Lovelio
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| Feature | Lovelio | Loxo |
|---|---|---|
| Candidates and your database | ||
| Candidate records with work history and education | Jobs and education held as structured fields on each record. | |
| CVs read into the record automatically | Upload a CV and name, contacts, jobs and skills fill in. | |
| Original CV kept word for word | Original CV file and its text kept exactly as written. | Resume file attached, word-for-word text storage not confirmed |
| Duplicates found and merged | Email matches merge on arrival; manual merge is by asking Lovelio. | Also catches plus-address duplicates |
| Tags | Shared tags on every candidate record. | |
| Candidate rating | One to five star rating on each candidate. | Through scorecards |
| Salary, location and work-type preferences | Roles, places, pay and work type held as preferences. | Mostly through custom fields |
| Documents on any record | Attach files to candidates, clients, jobs and placements. | Files on jobs, deals and candidate notes, companies not confirmed |
| Notes with @mentions | @mention a teammate in a note and they are told. | |
| Activity timeline on every record | One timeline per record: emails, calls, notes, stage moves. | |
| Share a record with a teammate | Share a record with a teammate from the record. | Tagging a teammate sends them a notification |
| Bulk edit | Bulk bar covers notes, pools and No; no bulk tags or owners. | |
| Custom fields | By design: tags and fixed fields instead of custom fields. | |
| Candidate portal | Candidates sign in by email link and fix their own details. | Forms update their profile, no sign-in portal |
| Consent and data-retention tools | Opt-outs honoured; no agency-set retention or deletion rules. | |
| Alerts when a candidate or contact changes jobsOnly Lovelio in full | A person's job move shows on their record with history. | Self-Updating CRM agent, Professional plan only |
| Search and sourcing | ||
| Search your database in plain English | Type a sentence and it becomes the search. | |
| Boolean search | Quotes, AND, OR, NOT and brackets run exactly as written. | |
| Search inside CV text | Text match searches the CV text itself. | |
| Search by distance from a place | Search a place with wider or tighter distances. | |
| Search knows job titles that mean the same thing | Job titles that mean the same are found together. | Title filter matches similar titles, Source guide still says add variations |
| Saved searches | Save a search and be told when someone new matches. | |
| Ranked best matches for a job | Open a job and get ranked matches from your database. | Ranked in Source, Professional plan only |
| Matching jobs for a candidate | Suggests other open jobs for new arrivals; no fits list on record. | |
| Each match shows why it fits | Every match shows the reason and evidence behind it. | Shortlist agent explains each ranking, Professional plan only |
| New matches found for open jobs in the backgroundOnly Lovelio in full | New candidates are checked against open jobs without a search. | Longlist agent runs per job, Professional plan only |
| Search the web for peopleOnly Lovelio in full | Search the web for people from the same box. | Loxo Source, Professional plan only |
| Its own database of people to source from | No Lovelio-owned people database; you search yours and the web. | Loxo Source, Professional plan only, size claims vary |
| Email and phone lookup | Work email and mobile lookup built in. | Uses credits, Professional plan only |
| Similar candidates | Find people like one or several chosen candidates. | |
| Talent pools | ||
| Talent pools or hotlists | Named talent pools you add candidates to. | |
| Pools that fill themselvesOnly Lovelio in full | Describe a pool in words and matching keeps adding people. | |
| Share a pool with a client | Send clients a shortlist as a submission; pools cannot be shared. | Shortlist by link or portal |
| Email a whole pool | Select pool members and email them in one go. | |
| Jobs and job ads | ||
| Every job linked to a client | Every job belongs to a client. | |
| Job ad written for you | Describe the role and the full ad is written. | JD and Skills DNA agent, Professional plan only |
| Ads written without naming the clientOnly Lovelio in full | Ads never name the client, whatever the instructions. | Hide Hiring Company switch per job, not automatic |
| Post to job boards from one place | Post to connected job boards from the job. | Boost multiposting costs extra, plus direct board links |
| Post jobs to social media | Writes LinkedIn and X post drafts; you post them yourself. | |
| Careers page for your agency website | Hosted careers page and embed widget for your site. | |
| Apply form with CV upload | Candidates apply with a CV and land in the funnel. | |
| Screening questions on applications | No custom screening questions on the apply form. | |
| Screening questions written for you | Writes phone-screen questions for you, not apply-form questions. | |
| Applicants scored against the job | Every applicant is scored against the job on arrival. | Shortlist agent scores the pool, Professional plan only |
