Loxo vs Spott
Loxo vs. Spott (2026): the comparison for executive search firms and recruiting agencies
Whoever writes the checklist wins the evaluation. Here is the checklist.
Loxo is the Talent Intelligence Platform: ATS, CRM, native sourcing on a proprietary talent graph of 850M+ professionals, outreach, business development and an agent workforce in one system of record, built since 2012.[L11][L18] Spott (spott.io) describes itself as an AI-native ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies, started in Leuven, Belgium in 2024 with its core platform launched in late 2025, built around a unified inbox and matching over a firm’s own calls, emails, messages and CVs, with OpenAI and Azure among its named subprocessors.[S8][S9][S7] This page compares the two the way a buyer should: against a written definition of what the platform must do, with every statement linked to each company’s own public pages.
Entity note: “Spott” here means the recruitment platform at spott.io, sold by Spott BV of Leuven, Belgium (Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch), with offices listed in Leuven, New York and Sydney; one Spott article lists its headquarters as San Francisco.[S6][S9][S4] It is unrelated to other products or companies named Spott. Statements attributed to Spott are quoted or paraphrased from Spott’s pages as of the dates in the sources.
What Loxo and Spott have in common, and where they part
Both companies replaced the stack where an agency ran an ATS, a separate CRM, a note taker, a sequencer and a contact-data tool; Spott’s pricing page says it replaces eight tools.[S5] The overlap is real. The differences are in what each platform owns, how far its AI runs, and whether the platform follows the revenue after the placement.
What both platforms include
- An ATS and CRM in one system, with pipelines, activities and reporting.[L1][S5]
- Plain-language AI search across the firm’s own database, on every plan.[L1][S5]
- An AI notetaker that turns calls and video meetings into notes on the record, plus email and calendar sync.[L2][S5]
- Outreach sequences, client portals and candidate reports, a Chrome extension, an open API and MCP.[L7][L13][S5]
What Loxo adds
- Native sourcing on Loxo Source, a proprietary graph of 850M+ professionals that Loxo built and enriches itself, searched in one motion with your private database.[L4] Spott states it has no built-in sourcing database.[S4]
- An agent workforce that runs the search: Longlist screens up to 10,000 candidates, Shortlist ranks across seven dimensions with evidence, and Full Agentic Mode runs intake to shortlist and stops at your decision.[L2]
- A Sales CRM and Account-Based Prospecting on company data, with filters for company size, location, industry and hiring signals.[L12]
- Loxo AI Chat with Claude, GPT, Gemini or Grok, grounded in your data, every claim cited, under each user’s permissions.[L6]
- SOC 2 Type II, published DPA and subprocessor list, and an independently hosted AI audit.[L8][L9][L10]
- Revenue Operations built for executive search and direct hire, with Rate Cards, Retained Fee Schedules, Finance and Commissions on the Enterprise plan from November 9, 2026.[L19]
What Spott emphasizes (per Spott)
- A unified inbox: email, WhatsApp, SMS, calendar and VoIP threaded to each record, with records that update from those conversations.[S10][S1]
- Semantic matching over the firm’s own database with a reason for every result; “every recruiter judgement feeds back into the model.”[S10]
- Branded candidate presentations in the firm’s own Word or PowerPoint templates, CV reformatting and a live client portal.[S11][S12]
- Business development through early hiring signals, speculative campaigns and a weighted deal pipeline.[S12][S5]
- EU hosting by default (AWS Europe, Ireland, per its General Terms), ISO 27001 and no training on customer data.[S7][S6]
- Published per-user prices in USD, EUR, GBP and AUD with AI usage included and contact enrichment metered in credits.[S5]
The Talent Intelligence Platform scorecard, applied to Loxo and Spott
Loxo defined the Talent Intelligence Platform in 2013, a year after it was founded, and the definition now has fourteen pillars in five layers: the system of record, the data, engagement, intelligence, and the platform and operations that run the firm’s revenue from the search and the placement. The full definition, the fourteen pillars and the fourteen questions to ask any vendor are at loxo.co/talent-intelligence-platform.[L11][L18] The rows below are that definition. Each cell states what the vendor’s own pages say, with the source. “Not described” means we searched the vendor’s pages on the verification date and found no description of the capability; it is not a claim about unpublished roadmaps.
| What a Talent Intelligence Platform must include | Loxo | Spott (per Spott) | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| System of record | |||
| ATS and recruiting CRM in one system | Included Full ATS and recruiting CRM on every plan; unlimited jobs, candidates and companies; pipelines, activities and reporting. | Included “AI-native ATS/CRM”: candidates, jobs and pipelines, inbound applications with AI scoring, interview scorecards, placements and timesheets on every plan. | L1, S5 |
| Sales CRM and account-based prospectingFinding and winning clients inside the same system | Included Sales CRM with a master pipeline, deals linked to jobs and revenue forecasting; Account-Based Prospecting over companies with filters for size, location, industry and hiring signals, decision-maker discovery and contact data; Business Development Outreach. | Partial A Sales (CRM) section on every plan: companies and contacts, lead and prospect stages, opportunity management, a weighted pipeline and forecast, business-development campaigns and e-signatures; “early hiring signals” and speculative campaigns. No prospecting over an external company dataset with decision-maker discovery is described. | L12, S5, S12 |
| Client collaborationPortals, reports and submittals the client actually opens | Included Live Hiring Manager Portal with approvals, scorecards and controlled visibility of résumés, URLs and compensation; Candidate Status Reports as branded PDFs; Candidate Submittal Agent; business, team and job reporting. | Included Live branded client portal; candidate presentations generated into the firm’s own Word or PowerPoint templates; CV formatting with 2 templates on Core and 4 on Pro; standard reporting on Core, advanced analytics on Pro. | L13, S5, S11 |
| Data | |||
| Native sourcing on a proprietary talent graphThe whole market, not only the people you already know | Included This is one of the core defining capabilities of a Talent Intelligence Platform. Loxo Source: a global talent dataset of 850M+ professionals, enriched by Loxo, with specialized datasets for healthcare, legal, technology and insurance, searched together with your private database. Available on Professional and above. | Not described “No built-in sourcing database like Loxo’s,” in Spott’s own list of trade-offs; “Spott works alongside [popular outside sourcing tool] rather than replacing it.” Spott’s General Terms dated December 1, 2026 define a “Sourcing Functionality” over “Spott Data” compiled from public sources and third-party providers, available where a plan includes it, with no volume, coverage or availability promised; it does not appear on the pricing page as of the verification date. | L4, S4, S11, S6, S5 |
| Contact data | Included Loxo Connect verifies personal and work contact information in real time; contact information can be revealed across the workflow through the Contact Information agent. Professional includes 2,500 credits per seat per month, pooled across the team and usable on any agent, contact information included. | Included Enrichment through third-party providers on credits: 1,000 credits per seat per month pooled across the workspace (verified November 1, 2026), the pooled monthly seat-credit model Loxo introduced with Next Generation Loxo in August 2026: 1 credit per email, 5 per profile, 10 per phone number; extra packs from $75 per month; unused credits do not roll over. | L5, L1, S5, S6 |
| A database that keeps itself current | Included Self-Updating CRM Agent refreshes stale records as the world changes; Data Hygiene and Deduplication agents. | Included “Living Database”: records update from the firm’s own calls, emails and messages; auto-enrichment of phone numbers, personal emails and job titles; AI tagging of records on Pro. | L2, S10, S5 |
