Recruitment agencies send 100–500 outreach emails a day — manually. Outpost finds qualified candidates, writes personalized outreach, and delivers warm conversations to your recruiters. No extra headcount required.
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How it works
No more copy-pasting job descriptions into InMail. No more generic outreach sequences. Outpost runs the sourcing playbook while your recruiters focus on the calls that matter.
Describe the role, required background, and ideal candidate profile. Seniority, industry, skills, location, company size. Outpost builds the targeting criteria and starts identifying matching candidates immediately.
For each candidate, Outpost researches their career trajectory, current role, tenure, and recent activity. It writes a personalized email explaining why this specific role is the right next step for them — not a template blast.
Candidates who reply are already warm — they've read a message that was actually about them. Your recruiter handles the call, the relationship, and the placement. Outpost handles everything before that.
Recruitment use cases
Executive search, staffing agencies, RPO teams — the sourcing workflow is different, but the bottleneck is the same. Outpost removes it.
Senior candidates expect personalized outreach that shows you've done the work. Outpost researches each executive's career arc, board positions, public signals, and company context before writing. Your pitch looks like you spent an hour on it — because the AI did.
Staffing agencies run 20–50 open roles simultaneously with tight fill-time SLAs. Outpost handles the first-contact volume across all open reqs in parallel — your recruiters stop choosing which roles to source this week and start working every role every day.
In-house recruiting teams are asked to do more with the same team. Outpost acts as a force multiplier — each recruiter can work 3–5× more roles simultaneously because the sourcing and first-touch happen automatically. More pipeline, same budget.
Head-to-head comparison
The honest math on what manual outreach actually costs your team vs. what you get with Outpost. See full SDR comparison →
| Factor | Outpost (AI Outreach) | Manual Recruiter Outreach |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $49–$149/mo | $4,500–$7,000/mo per recruiter |
| Daily outreach volume | 100–500+ emails/day | 20–40 (with template fatigue) |
| Personalization quality | Researches every candidate | Variable (degrades at high volume) |
| Time to first outreach (new role) | Under 1 hour | 1–3 days sourcing + writing |
| Simultaneous open reqs | Unlimited | 5–8 (focus degrades above this) |
| Consistency across roles | Uniform quality, every req | Priority reqs get best work |
| Sick/vacation coverage | Runs regardless | Pipeline stalls |
| Candidate research depth | Full career history, signals | Depends on recruiter bandwidth |
| Scales without hiring | Yes — same plan | Hire more recruiters |
| Relationship & negotiation | Not applicable | Human strength |
The math
Outpost isn't a recruiter replacement. It's the difference between a recruiter spending 3 hours sourcing or 3 hours closing. Run your own numbers →
🚨 Manual Recruiter Outreach Cost
Year 1 cost of recruiter time spent on sourcing
✓ Outpost AI Outreach
Year 1 total cost (base plan)
Outpost doesn't replace your recruiters — it replaces the 3 hours a day they spend writing emails instead of running calls. At $49/mo, the ROI math closes in week one.
FAQ
The honest answers — including the parts where human recruiters still have the edge.
Yes — for the prospecting and first-contact workflow. Outpost identifies candidates that match a job spec, researches their background, and writes personalized outreach emails referencing their actual experience and career trajectory. Your recruiters still own the relationship, the interview, and the placement. What they no longer do is spend 3 hours a day writing cold emails to candidates who may not reply.
Outpost researches each candidate before writing — current role, tenure, career progression, recent job changes, skills, and industry signals. The outreach email references the candidate's actual situation: why this role is a logical next step, what's compelling about the opportunity given their background, and a specific hook based on something observable about their career. The result is messages that candidates actually read, not generic InMail blasts.
Three recruiting workflows get the most from Outpost: (1) Executive search — senior candidates require research-heavy, highly personalized outreach. Outpost does the research automatically. (2) Staffing agencies filling recurring role types — upload the job spec once, run the ICP repeatedly. (3) RPO and in-house teams managing 20+ open reqs simultaneously — AI handles the first-contact volume so recruiters focus on responses, screening, and closing.
A dedicated sourcer in the US costs $45,000–$65,000/year in base salary plus benefits and LinkedIn Recruiter seats ($10K/yr). Outpost starts at $49/month ($588/year). Outpost doesn't replace a sourcer entirely — it handles first-touch outreach, which is typically 30–40% of a sourcer's time. The result is existing recruiters producing more qualified conversations without additional headcount.
Yes. Outpost runs two distinct outreach workflows: candidate-side (finding and contacting potential placements for open roles) and client-side (finding and contacting hiring managers at target companies that match your placement expertise). Both use the same ICP-based targeting — you describe who you're looking for and what the message should achieve, and Outpost handles the research and personalization.
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