| Job templates | No saved job templates. | Help shows Duplicate Job only, product page claims templates |
| Always-open jobs | Evergreen jobs stay open and keep collecting applicants. | Publish end date is optional, no evergreen setting |
| Create a job from an email, call or notesOnly Lovelio in full | Paste or describe the role and the job fills in. | Intake agent, Professional plan only |
| Several consultants on one job | One owner per job; credit split across consultants at placement. | |
| Job brief form for clients | No client-facing job brief form. | Intake agent sent to hiring manager, Professional plan only |
| Applications and pipeline | ||
| Stages per job, moved with a click or drag | Candidates move between stages on each job, by click or drag. | |
| Your own stage names and order | By design: twelve fixed stages, not renameable. | |
| Quick yes, no or maybe on each applicant | Mark each applicant Yes, No or Maybe in one click. | Yes, Maybe, Hide buttons on sourced people |
| Stage moves on its own when you act | Sending a CV or booking an interview moves the stage. | |
| Bulk reject with an email | Reject many applicants at once and email each. | Bulk email and reject are separate steps |
| Next step shown for every candidateOnly Lovelio in full | Each candidate shows the next step to take. | |
| One view of every pipeline | Jobs page plots every candidate on every job by stage. | |
| Automatic replies to applicants | Acknowledgement email to applicants; admin switches it on. | Email automation on a stage |
| Clients and business development | ||
| Client and contact records | Client companies with their contacts. | |
| Find companies by describing themOnly Lovelio in full | Describe companies in words, searching your clients or the web. | Company search by filters, not plain English |
| Add a client in one click, details filled in | Add a client from its website; details fill in. | |
| New jobs at companies you watch, every night | Careers pages of watched companies read every night. | |
| Hiring signals across the market | Watches chosen companies' jobs; no funding or market-wide alerts. | Hiring signals filter in Account-Based Prospecting |
| Float a candidate with no job open | Float a candidate to clients with no job open. | MPC or Spec CV |
| Anonymous candidate profiles | Anonymous profile written for you before you float. | Blind resume option |
| Client DNAOnly Lovelio in full | Client DNA feeds ads, questions and scores. | Skills DNA per job, not per client, Professional plan only |
| Terms of business sent and tracked | Terms link is sent; acceptance is not tracked. | Via RSign e-signature partner, not terms-specific |
| Client portal to review candidates | Clients open a link to review candidates, no sign-in. | |
| One-click client feedback | Clients give a verdict on a candidate in one click. | |
| Business development pipeline | Tracks prospects' jobs and your floats; no deal stages or values. | |
| Your patch of companies to work | Your patch: up to 200 watched companies per consultant. | Static company lists, no territory per consultant |
| Call lists | No call lists. | |
| Org charts for client companies | Each contact has a reports-to; no drawn org chart. | |
| Reminders for clients you have not heard from | Quiet-client reports and a going-cold score; no active reminder. | |
| Sending candidates and interviews | ||
| Send candidates to a client with their CVs | Send candidates and CVs to a client; the send is logged. | |
| CVs formatted with your branding | No branded CV formatting. | |
| Contact details taken off CVs for you | Client view hides contact details; the CV file is untouched. | Blind resume option |
| See when the client opens what you sent | See when clients open floats and submissions. | Email open tracking, link opens not confirmed |
| Interviews booked with the client | Interviews tied to the job, candidate and client. | |
| Candidates and clients pick a time themselves | Offer times and candidates pick one themselves. | Calendar Links |
| Interview reminders | Interview reminders to candidate and client. | |
| Interview feedback captured | Scorecards and feedback recorded against each interview. | Scorecards on interviews |
| Video interviews built in | Makes the Meet, Teams or Zoom link and records the meeting; no video of its own. | Creates Zoom, Teams or Meet links, no built-in video |
| Recorded one-way video interviews | No recorded one-way video interviews. | Through Hireflix partner |
| Placements and fees | ||
| Placement records with the fee | Placement holds salary, fee, start date and guarantee days. | |
| Fee scales by salary bandOnly Lovelio in full | Fee worked out from the client's fee schedule band. | |
| Fee split between consultants | Credit split across your consultants, always totalling 100 percent. | Percentages can go below 1% |
| Split fees with other agenciesOnly Lovelio in full | Opt-in marketplace splits fees with other agencies. | |
| Revenue forecast from the pipeline | Booked and three-month forecast cards on Home. | Deals forecast only, not from candidates in play |
