Tommos and Bullhorn on the client side, row by row#
Every Bullhorn cell comes from Bullhorn’s own pages, read on Oct 12, 2026; the number after a cell names the page. “Not on the pages we read” means we found no such feature there, not that Bullhorn can never do it.
| What | Tommos | Bullhorn |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A CRM whose AI agents work each client deal, from the employer's first email to the signed terms and the fee invoices | “All-in-one ATS and CRM, with AI for staffing built in”: candidates, jobs, shifts and clients in one platform5 |
| Candidates, resumes, job posting | None. Keep your ATS | Applicant tracking, resume parsing, job posting with a career portal from Starter; AI search and match from Pro1 |
| Where client deals live | Leads, deals and pipelines on every plan | “Client management” on Starter; “Recruitment CRM (sales pipeline)” from Pro1 |
| A hiring manager writes in | Tommo SDR drafts the reply in your voice, asks your intake questions and offers two or three open times (Book) | Email and calendar sync with Outlook and Gmail2; “Bullhorn drafts emails” with AI3; a website chatbot on Max1 |
| The intake call | Booked on your Google Calendar with a Meet link | Interview scheduling on Max1, set up for candidate interviews6 |
| Notes from the call | Tommo Closer writes the recap email from the transcript (Close) | AI call transcription on Pro: “Log and summarize every call and extract key data”14 |
| The fee proposal | Tommo Closer writes it as an email from your terms sheet; never invents a fee, a guarantee or a date (Close) | “Track leads and opportunities from the first call to signed terms”3; writing the proposal is not on the pages we read |
| Follow-ups | On your schedule, then Tommo Closer tells you where the deal stands (Close) | “Multi-step AI outreach” on Max1; the Outreach worker runs campaigns that “prospect new clients”4 |
| The client's terms of business | Tommo Legal: a clause memo against your positions; tracked changes when the client sends a Word file (Sign). Research, not legal advice | Not on the pages we read135 |
| Your agreement | Tommo Legal drafts it from your own template in your Drive, signs with your signature on a person's press, and files it (Sign) | Document generation in Bullhorn Recruitment Cloud Front Office, on a quote1 |
| Billing the client | A retained fee in stages: Tommo Closer proposes each invoice through your Mercury account, and a person approves each one (Sign) | “Invoicing and billing” with timesheets in Middle Office and Bullhorn One, on a quote1 |
| How it is sold | Per agency, no seats: $299, $599 or $899 a month, the AI model included | Per user: Starter $99 and Core $165 a month; Pro and Max “Talk to us”; prices exclude VAT2 |
| Trying it | 14 days of every plan, no card | “Bullhorn does not currently offer a free trial”; a demo instead2 |
| Getting started | Sign in with Google; Tommo opens a record for each conversation still open in your last 30 days, up to 50 | “Go live in under two weeks”; free implementation on Starter, Core and Pro; on Max it is scoped in the quote23 |
- bullhorn.com/pricing, read Oct 12, 2026
- bullhorn.com/small-agency-software/pricing, read Oct 12, 2026
- bullhorn.com/small-agency-software, read Oct 12, 2026
- bullhorn.com/products/amplify, read Oct 12, 2026
- bullhorn.com/products/applicant-tracking-crm, read Oct 12, 2026
- bullhorn.com/products/recruitment-automation-software, read Oct 12, 2026
Prices change. We read these pages again on the day this page goes live.
Bullhorn's bill grows with each recruiter. Tommos has one price for the agency.#
Bullhorn’s published per-user prices, read Oct 12, 2026, before VAT.2 The client pipeline sits on Pro, which has no public price, so the table stops at Core.
The two bills buy different work. Bullhorn’s seat gives a recruiter the database, the matching and the submissions. Tommos gives the agency the client side done: the reply to each employer, the fee proposal, the follow-ups, and on Sign the terms read and the fee invoiced. A new recruiter costs nothing more in Tommos, and neither does your account manager or your office manager.
If you buy Bullhorn’s Pro for its sales pipeline, ask on the call what Pro costs next to Core. An agency that runs its clients in Tommos needs Bullhorn for candidates only.
