Keep the search-firm fee. Compress the pipeline hours. · Metix AI

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VP Engineering Search Brief

A VP Engineering search brief goes in. Metix AI runs the pipeline hours. Booked interviews come back on a calendar. I looked for people a search firm would put in front of a Series B board, not staff engineers who might grow into the seat. Scaling a team through 40 was pass-fail. 88 cleared the bar and were contacted. The 6 who came back are first interviews the firm can walk into the client with.

Answer the Role Questions to Refine Your Candidate Search

• VP Engineering mandate: Booked interviews out.
• I looked for people a search firm would put in front of a Series B board, not staff engineers who might grow into the seat. Scaling a team through 40 was pass-fail.

Fees and Plans

• 20–25%
  • SHRM band for contingency fees, first-year cash. Not a Metix number.
• $49–$299
  • Published plans, 3 to 75 interview-ready candidates.

Profiles

• 860M+
  • Profiles in 190+ countries, under a brief you approve.

The Split

What You Keep. What Mira Runs.

• The client, the intake, and the placement stay with the firm. Mira compresses the pipeline hours onto a per-candidate line.

The Outcome

• Same fee, a per-candidate line. Compare cost per delivered interview, not cost per seat. The two fees are not substitutes.

Four Mandates Where Pipeline Hours Dominate

1. A Desk Running Too Many Searches
   Sourcing and first outreach sit on a per-candidate line. Client intake, calibration, and the placement stay with the consultant.
2. A Retained Search That Still Needs Names This Week
   The fee still prices judgment and the close. Mira compresses the hours between brief and first interviews. It does not take the client.
3. A Contingency Search Where the List is the Cost
   You still carry placement risk. You do not have to carry every hour of Boolean. Credits move only when a candidate is booked.
4. White-label or Firm-operated Volume
   That is a quoted-plan conversation: write to contact@metix.ai. Published self-serve plans are sold to the hiring company.

What the Fee Should Still Buy

1. Client and Intake
   The firm. Trust, the mandate, and the briefing stay with the firm. That work is not ours.
2. Sourcing, First Outreach, Screen, Schedule
   Mira, after you approve. The compressible hours: Mira screens replies and books the interview so those hours leave your desk.
3. Client-facing Interviews
   The firm. You still run the process the client bought.
4. Placement
   The firm. Offer, guarantee, and the client relationship stay with the firm. The fee still prices this. We do not.

Pricing

Published Plans. Credits Move on the Interview.

A credit is one interested, interview-ready candidate. If nobody clears the bar, the credit stays unspent. Yearly billing saves 10 percent. Volume and specialized hiring is quote-only.

Starter

• $49/mo
  The first role off your plate.
  • 3 interview-ready candidates / mo
  • 1 active role

Growth

• $89/mo
  More than one front.
  • 12 interview-ready candidates / mo
  • 3 active roles

Professional

• $159/mo
  Real hiring volume.
  • 30 interview-ready candidates / mo
  • 6 active roles

Scale

• $299/mo
  Hiring like it is the job.
  • 75 interview-ready candidates / mo
  • 12 active roles

Monthly list prices, checked against the pricing page. Trial: 14 days, 3 New Roles, 12 Credits, no card.

FAQ

Can a Recruiting Agency White-label Metix AI?

Agency-operated and white-label arrangements are a quoted-plan conversation: the published plans are sold to the hiring company, and volume or firm-operated accounts go through a quote. Write to contact@metix.ai.

Does Outreach Go Out Under Our Firm's Name?

Every message is approved by you before it sends, so the voice candidates hear is the one you chose.

Does Metix AI Compete with Search Firms?

On sourcing hours, yes. On the rest of the mandate, no. Metix AI delivers qualified, interested candidates booked for first interviews. It does not manage the client relationship, run the intake, negotiate offers, or guarantee a placement, which is the work a retained fee actually prices.

How Does Per-Candidate Pricing Compare with a Contingency Fee?

A contingency fee prices the placement; per-candidate pricing prices the pipeline. The two are not substitutes: one pays for a hire with the search risk carried by the agency, the other pays for interview-ready candidates with the hiring decision kept in-house.