Placement consultants typically charge 8–12% of a candidate's CTC per hire. Hire22 replaces that with a transparent, pay-as-you-go credit system and AI agents that do the sourcing, outreach, and screening, without a percentage-of-salary fee attached to every senior hire.
A placement consultant's 8–12% fee is largely pricing in the time spent finding, calling, and screening candidates manually. Hire22's AI agents do that work directly, which is where the time, and the cost, comes down.
| Hiring stage | Manual process | Hire22 AI agents | Time saved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find quality candidates | 10–15 hours | 30–60 minutes | Up to 90% |
| Engage & nurture candidates | 6–8 hours | 20–40 minutes | Up to 92% |
| Screen & shortlist | 4–6 hours | 10–20 minutes | Up to 94% |
| Total time per hire | 20–29 hours | 1–2 hours | Up to 75% cost-per-hire |
Time-saved estimates are based on internal analysis of average hiring workflows across mid to senior level roles. No success fees or hidden charges: you only pay for credits used to unlock profiles or send CoNCTs.
The fee is only part of it. Most HR teams end up managing the search relationship too.
Every city you hire in can mean another consultant relationship and another fee structure to manage, on top of the base 8–12% per placement.
When sourcing is outsourced entirely, you often don't know how a search is progressing until someone calls with candidates, or with an explanation for why there aren't any yet.
The more senior or specialized the role, the longer it tends to sit open, and the more pressure builds from leadership asking why.
Volume-oriented sourcing channels are built for breadth, not precision: exactly the opposite of what a leadership-level search needs.
Hunter AI, CoNCT AI, and JoinX AI replace the sourcing-to-shortlist work a consultant fee is paying for, without the percentage-of-CTC price tag.
Creating and posting a JobCoNCT costs nothing. Hunter AI starts sourcing across the web and multiple talent platforms as soon as you submit the requirement.
Candidates are contacted over WhatsApp, email, SMS, and AI voice call to confirm genuine interest. Credits are only used when you choose to unlock a profile or send a CoNCT.
Every confirmed candidate gets a JoinX Score (0–100) so your team spends its time on the best-fit profiles instead of working every response in order.
There are no placement or success fees. You pay only for the credits used, visible on your dashboard, whether you hire one candidate or ten from the same search.
What HR and finance teams ask before moving spend away from consultant fees
Post your next role as a JobCoNCT and see what a 22-hour, AI-sourced shortlist looks like: no success fees, no hidden costs.
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