Your subscription covers everything on your plan: browsing and messaging engineers, plus the shared pipeline, careers page, interview scheduling and onboarding on Team plans. Plans are billed monthly or annually, and annual billing saves about 20%. Payments are processed and managed by Stripe.

No. Katara is a subscription-based platform. Unlike traditional recruiters or job boards that take a 15–25% share of a candidate's first-year salary, you only pay for your monthly or annual access.

For engineering hiring, often yes. Team plans include a careers page under your brand, and every application lands in the same Kanban as the engineers you sourced. Scorecards, interview booking, offers and onboarding live on that board too. If you hire across many functions or rely on deep HR integrations, keep your ATS and use Katara for engineers.

Move them to a Hired stage and Katara creates their onboarding checklist from the job's template, dated from their start day. Each task can have an owner and a due date, and the hire ticks off their own tasks from their candidate portal. Reminders go out when tasks are due.

No AI decides who you see. Engineers write their own profiles and people write every message. By default we list complete, recently active profiles first; you can re-sort, and every filter is one you choose. Automated checks catch spam before a profile goes live.

Yes. Connect your Google or Outlook calendar, set your availability, and share booking links directly from a candidate's pipeline card. Interviews get booked without back-and-forth emails or double-booked slots.

Teams can request verification, and we review each request by hand. Verified teams carry a badge; unverified ones carry a caution candidates can see.

Yes, completely. Creating a profile, being discovered by teams, and managing pitches is always free for talent. We believe exceptional professionals should never have to pay to find their next great role.

Absolutely. You can upgrade to annual billing at any time to take advantage of the 20% discount. If you choose to cancel, your access will remain active until the end of your current billing period.