For HR Tech & headhunting tools
Your product finds people.
The data has to come from somewhere
Building the base yourself means buying it, cleaning it, refreshing it and ranking it, every month, forever.
- A raw data provider hands you rows to clean and score yourself
- Your demo falls apart the moment the results look thin
- Every month you refresh, you pay again
Already running on Kalent
“We were about to spend two quarters on ingestion. We shipped sourcing in weeks instead, and it is the feature we get asked about in every demo.”
Build vs buy
Why nobody builds this twice
- Buying rows leaves you the hard half. Normalising titles, locations, companies and schools is where the results come from, and it is months of work.
- The refresh never ends. A base you own decays from the day you buy it, so the cost repeats every month you want it current.
- Holding talent data carries exposure. GDPR, opt-outs, subprocessors. Someone on your side has to own it, forever.
- Rate limits should follow your growth. Kalent sets them per account, up to hundreds of calls a minute, so a good month costs you nothing in engineering.
How it works for you
Three things Kalent does for a product team
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Search, ranked, in your own UI
Your users write a brief. Kalent searches 850M+ profiles, aggregated from 15+ data sources, and returns talents already ranked, with the reason behind each match.
- Qualification questions on top of the filters
- Results stream in, so the shortlist fills as it goes
- Your UI, your brand
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2
One API, or an MCP server
Call it from your backend like any other service. If your product is agent-based, the MCP server exposes the same endpoints in natural language and costs no extra credit.
- REST or MCP, same credits either way
- Rate limits set per account
- Enrichment on the same call
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A line on your invoice
Credits resell cleanly. Most partners pass them through as an add-on or fold them into a higher tier, and keep the margin.
- Usage-based, it grows with your customers
- Annual contract with top-up
- Volume pricing down to $0.050 per credit