Founding 100: the first 100 desks get the Principal plan at half price, locked in for life
SearchOS vs JobAdder

The honest comparison

JobAdder is the Australian-born agency ATS: well established across ANZ, with job-board multiposting at its core and a marketplace of partner integrations.

Who JobAdder genuinely suits

ANZ agencies running advert-led perm and temp desks who want mature job-board posting and a local ecosystem.

What a desk actually needsSearchOSJobAdder
Morning money-list (prioritised actions, not dashboards)
The system tells each desk what to do today and why it makes money.
Included Not offered
Self-feeding CRM (email, LinkedIn and calls log themselves)
Nobody types activity in for the record to stay alive.
Included Partial, add-on or via integration
LinkedIn DMs inside the inbox, included
Read and reply to LinkedIn from the system, logged to the record.
Included Not offered
Buying-signal radar (adverts, funding, people moves → BD actions)
Daily market watch that turns signals into pitches.
Included Not offered
Candidate marketing engine (MPC campaigns with auto-targeting)
Take your best candidate to market with targets found for you.
Included Not offered
Contact data included (emails and phones with pooled credits)
No separate Lusha or Apollo bill just to get a phone number.
Included Partial, add-on or via integration
Applicants auto-screened against the brief on arrival
Pipelines open ranked best-fit first with reasoning shown.
Included Partial, add-on or via integration
Call recording, transcription and coaching built in
Calls become CRM data and coaching material without a second tool.
Included Partial, add-on or via integration
E-signatures built in (terms and offers)
No DocuSign subscription to send terms of business.
Included Partial, add-on or via integration
AI that writes in your voice, trained on your emails
Outreach that sounds like you, not like a robot.
Included Partial, add-on or via integration
Talk to your CRM from Claude (MCP), included
Ask your desk questions in plain English from Claude Desktop.
Included Not offered
Done-for-you migration (cleaned, deduped, coded)
We take the export and hand back a better database.
Included Partial, add-on or via integration
Public pricing, free trial, no implementation fees
Know the cost before you talk to anyone.
Included Partial, add-on or via integration
Pricing
What you can find out before talking to sales.
Public: see pricing, incl. the Founding 100 rateSales-led; pricing is discussed per seat with the team rather than published as a single public rate card.

Compiled from JobAdder's public product pages, documentation and pricing. Last reviewed August 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.

What switching gets you

A database that works your market

Every record coded for your niche on arrival, so lists, matches and BD targets come from a market model, not keyword search.

Done-for-you migration

Send the export from JobAdder; we clean, dedupe and code it, and you review a sample before go-live. No weekend of CSV wrangling.

Security you can check

Cross-tenant isolation attacked by 20 automated probes before every deploy, encrypted credentials, and a public security page that names the mechanisms.

Frequently asked

We're in Australia, so why consider SearchOS over the local default?

SearchOS is Australian-built too (Perth, hosted in Sydney). The difference is the desk it's built for: JobAdder is excellent at advert-response recruiting; SearchOS is built for headhunting, meaning market mapping, reverse marketing, buying signals, and a CRM that fills itself in so you're on the phone, not typing.

Does SearchOS post to job boards like JobAdder?

Job-board multiposting is not the centre of SearchOS today. Careers pages and inbound applicant screening are included, and applicants are auto-screened against the brief on arrival. If your desk lives on SEEK advert response, JobAdder remains a fair choice; if your desk lives on the phone, that's us.

Can I migrate from JobAdder?

Yes, done-for-you migration is included, with your data cleaned, deduped and coded for your market before go-live.

See it on your own desk

The comparison that matters is a week of your real work. Free trial, no card, and your data comes in coded, not dumped.