want, what you will trade away, and where your limits are.

Crew

Grok bots · AI people ops

by LatchKeyLegend. Asks how your team is arranged and where it is stuck, then works as a standing mentor on actually running it. On demand, no schedule.

Leader 1:1 Bot

Grok bots · AI people ops

by scottxmetcalf. Walks into your weekly 1:1 carrying last week's thread, the few topics worth the slot, and the feedback you have been putting off.

loom

Grok bots · AI people ops

by poteto. Pulls the related Gmail threads together before drafting the reply, so the draft knows the history. Leaves it in your drafts and never sends.

GTM Connections

Grok bots · AI sourcing

by Brian Joseph. Finds evidenced warm paths into a target company through mutual contacts and prior meetings, ranks them, and drafts the introduction ask.

Hiring Signals

Grok bots · AI sourcing

by Simon Lackowski. A standing feed of hiring activity across the companies and job sources you pick, normalised into rows and matched to an owner.

Haggle Bot

Grok bots · AI people ops

by Daniel Gartshein. Inventories your tool spend, finds unused seats and duplicate subscriptions, and drafts the vendor counter. Never sends, signs, or spends.

Company Docs Q&A

Grok bots · AI people ops

by Anoop Baliga. Answers policy and how-to questions from your live docs first, then your connected knowledge sources, and cites the source on every answer.

Sales Call Coach

Grok bots · AI interviewing

by Daniel Brill. Scores one person's calls from a transcript or recording on six fixed dimensions, then names the two or three things to fix before the next one.

Call Follow-Ups

Grok bots · AI interviewing

by Daniel Brill. Turns a recorded interview or client call into a follow-up email in your voice, a next-steps note and the CRM field updates. Drafts only.

Teramind

HR compliance · People analytics

Employee monitoring, insider risk and DLP platform with session recording and behavior rules.

From $14/seat/mo

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ActivTrak

People analytics · Workforce management

Workforce analytics that tracks app and web activity to measure productivity, capacity and AI use.

From $10/worker/mo

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Magnit Global

VMS / MSP · EOR and Workforce management

Contingent workforce management: VMS, managed services (MSP), direct sourcing and EOR.

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Beeline

VMS / MSP · EOR and Workforce management

Vendor management system and extended workforce platform for contingent labor programs.

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SAP Fieldglass

VMS / MSP · Workforce management

Enterprise vendor management system for contingent workers and services procurement.

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Boundless

HR compliance

Attorney-led US and global immigration services with a case platform for employers and families.

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Envoy Global

HR compliance

Corporate immigration services and case platform for employers sponsoring visas in 180+ countries.

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Payactiv

Payroll · Wellbeing

Earned wage access and financial wellness app, free for employers, with published employee fees.

Free for employers

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DailyPay

Payroll · Wellbeing

Earned wage access that lets employees draw earned pay before payday, at no cost to the employer.

Free for employers

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Sparrow

Benefits administration · HR compliance and Leave management

Outsourced leave-of-absence administration for US and Canadian employers.

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AbsenceSoft

Benefits administration · HR compliance and Leave management

Leave of absence and ADA accommodation management with a compliance engine for 200+ US laws.

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AllVoices

HR compliance · HR help desk

Employee relations case management, anonymous reporting hotline and AI-assisted investigations.

From $275/mo

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Torch

Learning · Performance and Succession & internal mobility

Leadership coaching with senior coaches, the Spark AI agent and 360 feedback measurement.

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CoachHub

Learning · Performance

Digital coaching platform with 3,500+ certified coaches, AI coach AIMY and group coaching.

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BetterUp

Learning · Performance and Wellbeing

Human and AI coaching platform for leaders, managers and the wider workforce.

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Legion

Scheduling · Time & attendance and Workforce management

AI workforce management for hourly teams: demand forecasting, scheduling, time and attendance.

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PeopleFluent

Compensation · Learning and Performance, Succession & internal mobility, VMS / MSP

Enterprise LMS, performance, compensation and org charting for regulated industries.