| Memory of calls, emails and notes | Included AI Notetaker captures calls and interviews as notes and transcripts on the record; email and calendar sync on every plan; Loxo AI Chat answers from candidates, companies, jobs, activities and notes, with citations. | Included AI note taker on Zoom, Teams, Meet and VoIP calls; a unified inbox (email on Core; email, SMS and WhatsApp on Pro and Enterprise); “conversation memory across years.” | L2, L1, L6, S10, S5, S11 |
| AI | |||
| Natural-language AI search | Included Natural-language, relevance-ranked AI search on every plan, including Core. | Included “AI search & matching” and Ask Spott on every plan, including Core. | L1, S5 |
| AI ranking from longlist to evidenced shortlistAcross the market and your database, with reasons attached | Included This is one of the core defining capabilities of a Talent Intelligence Platform. Longlist Agent builds pools of up to 10,000 candidates from the graph and your database; Shortlist Agent ranks the strongest matches across seven dimensions with evidence attached to every one. Loxo does this across Loxo Source’s 850M+ professionals and your own private database in one unified workflow. | Partial Semantic matching ranks the agency’s own database and attaches a reason to each result; ranking covers only the firm’s own records, since Spott operates no external talent graph. | L2, S10, S4 |
| An agent workforce that runs the searchAutonomous through the shortlist, never through the decision | Included Full Agentic Mode: Job Intake, Skill DNA and JD, Longlist and Shortlist run as one autonomous sequence and stop at the human decision; no candidate is contacted, advanced or rejected by an agent acting alone. Outreach + Pursuit marked coming soon. | PartialAnnounced Workflow automations with “AI decisions” and run logs on Pro; AI tagging; AI job suggestions you approve (September 2026 update). The Series A letter describes “expanding our proactive agents.” No end-to-end agentic mode is described. | L2, S5, S8 |
| AI chat with your choice of model | Included Loxo AI Chat: switch between Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok per conversation; every claim cited or the AI says it does not know; retrieval under the asking user’s permissions. | Partial Ask Spott: “the power of frontier models like Claude and ChatGPT, built into your ATS/CRM.” OpenAI and Azure are the named AI subprocessors; no choice of model provider per conversation is described. | L6, S5, S7 |
| Visibility of what the AI did and returned | Included Agent Impact Center: every action the workforce takes, what it returned, hours returned and labor cost avoided, included for all customers. | Partial Automation run logs on Pro; the credit cost of every action shown under Billing; workspace spend limits, and per-user limits on Enterprise. No view of what the AI returned is described. | L3, S5 |
| AI governanceWhere your data goes and who checked the model | Included Each LLM provider used on its zero-retention, no-training enterprise tier, meaning zero data retention by the underlying AI models; the AI inherits the asking user’s permissions; Candidate Relevancy Engine listed as Warden Assured by Warden AI (August 2026); built in alignment with the EU AI Act and NYC Local Law 144, per Loxo’s MCP page. | Partial No training on client data, written into General Terms 10.3, and third-party AI providers contractually barred from training (12.1). The Why Spott page also says “every recruiter judgement feeds back into the model.” The security page shows an “AI Safety Compliant” badge with no standard or auditor named; no independent AI audit is referenced. | L6, L7, L10, S6, S10, S7 |
| Platform | |||
| Open API | Included Loxo API with bearer-token keys managed in Settings and webhooks; API access on Professional and above. | Pro “Integrations, MCP, API & webhooks” on Pro and Enterprise; not on Core. | L16, L1, S5 |
| MCPYour data and actions available to the AI tools you already use | Included The Loxo MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants to your Loxo with nearly 180 actions, read or write permissions you set, and revocation in seconds; included from Core. | Pro An MCP server is listed on Pro and Enterprise; the actions it exposes and its permission model are not described. | L7, L1, S5 |
| Enterprise governance and delivery | Enterprise plan SSO/SAML and advanced governance included, advanced roles and permissions, dedicated success team and priority support, forward-deployed engineers and a business transformation consulting team. | Included Enterprise: teams, office and brand management, shared mailboxes, multi-track pipelines, SSO, SCIM marked “coming soon,” a dedicated account manager for the full contract, guided migration and a Forward Deployed Engineer. | L1, S5 |
| Trust | |||
| Security attestation | Included SOC 2 Type II, audited annually, report available on written request; quarterly and annual penetration tests; AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit. | PartialIn progress An “ISO 27001 Certified” badge on the security page, whose body text reads “ISO 27001 aligned security practices”; the pricing page and FAQ say certified. SOC 2 is marked “in progress.” A trust center is published at compliance.spott.io. | L8, L9, S7, S5 |
| Published privacy documentationDPA, subprocessors, data-protection alignment | Included DPA, subprocessor list and privacy policy published; alignment with GDPR and CCPA stated; UK and EU transfer mechanisms in the DPA. | Included DPA and privacy policy published; subprocessors named on the security page (OpenAI, Azure, PostHog, Sentry); client data hosted in AWS Europe (Ireland) per General Terms 10.5. The agreement is governed by Belgian law with exclusive jurisdiction in the courts of Antwerp. | L9, L8, S7, S6 |
| Revenue operations, built for executive search and direct hire | |||
| Fee terms on the client recordEvery search carries its client’s terms from day one | Enterprise plan Rate Cards and Retained Fee Schedules: each client’s fee terms, including contract rates, live on the client record and travel with every search and placement. Available on the Enterprise plan, delivered with your forward-deployed engineer, from November 9, 2026. | Not described Placements and a weighted pipeline with forecast are listed; no fee terms held per client are described. | L19, S5 |
| Retained and milestone billingEngaged and container fees billed on signing, deducted at placement, with the true-up | From November 9, 2026 Retained Fee Schedules bill engaged and container fees on signing, deduct them at placement and true up at placement. A Phase 2 chapter of NextGen Loxo, Revenue Operations built for executive search and direct hire, for Enterprise customers with their forward-deployed engineer. | Not described The executive search page says “retained clients pay upfront” and describes stage-based mandate tracking; no retained, engaged, container or milestone billing is described (searched November 1, 2026). | L19, S11 |
| Invoice from the placement | From November 9, 2026 Finance creates invoices from the placement, with one finance view of status, overdue and collected by period, office, consultant and client. Invoice Management is part of Loxo’s Sales CRM today. | Not described No invoice creation from a placement is described. “Placements & timesheets” is listed on every plan, while Spott’s September 2026 article says it has “no temp back-office (timesheets, pay & bill) yet”; the two pages differ. | L12, L19, S5, S4 |
| Producer compensationCommissions, including splits, from the placement | From November 9, 2026 Commissions tracks each recruiting consultant’s commission from the placement, including splits, and updates automatically when an invoice is prorated or adjusted. A Phase 2 chapter for Enterprise customers. | Not described No commission tracking is described on Spott’s pages (searched November 1, 2026). | L19, S5 |
| Accounting integration | Enterprise plan QuickBooks and Xero are live, and RSM InTime goes live in November 2026. Sync with the firm’s books is part of Revenue Operations for Enterprise customers, and other accounting integrations are available on the Enterprise plan. | Not described Spott lists integrations with email, WhatsApp, job boards, VoIP and calendar tools; no accounting integration is described. | L19, S7 |
