The split
AI sourcing tools look for candidates you have not met. Many of them also write and send the outreach: LinkedIn messages, email sequences, or both. The job is a fuller pipeline of new names.
Annie does not do that job. She ranks people already in your LinkedIn export and mailbox. She can draft if you ask. She does not send. If you searched for a sourcing tool and landed here, this is the fair split, and it is about the category.
Where they diverge
| Annie | Them | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary buyer | One solo or independent recruiter | Anyone whose next step is new names, rather than the network they already have |
| Starts from | Your LinkedIn export and mailbox | A search beyond the people you already know |
| Call list | Ranked people you already know but have not worked with or reached out to | People the tool found |
| Sends | No. Drafts if you ask. You send from your mailbox, on your click | Often yes. Sending, or sequencing, is part of why people buy them |
| If the network is thin | The list is short. Annie says so. She does not pad it | That is the moment a sourcing tool is supposed to help |
| Price | Solo at $129/mo. One plan. No Team plan | Set by the vendor. It changes. This page does not copy a price |
| Honest fit | A stale warm network, and you will send the message yourself | You need candidates who are not already in LinkedIn or your mailbox |
| Honest miss | Finding strangers, and sending outreach at scale | Ranking people you already know, inside a solo recruiter CRM |
Them, on this page, means AI sourcing tools. Claims here are about that category in general. They are not a feature list or a price copied from one product.
When they are the honest fit
- You need candidates who are not already in your LinkedIn or mailbox
- You want a tool that sends outreach, and you do not want to wait on your own click
- Sourcing is the job, and ranking a warm network is secondary
When Annie is the honest fit
- Your leak is a stale LinkedIn network and quiet mailbox threads
- You want a ranked list of people you already know
- You want Solo at $129/mo and a same-morning trial, and you will send the message yourself
Same CRM objects when a search is live: contacts, companies, jobs and mandates, candidates, pipeline, meetings, tasks, invoices. Annie does not sell a sourcing database of strangers.
Pricing shape
Annie is Solo-only. One plan at $129/mo, or $1,290/year. Seven-day trial, no card to start. Details: Pricing. AI sourcing tools set their own prices. A number from one vendor’s page is not the price of the category, so it is not printed here.
Questions
Only if the job is ranking people you already know. If you need new names, and a tool that sends the outreach, an AI sourcing tool matches that brief more closely.
No. Annie ranks who to contact. She can draft if you ask. You send from your mailbox, on your click.
No. She only ranks people already in your contacts. If the network is thin, the list is short, and she says so.
Annie Solo is $129/mo flat, or $1,290/year. AI sourcing tools publish their own prices and they change. This page does not copy a figure from one vendor's pricing page.
Yes. The working demo is at meetannie.ai/demo.html. The seven-day trial does not need a card, and there is no required onboarding call.