Recruitment CRM · Built and hosted in Australia

A recruitment CRM you can actually work in.

Most CRMs are built to be demoed. Hound is built to be lived in — eight hours a day, on the phone, with forty roles open. Far more of your desk on screen, any record in one keystroke, and a CV that files itself.

Start free Watch it work

Free for two recruiters and your first 50 contacts — candidates, clients and companies combined. No card, no countdown.

hound / candidates LIVE — NOT A SCREENSHOT

Press play — or take the controls yourself at any point.

Rows 0 rows on screen · 2,400 match

First⇕	Last⇕	Role⇕	Sector⇕	Current employer⇕	Location⇕	Rate⇕	Last contact⇕

Click any column heading to sort. The headings stay put as you scroll. ◆ 2,400 FICTIONAL RECORDS, GENERATED IN YOUR BROWSER

The reels

Four things you’ll do a hundred times a day.

Each one plays itself through, start to finish. Stop it whenever you like and drive it yourself — these are the real controls, not a picture of them.

hound / ⌘K LIVE

Press play. Or hit ⌘K anywhere on this page.

Search candidates, clients, companies, jobs

esc

↑↓ move ↵ open esc close / focus search

One box, every record type. It ranks a candidate, the client who owns the role and the company behind it together — because when a phone rings you don’t know yet which one you need.

Getting paid

The half of recruitment nobody demos.

Terms signed, invoice raised, commission counted — in the order a desk actually lives them, and in one system, because this is the part that ends up in three.

hound / sign / …a7f3c1 LIVE — TRY SIGNING IT

Press play — or sign it yourself in the box on the right.

Terms of Business — Permanent Placement

HOUND Staffing Demo · ABN 00 000 000 000

This agreement is made between the Agency and the Client named below. The Client agrees to the fees set out in this document for any candidate introduced by the Agency and subsequently engaged.

Client entity
Client ABN
Signatory

Permanent fee: 16% of first-year package
Rebate period: 12 weeks, sliding
Payment terms: 14 days from invoice

Your own details are yours to correct. The commercial terms are printed, not editable — and the server enforces that when the signature comes back, because a form field is a request, never a permission.

Sign here

Draw with a mouse, finger or stylus

Sent from the company’s own profile as a private link. No account for them to create, no PDF to print, sign, scan and email back — which is where a week goes.

hound / placements LIVE

Press play — a placement from first entry to a scheduled invoice.

Candidate

Job title

Company

Client contact

Employment type

Operation type

Placement date

Job start date

Placement

Commission

Review invoice

Every figure is read off the placement. Changing the template changes the layout, never the numbers.

Tax invoice

Bill to
—

HOUND Staffing Demo

ABN 00 000 000 000
12 Example St, Perth WA 6000
accounts@example.com

Invoice —
Issued — · Due —

Description	Units	Unit price	GST	Amount
Nothing generated yet.

When should this send?

Send it nowStraight to the client’s accounts inbox.

Send on a date—

Nothing is armed by default and no date is pre-filled — an invoice reaching a client is not something that should happen because a checkbox was already ticked.

Step 2 of 2 · Confirm

The confirmation screen states what is about to happen, to whom and when. One button agrees to it; the server checks the confirmation too.

One record carries the placement, the commission and the invoice, so the fee cannot say one thing on the placement and another on the bill — and the month’s commission is counted off the same figure.

The rest of it

One system, from first call to paid invoice.

Not a CRM that hands you off to three other tools the moment a candidate says yes. The first three below are the ones an agency normally pays for somewhere else.

Commission

Commission, worked out per consultant

Each consultant has their own rate and monthly minimum, set for that financial year — so last year’s figures don’t move when this year’s terms change. Every month shows what was invoiced, what it earned, and the placements behind the number.

Usually a paid add-on

Your team

Leave, in the hours it’s contracted in

Annual, personal and carer’s, long service and the unpaid types. The balance is worked out from the requests themselves rather than stored, so it can’t drift — and nobody books time they haven’t got.

Usually a separate HR system

Your team

Messaging, where the records are

One-to-one and group conversations inside the CRM, so a question about a candidate gets asked where the candidate is. Archive a thread and it goes quiet for you and nobody else.

Usually a separate subscription

Records

Candidates, clients, companies, jobs

Four record types that know about each other. A company’s contacts, its live roles and every note anyone has left, on one page.

Sourcing

Tearsheets and shortlists

Build a list off any search, work it as a group, and send the whole shortlist to a client in one email.

Outlook, synced both ways

Mail you send and receive is logged against the right record on its own, so the history is there without anyone maintaining it.

Money

Placements, invoices, agreements

Terms of business signed online, invoices raised off the placement, margins tracked per consultant.