| Contract and tempIntegrated for contract, without building timesheets or payroll | Integrated Rate Cards carry contract rates and the placement is handed to the timesheet, pay-and-bill or payroll provider the firm chooses. Loxo does not build pay-and-bill or payroll, by design: the search and the placement stay in one system of record, and a mixed firm keeps the provider it prefers. On the Enterprise plan the hand-off can be integrated with the provider of the firm’s choosing. | Partial Markets to “temp & staffing” and “contract & interim” alongside executive search; “placements & timesheets” on every plan; “no temp back-office (timesheets, pay & bill) yet,” per its own September 2026 article; its G2 listing names “staffing companies managing contractor lifecycles” among the segments served. | L19, S5, S4, T7 |
| Commercial terms and record | |||
| Ungated trial you can run yourself | Included 7-day trial of the full Professional platform, including Loxo Source and Full Agentic Mode; no credit card; self-serve. Loxo offers an ungated trial that does not require you to talk to a sales representative. | Not described “Try Spott for free” opens a form whose last step is “Continue to pick a time”; the pricing FAQ says “book a demo … we can set up a trial”; the comparison-hub page advertises a “7-day free trial.” No self-serve sign-up is described, and no trial is described that starts without a call. | L1, S13, S5, S2 |
| Migration terms published | Included Professional and Enterprise migrations scoped as fixed packages before you sign. | Partial Direct migration “included” on Core and Pro (about a week); guided migration (about four weeks) included on Enterprise and a paid add-on on Pro. General Terms 6.1 describe migration “in consideration of an implementation fee”; one assisted data export per contract year is included and further exports cost USD 750; professional services are USD 350 per hour. | L1, S5, S6 |
| Pricing | Included Core from $149 per user per month, billed annually; Professional and Enterprise priced for your team and scoped with Sales. | Included Core $139 and Pro $199 per user per month billed annually ($169 and $249 monthly); Enterprise custom. General Terms 15.1: fees are those published on the website at the time of subscription or renewal and may be revised on 30 days’ notice, with no increase during the initial term (15.2). From May to August 2026 the page showed Core at $119 with $139 struck through, described as a promotion. | L1, S5, S6, T16 |
| Operating record | 14 years Development began in 2012 (Denver, Colorado); headquartered in Austin, Texas; a Dublin office since 2021; global expansion into the UK, EU, Canada, South America, Australia and APAC. “Trusted by 125,000+ recruiters around the globe”; 31 published customer stories. Loxo’s mission and customer focus have not changed since 2012: executive search firms and direct-hire recruiting agencies, with versions for in-house executive search, RPO and staffing agencies. | Since 2024 “Spott started in Leuven in 2024”; core platform launched in late 2025; “500+ agencies” and “5,000+ daily active users,” per Spott. | L18, T3, T17, L11, L17, S9, S8, S7 |
| AI in production since | 2015 Loxo AI’s first version launched in 2015, then called Loxo IQ, per Loxo’s May 2022 press release; third-party coverage of Loxo AI in use from February 2018; AI recommendations announced by press release in April 2019; Natural Language Search 2025; agent workforce August 2026. | Late 2025 Spott dates the launch of its core platform, with AI matching in the base plan, to late 2025, after its Y Combinator W25 batch and March 2025 seed round. | T2, T4, T3, T6, T5, S8, S9 |
The question to ask every platform
Where does your billing start?
Every recruiting firm is two businesses: finding people and getting paid for it. Every system before Loxo served only the first. The fee lived in a proposal, the invoice in an accounting package someone re-typed into, and the commission in a spreadsheet. Phase 2 of NextGen Loxo, Revenue Operations built for executive search and direct hire, moves the start of billing to where revenue actually begins: the client’s fee terms and the search.
Loxo’s answer
Billing starts with the client and the search. Rate Cards and Retained Fee Schedules hold each client’s fee terms, including contract rates, on the client record, so every search and placement carries its own terms from the day it opens, and nothing is re-typed later.[L19] Available on the Enterprise plan, delivered with your forward-deployed engineer, from November 9, 2026.
Retained Fee Schedules, Finance (invoices created from the placement) and Commissions release with Rate Cards on November 9, 2026; automated invoice sending and collection follow for Enterprise customers in early 2027. Loxo describes what the firm gets, not how it is configured; ask for a live demonstration on your own fee structures.
What Spott’s pages describe
“Placements & timesheets” on every plan, a weighted pipeline and forecast in the (CRM) section, and stage-based tracking of retained mandates on the executive search page, which notes that “retained clients pay upfront.”[S5][S11] Spott’s own September 2026 article lists “no temp back-office (timesheets, pay & bill) yet” among its trade-offs.[S4]
Spott’s pages do not describe fee terms held per client, retained or milestone billing, invoices created from a placement, commissions or an accounting integration (searched November 1, 2026). If Spott publishes any of these, this section will be updated with the date.
How to test it in any demo. Bring a signed retained search with a three-milestone fee schedule and an engaged fee. Ask each vendor to show the path from the signed search to the first invoice without re-typing anything, and to show where the consultant’s commission comes from. The answer is either “from the search and the placement” or “from somewhere else.”
Built for executive search and direct hire; integrated for contract
Retained search, engaged search and direct hire are billed differently from temp and contract, and a platform shows which business it was built for in how it handles the fee. The rows below carry each company’s own dated pages, so you can see where each platform is heading without being told.
Loxo
- Client-facing work built for executive search: Hiring Manager Portal with scorecards and controlled visibility, Candidate Status Reports as branded PDFs, the Candidate Submittal Agent and business reporting.[L13][L2]
- Rate Cards and Retained Fee Schedules (Enterprise plan, from November 9, 2026) hold each client’s fee terms on the client record and handle milestone billing, engaged and container fees billed on signing and deducted at placement, and the true-up at placement.[L19]
- Integrated for contract: Rate Cards carry contract rates and the placement is handed to the timesheet, pay-and-bill or payroll provider the firm chooses. Loxo does not build pay-and-bill or payroll, so a mixed firm keeps one system of record for the search and its preferred provider for the rest.[L19]
- Customer stories from executive search firms and agencies that moved to Loxo, including firms that switched from Bullhorn and Vincere.[L17]
Spott, dated from its own pages
- Executive search page (undated): “Run retained and contingent mandates with structure … Retained clients pay upfront”; stage-based mandate tracking, market-mapping target lists, branded presentations in Word or PowerPoint; “Spott works alongside [popular outside sourcing tool] rather than replacing it.”[S11]
- September 4, 2026: “No built-in sourcing database like Loxo’s … and no temp back-office (timesheets, pay & bill) yet.”[S4]
- September 22, 2026: Series A letter commits the funding to “deepening our enterprise functionality for large, multi-country rollouts” and “expanding our proactive agents.”[S8]
- Pricing page (November 1, 2026): industries listed as permanent placement, executive search, contract & interim, temp & staffing, and RPO & consulting; “placements & timesheets” on every plan.[S5] Its G2 listing names “staffing companies managing contractor lifecycles” among the segments served.[T7]
- December 1, 2026 (General Terms v1.4, published in advance): Schedule 3 defines “Spott Data” and a “Sourcing Functionality,” available where a plan includes it.[S6]
The record: who shipped what, and when
Dates are easier to check than adjectives. Every entry cites a press release, a product page or the company’s own statement. Spott’s dates are Spott’s; Loxo’s are Loxo’s and third parties’.
