The CRM built for solo and independent recruiters

The problem on a one-person desk

When you leave a team, the CRM habits that used to be optional become the job. Delivery still has to ship. Business development is the part that slips first. Spreadsheets and a raw LinkedIn export do not tell you who is worth calling today, or whether you have actually spoken to someone or only ever connected.

A normal CRM only knows what you remembered to log. That is the gap Annie fills for one desk.

What Annie actually does

You bring in your LinkedIn Connections.csv (or the archive zip). You connect your mailbox. Annie never sends by itself. Annie turns that into contacts with connected-on and last-emailed dates filled in, then ranks the people you already know but have not worked with or reached out to so you work the list in the right order.

Same CRM objects you expect for search: contacts, companies, jobs and mandates, candidates, pipeline, meetings, tasks, invoices. What sits underneath is the network that usually goes stale.

Who this page is for

• Independent / freelance recruiters running their own LinkedIn desk
• One-person search firms who left a boutique or agency and still own a long network
• Independent desks that still want a full CRM + ranked call list without buying a team suite

Not the primary fit: large multi-desk agencies shopping for enterprise ATS workflow depth first. Annie can hold the search work; the wedge is warm-network BD for a desk that has to do delivery and BD alone.

Why “solo recruiter CRM” is a different job

Agency CRMs are built for shared process, permissions, and volume. Solo desks need something that starts the same morning you sign up, without a demo theatre, and that surfaces names you already have rather than a cold list of strangers.

Annie only works from people already in your contacts. If your network is thin, you get a short list and she says so. On a quiet day the morning email does not arrive at all rather than pad an empty check-in.

Proof from the founder’s own desk

Before Annie was a product, it was Michael running his own LinkedIn export and mailbox through it. On that export: hundreds of Director-level and above connections, many never contacted. The mailbox side showed clients who used to write weekly and had gone quiet, and approaches that got a reply and never got a follow-up because nothing brought them back up.

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Founder

Michael has nearly fifteen years of experience recruiting in the GCC, ten of them spent helping to build one of the largest boutique search firms in the region, and has recently started his own firm. Before any of this was a product, it was Michael running his own export and his own mailbox through it to see what he had been missing.

That is the job Annie is built to do for other solo desks.

What you get on day one

1. Import LinkedIn Connections.csv
2. Connect Google or Microsoft mailbox (password never touches Annie; Annie never sends by itself)
3. Open a ranked call list of people you already know
4. Run jobs, candidates, and invoices in the same place when a mandate is live

Full walkthrough: How it works.

CRM and ATS for one recruiter

Contacts, companies, mandates, candidates, pipeline, and invoicing all sit in Annie. What it adds is the business development side: the leads already sitting in your network, found and ranked for you. If you ask whether Annie is an ATS or a CRM, the honest answer is both, for one recruiter.

Pricing shape

One plan: Solo at $129/mo, or $1,290/year (two months free). Seven-day trial, no card. Details and trial terms: Pricing.

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