Juicebox (PeopleGPT)

Juicebox is an AI recruiting platform built around PeopleGPT, a natural language search engine that lets recruiters describe the candidate they want in plain English instead of constructing Boolean strings. Founded in 2022 by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta and backed by Y Combinator (S22), it searches 800M+ professional profiles drawn from 30+ data sources, including GitHub and academic publications. The product spans search, multi-step outreach sequences, a recruiting CRM, Talent Insights market analytics and Juicebox Agents, which source around the clock, rank candidates against the recruiter's criteria and can be set to auto-email or auto-shortlist. The trust center reports more than 5,000 customers and names Cursor, Notion, Anyscale, Ramp, Replit, Verkada, Quora and Patreon, and the homepage cites 60% of the Forbes AI 50, 80+ public enterprises and 500+ staffing agencies.

Integration coverage is published in detail. Juicebox states that it integrates with 41 ATS systems and 21 CRMs, including Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, Bullhorn, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS, Salesforce and HubSpot, and its documentation describes the ATS link as two-way: jobs import from the ATS to start a search, past applicants surface for rediscovery, and shortlisted profiles export back automatically. Gmail and Outlook connect for sending, and a Slack app and a Chrome extension extend the workflow. Since August 2026 Juicebox works in both MCP directions. Its hosted MCP server is listed in the Claude and ChatGPT connector directories and documented for Cursor, Claude Code and Gemini CLI, letting an assistant query recruiting analytics and create or manage Agents on any paid plan, with shortlist and project tools on Business. Agent 4.0 in turn uses MCP connectors to pull role context from tools such as Notion, Google Drive, Granola and Metaview.

Pricing is per seat and stated in USD on the pricing page, which defaults to the yearly view at 15% off. Free at $0 covers limited searches, AI email templates and setting up a Juicebox Agent. Starter is $99 per seat per month billed yearly, or $119 monthly, and adds unlimited searches and projects, 500 contact credits and 500 export credits a month, and one mailbox. Growth is $179 per seat per month billed yearly, or $199 monthly, and adds Talent Insights, 1,500 contact and export credits per seat per month, up to 5 seats and 3 mailboxes per seat. Business is custom-priced, sold on annual terms only, and adds unlimited contact credits, ATS and CRM integration, network sourcing, SAML SSO, usage analytics, hiring manager seats and 6 mailboxes per seat. Juicebox Agents are an add-on at $199 per agent per month on any paid plan, with unlimited contact and email credits included.

What the entry price does not buy is contact volume or pipeline handoff. Credits meter contact and export actions, so a recruiter working several open roles can use up 500 a month quickly, and phone numbers are not available on Starter and cost 3 credits each on Growth. ATS and CRM integration, network sourcing and SSO sit in the custom-priced Business tier, so the teams most likely to need pipeline handoff cannot see what it costs, and always-on Agents are billed on top of seats.

The trust center lists SOC 2 Type II (attested, with a bridge letter), GDPR and CCPA, plus a third-party AI bias audit for NYC Local Law 144, and offers the SOC 2 report, DPA, penetration test report and Data Protection Impact Assessment on request. It also states that internal audits check conformance with ISO 42001, but no ISO 42001 certificate is published. Twenty-four subprocessors are disclosed, including Anthropic as an AI model provider, Baseten for model hosting and inference, AWS for hosting and Algolia for search. On data use, the trust center states that customer data is not used for AI model training, while PeopleGPT itself is trained on people data gathered from 30+ public data sources. Juicebox describes its AI as used in the pre-application phase only, without making or contributing to candidate decisions.

Buyers comparing outbound sourcing tools also look at hireEZ ($494/mo), SeekOut ($149/mo billed annually) and Fetcher ($115/mo). Teams whose main need is running the applicant pipeline rather than finding candidates usually start from an ATS such as Ashby ($270/mo billed annually) or Greenhouse, both of which connect to Juicebox.

Current state Q4 2026: Juicebox shipped its MCP server on August 12, Agent 4.0 with a context layer built on MCP connectors on August 19, an Intake tool for hiring-manager kickoffs on August 26, and a Healthcare Data beta for searching healthcare professionals by license, specialty and credentials on September 2. Its funding includes a $30M round led by Sequoia in September 2025 and an $80M Series B led by DST Global, announced in March 2026 at an $850M valuation. The G2 profile holds 65 reviews at 4.8.