- Loxo
Development of Loxo begins in Denver, Colorado; Loxo dates its work in recruitment AI to 2012, and the first team forms in 2013.[L18][T3]
2012 - Loxo
First version of Loxo AI launches, then called Loxo IQ, per Loxo’s May 2022 press release on its knowledge graph.[T2]
2015 - Loxo
February 19: RecruitingDaily publishes “Loxo AI: An Inside Look,” describing the AI finding best-fit candidates from a recruiter’s brief.[T4]
2018 - Loxo
April 10: press release announces a new version of Loxo’s artificial-intelligence recruiting platform, with AI tailorable per organization on Enterprise.[T3]
2019 - Loxo
March 11: Loxo Outreach launches multi-channel sequencing inside the ATS and CRM: email, SMS, VoIP calling and voicemail drop, by press release.[T15]
2020 - Loxo
May 17: Loxo announces its knowledge graph, combining tens of millions of customer-driven data labels collected by Loxo AI since 2015.[T2]
2022 - 2024
- Loxo
February 20: “Talent Intelligence Innovator Loxo Secures Growth Investment Led by Tritium Partners in a $115M Transaction to Accelerate AI and Product Development.”[T1] September: Natural Language Search launches.[T6]
2025 - 2026 · June
- Loxo
August 11: Next Generation Loxo launches the agent workforce, Full Agentic Mode, Loxo AI Chat and the Loxo MCP, on a talent graph of more than 850 million professionals, together with Loxo’s AI credit model; Loxo reports it nearly tripled its engineering, AI, data and product teams over the prior year.[T5][L14] August 26: Loxo’s Candidate Relevancy Engine is listed as Warden Assured; Warden AI is an independent third party that audits AI systems for fairness and compliance on an ongoing basis.[L10]
2026 · August - 2026 · SeptemberSpott
September 4: Spott’s “10 Best Recruitment CRM” article lists its own trade-offs: “founded in 2024, so the shortest track record here … No built-in sourcing database like Loxo’s … no temp back-office … yet.”[S4] September 22: a $21M Series A led by Balderton Capital; 44 people; support coverage charted at 13 of 24 hours.[S8] September 21: the CEO tells Axios Pro the company will start to contemplate a Series B in six to eight months.[T9]
- 2026 · OctoberSpott
October 28: Spott publishes its current Loxo comparison, with Loxo screenshots labeled “Q3 2025,” a Loxo “Free tier” and “$169 Basic” plan, and natural-language search placed on a “quote-only tier.”[S1] Each of those descriptions is checked against the record on Loxo’s claims page.
- Loxo
November 9: Rate Cards, Retained Fee Schedules, Finance (invoices created from the placement, with revenue forecasting) and Commissions, Phase 2 of NextGen Loxo, Revenue Operations built for executive search and direct hire, release to Enterprise customers with their forward-deployed engineers.[L19]
2026 · November - 2026 · DecemberSpott
December 1 (published in advance): General Terms version 1.4 take effect, with credits purchased from that date valid for one month, and Schedule 3 defining “Spott Data” and a “Sourcing Functionality.”[S6] Spott published these credit terms in November 2026, about three months after Loxo introduced monthly credits with Next Generation Loxo on August 11, 2026.
On each company’s own dates, Loxo’s AI had been in production for about ten years before Spott’s platform launched: 2015 against late 2025. Counting only third-party-distributed dates, the gap is about six years: April 2019 against late 2025. Spott’s agents are described as expanding; Loxo’s Full Agentic Mode has been in production since August 2026. What differs most is what sits underneath each one, and what follows the placement.
What Spott says about Loxo, in Spott’s own words
Spott publishes four pages about Loxo. Where they describe Loxo accurately, we quote them. Where they do not, every statement is checked against the dated record on a separate page, Spott’s claims about Loxo, checked against the record, with Spott’s earlier pages answered at loxo.co/spott-fact-check.[L20][L15]
“Loxo’s sourcing database with verified contact data is the most differentiated feature in the category, and for outbound-heavy US agencies it genuinely replaces a separate sourcing stack.” [Loxo’s current database figure is 850M+ professionals.]
“No built-in sourcing database like Loxo’s, no built-in dialer … and no temp back-office (timesheets, pay & bill) yet.”
“Loxo is a genuinely strong product. It scores 4.6 out of 5 on both G2 and Capterra … and reviewers consistently say it feels ‘built by recruiters for recruiters.’”
“The sourcing database is the killer feature, and nothing on this list replaces it one-for-one.”
“Spott works alongside [popular outside sourcing tool] rather than replacing it.”
“Teams choose Loxo for good reasons: the owned talent graph is a real draw … and the platform is quick to get started on.”
Spott’s pages also state that Loxo offers a free tier and a $169 “Basic” plan, that natural-language search sits on a “quote-only tier,” that SOC 2 Type II applies only on Enterprise, that support is “chatbot-first,” and they give four different figures for a Professional price that Loxo does not publish. Those statements, and others, are checked one by one against the dated record on the claims page.[L20]
Two companies, two clocks
A platform decision is a two- to five-year commitment, and the company behind the platform runs on its own calendar. Both calendars are public. The facts below are each company’s own statements and dated third-party coverage.
Loxo
- Founded in 2012; headquartered in Austin, Texas; founder-led, with the founder as CEO since the beginning; operations across Canada, the UK, the EU, APAC, Australia and South America.[L18][T3]
- February 2025: a growth investment led by Tritium Partners in a $115M transaction, announced “to accelerate AI and product development.”[T1]
- What shipped afterwards is documented on loxo.co: Natural Language Search, Loxo AI Chat, the Loxo MCP, the agent workforce and Full Agentic Mode, the Agent Impact Center, the Data Agents, and now Phase 2 of Next Generation Loxo, Revenue Operations: Rate Cards, Retained Fee Schedules, Finance (invoices created from the placement, with prorations and revenue forecasting from invoices created and collected) and Commissions for every recruiting consultant, including split fees and prorations. QuickBooks and Xero sync today, with other accounting systems such as NetSuite or Rillet integrated on the Enterprise plan.[T6][L2][L19]
- Fourteen years of releases and 31 published customer stories, with AI in production since 2015.[L17][T2] The same target market and mission since 2012: to be the world’s leading software company for executive search firms and recruiting agencies.
Spott, in Spott’s own numbers
- Started in Leuven in 2024; Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch; founded by three former consultants, each a KU Leuven graduate, per Spott’s own author pages.[S9][S14][T10]
- March 2025: a $3.2M seed. September 22, 2026: a $21M Series A led by Balderton Capital, with Base10, Y Combinator and Fortino; $24.2M raised in total.[S8]
- September 21, 2026: the CEO tells Axios Pro that “the company will start to contemplate a Series B in six-to-eight months.”[T9]
- 44 people in September 2026; support coverage charted at 13 of 24 hours.[S8]
- General Terms: the agreement may be assigned to a successor in a merger or acquisition without the client’s consent (21.8); a subscription “is not contingent on the delivery of any future features or functionality” (21.12); disputes go to the courts of Antwerp under Belgian law (21.10).[S6]
Which platform fits which firm?
A fair comparison says when the other product is the better call. Both lists are grounded in each vendor’s published positioning.
Loxo is the stronger fit if...