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Degreed

Learning · People analytics and Succession & internal mobility

Learning experience platform and skills data layer for large enterprises, with Maestro AI coaching.

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Absorb LMS

HR compliance · Learning and Onboarding

Cloud LMS for employee, customer and partner training, with Aura AI agents and course authoring.

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Docebo

Learning · Succession & internal mobility

Enterprise LMS for employee, partner and customer training, with skills intelligence and AI agents.

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Trumpia

Texting

SMS and multimedia texting used by recruiting and HR teams for candidate outreach.

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OpenPhone

Dialers · Texting

Shared calling and SMS for recruiting teams that need a dedicated candidate line. Also branded Quo. Recruiter use: shared req line, SMS screens, voicemail into the ATS via API.

From $15/user/mo

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Honeit

AI note takers · Interviewing

Interview collaboration: live interview rooms, notes, and hiring-team playback.

From $79/seat/mo

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SendSpark

Outreach · Recruitment marketing

Personalized video email for recruiting outreach and candidate follow-up.

From $49/mo

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WorkBright

HR compliance · Onboarding

I-9 and E-Verify onboarding. WorkBright+ announced July 2026.

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Pave

Compensation

Compensation intelligence. Market Data Lite is a permanent free tier for smaller teams. Distinct from Pave Finance.

Free plan, paid quote

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Wonderlic

Assessments

Cognitive and behavioral pre-hire assessments. The classic Wonderlic still shipping.

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eSkill

Assessments

Skills testing platform for hourly through professional roles.

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Berke Assessment

Assessments

Pre-hire personality and aptitude assessments for job fit. Now part of HighMatch.

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Mercer Mettl

Assessments

Enterprise skills assessments and online proctoring, sold under Mercer.

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VALIDIA

Candidate fraud & AI detection · Interviewing

Live-checked September 2026. Agentless identity authentication inside Zoom, Teams, Meet, and Webex interviews.

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Interview Guard

Candidate fraud & AI detection · Interviewing

Live-checked September 2026. Real-time interview fraud detection for AI copilots, overlays, and proxy candidates.

From $100/mo

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Polygraf AI

Candidate fraud & AI detection · Interviewing

Deepfake and interview-cheating detection.

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HiPeople

Assessments · Background check and Reference checks

Automated reference checks and skills surveys. Modular pricing from $6 per candidate.

From $6/candidate

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IBM OpenPages

HR compliance

Enterprise GRC platform still sold for AI governance, risk, and compliance programs.

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Warden AI

HR compliance

Independent HR AI bias audits and continuous assurance, including NYC LL144-style reports.

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Holistic AI

HR compliance

AI governance and risk platform still sold for HR and enterprise model oversight.

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Circa

HR compliance · Job boards and Recruitment marketing

Diversity job distribution and OFCCP-style documentation. US OFCCP affirmative-action rules rolled back in 2026; the product still exists under Mitratech, the compliance pitch has changed.

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CrossChq

Assessments · Background check and Reference checks

AI-driven reference checks, fraud detection, and quality-of-hire analytics.

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LizzyAI

Interviewing · AI interviewing

AI interviewer for recruiting screens over conversation.

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Ribbon

Interviewing · AI interviewing

AI interviewer for screening candidates over voice at volume.

From $199/mo

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Hubert

AI interviewing · Interviewing

AI interviewer that runs structured voice screens at scale.

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IN2DIALOG

AI note takers · Interviewing

Interview intelligence that turns recruiting conversations into structured ATS data.

From €29.50/user/mo

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Equitas

AI note takers · Interviewing

Interview intelligence with a fairness angle on structured hiring conversations.

From £150/mo

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Lavalier

Interviewing · AI note takers

Interview intelligence that builds structured interview plans, guides interviewers live and compares candidates on evidence.

Free plan, paid from $499/mo

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HireScribe

AI note takers · Interviewing

Local AI interview notes for recruiters. No bot in the call. Nothing leaves the laptop.

