Choosing AI Sales Agent tiers when you recruit

Your stuck point is the shortlist that looks right on the screen and stale when you ring the number. You want a person by role and by location, quickly, without rebuilding the search each week. A cold email campaign aimed at that narrow specialism can reach people a database has not indexed yet.

Picture the work as preparation. You name the role, the patch and the wording; the agent plans the campaign, builds the list and drafts the copy. What you get back is something to read and edit rather than an empty composer, and the sending mailbox is managed for you.

Choosing a lifetime tier means you pay once and keep the tool, rather than rent it monthly while the searches trickle in. For a recruiter working one specialism, that matches how the desk works: irregular, seasonal, heavy when a brief lands and quiet between briefs.

Extra scope sits in the amount of campaign preparation included, not in a promise of more replies. A larger lifetime tier is aimed at a recruiter running more briefs at once, with more lists planned and written before each launch. You still read the drafts and you still approve the send.

Aspect by aspect, the difference is how much of the routine work leaves your desk. Planning a campaign, assembling the list and wording the first message are the tasks a bigger tier absorbs, so a busy week does not push your outreach to the back of the queue.

If your mailbox setup is already managed elsewhere, the bring-your-own-SMTP tier lets you connect what you have rather than take the managed one. That choice matters if your firm controls mail infrastructure and you cannot add a second sending domain lightly.

The hesitation is real: a stale database wastes an afternoon before you notice. Here the list and the writing are drafted for you, but the send is gated on your confirmation, so you can reject a weak campaign before it reaches anyone. That keeps the reviewing judgement with the recruiter.

Your scepticism about software claims is fair. Nothing in the product promises that a candidate will answer, and no reply rate is offered as a feature. What you are buying is the removed preparation time, so judge the spend against the hours you would otherwise lose to list building.

Language matters in a narrow market. The interface is offered in English and Spanish, which helps if your candidates or your team work across both. Check that your own specialism's vocabulary survives the drafting, and edit the copy until it reads like your desk.

Compare Starter lifetime with Growth lifetime first if you recruit alone. Starter fits the recruiter with one live brief and a single specialism, where the campaign volume is modest and the preparation is what you most want taken off your hands. Growth is the step up for someone running several briefs.

The third option, BYO-SMTP lifetime, is a different shape rather than a bigger one. It suits a recruiter whose firm already runs a sending mailbox and will not sanction another. You bring the mail route; the agent brings the planning, the listing and the writing.

Whichever you pick, read the published tier table on softwareprogrammer.app before you pay, since that page carries the amounts and the scope. Then write one campaign for a role you know well, approve it yourself, and see whether the draft saves you an afternoon before you commit further.