For the person who approves the budget

The budget memo, pre-written.

If someone on your team sent you this page, they want to stop renting sourcing software and buy it once instead. This is everything an approver, IT reviewer, or procurement desk needs: the number, the three-year math, the security answers, and the contract terms. Five minutes, no demo required.

1. The number

$18,000, one time. That buys the sourcing platform itself: full source code, delivered to your accounts, white-labeled. After that, the only ongoing cost is data, purchased at wholesale API rates directly from providers (typically $0.15 to $0.60 per fully enriched candidate record, billed to you by the provider, never marked up by us).

It replaces the sourcing line items you currently rent: seat-based tools like LinkedIn Recruiter or hireEZ (roughly $13K per seat per year), credit-based contracts like ZoomInfo (roughly $15K per year minimum), or agency fees on roles your team could fill with better inflow.

Illustrative scenario: 20 placements per year at a 100:1 sourcing ratio. Seat and contract figures are published or verified benchmark terms with a typical 6% annual contract escalator; wholesale figure assumes ~$0.45 blended per record. At this volume the purchase pays for itself in roughly 9 to 16 months depending on which contract it replaces. Run your own volume in the interactive calculator.

One structural difference the table understates: platform spend buys access that ends with the contract. Engine spend builds a candidate database you keep. Every record enriched in year one is still yours in year five, at no additional cost.

2. The IT and procurement review

Most vendor reviews are about limiting what a vendor can do with your data. This one is shorter than usual, because after delivery there is no vendor in the loop.

3. The contract, in plain lines

These are the terms as they will appear in the purchase agreement. Paste them into the requisition as written.

The supporting evidence

Everything above is backed by published research on this site, usable whether or not you buy anything.

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A 30-minute live walkthrough answers whatever this page did not. No pitch deck, no follow-up sequence.

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