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Longlist

Recruit, engage, and place faster.

AI Sales Ops
For AI agents
None readiness
About

What is Longlist

Longlist combines a recruitment CRM and ATS into one platform, letting staffing agencies find contact details, send personalized emails, automate follow-up sequences, post jobs, and track every candidate and client interaction from a single workspace. It's built for agency recruiters and RevOps teams at SMBs and mid-market firms that need to move candidates through a pipeline without juggling disconnected tools. The standout capability is its duplication check before outreach — the system flags existing contacts before a recruiter reaches out, preventing the kind of double-touch that damages client and candidate relationships. Integrations with ZoomInfo, Apollo, and ContactOut extend sourcing reach, and a Chrome extension lets recruiters capture contacts without leaving their browser. That said, Longlist is purpose-built for permanent recruitment workflows; teams running high-volume contract or temp staffing will likely find the feature set too narrow for their needs.

AI Sales OpsOutreachCRM
Capabilities

Key features

CRM

system of record for contacts, deals, and pipeline

Native CRM integration

first-party connectors, no middleware required

Workflow

multi-step sequences, email + LinkedIn + phone

Also ships

Chrome extension

Our verdict

Vanderbuild take

We see Longlist as a focused recruitment CRM for agency teams that want sourcing, outreach, and pipeline tracking in one place — it's a practical fit for growth-stage staffing firms that have outgrown spreadsheets but aren't ready for enterprise ATS complexity. On the agentic readiness front, there's no public API and no MCP server — this is a UI-only tool, which means you can't drive it from an agent or plug it into an automation layer without scraping, so don't plan any agentic outbound workflows around it. Pricing is seat-based with an annual discount, which keeps it affordable for small teams, but costs will climb as headcount grows. The honest limitation here is depth: reporting and analytics are relatively shallow, and agencies that need granular revenue attribution or custom dashboards will want to pipe data into a separate BI tool.

Mateusz Sekta
Founder, vanderbuild
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The wedge

Agentic stack profile

API
Not public

No public programmatic access.

No public API. Not usable from an agent without scraping.

Agentic readiness
None

Not usable from an agent without scraping.

No public API. UI-only. Not usable from an agent without scraping, which we don't recommend.

Stack role
CRM · Sequencer

Where this tool slots into an agentic pipeline.

Plays the role of CRM + Sequencer in an agentic pipeline. Use it to be the system of record for contacts, deals, and pipeline; send and track multi-step outbound cadences across channels.

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Answers

Frequently asked questions

Does Longlist have a public API?

No — there's no publicly documented API as of today. Longlist is operated through its UI.

How much does Longlist cost?

Longlist: pricing is seat-based, expect mid tier ($$) spend. Full pricing page: https://longlist.io/pricing.

Who is Longlist best for?

Longlist is built for Agency, RevOps. Fits SMB (1-50), Mid-market (50-500)-sized teams.