Loam
AI-powered hiring workspace for early-stage founders managing their first hiring rounds with candidate sourcing, resume review, and pipeline organization.
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Description
A founder's first hire is usually also their first time doing recruiting — sourcing candidates, reading resumes, and organizing a pipeline with no HR background and no budget for an enterprise ATS. Loam is built specifically for that moment: an AI-assisted hiring workspace sized for a founder's first few hires, not a corporate hiring department.
Loam is an AI-powered hiring workspace for early-stage founders, offering candidate sourcing, AI-generated candidate briefs, structured resume parsing, and a branded careers page. It integrates with Claude via MCP for natural-language pipeline queries. Pricing is Free ($0), Seed ($59/month), or Startup ($129/month), with flat monthly rates and no per-seat or per-job fees.
💬 Our review
The short version: Loam is well-matched to its stated audience — pre-seed to early Series A founders — and the free tier is genuinely usable for a first hire or two before you need to pay anything.
Against Lever, which starts around $8k/year and targets mid-market and larger companies, and Ashby, built for growth-stage teams, Loam is deliberately smaller and cheaper, without the enterprise reporting or scale features those tools offer. It's the right fit if you're hiring your first handful of people; you'll likely outgrow it once hiring volume and reporting needs increase.
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Free $0/month, Seed $59/month, Startup $129/month
Pros
AI-generated candidate briefs and structured resume parsing
Custom AI signals searchable in plain language
Branded careers page with mobile-friendly forms
MCP server integration with Claude for AI workflows
Cons
Limited to early-stage/small team use cases
No mention of enterprise features or advanced reporting
Pricing may not scale for larger hiring volumes