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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"SourceWhale: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/sourcewhale/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/sourcewhale/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/sourcewhale.md",
  "title": "SourceWhale: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "SourceWhale is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Oct. 1, 2026.",
  "period": "Sept. 30, 2025 to Oct. 1, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
    "id": "CJJ703Y",
    "slug": "sourcewhale",
    "name": "SourceWhale",
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    "site": "https://sourcewhale.com/",
    "summary": "\"The AI recruitment platform built on context.\" SourceWhale sells recruitment, staffing and executive search agencies a platform for sourcing, multichannel outreach (email, SMS, WhatsApp, phone), calls, an AI notetaker and its own CRM and ATS. AI ranks candidates from a plain-English brief, drafts replies in the recruiter's tone, summarizes calls and meetings, and refreshes contact data. It is built for agencies placing candidates with clients, not for in-house employer teams.",
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    "categories": [
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    "status": "active",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "Sourcing and talent intelligence"
    ]
  },
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  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
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  "launches": [],
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"The AI recruitment platform built on context.\" SourceWhale sells recruitment, staffing and executive search agencies a platform for sourcing, multichannel outreach (email, SMS, WhatsApp, phone), calls, an AI notetaker and its own CRM and ATS. AI ranks candidates from a plain-English brief, drafts replies in the recruiter's tone, summarizes calls and meetings, and refreshes contact data. It is built for agencies placing candidates with clients, not for in-house employer teams.",
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      "name": "sourcewhale.com",
      "url": "https://sourcewhale.com/"
    },
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      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
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      "name": "SourceWhale",
      "site": "https://sourcewhale.com/",
      "category": "Sourcing and talent intelligence",
      "what": "\"The AI recruitment platform built on context.\" SourceWhale sells recruitment, staffing and executive search agencies a platform for sourcing, multichannel outreach (email, SMS, WhatsApp, phone), calls, an AI notetaker and its own CRM and ATS. AI ranks candidates from a plain-English brief, drafts replies in the recruiter's tone, summarizes calls and meetings, and refreshes contact data. It is built for agencies placing candidates with clients, not for in-house employer teams.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "sourcewhale.com",
        "url": "https://sourcewhale.com/"
      },
      "price": "Not published; sales-led.",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agents",
          "Assistant",
          "Screening and ranking",
          "MCP and agent APIs",
          "Interview notes",
          "AI outreach",
          "AI sourcing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (\"Trusted by thousands of recruitment agencies\" with named customers such as Impellam Group, Harnham and Morson (homepage). No funding round found.)",
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        {
          "name": "sourcewhale.com",
          "url": "https://sourcewhale.com/sourcewhale-projects-the-ai-recruitment-crm-and-ats-that-drives-revenue-per-recruiter/"
        },
        {
          "name": "sourcewhale.com",
          "url": "https://sourcewhale.com/the-notes-write-themselves-literally/"
        },
        {
          "name": "sourcewhale.com",
          "url": "https://sourcewhale.com/the-admin-stops-here/"
        },
        {
          "name": "theglobalrecruiter.com",
          "url": "https://www.theglobalrecruiter.com/discover-the-new-sourcewhale-the-recruitment-productivity-platform/"
        },
        {
          "name": "theglobalrecruiter.com",
          "url": "https://www.theglobalrecruiter.com/sourcewhale-launches-mcp-to-bring-recruitment-context-into-ai-tools/"
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/sourcewhale/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-10-01",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "SourceWhale launches an MCP for AI tools",
      "summary": "The MCP \"connects compatible AI tools to the candidates, clients, roles and conversations already in SourceWhale,\" and searches calls, meetings, notes and resumes even when nobody filled in a field.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-sourcewhale"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "The Global Recruiter",
        "url": "https://www.theglobalrecruiter.com/sourcewhale-launches-mcp-to-bring-recruitment-context-into-ai-tools/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/sourcewhale/#event-2",
      "on": "2025-09-30",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "SourceWhale relaunches as a modular recruitment productivity platform",
      "summary": "SourceWhale presented outreach, conversations with \"real-time transcriptions and AI summaries,\" an Inbox Agent with \"AI-drafted replies, automated follow-ups,\" and a Notetaker as modules agencies can buy separately. It claimed \"8+ hours a week saved per recruiter.\"",
      "kind": "Launch",
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        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-sourcewhale"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "The Global Recruiter",
        "url": "https://www.theglobalrecruiter.com/discover-the-new-sourcewhale-the-recruitment-productivity-platform/"
      }
    }
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