Lovelio
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Free trial: 14 days
5 consultantsUS$249£189
12 consultantsUS$599£459
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| Feature | Lovelio | Spott |
|---|---|---|
| Candidates and your database | ||
| Candidate records with work history and education | Jobs and education held as structured fields on each record. | Experience and education on the Experience subtab |
| CVs read into the record automatically | Upload a CV and name, contacts, jobs and skills fill in. | Up to 1,000 CVs at once, photos of CVs work too |
| Original CV kept word for word | Original CV file and its text kept exactly as written. | Latest CV toggle shows the original file |
| Duplicates found and merged | Email matches merge on arrival; manual merge is by asking Lovelio. | Two people at a time, no bulk merge |
| Tags | Shared tags on every candidate record. | Multi-select fields you define, no free tags; AI tagging is Pro |
| Candidate rating | One to five star rating on each candidate. | Rating field you add yourself |
| Salary, location and work-type preferences | Roles, places, pay and work type held as preferences. | Salary, location and availability fields; others are custom fields |
| Documents on any record | Attach files to candidates, clients, jobs and placements. | Files on candidates, companies, jobs and placements |
| Notes with @mentions | @mention a teammate in a note and they are told. | @mention in a comment on a note, admin turns it on |
| Activity timeline on every record | One timeline per record: emails, calls, notes, stage moves. | Activity timeline with filters |
| Share a record with a teammate | Share a record with a teammate from the record. | @mention a colleague in a comment on the record |
| Bulk edit | Bulk bar covers notes, pools and No; no bulk tags or owners. | Bulk field updates, up to 9,999 records |
| Custom fields | By design: tags and fixed fields instead of custom fields. | Custom attributes on all plans |
| Candidate portal | Candidates sign in by email link and fix their own details. | Link to upload a CV and update contact details only |
| Consent and data-retention tools | Opt-outs honoured; no agency-set retention or deletion rules. | Consent tracking and expiry flags; deleting is manual |
| Alerts when a candidate or contact changes jobsOnly Lovelio in full | A person's job move shows on their record with history. | Scheduled LinkedIn refresh of profiles, uses credits |
| Search and sourcing | ||
| Search your database in plain English | Type a sentence and it becomes the search. | Describe your ideal profile in your own words |
| Boolean search | Quotes, AND, OR, NOT and brackets run exactly as written. | AND, OR, NOT and brackets in the search bar |
| Search inside CV text | Text match searches the CV text itself. | AI search reads CVs labelled CV; keyword filter does not |
| Search by distance from a place | Search a place with wider or tighter distances. | Radius around a point, or a named area |
| Search knows job titles that mean the same thing | Job titles that mean the same are found together. | Job title filter has an is similar to match |
| Saved searches | Save a search and be told when someone new matches. | Saved views keep a search and its filters |
| Ranked best matches for a job | Open a job and get ranked matches from your database. | Matching tab ranks your database against the job |
| Matching jobs for a candidate | Suggests other open jobs for new arrivals; no fits list on record. | Matching subtab suggests jobs for a candidate |
| Each match shows why it fits | Every match shows the reason and evidence behind it. | Reasoning shown for each criterion |
| New matches found for open jobs in the backgroundOnly Lovelio in full | New candidates are checked against open jobs without a search. | |
| Search the web for peopleOnly Lovelio in full | Search the web for people from the same box. | Ask Spott web lookups, not a people search |
| Its own database of people to source from | No Lovelio-owned people database; you search yours and the web. | |
| Email and phone lookup | Work email and mobile lookup built in. | Waterfall lookup of email and phone, uses credits |
| Similar candidates | Find people like one or several chosen candidates. | Similar candidates on the Matching subtab |
| Talent pools | ||
| Talent pools or hotlists | Named talent pools you add candidates to. | Lists of candidates, contacts or companies |
| Pools that fill themselvesOnly Lovelio in full | Describe a pool in words and matching keeps adding people. | Saved views refresh on their own; lists are manual |
| Share a pool with a client | Send clients a shortlist as a submission; pools cannot be shared. | Present a shortlist to a client |
| Email a whole pool | Select pool members and email them in one go. | Send an email to everyone on a list |
| Jobs and job ads | ||
| Every job linked to a client | Every job belongs to a client. | Every job links to a client company |
| Job ad written for you | Describe the role and the full ad is written. | AI writes the job description |
