Bring your whole team, with no seat fees

Hiring is almost never a solo act. A recruiter sources, a hiring manager weighs in, a coordinator schedules, a founder makes the final call. Yet most hiring software quietly taxes that collaboration: it charges per seat, so every person you add is another line on the invoice. The predictable result is teams sharing one login, decisions made over scattered email threads, and the very people who should be in the tool locked out of it to save money. We think that is exactly backwards, so on Spoon Hire, your whole team is included, with no seat fees.

The hidden cost of per-seat pricing

Per-seat pricing sounds reasonable until you watch how it actually changes behaviour. The moment a seat has a price, adding a colleague becomes a budget decision rather than an obvious one. So teams ration access: the hiring manager doesn't get a login, the second recruiter “shares” the first one's, the new coordinator waits until next quarter's budget. None of that saves real money; it just pushes the work into spreadsheets, inboxes and screenshots, where things get dropped and candidates fall through the cracks.

Worse, it penalises the behaviour you actually want. Good hiring is collaborative and transparent, with everyone looking at the same candidates, the same notes, the same pipeline. A pricing model that makes collaboration cost extra is working against the outcome it is supposed to support.

How team workspaces work on Spoon

The model is deliberately simple: one company, one shared workspace, everyone inside it.

• Teammates on your verified company domain request to join your workspace.
• An admin approves them, so you stay in control of exactly who's in.
• Approved members share the same open roles, candidate pipeline and credit pool.
• There are no seat counts to manage and no per-head charges; add as many people as the work needs.

Because access is tied to your verified domain plus an admin's approval, you get openness without losing control: it's easy for the right people to join, and impossible for the wrong ones to wander in.

Control without the admin headache

The person who set up the plan is the admin. They approve and remove members, see who's doing what across the team, and, importantly, can transfer the admin role to someone else whenever things change. That last part matters more than it sounds: teams reorganise, people get promoted, and the person who first signed up isn't always the person who should own the account a year later. Admin transfer means the workspace outlives any one individual, with no support ticket required.

And because credits live in one shared pool rather than scattered across personal accounts, there's nothing stranded when someone leaves and nothing to reconcile when someone joins. The admin sees usage in one place, so spend stays visible and predictable.

Who this helps most

• Growing startups, where the “hiring team” is really a rotating cast of whoever's interviewing this week.
• Agencies and RPOs juggling many roles across many recruiters at once.
• Any company that wants hiring managers actually in the tool, reviewing shortlists, instead of forwarded screenshots.

Why we built it this way

Pricing is a product decision, not just a billing one; it shapes how people use the tool. We would rather you put your whole hiring team in one place and make better decisions together than ration access to dodge a per-seat bill. Dropping seat fees keeps costs predictable as you grow, and it means Spoon Hire scales with your team instead of fighting it. You pay for the AI you use to find and assess people, not for the privilege of letting your colleagues help.

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