- Your searches regularly go beyond the people you already know, and sourcing the whole market is central to your work: Loxo Source puts a proprietary graph of 850M+ professionals inside the same search as your private database, with contact information available across the workflow.[L4][L5]
- You want AI with a dial you control, from assistance to a search that runs itself through the shortlist, rather than matching and summaries over the records you already hold: Full Agentic Mode runs intake, Skill DNA, JD, Longlist and Shortlist end to end and stops at your decision.[L2]
- Several recruiters, researchers and partners work the same searches and your clients expect a portal, scorecards and status reports: credits pool across the team so capacity flows to the busiest desk, and the Hiring Manager Portal and Candidate Status Reports carry the client side.[L1][L13]
- Business development matters as much as delivery: a Sales CRM and Account-Based Prospecting let you find accounts and decision makers by company size, location, industry and hiring signals in the same platform as the recruiting workflow.[L12]
- Enterprise-grade trust is a procurement requirement today: SOC 2 Type II, a published DPA and subprocessor list, quarterly and annual penetration testing, and an independently hosted AI audit.[L8][L9][L10]
- You want the flexibility to use any frontier model, Claude, GPT, Gemini or Grok, inside your own private Loxo or from the AI tools you already use through the Loxo MCP, with zero data retention by the underlying AI models.[L6][L7]
- You want to see what every agent completed and returned, action by action, with the hours returned and labor cost avoided in the Agent Impact Center.[L3]
- You want billing to start from the client’s fee terms and the search, on a platform built for executive search and direct hire, and you are on or considering the Enterprise plan.[L19]
- You want a vendor with a 14-year operating record and AI in production since 2015.[T2][L18]
Spott may be the stronger fit if...
- Your placements come from inbound flow, and the problem you most want solved is capturing WhatsApp, SMS, email and call notes into one thread per candidate. That is the center of Spott’s product, per Spott.[S10][S1]
- You do not need a vendor-owned talent graph and plan to keep a popular outside sourcing tool beside the platform; Spott says it works alongside [popular outside sourcing tool] rather than replacing it.[S11][S4]
- Your day-to-day workflow is describing what you need in plain language, asking questions of your own database and reviewing AI-generated summaries, with background agents handling admin, rather than a workforce that runs the search to a shortlist. Loxo offers that workflow too, alongside Full Agentic Mode and a manual workflow.
- You are comfortable with a vendor that started in 2024, launched its core platform in late 2025, raised venture capital in 2026 and expects its next financing event inside the term of your first contract, by its own account.[S8][T9]
Spott’s own list reads: Loxo is “a strong choice if you want a built-in sourcing database … with contact info baked into your ATS””[S1]
Ten questions to ask both vendors, with each company’s published answer
Ask these in the same order in every demo, and ask for the general-availability date of anything described as coming. The Loxo column is Loxo’s answer with its source; the Spott column is what Spott’s pages say as of November 1, 2026. The category page carries the full set, one question per pillar: 14 questions to ask any vendor, with a printable RFP checklist.
Where does your billing start?
The platform that holds the fee terms and the search is the platform that can bill from them. Anything else is re-typing.
Loxo
From the client’s fee terms and the search. Rate Cards and Retained Fee Schedules on the client record travel with every search and placement; Finance creates invoices from the placement and forecasts revenue from the live status of every search across the firm; Commissions tracks each consultant’s commission automatically. Enterprise plan, with your forward-deployed engineer, from November 9, 2026.[L19]
Do you own the talent data your sourcing runs on, and how large is it?
Sourcing beyond your own database depends on a dataset someone owns, cleans and enriches. Ask who, and ask for the number.
Loxo
Yes. Loxo Source is a proprietary graph of 850M+ professionals that Loxo built and enriches itself, searched together with your private database.[L4]
Since when has your AI been generally available, and what did it do?
Ask for dates, then check them against press releases and third-party coverage.
Loxo
First version of Loxo AI in 2015 (then Loxo IQ); third-party coverage from February 2018; AI recommendations by press release in April 2019; Natural Language Search in 2025; the agent workforce in August 2026.[T2][T4][T3][T6][T5]
Spott’s pages
The core platform, with AI tagging and match reasoning in the base plan, launched in late 2025, per the Series A letter; proactive agents described as expanding in September 2026.[S8]
Can your AI run a search end to end to an evidenced shortlist, and where does it stop?
Matching over your own records and a workforce that runs the search across the market are different products. Ask to watch one run on a live role.
Loxo
Yes. Full Agentic Mode runs Job Intake, Skill DNA and JD, Longlist (up to 10,000 candidates) and Shortlist (seven dimensions, evidence attached) as one sequence and stops at your decision; no candidate is contacted, advanced or rejected by an agent alone.[L2]
Which AI models do you use, and what happens to my data?
Ask for the contractual terms with each model provider, not the marketing line.
Loxo
Proprietary ranking and matching models on Loxo’s own knowledge graph, plus Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok in Loxo AI Chat, each on the provider’s zero-retention, no-training enterprise tier, meaning zero data retention by the underlying AI models; retrieval under the asking user’s permissions.[L6][L1]
Can I see what the AI did and what it returned, action by action?
Visibility is how a leader knows whether the AI is paying for itself.
Loxo
Yes. The Agent Impact Center shows every action the workforce takes, what it returned, hours returned and labor cost avoided, for all customers.[L3]
Spott’s pages
Run logs on Pro and the credit cost of each action under Billing for enrichment credits, with workspace and per-user spend limits. No view of what the AI returned is described, and no end-to-end agentic mode is described.[S5]
Which security attestations do you hold today, and can I have the report?
“In progress,” “aligned” and a badge are not attestations. Ask for the document and its scope.
Does the platform find and win clients, not only candidates?
A recruiting firm’s pipeline has two ends. Ask what the platform does on the client end without a separate tool.
Loxo
Sales CRM with deals linked to jobs and revenue forecasting with weighted pipelines; Account-Based Prospecting over companies by size, location, industry and hiring signals, with decision makers and contact data; Business Development Outreach.[L12]
Can my firm build on it?
The platform you can extend is the one you will still be on in five years.
Loxo
Loxo API with keys managed in Settings and webhooks (Professional and above); the Loxo MCP with nearly 180 actions and read/write permissions you set, included from Core; on the Enterprise plan, forward-deployed engineers and a business transformation consulting team.[L16][L7][L1]
Spott’s pages
API, webhooks and an MCP server on Pro and Enterprise; Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM “coming soon” and a Forward Deployed Engineer. Documentation at support.spott.io.[S5]
Can I run a real search in a trial without talking to sales, and what does switching cost, in and out?
The checkable test is the one you can run yourself, on your own data, before anyone calls you. A self-serve trial also shows a vendor is confident in the first experience without a salesperson in the room. The exit terms matter as much as the entry.
Pricing and terms, as published by each company
Both pricing pages are linked in the sources and change over time; check them before deciding. Figures below were read on November 1, 2026, on the USD annual view of Spott’s page.
Loxo
From $149 per user / month, Core, billed annually
- Core, from $149: full AI-native ATS + recruiting CRM, natural-language relevance-ranked AI search, unlimited jobs, candidates and companies, pipelines, activities and reporting, email and calendar sync, Chrome extension, MCP.
- Professional, priced for your team: everything in Core plus Loxo Source on the 850M+ talent graph, the full agent workforce on every seat, Full Agentic Mode and the Agent Impact Center, the Data Agents, Loxo AI Chat, contact information, API access, and 2,500 credits per seat per month at no additional cost, pooled across the team and refreshing in full each cycle. Boost 2× (5,000) and 5× (12,500) for busier desks, sized with your account team.
- Enterprise, custom annual agreements: everything in Professional plus SSO/SAML and advanced governance, advanced roles and permissions, a dedicated success team, and forward-deployed engineers and business transformation consulting. Revenue Operations is delivered to Enterprise customers with their forward-deployed engineer.
- Trial: 7 days, full Professional access, no credit card, self-serve.
- Source: Loxo pricing page.[L1][L19]
Spott (per Spott)
From $139 per user / month, Core, billed annually; $169 monthly
- Core, $139: AI search and matching, AI note taker and Ask Spott, outreach sequences, opportunities pipeline, Chrome extension and mobile app; an email-only unified inbox; standard onboarding and direct migration included; a dedicated account manager as a paid add-on.
