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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "cloudtask",
 "name": "CloudTask",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "cloudtask.com",
 "category": "HR & People",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "Managed marketplace for LATAM go-to-market hires — SDRs, BDRs and similar — with payroll and compliance handled. Direct Hire instead costs 30% of first-year salary.",
 "best_for": "companies hiring GTM roles — SDRs, BDRs and similar — who want LATAM talent without setting up their own payroll and compliance in another country, and who value the 24-month replacement guarantee",
 "skip_if": "you only need one hire ever, where Direct Hire's one-time 20-30% fee is cleaner than a managed monthly rate; also skip it if you cannot get the all-in monthly rate in writing before you commit",
 "honest_knock": "The $299 is the honest part and also the small part: their FAQ calls it a one-time deposit to start a search, denies any monthly platform fee, and says it goes toward your first placement. What you will actually spend is the all-in monthly rate per hire, and that figure appears nowhere on the pricing page — you get it after you talk to them, once you are already invested in the process. Work out before you start what a comparable LATAM salary is on your own, so you can see what the managed layer costs on top. The exit is worth reading twice too. You can convert a managed hire onto your own payroll, but CloudTask's FAQ attaches a conversion fee and a notice period to that and publishes neither. So the price of keeping the person is a number you cannot check in advance.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-08, read on their own pricing page and FAQ) Two hiring models, both published, plus one deposit. A one-time $299 deposit starts your search — asked “Do you charge a monthly platform fee?” their FAQ answers “No. There is a one-time $299 deposit to start your search. That is the only fee outside the models above.” — and the deposit applies toward your buyout or your first placement. Direct Hire costs 20% to 30% of first-year base salary, paid once and quoted per role, with a 6-month replacement guarantee (one replacement, same job description) and US W2 employment available. Managed Staffing is billed as one all-in monthly rate per person covering salary, compliance, payroll and support — that rate is not published, and it is the number that decides what this costs. It carries a 24-month replacement guarantee with replacements not capped, and time and activity tracking on by default, which the hire agrees to before matching and you can switch off when you post the role. For roles that create demand — outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs — Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term; Direct Hire has no minimum term. Converting a managed hire to direct employment is possible, but their FAQ makes it subject to a conversion fee and a notice period and publishes neither. Commissions and bonuses you add are separate from the all-in monthly rate. Health and equipment benefits are available on request on Managed Staffing only.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-08",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Deel",
  "why": "the comparison worth doing, because they solve overlapping problems from opposite ends. Deel publishes its floors and handles employment for people you already found; CloudTask finds the people and wraps employment around them, but does not publish the all-in rate. Decide by whether your bottleneck is sourcing or paperwork, then insist on the missing number"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/cloudtask.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/cloudtask-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/cloudtask/",
  "vendor_site": "https://cloudtask.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.cloudtask.com/6puug6ro1f8e",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "cloudtask:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "cloudtask:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "cloudtask:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "cloudtask:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}