| Guarantee period and rebates tracked | Guarantee countdown and fell-off status; no rebate amount worked out. | |
| Follow-ups after the start date | Contractor check-ins by WhatsApp; none after permanent starts. | |
| Commission tracking | Shows each consultant's share of fee and quota; no commission rates. | |
| Invoices raised from placements | Each perm placement becomes a draft invoice in Xero; you approve and send it there. | |
| Sync to accounting software | Xero built in: draft invoices from placements, paid status back on the placement. | Xero draft invoices from placements |
| Contractors | ||
| Contract placements with pay and charge rates | Contract placements hold pay rate and charge rate. | |
| Margin worked out for you | Margin shown per unit and per week. | Revenue uses bill minus pay rate, margin not shown separately |
| Contractor documents with expiry dates | Compliance documents tracked with expiry dates. | |
| Contractors upload documents with nothing to sign intoOnly Lovelio in full | Contractors send documents from a link, no sign-in. | |
| Contract end reminders and extensions | Reminders at 8 weeks, 4 weeks and on the end day. | |
| Timesheets | By design: no timesheets; payroll partners use the API. | Through Timesheet Portal partner |
| Pay and bill | By design: no payroll or pay and bill. | Through Astute Payroll partner |
| Shift booking for temps | No shift booking. | |
| Right-to-work checksOnly Lovelio in full | Right to work, visa and end date recorded and checked. | |
| Onboarding with e-signatures | No e-signatures or onboarding packs. | Through GorillaWorks partner |
| Email, calendar and messages | ||
| Gmail and Outlook connected | Connect Gmail or Outlook; mail sends from your own address. | |
| Emails filed on the right record automatically | Sent and received mail files on the right record. | |
| Calendar sync | Google syncs both ways; Outlook adds interviews and checks clashes. | |
| Email templates | Editable templates with merge fields for automated and client emails. | |
| Emails written in your own styleOnly Lovelio in full | Learns your writing style from sent mail and your edits. | |
| AI drafts emails for you | Drafts outreach, replies and client emails for you. | Outreach GPT |
| Bulk email | One email to many; each person gets their own copy. | |
| Open and click tracking | Shows when clients open floats and submissions; no email open tracking. | |
| Email sequences that send on their own | By design: Lovelio drafts, a person presses send. | Outreach campaigns |
| Text messages | No text messages. | Needs a Twilio or RingCentral account |
| WhatsApp messages | Interview confirmations and contractor asks; rolling out to agencies now. | Through Payemoji, Ringover or TalentLynk partners |
| SlackOnly Lovelio in full | Alerts, direct messages and the Lovelio bot in Slack. | |
| Microsoft Teams | Lovelio in Microsoft Teams, on request. | Notetaker joins Teams meetings, no Teams alerts or actions |
| CVs emailed in become candidates | Emailed CVs become applicants through a per-job email address. | |
| Unsubscribes handled automatically | Unsubscribe links and suppression stop future mail automatically. | Admin turns it on |
| Calls and notes | ||
| Calls recorded and transcribedOnly Lovelio in full | Calls recorded and transcribed with separate speakers. | Meetings recorded, phone calls through a calling partner |
| Notes written from the call for you | Write-up and Do next land on the call. | Plan and credit use not stated |
| Online meetings recorded | A notetaker joins Zoom, Meet and Teams meetings. | Zoom, Teams and Meet |
| Built-in dialler | Aircall connects and logs calls; no dialler of its own. | Through Twilio, RingCentral or Ringover accounts |
| Dictate notes by voice | Dictate notes and phone-screen answers by voice. | |
| Talk to the system by voiceOnly Lovelio in full | Speak any request, search or question with the mic or Space bar. | |
| Calls logged on the record automaticallyOnly Lovelio in full | Aircall and recorded calls file against the person automatically. | Logged through the calling partner |
| AI and automation | ||
| Ask questions about your data in plain English | Ask Lovelio answers questions from your own records. | Loxo AI Chat, Professional plan only, uses credits |
| Tell it what to do and it does it | Ask and it creates jobs, moves candidates, drafts submissions. | In-app chat is read-only, outside assistants can act via MCP |
| Keyboard command bar | Cmd+K opens a command bar for finding and actions. | |
| Connect your own AI assistantOnly Lovelio in full | Connect your own assistant over MCP. | Pricing page says Core, MCP page says Professional |
| AI agent that sources by itself | Overnight matching drafts floats; nothing is added without you. | Longlist agent, Professional plan only |
| Automation rules you build | Built-in automations you switch on and time; build your own with agents, the API and webhooks. | Stage triggers for emails and campaigns only |
| Product help answered in the app | Ask Lovelio answers how-to questions from help cards. | |
| Learns how each consultant recruitsOnly Lovelio in full | Your Stats and email style learn from your own work. | |