- Pro, $199 ($249 monthly): everything in Core plus AI tagging, the marketing suite, automations, integrations, MCP, API and webhooks, and advanced analytics; email, SMS and WhatsApp in the inbox; a dedicated account manager and priority support for the first 30 days.
- Enterprise, custom: teams, office and brand management, shared mailboxes, multi-track pipelines, SSO and SCIM (“coming soon”), guided migration, a Forward Deployed Engineer, and a dedicated account manager for the full contract.
- Credits: 1,000 per seat per month, pooled; 1 credit per email, 5 per profile, 10 per phone number; packs from $75 (5,000) to $550 (50,000) per month; from December 1, 2026 unused credits do not roll over.
- Terms: fees are those published at the time of subscription or renewal and may be revised on 30 days’ notice, with no increase during the initial term; a one-year term that renews automatically; seat reductions only at renewal; professional services USD 350 per hour; one assisted export per contract year, further exports USD 750.
- Trial: “Try Spott for free” opens a form that ends in picking a time with Spott.
- Sources: Spott pricing page, General Terms and free-trial page.[S5][S6][S13]
The entry tiers pair naturally: Spott Core and Loxo Core both give a firm its ATS and CRM workflow with search over its own data; Spott Core adds an AI note taker and sequences, Loxo Core includes MCP. Above that the plans stop mapping one to one. Spott Pro adds SMS and WhatsApp in the inbox, automations, the API and MCP; Loxo Professional adds the 850M+ talent graph, the agent workforce with Full Agentic Mode, the Data Agents, AI Chat, the API and per-action visibility, with 2,500 credits per seat included. Spott’s pages have quoted a Loxo Professional price of “$229,” “$250-400” and “$269+”; Loxo does not publish a Professional list price, so check any price against the vendor’s own pages.[S2][S3][L1] Compare the two by running the same search assignment in each.
Switching to Loxo from Spott
Migration terms are agreed before you sign: data migration is currently free for teams switching from Spott to Loxo, and Professional and Enterprise migrations are scoped as fixed packages.[L1] Loxo’s customer stories include firms that moved from Bullhorn and Vincere and describe the migration itself.[L17] Spott’s General Terms give a departing client 30 calendar days after termination to retrieve its data, with no processing functionality during that period, and one assisted export per contract year; plan the export before you give notice.[S6]
What to bring to the trial
- One live search assignment. Take it from intake to a ranked, evidenced shortlist in your first session; the 7-day trial is the full Professional platform.[L1]
- An export of your database, so you can see your own records searched together with the 850M+ graph.[L4]
- A target-client list, to run Account-Based Prospecting against real accounts.[L12]
- Your security questionnaire: ask for the SOC 2 Type II report, the DPA and the subprocessor list.[L8][L9]
What a migration includes
- Scope and timeline agreed before signing, as a fixed package for Professional and Enterprise.[L1]
- Once the data is in, the Data Agents work under every record: the Self-Updating CRM Agent refreshes stale records, and the Deduplication Agent detects and recommends merges that you confirm.[L2]
- Enterprise customers work with a forward-deployed engineer and the business transformation consulting team.[L1]
Frequently asked questions about Loxo vs. Spott
Both are single-platform ATS + CRM systems for recruiting firms with AI built in. Loxo, founded in 2012, is the Talent Intelligence Platform: it owns a proprietary graph of 850M+ professionals, runs its own ranking and matching models alongside your choice of frontier model, launched an agent workforce with Full Agentic Mode in August 2026, includes a Sales CRM and account-based prospecting, holds SOC 2 Type II, and from November 9, 2026 adds Revenue Operations built for executive search and direct hire on its Enterprise plan. Spott, started in Leuven, Belgium in 2024 with its core platform launched in late 2025, is an AI-native ATS and CRM centered on a unified inbox and matching over the firm’s own calls, emails, messages and CVs; by its own account it has no built-in sourcing database, works alongside outside sourcing platforms rather than replacing them, lists SOC 2 as in progress, and publishes Core at $139 and Pro at $199 per user per month billed annually.
For executive search and direct hire, Loxo is built for the way the work is billed and delivered: a proprietary talent graph for mapping markets beyond the firm’s network, client portals, custom scorecards, executive presentations and status reports, and Revenue Operations that start billing from the client’s fee terms and the search, with Rate Cards and Retained Fee Schedules on the Enterprise plan from November 9, 2026. Spott’s executive search page describes stage-based mandate tracking, market-mapping lists and branded presentations, says retained clients pay upfront, and does not describe retained or milestone billing; Spott also says it works alongside outside sourcing platforms and lists no built-in sourcing database, so mapping the whole addressable market and producing talent insights across 850M+ professionals is not described. DHR Global, one of the world’s largest retained executive search firms, with consultants across more than 50 offices, evaluated the entire market for the platform to carry its next decade and chose Loxo: read the DHR Global story.
For agencies that source beyond their own database, run business development in the same system, and want AI that finishes the search rather than only ranking the records they already hold, Loxo is the stronger fit. Agencies whose placements come almost entirely from their own database and inbound flow, whose main problem is threading WhatsApp, SMS, email and calls to one record, may find Spott’s emphasis suits them; those are Spott’s own stated strengths.
Yes. Loxo covers everything Spott describes, an ATS and CRM in one, AI search and matching, an AI notetaker, email and calendar sync, outreach sequences, client portals and reports, an API and MCP, and adds native sourcing on a proprietary 850M+ graph, an agent workforce that runs the search, a Sales CRM with account-based prospecting, SOC 2 Type II, and Revenue Operations for executive search and direct hire. Data migration is currently free for teams switching from Spott to Loxo, and Professional and Enterprise migrations are scoped as fixed packages.
In Loxo, billing starts with the client’s fee terms and the search: Rate Cards and Retained Fee Schedules hold each client’s terms on the client record and travel with every search and placement, Finance creates the invoice from the placement and Commissions tracks each consultant’s share, all on the Enterprise plan from November 9, 2026. Spott’s pages describe placements and timesheets, a weighted pipeline and stage-based mandate tracking; they do not describe fee terms per client, retained or milestone billing, invoices created from a placement, commissions or an accounting integration, and Spott’s own September 2026 article lists “no temp back-office (timesheets, pay & bill) yet” among its trade-offs.
No, by Spott’s own account. Spott’s September 2026 article lists “no built-in sourcing database like Loxo’s” among its trade-offs, and its executive search page says Spott works alongside outside sourcing platforms rather than replacing them. Contact data is enriched through third-party providers on credits. Spott’s General Terms dated December 1, 2026 define a “Sourcing Functionality” over “Spott Data” compiled from public sources and third-party providers, available where a plan includes it, with no volume or coverage promised. Loxo Source is a proprietary graph of 850M+ professionals that Loxo built and enriches itself, searched together with a firm’s private database, now in its ninth generation with further upgrades shipping through 2027.
Yes. Loxo’s AI Notetaker turns phone and video calls into transcripts and clips on the record, email and calendar sync are included on every plan, Loxo Outreach runs sequences across email, SMS and VoIP calling, and Loxo AI Chat answers questions grounded in candidates, companies, jobs, activities and notes with every claim cited. Spott threads email, SMS and WhatsApp into one inbox on its Pro and Enterprise plans (email only on Core) and captures calls with its note taker. Compare them on your own calls and inbox.
