Beamery

Beamery keeps your talent list and finds people for open roles

What Beamery and its customers report

What Beamery does well

Who Beamery suits

Where Beamery stops

What Beamery costs and what happens when you leave

Each order sets the fees, and they stay fixed for the order term. Beamery invoices on or around the start date and every year after. You pay undisputed invoices within 30 days.

Some orders list full users as unlimited. For those, Beamery’s usage limits rise with your employee count. Total contacts are capped at 50 times your employees plus 500,000. Monthly emails are capped at 40 times your employees. A company with 2,000 employees would get 600,000 contacts and 80,000 emails a month. If your headcount rises into a higher price band, Beamery may charge an extra fee. If it falls, the fees do not fall during the order term.

If the contract ends before the term does, you pay the fees for the rest of the term. If you end it because Beamery broke it, Beamery refunds prepaid fees for the unused part of the term. You can export your data during the term. At the end, Beamery deletes your live data within 30 days and backups 90 days after that. On request, it gives you a copy of your data in its standard format.

Beamery promises to try for 99.9% uptime each month. If uptime falls below the level in the contract, you can ask for a credit. Downtime counts only when users cannot log in. Each side’s total liability is capped at the fees paid or payable in 12 months. The 12 months are those before the event behind the claim.

Eight questions to put to Beamery

1. What will we pay each year, and what happens to the price if our headcount rises or falls? Good answer: A written price for each band, and a rule that lowers the fee when headcount falls.
2. Is Ray, the AI sourcing assistant, on general sale for us, and from what date? Good answer: A date in the order form, with a fee reduction if it slips.
3. What counts as feedback and learnings, and can we opt out of its use for AI learning? Good answer: A written list, and an opt-out in the order form.
4. Can we read the full bias audit report, with results for roles like ours? Good answer: The full report, with results for the job types and countries we hire in.
5. What do the limits of 2,000 contacts, 1,000 suggested people and 100 messages mean for our biggest roles? Good answer: Whether our largest vacancies stay under each limit, and how to raise a limit at no extra cost.
6. What contact and email limits apply to us, and what is the fee for going over? Good answer: Numbers in the order form, and a fixed fee for extra room.
7. How do we take every profile, note and consent record with us when we leave, and in what format? Good answer: A named file format and a delivery date written into the contract.
8. Which recipes can delete profiles, and who on our side may create them? Good answer: Only named administrators, and a record of every recipe run.

Alternatives to Beamery

Avature, Eightfold, Phenom, Gem and SeekOut are the alternatives, along with buying nothing.

Avature sells a candidate relationship product for building talent pipelines. It also sells an applicant tracking system, and the two can be combined as one talent acquisition suite. It suits a buyer who wants the talent list and the ATS from one supplier.

Eightfold sells one suite for finding, engaging and hiring people. It covers sourcing, interviews with its AI Interviewer and offers. Its platform works independently of the ATS a company uses.

Phenom’s Sourcing Agent finds candidates in your talent pool and beyond. It drafts outreach for recruiters to send. X+ Source gives a shortlist across your CRM and the open market. You describe the role in plain language. Every match comes with a reason.

Gem’s AI Sourcing Agent searches 800 million+ profiles. Its AI Talent Rediscovery Agent resurfaces past candidates across the CRM and ATS. Gem also sells its own ATS.

SeekOut’s Sourcing Core plan is for individual recruiters. It costs $149 a month paid yearly upfront. SeekOut searches nearly one billion public profiles. It is also a Beamery sourcing partner, so a team can use the two together.

Buying nothing means no contract term and no Beamery fees. Your team keeps searching with the tools it has today. The guide to AI sourcing and screening covers the rest of the market.