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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "shortlistiq",
 "name": "ShortlistIQ",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "shortlistiq.com",
 "category": "HR & People",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "AI recruiting assistant that runs first-round candidate interviews in chat, in a tone and persona you set, and returns a scoring report for each applicant; plans are metered by invited applicants per month.",
 "best_for": "small and mid-size teams and recruitment agencies that get more applicants than they can screen and want an AI to run the first-round interview and score each candidate",
 "skip_if": "you need a full applicant tracking system; you hire only a few people a year and screen them yourself; or you hire where automated screening needs a level of human review or disclosure you cannot set up",
 "honest_knock": "No yearly prices are shown although the FAQ mentions yearly plans, and the cards do not name their currency. Basic covers only 20 applicants a month with a single AI assistant. Unused or partly used service is not refunded on early cancellation, and the homepage selling point, that candidates cannot tell the AI from a person, puts the duty to disclose on you.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$49",
  "entry_price_terms": "Basic · labelled per month, up to 20 invited applicants a month, one AI assistant, unlimited job positions",
  "from_price_usd_month": 49.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-16 in a browser on shortlistiq.com/pricing; the cards show a $ sign without naming the currency, and clicking Pay annually did not change the amounts) Three paid plans, each labelled per month and metered by invited applicants per month: Basic $49 for up to 20 applicants and one AI assistant; Standard $199 for up to 200 applicants and unlimited AI assistants with live chat support; Premium $599 for up to 2,000 applicants with a dedicated account manager and personalised onboarding. All paid plans list unlimited job positions and no setup fees. Every account starts on a free plan for up to 10 applicants, with no credit card. The FAQ mentions monthly and yearly plans that can be cancelled at any time, but no yearly price is shown. Payments run through Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record; the terms say there are no refunds or credits for partly used or unused service on early cancellation, except where the law requires them.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-16",
  "source_url": "https://www.shortlistiq.com/pricing"
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Every account starts on a free plan for up to 10 applicants, with no credit card.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "(read 2026-10-16 in a browser on shortlistiq.com/pricing; the cards show a $ sign without naming the currency, and clicking Pay annually did not change the amounts) Three paid plans, each labelled per month and metered by invited applicants per month: Basic $49 for up to 20 applicants and one AI assistant; Standard $199 for up to 200 applicants and unlimited AI assistants with live chat support; Premium $599 for up to 2,000 applicants with a dedicated account manager and personalised onboarding.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-16",
   "source_url": "https://www.shortlistiq.com/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Breezy HR",
  "why": "Breezy HR is in our dossiers too, but it is an applicant tracking system: job posting, pipeline and candidate management, with a free plan for one open position and Startup at $157 a month billed annually when we read it on 27 September 2026. ShortlistIQ does not replace an ATS; it adds an AI that interviews and scores applicants in the first round."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/shortlistiq.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/shortlistiq-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/shortlistiq/",
  "vendor_site": "https://shortlistiq.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://www.shortlistiq.com?aff=6NyDVn",
  "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": [
  "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": "shortlistiq: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": "shortlistiq:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shortlistiq:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shortlistiq: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_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "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"
  }
 }
}