Reporting

Numbers you’d actually put in a board pack

Submissions, interviews, fills and revenue by consultant and by month — read off the same rows the desk works, so it can’t disagree with itself.

Control

Roles, teams and permissions

Consultants see their desk, managers see the team, and the financials stay where they belong.

Integrations

What it plugs into.

Two connections, each doing one job properly, rather than a directory of two hundred logos that mostly open a support ticket.

Microsoft 365 · Outlook

Connected per consultant, not per agency. Mail you send leaves from your own address, and mail that arrives is filed against the right candidate, client or company without anyone doing it. An admin can switch sent-logging and received-logging off for any individual.

offline_access · Mail.Send · Mail.Read · User.Read

AI assistant

Reading & drafting

Reads a CV and fills the candidate record, reformats a CV onto your own letterhead, and answers questions about whatever record is in front of you. This is the engine behind the CV demo above.

Pricing

Free until you’re busy.

Your first 50 contacts are free — and a contact is any record: candidates, clients and companies added together. Two recruiters, every feature, no card and no expiry. Past 50 it is per recruiter, per month, with no implementation fee and no minimum term.

Contacts — candidates + clients + companies 60

050 — free up to here2,000+

Recruiters 6

120+

Billing

Free

For a desk of one or two

A$0forever

Up to 2 recruiters. No card, no expiry.

Candidates, clients, companies and jobs
Pipeline tracker, candidate tracker and tearsheets
Placements, forecast and commission tracking
CSV import and your own field names
Up to 50 records and 2 recruiters — then you pick a plan

Start free

Desk

For a small, fast team

A$89/recruiter/mo

Everything in Free, with no cap
Outlook, synced both ways
Your own branded CV on every submission
The locations map on your dashboard

Choose Desk

Agency · most chosen

For a desk that bills

A$159/recruiter/mo

Everything in Desk
Invoicing raised off the placement
Terms of business signed online, on your letterhead
Automations that do the chasing
Reporting by consultant and by month
Employees, leave, and messaging your team

Choose Agency

What counts, and what happens at 50?

A contact is any record you have added — one candidate, one client or one company each count as one, and the fifty is the three of them added together. When you reach it nothing is locked, hidden, watermarked or deleted: every record stays where it is, everyone on the account keeps working, and every export still works. The only thing that needs a plan is the fifty-first.

Switching

Changing CRM is the reason people stay on a bad one.

So you do it yourself, without booking anything or waiting on anyone. Three steps — and your desk keeps billing through all of them.

STEP 01

Export what you already have

Whatever your current system gives you: a CSV out of Bullhorn or JobAdder, or the spreadsheet somebody has been keeping instead. Candidates, clients and companies each go in as their own file.

STEP 02

Map the columns to your own fields

Hound reads your headings and guesses — Cell, Contact Number and Phone (mobile) all find Mobile. Under each one it shows what that column holds in your first row, and it lists every column nothing is taking, so nothing goes missing quietly. Fields you have added yourself are offered like any other.

STEP 03

Import, and keep the mapping

Save it under a name and next month’s file is two clicks. Run the old system alongside for as long as you want to — and if you would rather we did the first one for you, ask us. You just don’t have to.

Contact

You don’t have to talk to us to start.

The free plan needs no call, no card and nobody’s permission — so this page is for the things signing up doesn’t answer.

Ask us anything

Before you sign up

Several brands or offices under one login, single sign-on, moving your data across, or anything on this page you want to see properly before you commit to it. Say which it is and you’ll get an answer from somebody who has read it.

hello@houndstaffing.com.au

Already using Hound

Existing customers

Support lives inside the CRM, next to whatever you are asking about — so sign in and use the assistant or your admin, rather than starting again out here.

Get started

Start free. Pay when it’s working.

Two recruiters, fifty records, no card and no expiry. You pay the first time you add your fifty-first record — by which point Hound is already running your desk.

Start free

Four things you’ll do a hundred times a day.

What this does

The half of recruitment nobody demos.

Placement

Commission

Review invoice

When should this send?

Step 2 of 2 · Confirm

One system, from first call to paid invoice.

Commission, worked out per consultant

Leave, in the hours it’s contracted in

Messaging, where the records are

Candidates, clients, companies, jobs

Tearsheets and shortlists

Outlook, synced both ways

Placements, invoices, agreements

Numbers you’d actually put in a board pack

Roles, teams and permissions

What it plugs into.

Microsoft 365 · Outlook

AI assistant

Free until you’re busy.

For a desk of one or two

For a small, fast team

For a desk that bills

What counts, and what happens at 50?

Changing CRM is the reason people stay on a bad one.

Export what you already have

Map the columns to your own fields

Import, and keep the mapping

You don’t have to talk to us to start.

Ask us anything

Already using Hound

Start free. Pay when it’s working.