Loxo, by about a decade. Loxo AI’s first version launched in 2015, then called Loxo IQ, according to Loxo’s May 2022 press release; third-party coverage described Loxo AI in use in February 2018, and a press release announced AI candidate recommendations in April 2019. Spott launched its core platform, with AI matching in the base plan, in late 2025, by its own account. Loxo’s agent workforce is a 2026 product; Spott’s pages name few specific agents, and its Series A announcement lists expanding them among its plans.
Yes. Loxo’s ATS and CRM are the original AI-native ATS and CRM for executive search firms and recruiting agencies: built around artificial intelligence since 2013, before the phrase existed, with recruitment-specific machine learning developed since 2012, the first version of Loxo AI in 2015 and 50+ proprietary algorithms over its own knowledge graph today. Loxo’s category is the Talent Intelligence Platform, of which that AI-native ATS and CRM are two of fourteen pillars. Spott’s pages describe Loxo as an “all-in-one platform built around a vendor-owned talent graph” and, on one page, as “add-on / legacy core.” Buyers should judge by what each platform’s AI does on their own data, across all fourteen pillars and by the dated record above, rather than by the label.
Spott’s pricing page shows Core at $139 and Pro at $199 per user per month billed annually ($169 and $249 monthly) and Enterprise custom. Spott includes 1,000 enrichment credits per seat per month, at 10 credits per phone lookup and 5 per profile, with extra credit packs from $75 per month; its General Terms set fees at those published on the website at the time of subscription or renewal, revisable on 30 days’ notice after the initial term. Loxo publishes Core from $149 per user per month billed annually and prices Professional and Enterprise for each team; Professional includes the 850M+ talent graph, the agent workforce, AI Chat, the API and 2,500 credits per seat per month at no additional cost. Spott’s own pages have given four different figures for a Loxo Professional price that Loxo does not publish.
Each monthly cycle begins with the full allotment: credits pool across the team and refresh in full at the start of every cycle. Credits are consumed only when work is completed for you, and every action is available to view in the Agent Impact Center. Spott’s pricing page says its included and pack credits refill every month and unused ones do not roll over, and its General Terms give credits purchased from December 1, 2026 a one-month validity, the monthly credit model Loxo introduced with Next Generation Loxo in August 2026.
Loxo holds a SOC 2 Type II attestation audited annually, runs quarterly and annual penetration tests, publishes its DPA, subprocessor list and privacy policy, and lists its Candidate Relevancy Engine as Warden Assured by an independent AI assurance provider. Spott’s security page displays an ISO 27001 badge while its body text says “ISO 27001 aligned security practices,” its pricing page marks SOC 2 as in progress, it names OpenAI, Azure, PostHog and Sentry as subprocessors, hosts client data in AWS Europe (Ireland), and publishes a DPA and a trust center. Request current reports and certificates from any vendor before signing.
Loxo is built for executive search and direct hire and integrated for contract: Rate Cards carry contract rates and the placement is handed to the timesheet, pay-and-bill or payroll provider the firm chooses, rather than Loxo building those functions itself. Spott markets to temp and staffing agencies and lists placements and timesheets on every plan, while its own September 2026 article lists “no temp back-office (timesheets, pay & bill) yet” among its trade-offs.
Loxo’s 7-day trial is self-serve, requires no credit card, and gives full Professional access including Loxo Source and Full Agentic Mode. Spott’s “Try Spott for free” page is a form whose last step is picking a time with Spott, in effect a demo request; its pricing FAQ says a trial can be set up after a demo, and its comparison-hub page advertises a 7-day free trial; its pages do not describe self-serve sign-up.
As of November 1, 2026, Loxo holds 4.6 out of 5 on G2 from 204 reviews and 4.6 on Capterra from 134 reviews; Spott holds 4.9 out of 5 on G2 from 11 reviews and 5.0 on Capterra from 2 reviews. The averages sit on very different sample sizes and histories: Spott’s core platform launched in late 2025 and Loxo in 2012. Read individual reviews for firm size, role and segment rather than the average, and run the same search in each trial.
Not by the star average alone. Recruiting-software reviews mix product quality with the cost of change, rest on very different sample sizes, and rarely capture the long-term fit that decides whether a platform works for a given firm. In Loxo’s experience, recruiters rely on word of mouth and their own network more than on any other source when choosing software. Reviews bundle the cost of change with the product: reviewers factor in training and adoption, data migration, onboarding and implementation, which are changes to the firm, not only features of the software. What matters afterward differs by customer: ongoing feature development, fit to the recruiting segment, pace of innovation, and speed and type of customer service. And more customers produce more reviews and more complaints: in absolute terms, a larger vendor accumulates both over time. A 4.9 from 11 reviews and a 4.6 from 204 are different kinds of evidence.
Spott is an AI-native ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies sold by Spott BV of Leuven, Belgium, started in 2024, a Y Combinator Winter 2025 company founded by Lander Degrève (CEO), Manu Vanderveeren (COO) and Samuel Smeys (CTO), three former consultants, with offices listed in Leuven, New York and Sydney. It raised a $3.2M seed in March 2025 and a $21M Series A in September 2026 led by Balderton Capital, with Base10, Y Combinator and Fortino. It is unrelated to other products named Spott.
Yes. Spott raised a $3.2M seed in March 2025 and a $21M Series A in September 2026 led by Balderton Capital, $24.2M in total, and its CEO told Axios Pro the company would start to contemplate a Series B in six to eight months. Loxo, founded in 2012 and founder-led, secured a growth investment led by Tritium Partners in a $115M transaction in February 2025 to accelerate AI and product development. Any buyer signing a multi-year agreement should ask which fund invested and when, what happens to the agreement, pricing and data in an acquisition, and which roadmap items are contractual; Spott’s General Terms say a subscription is not contingent on future functionality and that the agreement may be assigned to an acquirer without the client’s consent.
Loxo wrote it. Every statement about Spott is drawn from Spott’s public pages as of the access dates listed in the sources, and every statement about Loxo links to loxo.co or dated third-party coverage. If you believe anything here is inaccurate or out of date, contact us and we will review and correct it.
Sources and how to verify this page
All pages were accessed on November 1, 2026 unless stated. Dates in brackets are the publication, “last reviewed” or version dates shown on the source itself. Links to Spott pages are provided for verification and open in a new tab.