Free plan, paid from $79

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HireLogic

AI note takers · Interviewing

Interview intelligence: structured notes, scoring, and signal from live interviews.

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Carv

AI note takers · Interviewing

AI interview notes, write-ups, and ATS fill for recruiting agencies.

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Canditech

Assessments · AI screening

Skills assessments and AI screening for technical and professional roles.

From $75/mo

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Babblebots

AI interviewing · Interviewing

AI interviewer and screening bots for high-volume hiring conversations.

From ₹7,500/mo

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Alex

Candidate fraud & AI detection · AI interviewing and Interviewing, AI screening

AI interviewer (formerly Apriora) for live voice, video, and text screens. Company is Alex at alex.com.

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BarRaiser

AI note takers · AI interviewing and Interviewing

Interview intelligence plus an interviewer marketplace.

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Happenstance

Employee referrals · Sourcing

Network search for hiring and warm intros, not classic Boolean sourcing.

Free plan, paid from $24/mo

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HelloSky

Sourcing · AI sourcing

Executive-search intelligence for mapping leadership talent.

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Prog.ai

AI sourcing · Sourcing

Developer graph built from GitHub contributions for technical sourcing. Chrome extension updated June 2026.

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Mantiks

Lead generation · Sourcing

Hiring-intent and job-posting intelligence for staffing business development, not LinkedIn passive sourcing.

From $108/mo

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Daxtra

Sourcing · AI sourcing

PE-owned (Strattam) resume parsing plus Talent Flow agentic sourcing, matching, and screening. Independent brand.

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Recrew

Sourcing · AI sourcing

AI agents plus expert recruiters for tech hiring in India. Outcome-based success fee, no retainers or upfront fees.

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Rival HR

ATS · Onboarding and Sourcing

AI-powered HR orchestration suite spanning sourcing, ATS/CRM recruiting, onboarding journeys, learning, and performance.

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HealthTal

Email finders · Healthcare recruiting and Sourcing

Healthcare contact database with verified personal emails and mobile numbers for recruiting nurses, physicians, and allied clinicians.

From $249/mo

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daily.dev Recruiter

Sourcing

Trust-first developer hiring channel that matches roles inside daily.dev and delivers double opt-in introductions.

From $350/mo

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ReCo

AI note takers · AI interviewing and Interviewing

Interview workspace and AI notetaker for recruiters: prep, live transcript, and candidate write-ups in one place.

From $23.25/user/mo

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Crystal Knows

Assessments

Personality intelligence platform with DISC and five other assessments for individuals, sales, and teams.

Free plan, paid from $49/mo

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RecrutFlo

CRM · Sourcing

CV inbox automation that turns emailed resumes into a searchable candidate database.

Free plan, paid from €19/mo

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FidForward

Email finders · Lead generation and Outreach, Sourcing

AI prospect discovery and multi-channel outreach platform with ranked matching, sequences and a developer API.

From $99/mo

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Aniday

EOR · Payroll

Talent referral marketplace plus EOR, COR, payroll and headhunting for hiring and expanding across countries without a local entity.

From $80/mo

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AdaptlyPost

Personal brand

Agentic social scheduler across nine platforms with AI captions, image studio, API and first-party MCP.

From $19/mo

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SocialBu

Personal brand

Social media scheduling, inbox, listening and automation across LinkedIn and 11 other networks, with a free plan, REST API and MCP server.

Free plan, paid from $22/mo

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MailDeck

Deliverability · Outreach

Managed cold email infrastructure across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and private SMTP: inboxes, DNS and warmup, not a sequencer.

From $30/domain/mo

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Allen

Lead generation · LinkedIn and Personal brand

LinkedIn AI assistant that comments on ideal prospects' posts in your voice and drafts DMs when they reply.

From $97/mo

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InboxEagle

Deliverability

Email deliverability monitoring with seed-list inbox placement, DMARC/SPF/DKIM alerts and blocklist guard.

From $39/mo

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Aimfox

Lead generation · LinkedIn and Outreach

LinkedIn outreach platform with multi-account campaigns, rented profiles, unibox and AI message customization.

