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An AI-powered applicant tracking system for early-stage startups, with natural-language sourcing.
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Startups hiring for their first few roles rarely need the full complexity of enterprise recruiting software; this AI applicant tracking system for startups is scoped instead around four tools — tracking, a job site, sourcing, and an AI agent — bundled for a founder handling hiring alongside everything else.
The tracking side covers a pipeline with triage and AI-generated candidate briefs, and hiring signals can be defined in plain English rather than built through a rules configuration screen, with the system scoring and sorting applicants against those signals automatically. Sourcing extends past inbound applications: natural-language search runs across a stated 800 million profiles, with shortlisting down to one click rather than a manual filtering process.
What sets the Agent tool apart is where it runs — Loam connects to MCP-compatible tools like Claude, so questions, stage moves, and hiring actions can happen from inside an existing AI workflow rather than requiring a separate dashboard visit for every small update. A branded careers page with a stated clean apply flow rounds out the bundle, replacing a generic hosted job listing with something that looks like the company's own site.
Pricing runs three tiers by name — Free, Seed, and Startup — billed as flat monthly pricing rather than per-seat or per-job usage charges, according to the site. Seed adds more published jobs, more teammates, and more sourcing over Free; Startup adds priority support on top of that. The site doesn't spell out exact usage caps per tier on the page, so a growing team should check current limits directly before assuming a specific number of jobs or searches is included.
The site states it uses natural-language search across more than 800 million profiles, letting a founder describe who they're looking for in plain English and shortlist candidates in one click rather than building a manual filter query.
Yes — the site states Loam connects to MCP-compatible tools like Claude, so questions, stage moves, and hiring actions can be triggered from that AI workflow directly, in addition to the standard dashboard.
The site frames Free as suited to a first role and early evaluation, with lightweight applicant tracking. Seed and Startup add more jobs, teammates, and sourcing capacity on top, though exact usage limits per tier aren't broken out on the page.
The three tiers scale from a first-role Free plan through Seed and Startup, which the site positions for higher hiring volume and more teammates — a larger hiring team should confirm current tier details directly rather than assume Startup covers unlimited scale.
