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AI Recruiter: questions to ask

From The AI Agents Report by Iterategy · iterategy.com/research/ai-agents/jobs/ai-recruiter/

The nine questions

Does an AI do this, or does a rule? If the answer is “when X happens it sends Y”, you are buying automation, and it should not cost AI prices.
Does it send, or does it draft? Ask for the sentence on their page that says it acts on its own.
Does it do it on its own on this plan, or on the one above? The setting that lets it act without you is often a tier up from the entry price.
What does it do with the hard cases? Ask what it holds back for you, and what happens to what it cannot resolve.
What is the cap, and what happens past it? Work out the bill at the volume you actually do, not at the included allowance.
What is the unit? Per month, per user, per location, per minute, per credit or per resolved ticket.
Who does the setup, and is it in the price?
What happens to the changes it made when I stop paying? Some tools make changes that stay only while you subscribe.
Who carries the legal side? For calling and texting customers, ask who handles consent and opt-outs.

Most of these run the screening interview or move candidates forward on their own, and several deliberately stop at a ranked shortlist. Decide how far you want it to go without you.
These are priced for steady hiring volume. A business hiring two people a year is not who they are built for, and many recent arrivals sell to staffing agencies.
Setup, connections to your other systems and usage over the plan’s allowance can add 30 to 100 percent to the listed price.
No vendor publishes how many candidates quit an AI interview partway. Ask for that number.
In reviews, price increases and features moving to paid add-ons are the loudest complaints.