| Ads written without naming the clientOnly Lovelio in full | Ads never name the client, whatever the instructions. | |
| Post to job boards from one place | Post to connected job boards from the job. | Your own Broadbean or idibu account needed; Pro plan only |
| Post jobs to social media | Writes LinkedIn and X post drafts; you post them yourself. | Post on LinkedIn yourself, then link it; pricing page says publish |
| Careers page for your agency website | Hosted careers page and embed widget for your site. | Own customised job boards |
| Apply form with CV upload | Candidates apply with a CV and land in the funnel. | Applicants land in the job pipeline |
| 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. | AI scoring of inbound applications |
| Job templates | No saved job templates. | Job description templates only |
| Always-open jobs | Evergreen jobs stay open and keep collecting applicants. | Workspace-wide open applications form, not a per-job setting |
| Create a job from an email, call or notesOnly Lovelio in full | Paste or describe the role and the job fills in. | Imports a job from a URL or uploaded file |
| Several consultants on one job | One owner per job; credit split across consultants at placement. | Users and hiring team on each job |
| Job brief form for clients | No client-facing job brief form. | |
| 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. | Accept or reject, no maybe |
| Stage moves on its own when you act | Sending a CV or booking an interview moves the stage. | Presenting can move the stage if you switch it on |
| Bulk reject with an email | Reject many applicants at once and email each. | |
| Next step shown for every candidateOnly Lovelio in full | Each candidate shows the next step to take. | Quick actions for the next step on a candidate |
| 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. | Build it with an automation, Pro plan only |
| Clients and business development | ||
| Client and contact records | Client companies with their contacts. | Companies, contacts and their history |
| Find companies by describing themOnly Lovelio in full | Describe companies in words, searching your clients or the web. | Ask Spott searches the web for targeted company lookups |
| Add a client in one click, details filled in | Add a client from its website; details fill in. | Logo and website filled from public data |
| New jobs at companies you watch, every night | Careers pages of watched companies read every night. | On request through Ask Spott, no nightly watch |
| Hiring signals across the market | Watches chosen companies' jobs; no funding or market-wide alerts. | Through partner apps AdvertsData and Vente |
| Float a candidate with no job open | Float a candidate to clients with no job open. | Speculative presentations with no open job |
| Anonymous candidate profiles | Anonymous profile written for you before you float. | Anonymize option when generating a CV |
| Client DNAOnly Lovelio in full | Client DNA feeds ads, questions and scores. | |
| Terms of business sent and tracked | Terms link is sent; acceptance is not tracked. | Terms attached to client portals; e-signing via DocuSign, Pro |
| 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. | Clients give a 1 to 5 rating and comments |
| Business development pipeline | Tracks prospects' jobs and your floats; no deal stages or values. | Opportunities pipeline with weighted values |
| Your patch of companies to work | Your patch: up to 200 watched companies per consultant. | Personal or shared company lists |
| Call lists | No call lists. | Contact lists plus call tasks, no call queue |
| Org charts for client companies | Each contact has a reports-to; no drawn org chart. | Company parent and child tree, not people |
| Reminders for clients you have not heard from | Quiet-client reports and a going-cold score; no active reminder. | Saved view by last interaction date, no reminders sent |
| 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. | Your Word template; 2 CV templates on Core, 4 on Pro |
| Contact details taken off CVs for you | Client view hides contact details; the CV file is untouched. | Anonymize option when generating a CV |
| See when the client opens what you sent | See when clients open floats and submissions. | Portal shows client views and votes |
| Interviews booked with the client | Interviews tied to the job, candidate and client. | Log client interview button on the application |
| Candidates and clients pick a time themselves | Offer times and candidates pick one themselves. | Public booking scheduler |
| Interview reminders | Interview reminders to candidate and client. | |
| Interview feedback captured | Scorecards and feedback recorded against each interview. | Interview scorecards |
| Video interviews built in | Makes the Meet, Teams or Zoom link and records the meeting; no video of its own. | |
| Recorded one-way video interviews | No recorded one-way video interviews. | |
| 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. | Fee splits between consultants |
| 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. | Weighted opportunity pipeline |
