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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "hibob",
 "name": "HiBob",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "hibob.com",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "HRIS with onboarding, time-off and people analytics, built for scaling mid-size companies. Quote-only, per employee per month: third-party estimates cluster in the mid-teens, plus a one-off implementation fee reported at roughly 10–20% of the annual value. Get the number in writing.",
 "best_for": "growing mid-size companies (roughly 50-500 staff) that have outgrown spreadsheets and want a modern, culture-focused HRIS",
 "skip_if": "you're under about 25 employees: a lighter, transparently priced HR tool covers you without the implementation project",
 "honest_knock": "Opaque pricing and an implementation fee mean the real cost only surfaces in a sales call, and it's built for scaling mid-size companies, so it's heavy and expensive for a small team.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "quote_only",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "Quote-only, and re-verified as such on 2026-08-17 and again on 2026-09-28: HiBob publishes no price list. Its machine-readable site index (llms.txt) now lists pricing-plans and pricing-packages pages, but both describe custom pricing without an amount, hibob.com/pricing leads to a demo-request form, and neither our July nor our August 2026 capture retrieved an amount. HiBob's own pricing FAQ confirms the model: generally per employee, Core HR in every plan with modules added on, and pricing that 'may vary slightly by region'. Pricing is per employee per month with modules bolted on, and third-party estimates cluster in the mid-teens per employee per month, plus a one-off implementation fee of roughly 10-20% of the annual contract. Those are estimates, not HiBob's numbers, and the whole thing is negotiated. Get it in writing, including what happens to the per-employee rate as headcount changes mid-term.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-28",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "quote_only",
   "label": "Quote-only pricing",
   "evidence": "Its machine-readable site index (llms.txt) now lists pricing-plans and pricing-packages pages, but both describe custom pricing without an amount, hibob.com/pricing leads to a demo-request form, and neither our July nor our August 2026 capture retrieved an amount.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-28",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "per_seat",
   "label": "Per-seat pricing",
   "evidence": "HiBob's own pricing FAQ confirms the model: generally per employee, Core HR in every plan with modules added on, and pricing that 'may vary slightly by region'.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-28",
   "source_url": null
  },
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Pricing is per employee per month with modules bolted on, and third-party estimates cluster in the mid-teens per employee per month, plus a one-off implementation fee of roughly 10-20% of the annual contract.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-28",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "BambooHR or Gusto",
  "why": "simpler, more transparently priced HR platforms"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/hibob.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/hibob-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/hibob/",
  "vendor_site": "https://hibob.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://partners.hibob.com/er7lzncj0udv",
  "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 'quote_only': 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.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "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."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "hibob:public_price",
   "key": "public_price",
   "question": "Can you publish a price, or a starting price, for the plans that are quote-only?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "hibob: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": "hibob:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "hibob:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "hibob: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": {
   "what": "Employee data, time off and tasks over a hosted endpoint, fenced in by the permissions of a Bob service user.",
   "plan": "Not stated in their own documentation.",
   "status": "Beta",
   "source": "https://www.hibob.com/platform/core/ai/mcp/",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
   "note": "The vendor's own MCP server, from our MCP research; it works with your own account at the vendor."
  },
  "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"
  }
 }
}