From $49/seat/mo

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QuickEnrich

Email finders · Lead generation

B2B email and mobile finder with published API plans and higher coverage from web and Maps crawling.

From $24/mo

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Jungler

Lead generation · LinkedIn

Capture who engages with any LinkedIn profile or post, then push the list into Clay.

From $99/mo

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Fibbler

Lead generation · Visitor ID

LinkedIn Ads company-level attribution: which campaign actually created the opportunity.

From $89/mo

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ZenABM

Lead generation · Visitor ID

LinkedIn ABM attribution with account scoring, deal mapping, and an AI agent.

From $59/mo

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Freckle

Email finders · Lead generation

CRM enrichment with waterfall providers, priced per output, the usual Clay alternative.

Free plan, paid from $99/mo

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Default

Lead generation · Scheduling

Inbound lead routing, forms, enrichment, and meeting assignment in one workflow.

From $1,000/mo

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n8n

Workflow automation

Open-source workflow automation that recruiting and GTM stacks already glue to everything else.

Free self-hosted, Cloud from €20/moUpdate Oct 27

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Zapier

Workflow automation

No-code automation between the sequencers, CRMs, and finders this directory already lists.

Free plan, paid from $19.99/mo

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OutboundSync

Lead generation · Outreach and CRM

Pipes Instantly, HeyReach, Clay, and EmailBison activity into HubSpot and Salesforce.

From $99/mo

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Ordinal

LinkedIn · Personal brand

LinkedIn-first content workspace for drafting, collaboration, and scheduling.

From $85/mo

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MagicPost

LinkedIn · Personal brand

LinkedIn content and scheduling as an official partner, with no browser extension.

From $29/mo

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Cargo

Lead generation · Outreach

Clay-class GTM orchestration that lives in your CRM and in git, not a spreadsheet.

From $165/mo

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Apify

Lead generation · Sourcing

Scrape and Actor platform, the third leg next to Firecrawl and Exa.

Free plan, paid from $19/mo

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RevenueHero

Lead generation · Scheduling

Inbound routing and instant meeting assignment, Chili Piper's usual mid-market alternative.

From $79/mo

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TitanX

Dialers · Lead generation

Phone-intent scoring for outbound calling: who will answer, not another parallel dialer.

From $375/seat/mo

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DiscoLike

Lead generation · Sourcing

Lookalike and natural-language company search over 80M+ websites, with MCP.

From $79/moUpdate Oct 18

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AI Ark

Email finders · Verification and Lead generation

Contact and company database with real-time email verification and a first-party MCP.

Free plan, paid from $49/mo

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Attio

Lead generation · CRM

Modern CRM with a first-party MCP: people, companies, and deals an agent can actually query.

Free plan, paid from $35/user/mo

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Vente AI

Lead generation

Recruiter lead gen: job leads with hiring-manager contacts, pushed into your CRM.

From £149/mo

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Happlicant

ATS · CRM

Agency ATS and CRM for small desks.

From $69/user/mo

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Giig Hire

ATS · CRM

Recruitment CRM for small agencies, with a free-forever plan.

Free plan, paid from $16.70/user/mo

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Hello Recruiter

Candidate fraud & AI detection · AI interviewing and Interviewing, AI screening

AI screening and interviews with fraud checks.

Free plan, paid from $29/mo

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Jatura

ATS

Inbound ATS that scores every applicant on arrival, with reasoning attached.

Free plan, paid from $63/mo

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Talroo

Job boards · AI screening

Frontline job advertising network with SmartQualify screening and a first-party job-search MCP.

From $2,000/mo

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FetchTalent

Candidate fraud & AI detection · Interviewing and AI interviewing, AI screening, Texting

AI phone and video screens with coding scorecards and cheat detection.

From $99/mo

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RecruiterClaw

Lead generation · Outreach and Sourcing, AI sourcing

Four Slack specialists sharing one desk memory.

From $600/mo

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