| Reports and targets | ||
| Dashboards ready on day one | Home cards and Analytics work with no setup. | |
| Ask for a report in plain EnglishOnly Lovelio in full | Ask a data question and get a computed table. | AI Chat answers data questions, does not build reports |
| Build your own reports | No report builder; ready-made reports and plain-English questions. | |
| Activity targets and quotas | Quota targets per agency, team and consultant. | Goals on the dashboard |
| Leaderboards and recognition | Slack Placement Made post and quota standing; no leaderboard. | Top 10 leaderboards |
| Placement and revenue reports | Billings and forecast on Home and Analytics. | |
| Time to fill and conversion reports | Time to hire, funnel conversion and fill rate. | |
| Export to a spreadsheet | Funnel CSV and PDF snapshot; other cards export as PDF. | CSV export |
| Reports emailed on a schedule | Weekly reports arrive in the app, not by email. | |
| Apps, extension and integrations | ||
| Browser extension to add people from LinkedIn | Chrome extension saves LinkedIn profiles as candidates. | |
| Your candidates recognised on LinkedIn | LinkedIn overlay shows who is already in your database. | Extension flags people already in Loxo, LinkedIn not named |
| iPhone app | iPhone app in testing, not yet in the App Store. | iPhone only |
| Android app | No Android app is released yet. | |
| Desktop app | Mac app released; Windows app coming soon. | |
| Open API | Documented public API with scoped keys. | Paid feature, Professional plan |
| Webhooks | Webhooks with signed events. | Paid feature, Professional plan |
| API docs AI agents can read | Plain-text API reference at llms-full.txt for agents. | |
| Partner app marketplace | Directory of partner apps through Lovelio Connect. | |
| Sandbox for developersOnly Lovelio in full | Sandbox agency for every developer workspace. | Developer Program exists, test account not confirmed |
| LinkedIn Recruiter integration | Through the Chrome extension, inside Recruiter and Recruiter Lite: adds the person and scores them against the job. | |
| Zapier | No Zapier app; API and webhooks instead. | Open API article names Zapier, no Zapier app found |
| Connections to VMS platforms | No connections to vendor management systems. | |
| Background and reference checks | Reference checks built in; background checks coming soon. | Checkr partner, sent from the placement card |
| Security and your data | ||
| Two-step sign-in or passkeys | Passkeys are the main sign-in. | Email code on every password sign-in |
| Roles and permissions | Roles control what each person can do. | Advanced roles on Enterprise |
| Teams that see only their own records | Teams see their own team's work. | Advanced roles on Enterprise, limits by team not confirmed |
| Data held in your region | Region set by your country at sign-up: Sydney, London or US. | |
| Put your data back to an earlier time | Lovelio restores any minute in 30 days for you. | |
| Audit log | Record timelines show who did what; no agency-wide audit log. | |
| SOC 2 report | No SOC 2 report. | SOC 2 Type II |
| ISO 27001 certified | Not ISO 27001 certified. | |
| Single sign-on | Google and Microsoft sign-in; no SAML or Okta. | SAML and Okta on Enterprise only, Google and Microsoft sign-in on all |
| Export all your data any time | Admins export 500 candidates a time to CSV; full data by API. | People and company records as CSV, admin only |
| Getting started and price | ||
| Free trial with no sales call | 14 days free, no card, no sales call. | 7 days, no card |
| Prices on the website | Prices published on lovelio.ai/pricing. | Core price shown, Professional and Enterprise by demo |
| Priced by team size, unlimited usersOnly Lovelio in full | Priced by team size; unlimited users and AI agents. | |
| AI included in the price | Everyday AI is included; credits pay for web lookups only. | AI search in Core, agents and chat on Professional with credits |
| No setup fee | Plan price only at checkout; no setup fee on plans. | |
| Moving your data across included | Free on yearly plans; monthly plans pay a migration fee. | Free on Core with 3 or more users |
| Data moved across automatically | Lovelio runs the move for you; its team starts and checks it. | |
| Works the day you sign upOnly Lovelio in full | One short setup screen, then you recruit. | Self sign-up and trial, onboarding steps not confirmed |
| Demo data to try itOnly Lovelio in full | Use Lovelio opens a sample agency for seven days. | |
| Monthly plan | Pay month to month; cancel in the billing portal. | |
| Free plan | No free plan; 14 day trial only. | |
| Support chat in the app | Ask Lovelio answers how-to questions; Support logs issues. | |
| Totals178 features | 115Yes 41Partial 22None found | 76Yes 60Partial 42None found |
Price
What a team of 5 or 12 pays a month
Loxo
Core $149 a user, yearly, paid up front. Professional by demo.
Free trial: 7 days
5 consultantsUS$745
12 consultantsUS$1,788
Rival totals are list price times users on their cheapest yearly plan. Seen 31 October 2026.
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