| Guarantee period and rebates tracked | Guarantee countdown and fell-off status; no rebate amount worked out. | Drop out strikes the fee; no rebate schedule found |
| Follow-ups after the start date | Contractor check-ins by WhatsApp; none after permanent starts. | Placement starts trigger in automations, Pro plan |
| 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. | Invoices in Spott, or as Xero drafts |
| Sync to accounting software | Xero built in: draft invoices from placements, paid status back on the placement. | Xero only, Pro plan |
| Contractors | ||
| Contract placements with pay and charge rates | Contract placements hold pay rate and charge rate. | Rate cards hold charge and pay rates |
| Margin worked out for you | Margin shown per unit and per week. | Gross profit shown on placements |
| Contractor documents with expiry dates | Compliance documents tracked with expiry dates. | File expiry triggers in automations |
| 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. | Your team logs and approves; contractors cannot submit yet |
| Pay and bill | By design: no payroll or pay and bill. | Client invoices from timesheets; no payroll run |
| Shift booking for temps | No shift booking. | Shift offers by WhatsApp template, no booking board |
| Right-to-work checksOnly Lovelio in full | Right to work, visa and end date recorded and checked. | DataChecker, Pro plan only |
| Onboarding with e-signatures | No e-signatures or onboarding packs. | DocuSign or Nitro, Pro plan only |
| Email, calendar and messages | ||
| Gmail and Outlook connected | Connect Gmail or Outlook; mail sends from your own address. | Google and Microsoft |
| Emails filed on the right record automatically | Sent and received mail files on the right record. | Only people already on file |
| Calendar sync | Google syncs both ways; Outlook adds interviews and checks clashes. | |
| Email templates | Editable templates with merge fields for automated and client emails. | Merge variables and AI generated content |
| 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. | |
| Bulk email | One email to many; each person gets their own copy. | Paced sends, one personal email each |
| Open and click tracking | Shows when clients open floats and submissions; no email open tracking. | Marketing suite only, Pro plan, beta; sequences track replies only |
| Email sequences that send on their own | By design: Lovelio drafts, a person presses send. | Email steps send on their own; other steps are tasks |
| Text messages | No text messages. | Pro plan; through your phone provider, no bulk SMS |
| WhatsApp messages | Interview confirmations and contractor asks; rolling out to agencies now. | Pro plan only |
| SlackOnly Lovelio in full | Alerts, direct messages and the Lovelio bot in Slack. | |
| Microsoft Teams | Lovelio in Microsoft Teams, on request. | Teams meetings booked and recorded, no alerts in Teams |
| CVs emailed in become candidates | Emailed CVs become applicants through a per-job email address. | Forward CVs to cv@spott.io from your work email |
| Unsubscribes handled automatically | Unsubscribe links and suppression stop future mail automatically. | Marketing suite only, Pro plan, beta; sequences have no opt-out |
| Calls and notes | ||
| Calls recorded and transcribedOnly Lovelio in full | Calls recorded and transcribed with separate speakers. | Meetings on all plans, phone calls Pro only |
| Notes written from the call for you | Write-up and Do next land on the call. | Note Taker summaries on all plans; call insights need Pro |
| 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. | Pro plan, through your phone provider |
| Dictate notes by voice | Dictate notes and phone-screen answers by voice. | Voice input in Ask Spott chat only, not notes |
| Talk to the system by voiceOnly Lovelio in full | Speak any request, search or question with the mic or Space bar. | Voice input in Ask Spott |
| Calls logged on the record automaticallyOnly Lovelio in full | Aircall and recorded calls file against the person automatically. | Pro plan, through VoIP integrations |
| AI and automation | ||
| Ask questions about your data in plain English | Ask Lovelio answers questions from your own records. | |
| Tell it what to do and it does it | Ask and it creates jobs, moves candidates, drafts submissions. | Actions wait for your approval |
| Keyboard command bar | Cmd+K opens a command bar for finding and actions. | Finds records, does not run actions |
| Connect your own AI assistantOnly Lovelio in full | Connect your own assistant over MCP. | MCP server is Pro plan only |
| AI agent that sources by itself | Overnight matching drafts floats; nothing is added without you. | |
| Automation rules you build | Built-in automations you switch on and time; build your own with agents, the API and webhooks. | Pro plan only |
| Product help answered in the app | Ask Lovelio answers how-to questions from help cards. | AI search bar in the support bubble |
| Learns how each consultant recruitsOnly Lovelio in full | Your Stats and email style learn from your own work. | Ask Spott keeps memory and personal skills you edit |
