Recruitment Agency
AI tools for recruiters: what to use and what it costs
Sourcing and screening eat your week. Here's the AI stack that writes job ads, finds candidates, and drafts your outreach so you fill roles faster.
What the setup unlocks: All 4 budget plans · copy-paste AI wording · app connections · setup checklist · cheaper swaps · optional monthly research, a briefing and plan updates
7-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
ChatGPT
Plus
Perplexity
Free
Who does what in this plan
Every job in the plan has an owner: you, or you with AI doing the work for you to approve. In your own account you can change any of them.
- You4
- You + AI8
Jobs this plan keeps human
Deciding who gets hired or rejected
These choices affect people's lives and need a person who is accountable.
Interviews and candidate conversations
People judge people best face to face.
Fee and contract terms
Your commercial terms are yours to negotiate.
Fair-hiring checks
Spotting bias in a shortlist takes a person's care.
Your website
A site for a business like this, drafted by the software
Haven Hospitality Staffing is a made-up hospitality staffing agency. The software read its facts and picked the Ledger Look.
Why this Look
Ledger's numbers strip and two-column reading put the hourly rate, the placement fee and the shift hours side by side, which is what a hotel manager compares agencies on.
Yours is drafted from your own answers. You edit it, and you publish it.
See all the examples
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Pick your budget
Free on this page: the full $50 starter set of tools and every section of the sample plan. The $99 one-time setup unlocks all 4 budgets and setup steps for your plan, adapted to your answers, with AI drafts checked by a person. Optional Kept current at $29/month adds monthly business research, a briefing and plan updates. Starts only if you say yes. Stop any time and keep your plan.
What this budget buys
Write ads and screen faster, cheaply.
$20/mo
2 tools
- ChatGPTGeneral AI assistants
- PerplexityResearch AI
- Which plan to pick for each tool
- The order to set them up in
- A cheaper swap for each one
Unlocked by the one-time setupFind my plan
- General AI assistants$20
- Left for usage and growth$80
Leaves about $80/mo of your budget for usage costs and growth.
- Dapols setup
- $99 once
- AI development projects reviewed on Clutch
- $10,000–$49,999 per project
Source: Clutch AI pricing guide (checked Sep 23, 2026)
Preview — the $50 starter plan is shown in full · We re-check these prices in batches and show the date of the last check, but vendors change them whenever they like — always confirm on the vendor's site before you buy.
Cheaper swaps for every pick
We don't just name one tool. For each pick we show money-saving alternatives that do the same job — and the $50 starter budget is your leanest set of tools if you want the cheapest credible setup.
Smart swaps
Same job, different budget. Swap any pick for one of these if it fits you better.
Everything inside this plan
What this looks like day to day
In plain words — no tool names, no jargon. AI drafts; you approve.
- — A role brief becomes a job ad, screening questions, and personalised outreach in one pass — you edit, you send.
- — CVs get summarised against the brief with the strongest fits flagged, so the pile takes an hour instead of a day.
- — Screening and client calls get an AI-drafted summary you check, so the notes exist even on a six-call day.
- — Candidates and clients stop going cold: follow-ups get drafted and scheduled instead of remembered.
- — AI shortlists and summarises. Every hiring decision stays with a person — that line does not move.
Your first week
One task a day, none over twenty minutes.
- Day 1Take the role you're working now and have your assistant draft the job ad and five screening questions from your brief. · ~20 min
- Day 2Summarise ten CVs against that brief and check the ranking against your own read of the top three. · ~20 min
- Day 3Draft five personalised outreach messages for your shortlist and send them. · ~20 min
- Day 4Add the notetaker to your calls and let it summarise one screening call. · ~10 min
- Day 5Write your pipeline follow-up templates — candidate chase, client update, post-interview — and save them. · ~20 min
Ready-to-use AI wording inside
· 6Write a job ad from a brief · paste into ChatGPT or Claude
Here is one of them in full.
Write an engaging job ad from this brief. Role: [TITLE], company: [TYPE/CULTURE], must-haves: [LIST], nice-to-haves: [LIST], location/salary: [DETAILS]. Inclusive language, a strong opening, and a clear apply step. Avoid jargon.
The other 5 are in the unlocked plan, each with a note on when to use it.
AI helpers & app connections are part of the plan
· 5Ready-made AI helpers with safety rules, plus the app connections that plug your AI into the apps you already use.
One of them, in full:
- Candidate outreach agent — Drafts genuinely personal outreach from a candidate's profile and the role brief — specific enough that it doesn't smell like a mail-merge.
The remaining 4 are in the unlocked plan, with the safety rules set for your business.
How to set it up
Step-by-step, in plain English. Included with the plan:
- 1Use your general assistant to write job ads, screening questions, and personalized outreach from a role brief.
- 2Use a sourcing tool to find and enrich candidate and client contacts.
- Steps 3–4 are in your unlocked plan
The one-time setup unlocks the full step-by-step setup sequence and every ready-made automatic job, customized to your answers.
Get my plan — 2 minutes, then $99
Automatic jobs you'll set up
- Job ad & outreach generatorEasy4–8 hrs/mo
- CV screening summariesMedium5–10 hrs/mo
- 1 more automatic jobs come with the unlocked plan
Full how-to for each automatic job is included in the plan.
What to skip (for now)
Monthly research and updates, if you choose.
Your one-time purchase unlocks the full plan: setup steps, guides for each automatic job, ready-to-use AI wording and app connections, with AI drafts checked by a person. Nothing continues after that purchase. About a month later, we ask whether you want Kept current: monthly search, AI-visibility and competitor research, a short briefing, plan re-assessment, model notes, price alerts and dated Friday updates. It starts only if you say yes. Stop any time and keep your plan.
7-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
You're not left alone with it
Every plan includes consultation for the specific questions your business throws up — a step that doesn't match your setup, a tool you already pay for, a price that moved. A consultant at Dapols answers within 24–48 working hours. It isn't instant, and it isn't a bot you argue with.
Consultation with a person, up to 4 times a month
Bigger or more complex?
If your scope is bigger than one plan — several jobs, unusual systems, or a connection that needs a person — that's a custom engagement, quoted and invoiced directly, not through our checkout.
Questions about AI tools for recruiters
What does AI cost for recruiters?
Finding your plan is free: a short questionnaire, no card. The full plan is $99, paid once. The tools it names are bought from their own makers at the monthly budget you choose, and each one shows its price and the date we checked it. Dapols takes no share of what you sell or spend. Refunds are available for 7 days.
How long does it take to set up?
You get the whole plan the moment you pay. It starts with a first week of one small task a day, then a 90-day roadmap for the rest, so you set up one tool at a time, at your own pace. Dapols does not log in to your accounts or set the tools up for you.
What stays with me, and what does AI do?
Every job in the plan is labelled: yours to keep, or AI does the work and you approve it. In this plan, jobs kept with you include Deciding who gets hired or rejected, Interviews and candidate conversations, and Fee and contract terms. Nothing is sent, posted, bought or published on your behalf.
Is it a subscription?
No. The $99 is charged once and nothing renews by itself. There is an optional $29/month subscription that keeps your research and prices current. It starts only if you say yes, and you can stop any time and keep everything already delivered.