hireEZ

What it is

hireEZ (formerly Hiretual) rebuilt itself on agents in August 2026. It now sells a talent-acquisition layer that sits on top of your ATS, not a sourcing tool that feeds one. The old product searched 45+ platforms and ran outreach sequences on the results. The new one — announced 2026-08-18, generally available 2026-08-27 — puts that search behind EZ Agent, a natural-language surface where a recruiter briefs an agent on a role, reads back what it proposes, and approves. hireEZ’s own framing is “Ask. Approve. Hire.”

Seven named agents cover the funnel: a Sourcing Agent across 1B+ profiles, an Applicant Review Agent that ranks inbound with stated evidence, a Conversational AI Screener running voice or chat screens, an AI Scheduler, a Talent CRM Agent for resurfacing past applicants, a Career Site Builder, and a Hiring Intelligence Agent for pipeline and market reporting. Existing customers keep their data, integrations and contracts, and move to the new platform on their own schedule.

Why it shows up in Recruiting stacks

• It replaces four to six tools instead of joining them. hireEZ’s pricing FAQ is direct about this: “A flat, published seat rate describes a single tool. What we’ve built brings four to six of them together on top of your ATS.” Sourcing, CRM, screening, scheduling and analytics land under one contract, with 40+ native ATS integrations so the ATS stays the system of record.
• Non-LinkedIn depth is still the sourcing moat. The index spans GitHub, Stack Overflow, papers, patents and niche communities, with long-standing coverage in Mandarin, Japanese and Korean. For engineering roles and APAC pipelines, it surfaces candidates a LinkedIn-only search does not reach.
• Voice screening runs at the top of the funnel. The Conversational AI Screener handles phone and chat screens at volume. It is the one agent here that removes a headcount-shaped cost rather than a click-shaped one.

Pricing

Verified against hireez.com/pricing on 2026-09-04.

• Solo Recruiter — $494/month, with a 7-day free trial. One recruiter, with sourcing, CRM, outreach, screening, scheduling and analytics included.
• Enterprise — custom. hireEZ prices it against the stack it replaces rather than a seat rate times headcount, and runs a four-week verification before signature.

Real-world band: Vendr’s de-identified transaction data, last updated February 2026, puts the median hireEZ contract at $13,000/year with the range running $7,000 to $25,000. That median is about two Solo seats, so the quote-gated tier is not a step change in price for a small team — it is a step change in what the contract covers.

The consolidation math that decides this. $494/month is $5,928/year for one recruiter. SeekOut Recruit Core is $1,788/year annual-billed, Juicebox Starter $1,188/seat/year, and neither includes screening or scheduling. hireEZ clears its own price only if it retires at least two other line items — a scheduler and a screening tool, or a CRM seat and a sourcing seat. Price the tools you would cancel before you price the seat. If nothing gets cancelled, the sourcing index alone does not carry a 3-5× premium over point tools.

Best for

• In-house TA teams of 3-15 recruiters on technical or APAC pipelines who already own an ATS and want sourcing, screening and scheduling on one contract
• Teams where screening volume is the bottleneck, since voice screening is the agent with the clearest headcount arithmetic
• Recruiters carrying 8+ open reqs, where agent-drafted shortlists compound across the week

Not the pick for agencies and staffing firms billing per placement. hireEZ prices against a replaced internal stack, and an agency’s stack is a Bullhorn or Loxo CRM it will not retire. Also not the pick when programmatic access to sourcing results is a hard requirement: hireEZ exposes an API key but ships no MCP server, so agent-side integration is build work you own.

Versus the alternatives

• LinkedIn Recruiter is the incumbent every sourcing tool is bought alongside or against. Pick it when your roles are well-covered on LinkedIn and InMail response rate is the number that moves. Pick hireEZ when they are not, or when a LinkedIn-only pipeline has gone dry on a technical req.
• SeekOut at $149/month annual-billed is the closest sourcing comparison, and it publishes a self-serve price hireEZ’s enterprise tier does not. Pick SeekOut when you want sourcing and talent analytics and nothing else. Pick hireEZ when the screening and scheduling agents are the actual purchase.
• Gem prices on company FTE count rather than recruiter seats — $130/month yearly-billed under 10 FTE, custom above — and is the stronger recruiting CRM and reporting layer. Pick Gem when pipeline reporting is what your exec team reads. Pick hireEZ when the sourcing index is what you are short of.
• Juicebox is the fastest-growing entrant in this segment: a free tier, Starter at $99/seat/month, and agents at $199/month each. Pick Juicebox when the budget is under $5K/year and sourcing is the only job on the list. hireEZ’s answer to it is funnel breadth, not better search.

Watch-outs

• The platform you see in a demo shipped in August 2026. Guard: ask which of the seven agents your account runs on day one versus which are staged, and get that list into the order form rather than the deck. Design-partner-stage capabilities move.
• Enterprise pricing indexed to your current stack is an information asymmetry. The four-week verification is a real process, but it runs on cost data you supply. Guard: build your own stack-cost sheet before the first call, and hold the renewal quote to the same replaced-tool list — by year two there are no cancelled tools left to price against.
• No MCP server. Guard: if an agent of your own needs to read hireEZ pipelines, scope the API-key integration as build work during the evaluation and re-check MCP status at renewal.
• Voice and automated screening carry compliance exposure that varies by jurisdiction. NYC LL 144 requires a bias audit and candidate notice for automated employment decision tools, and two-party-consent states require recording consent. Guard: confirm with counsel which agent outputs count as an automated decision in your jurisdictions, keep a human approval gate on every rejection, and get the audit documentation from hireEZ before rollout rather than after.
• The CRM and analytics gap against Gem has not closed just because the surface changed. Guard: if pipeline reporting goes to your exec team, run one quarter with hireEZ reporting alongside your existing dashboard before retiring the dashboard.