The Fernhill search: who writes each step in Tommos, and in Bullhorn#
The made-up retained search from our page for recruitment agencies: Elena Park, CTO of Fernhill Systems, needs a VP of Engineering at a $240,000 base salary. Your fee is 25%, $60,000, in three stages of $20,000.
| What | In Tommos | In Bullhorn |
|---|---|---|
| Elena writes through your site's form at 4:40 PM while you are on a candidate call | Tommo SDR drafts the reply with your three intake questions and three open times; you press Send between calls (Book) | The inquiry lands in your inbox; you open a lead and write the reply |
| The intake call | On your Google Calendar with a Meet link; Tommo Closer reads the transcript | Your calendar; AI call transcription logs the call on Pro4 |
| The fee proposal: 25%, three stages, a free second search if the hire leaves in 12 months | Tommo Closer writes the email with those terms and no others, then follows up 4 days later and again 7 days after that, the defaults you can change (Close) | You write it, with an AI draft if you ask for one3, and move the opportunity along the pipeline |
| Fernhill sends its agreement: the whole fee at the start date, a full refund for 12 months, net 60 | Tommo Legal returns a memo and the Word file with your changes tracked; you decide each clause (Sign) | You read it, or your attorney does |
| Signed, and the first $20,000 is due | Your signature on a person's press; Tommo Closer proposes each stage's invoice through Mercury, and you approve it (Sign) | You file the copy and bill from your accounting tool or Bullhorn's back office |
| The search starts | You open the job order in Bullhorn | Bullhorn takes over: sourcing, matching, the shortlist, the submissions |
A tommo’s email waits on a card for your Send until you let a tommo send that kind on its own. That choice comes after twelve approvals in a row with nothing to fix, per form, on a paid plan. The card-by-card story is on the page for recruitment agencies.
Candidates in Bullhorn, clients in Tommos: where each record lives#
- Beside Bullhorn’s CRM. Your recruiters keep working job orders and candidates in Bullhorn. New employers and open fee proposals live in Tommos, where the tommos write. When the agreement is signed, you open the job order in Bullhorn.
- In place of Bullhorn’s CRM. If you are on Starter or Core, Bullhorn’s sales pipeline is a plan upgrade away. Run the pipeline in Tommos instead, from the first email to the last fee stage, and keep Bullhorn for the search.
What stays in Bullhorn either way: resumes, job posting, matching, submissions, interviews with candidates, placements, and for contract staffing, timesheets and weekly billing.
What moves to Tommos: the employer’s inquiry, the intake call, the fee proposal and its follow-ups, the client’s terms of business, your agreement, and the invoices of a retained or contingency fee.
There is no sync between the two today. A deal won in Tommos becomes a job order in Bullhorn by your hand.
Where Tommos began#
PFLB, the load testing firm where Tommos began, has run its inbound sale on three tommos since August 20, 2026. In seven weeks the tommos wrote 65 emails to 21 people, each sent on a person’s yes, and booked 10 meetings: see each count on PFLB’s page.
Questions agencies on Bullhorn ask#
- Is Tommos a Bullhorn alternative?
- For the client side, yes. Tommos (tommos.ai) answers the hiring manager, books the intake call, writes the fee proposal from your terms and reads the client's terms of business against your positions, for one price per agency. It is not an ATS: no candidate database, no job posting, no matching. Keep Bullhorn or another ATS for candidates.
- How much does Bullhorn cost?
- Per user, per month: Starter $99, Core $165, and Pro and Max priced on a call, before VAT, per Bullhorn's small-agency pricing page, read on October 12, 2026. The sales pipeline starts on Pro. Bullhorn does not offer a free trial. Tommos is $299, $599 or $899 a month for the whole agency, with a 14-day trial.
- Doesn't Bullhorn Amplify do this already?
- Eight of Amplify's ten workers serve candidates and records: they match, screen and present candidates, transcribe calls, and audit placements. The other two reach for clients: Outreach runs campaigns that “prospect new clients”, and Prospect finds target companies, per Bullhorn's Amplify page, read on October 12, 2026. Bullhorn's pages name no agent that answers an inbound hiring manager, writes a fee proposal from your terms or reads a client's vendor agreement. Those three are the tommos' work.
- Can Tommos and Bullhorn share data?
- Not yet: there is no sync. A won deal becomes a job order in Bullhorn by hand. Tommos works from Google Workspace: Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive.
- Can Tommos bill weekly timesheets for contractors?
- No. Tommos invoices a fee from the signed agreement: a retainer in stages, or a contingency fee at the start date. Timesheets and weekly billing for contractors stay in Bullhorn's back office or your payroll tool.
- Which Tommos plan fits an agency on Bullhorn?
- Close ($599), if your proposals wait until Friday; Sign ($899), if your clients send their own agreement.