| Reports and targets | ||
| Dashboards ready on day one | Home cards and Analytics work with no setup. | Standard dashboards on all plans |
| Ask for a report in plain EnglishOnly Lovelio in full | Ask a data question and get a computed table. | |
| Build your own reports | No report builder; ready-made reports and plain-English questions. | Advanced analytics and reporting, Pro plan |
| Activity targets and quotas | Quota targets per agency, team and consultant. | Targets are Pro plan only |
| Leaderboards and recognition | Slack Placement Made post and quota standing; no leaderboard. | Leaderboard report; celebrating is a partner app, OneUp |
| Placement and revenue reports | Billings and forecast on Home and Analytics. | Booked fees by user; weighted pipeline for forecast |
| Time to fill and conversion reports | Time to hire, funnel conversion and fill rate. | Funnel and time in stage reports, Pro plan |
| Export to a spreadsheet | Funnel CSV and PDF snapshot; other cards export as PDF. | Export as Excel |
| 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. | LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Recruiter import |
| Your candidates recognised on LinkedIn | LinkedIn overlay shows who is already in your database. | Matches by LinkedIn URL |
| iPhone app | iPhone app in testing, not yet in the App Store. | |
| 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. | API access is Pro plan only |
| Webhooks | Webhooks with signed events. | Webhooks are Pro plan only |
| API docs AI agents can read | Plain-text API reference at llms-full.txt for agents. | llms.txt index of the docs |
| Partner app marketplace | Directory of partner apps through Lovelio Connect. | Integrations catalogue |
| Sandbox for developersOnly Lovelio in full | Sandbox agency for every developer workspace. | |
| 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. | |
| Connections to VMS platforms | No connections to vendor management systems. | SAP Fieldglass only, Pro plan, not self-serve |
| Background and reference checks | Reference checks built in; background checks coming soon. | DataChecker ID and right-to-work checks, Pro plan |
| Security and your data | ||
| Two-step sign-in or passkeys | Passkeys are the main sign-in. | Authenticator app; admins can require it for everyone |
| Roles and permissions | Roles control what each person can do. | Default roles on all plans, custom roles on Pro |
| Teams that see only their own records | Teams see their own team's work. | Teams and offices, Enterprise plan only |
| Data held in your region | Region set by your country at sign-up: Sydney, London or US. | Hosted in Europe; other regions on request |
| Put your data back to an earlier time | Lovelio restores any minute in 30 days for you. | Encrypted daily backups; no self-service restore found |
| Audit log | Record timelines show who did what; no agency-wide audit log. | Per-record activity shows who changed what; no workspace log |
| SOC 2 report | No SOC 2 report. | Announced, working towards SOC 2 |
| ISO 27001 certified | Not ISO 27001 certified. | Certified on pricing, security and DPA pages; one heading says aligned |
| Single sign-on | Google and Microsoft sign-in; no SAML or Okta. | Enterprise plan only |
| Export all your data any time | Admins export 500 candidates a time to CSV; full data by API. | Lists and reports export to Excel; no full export found |
| Getting started and price | ||
| Free trial with no sales call | 14 days free, no card, no sales call. | Trial is set up after a booked walkthrough |
| Prices on the website | Prices published on lovelio.ai/pricing. | |
| 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 included; tagging and lookups use credits |
| No setup fee | Plan price only at checkout; no setup fee on plans. | Onboarding and direct migration included |
| Moving your data across included | Free on yearly plans; monthly plans pay a migration fee. | Direct migration included on Core and Pro |
| Data moved across automatically | Lovelio runs the move for you; its team starts and checks it. | Done by their team, about a week |
| Works the day you sign upOnly Lovelio in full | One short setup screen, then you recruit. | Their team sets you up first, not self-serve |
| 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. | Monthly billing, $169 Core and $249 Pro |
| Free plan | No free plan; 14 day trial only. | |
| Support chat in the app | Ask Lovelio answers how-to questions; Support logs issues. | Chat bubble with AI search |
| Totals178 features | 115Yes 41Partial 22None found | 86Yes 66Partial 26None found |
Price
What a team of 5 or 12 pays a month
Spott
Core $139 a user yearly, $169 monthly. Pro $199.
Free trial: Yes
5 consultantsUS$695
12 consultantsUS$1,668
Rival totals are list price times users on their cheapest yearly plan. Seen 31 October 2026.
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- Are you ISO 27001 certified, or aligned?
- Can I use it the day I sign up?
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