For hiring teams
Post a real role for free.
We’re looking for 20 design-partner companies to post real roles on Ctrlsee for free in our first cohort. If you’re hiring and frustrated with what you’re getting, we want to talk.
Cheaper than LinkedIn.
Better than Indeed.
Fairer than both.
Ctrlsee costs less than every paid hiring platform when you run your process well — and deliberately costs more when you don’t.
I.
You control what you pay
Ctrlsee doesn’t charge a flat fee to post a role. Instead, your cost is shaped by two things: how long your posting stays open and how many applicants you receive. The first week is free. After that, a small daily fee kicks in that grows gradually the longer the posting runs. Similarly, the first 25 applicants are free — fees start only after that threshold.
When you hire someone or close your posting on time with decisions made, you get most of your fees back. Hire through the platform and 50% is refunded. Close without hiring but with all applicants given a decision and 25% comes back. The only scenario where you pay the full amount is if you leave a posting open past your stated deadline without responding to candidates.
The result: a focused hire that closes in two weeks costs roughly the price of a team lunch. A rogue posting left open for months costs real money — and that money flows to the candidates who invested real time (the interviewed-not-hired bonus pool) and to the platform.
II.
Real numbers, real scenarios
Ctrlsee costs are calculated from our published fee structure. Competitor ranges are based on publicly available pricing as of 2026.
Hire in 18 days, 55 applicants
Ctrlsee$58
LinkedIn$500–$900
Indeed$300–$600
Recruiter$30,000+
Ctrlsee is the most expensive option only in Scenario D — when you ghost hundreds of candidates. That’s by design. Also worth knowing: on Ctrlsee, your candidates only pay if you take them seriously. Companies that interview thoughtfully attract more applications, because candidates know the deposit only becomes a real cost if it produced real value.
III.
The cost you’re not counting
LinkedIn and Indeed don’t just charge posting fees — they charge your time. A typical senior role on LinkedIn generates 300–500 applications, most of them AI-generated spam. Sorting through that noise costs your hiring manager 5–15 hours of triage work. At a senior manager’s fully-loaded rate, that’s $500–$1,500 in hidden time cost on top of the platform fee.
Ctrlsee’s deposit mechanic is designed to change that math. When every applicant puts real money down to apply, the people who are mass-blasting AI resumes at 500 roles stop showing up — because the deposit makes untargeted applications expensive. We expect this to produce significantly smaller, higher-quality applicant pools where triage takes hours instead of days. We haven’t proven that yet — we’re pre-launch — but the logic is straightforward: free applications attract everyone, and paid applications attract people who actually want the job.
If the deposit filter works as designed, the total cost comparison shifts dramatically:
LinkedIn typical total cost: $1,100–$2,400 (platform fees + triage time, based on industry data)
Ctrlsee projected total cost: $260–$460 (platform fees + reduced triage time, based on our fee structure)
We’ll publish real numbers once we have them. Until then, the fee calculator below shows exactly what the platform side costs — no estimates needed.
And there’s one number on Ctrlsee that doesn’t exist on any other platform: the total that candidates earn when employers behave badly. On LinkedIn or Indeed, ghosting costs the employer nothing. On Ctrlsee, ghosted and boilerplate-rejected candidates get their full deposit back plusCtrlsee credits funded by the employer’s penalty. The worse the employer behaves, the more candidates earn.
IV.
See what your next hire would cost
$130,000 CAD
21 days
Estimated applicants: 43 (heuristic: salary ÷ 3,000). Assumes you hire through the platform — 50% of fees refunded.
Gross cost
$106
Hire refund
−$53
Your net cost
$53
The same role on LinkedIn would typically cost $500–$900.
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