Spott pages (statements attributed to Spott)
- S1. Spott, “Spott vs Loxo — In depth review” (page title “Loxo Review 2026: Pricing, AI, and Alternative”), by Lander Degrève, Co-founder, dated October 28, 2026. spott.io/resources/spott-vs-loxo-which-recruitment-platform-is-right-for-your-agency-in-2026
- S2. Spott, “The AI-native alternative to Loxo,” comparison-hub page, “Last reviewed June 2026.” spott.io/comparison/loxo
- S3. Spott, “7 Best Loxo Alternatives for Recruiting Agencies in 2026,” by Manu Vanderveeren, Co-founder, July 13, 2026 (“Research current as of June 2026”). spott.io/resources/top-loxo-alternatives-2026
- S4. Spott, “10 Best Recruitment CRM Software for Agencies in 2026,” by Manu Vanderveeren, September 4, 2026 (“Research current as of June 2026”). spott.io/resources/best-recruitment-crm-software-2026
- S5. Spott, “Pricing” (USD annual view; plan table; credits; migration; security; FAQ). spott.io/pricing
- S6. Spott BV, “General Terms and Conditions,” Version 1.4, 1 December 2026, including Schedule 1 (SLA) and Schedule 3 (Spott Data Terms). spott.io/terms-and-conditions · DPA: spott.io/dpa
- S7. Spott, “Security” (subprocessors OpenAI, Azure, PostHog, Sentry; badges; FAQ) and Trust Center. spott.io/security · compliance.spott.io
- S8. Spott, “Spott Raises $21M Series A to Bring Agentic AI to Recruitment Agencies,” by Lander Degrève, Manu Vanderveeren and Samuel Smeys, September 22, 2026. spott.io/series-a
- S9. Spott, “About us” (“Spott started in Leuven in 2024”; investors; “Three offices, one working day”). spott.io/about-us
- S10. Spott, “Why Spott” (unified inbox, matching, migration in four weeks, team and investors). spott.io/why-spott
- S11. Spott, “Executive search firms” (retained and contingent mandates; outside sourcing tool FAQ). spott.io/executive-search
- S12. Spott, “Business development” (speculative campaigns, early hiring signals, deal pipeline, client portals). spott.io/product/business-development
- S13. Spott, “Free Trial” page (form: “Continue to pick a time”). spott.io/free-trial
- S14. Spott, author pages for Lander Degrève (KU Leuven; Bocconi), Manu Vanderveeren (KU Leuven; London Business School) and Samuel Smeys (KU Leuven; LSE). spott.io/authors/lander-degreve · spott.io/authors/manu-vanderveeren
Loxo pages
- L1. Loxo, “Pricing.” loxo.co/pricing
- L2. Loxo, “Loxo Agent Workforce” (AI agents and Full Agentic Mode). loxo.co/ai-agents
- L3. Loxo, “Agent Impact Center.” loxo.co/ai-agents/agent-impact-center
- L4. Loxo, “Loxo Source” (candidate sourcing software). loxo.co/products/candidate-sourcing-software
- L5. Loxo, “Loxo Connect.” loxo.co/products/connect
- L6. Loxo, “Loxo AI Chat.” loxo.co/products/loxo-ai-chat
- L7. Loxo, “The Loxo MCP.” loxo.co/products/loxo-mcp
- L8. Loxo, “Security and Privacy at Loxo.” loxo.co/legal/security-and-privacy-at-loxo
- L9. Loxo, Data Protection Addendum (June 23, 2026), Subprocessors, GDPR page and Privacy Policy. loxo.co/legal/dpa · loxo.co/legal/subprocessors · loxo.co/legal/gdpr
- L10. Warden AI, Warden Assured directory: Loxo, Candidate Relevancy Engine, August 26, 2026. trust.warden-ai.com/loxo/candidate-relevancy-engine
- L11. Loxo, “What is a Talent Intelligence Platform” (the fourteen pillars; “Trusted by 125,000+ recruiters around the globe”). loxo.co/talent-intelligence-platform
- L12. Loxo, “Sales CRM” and “Account-Based Prospecting.” loxo.co/products/sales-crm · loxo.co/products/account-based-prospecting
- L13. Loxo, “Hiring Manager Portal” and “Candidate Status Reports.” loxo.co/products/hiring-manager-portal · loxo.co/products/candidate-status-reports
- L14. Loxo, “Next Generation Loxo Launch: A Letter From Loxo’s CEO,” August 11, 2026. loxo.co/product-updates/next-generation-loxo-launch-a-letter-from-loxos-ceo
- L15. Loxo, “Spott vs. Loxo: Setting the Record Straight,” April 2026, 16 claims from Spott’s earlier pages checked. loxo.co/spott-fact-check
- L16. Loxo API reference and help article “Loxo’s Open API.” loxo.readme.io/reference/loxo-api
- L17. Loxo, “Customer Stories” (31 stories, including switches from Bullhorn and Vincere, and DHR Global). loxo.co/customer-stories · loxo.co/customer-stories/dhr-global
- L18. Loxo, “The Most Powerful Recruitment AI” (“We began developing Loxo in 2012”) and “About Loxo: A Note From Our Founder.” loxo.co/products/ai · loxo.co/blog/about-loxo
- L19. Loxo, Revenue Operations release notes, November 9, 2026: Rate Cards, Retained Fee Schedules, Finance and Commissions (Phase 2 of NextGen Loxo: Revenue Operations built for executive search and direct hire). loxo.co/product-updates
- L20. Loxo, “Spott’s claims about Loxo, checked against the record (2026).” loxo.co/spott-fact-check-2026 · See also “Loxo vs Atlas (2026).” loxo.co/competitors/loxo-vs-atlas
Dated third-party coverage, data and review platforms
- T1. PR Newswire, “Talent Intelligence Innovator Loxo Secures Growth Investment Led by Tritium Partners in a $115M Transaction to Accelerate AI and Product Development,” Austin, Texas, February 20, 2025. prnewswire.com/…
- T2. PRWeb, “Artificial Intelligence Recruiting Software Leader Introduces Knowledge Graph,” May 17, 2022 (“collected by Loxo AI™ since the first version was launched in 2015 … called Loxo IQ”). prweb.com/releases/2022/5/prweb18660709.htm
- T3. PRWeb, “Loxo Introduces Web 3.0 AI Recruiting Platform With Free Version,” Denver, April 10, 2019. prweb.com/releases/…
- T4. RecruitingDaily, “Loxo AI: An Inside Look,” by Noel Cocca, February 19, 2018. recruitingdaily.com/loxo-ai-inside-look/
- T5. TechRSeries, “Loxo Unveils Next Generation Loxo — The Talent Intelligence Platform Now Comes With an Agentic Workforce,” August 12, 2026; HR Tech Edge, “Loxo Turns Its Recruiting Platform Into an AI Agent Workforce,” August 17, 2026. techrseries.com/…
- T6. TechRSeries, “Loxo Unveils Natural Language Search,” September 3, 2025. techrseries.com/…
- T7. G2, Loxo reviews (4.6 / 5, 204 reviews, November 1, 2026) and Spott reviews (4.9 / 5, 11 reviews; listing modified October 23, 2026; “serves recruitment agencies with up to 500 seats … staffing companies managing contractor lifecycles”). g2.com/products/loxo/reviews · g2.com/products/spott-spott/reviews
- T8. Capterra, Loxo (4.6, 134 reviews, updated October 19, 2026) and Spott (5.0, 2 reviews). capterra.com/p/165046/Loxo/ · capterra.com/p/10035674/Spott/
- T9. Axios Pro, “Exclusive: Recruitment platform Spott nabs $21 million,” September 21, 2026 (“The company will start to contemplate a Series B in six-to-eight months”). axios.com/pro/…
- T10. The Next Web, “Spott raises $21M Series A led by Balderton for its AI platform for recruitment agencies,” September 22, 2026 (founded in 2024 by three friends who had worked as consultants for McKinsey, Bain and BCG). thenextweb.com/news/… · Tech.eu, September 22, 2026.
- T15. PRWeb, Loxo Outreach launch (multi-channel recruitment automation: email, SMS, VoIP, voicemail drop), March 11, 2020. prweb.com/releases/…
- T16. SelectSoftware Reviews, Spott review, May 7, 2026 (Core $139 with $119 promotional price “until May 31”; Pro $199 with $179 promotional price). selectsoftwarereviews.com/reviews/spott
- T17. PRWeb, “Loxo Announces Expansion into Europe with Dublin Office,” 2021. prweb.com/releases/…
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Comparison · Published November 2, 2026 · Last verified November 1, 2026 · loxo.co/competitors/loxo-vs-spott · See also: Spott’s claims about Loxo, checked against the record · the April 2026 fact check · What is a Talent Intelligence Platform · © Loxo. All rights reserved.
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