The lemlist alternative that knows your candidates
lemlist is built for sales teams and syncs with sales CRMs. Recruitment outreach has to know who is interviewing on your jobs, who you placed and which contact is a live client, and Recruitly's outreach runs inside the CRM that holds all of it.
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lemlist
Tomorrow's LinkedIn messages
lemlist's native CRM integrations are HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive, and LinkedIn steps need its Multichannel or Enterprise plan. Checked 5 November 2026.
Recruitly
You placed Tom at your client in March.
What a sales CRM never knows
Finance Director role, on your pipeline
They are mid-process with you
Simi holds the step and asks the consultant who owns the application.
Financial Controller, now at your client
You placed them last spring
Outreach never headhunts your own placement out of your client.
Head of Finance role, open with you
They are a client with a live job
The account owner decides whether anyone pitches them.
Owner of the relationship since 2024
A colleague owns the relationship
The step waits until James says yes.
Before every step
Simi checks what your agency knows
Before each touch Simi looks at your CRM and every channel. If they talked to your team, have a live deal or job, belong to a colleague or opted out, the step waits and says why.
The call is on their record, so the LinkedIn message waits.
When they answer
Simi reads what the reply means
On LinkedIn, email, WhatsApp or the phone. Interested goes hot in your Conversations with a draft answer, not now comes back on the date they gave, and a no stops every campaign for them.
Simi parks Rebecca and brings them back on the day.
The flow
Branch on what they do
Start with any step: visit, like, comment, follow, endorse, invite, message or InMail, with email anywhere in between, and branches such as accepted within five days.
Four steps, then a branch on whether they accept.
LinkedIn Warmup
Your team stays visible before you ask
When the people you follow post, a few of your team react at different times of day, and Simi writes the odd comment in that teammate’s voice. She reads each post first and skips bad news.
Hours apart, never two the same.
LinkedIn without the bigger plan
Every LinkedIn step, Simi's checks and Warmup come with LinkedIn Connect, $15 a month for each connected LinkedIn account. Your CRM, jobs and candidates are the rest of Recruitly.
Recruitly
$15
a month, per LinkedIn account
LinkedIn Connect. Every LinkedIn step, Simi’s checks and LinkedIn Warmup are in it. Email steps cost what your other Recruitly emails cost.
lemlist
$87–109
a month, per user
On Multichannel: $87 billed yearly, $109 monthly. The Email plan has no LinkedIn steps.
lemlist prices from lemlist’s own pricing page, checked 5 November 2026.
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Recruitly vs lemlist
Both run LinkedIn and email together. One was built around candidates, clients and jobs.
| Feature | Recruitly | lemlist |
|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn and email in one campaign | Yes | Multichannel plan |
| Branches on what they do | Accepted or replied, within the days you set | Conditioned next steps |
| Knows who is interviewing on your jobs | Yes | Not listed |
| Knows who you placed | Yes | Not listed |
| CRM | It is the recruitment CRM | HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive |
| Stops on a call or meeting anywhere | Yes | Not listed |
| Comes back on the date they asked for | Yes | Not listed |
| Keeps two teammates off one person | One outreach per person, agency-wide | Not listed |
| Team warmup on their posts | LinkedIn Warmup | Not listed |
| Price with LinkedIn steps | $15 a month per account | $87 to $109 a user a month |
Recruitlylemlist column from lemlist’s own website, checked 5 November 2026. “Not listed” means we looked on their pages and could not find it.
Questions before you move
lemlist reads reply intent too. What is different?
Simi reads replies on every channel your agency uses, including calls and meetings, and acts on what they mean for a recruiter. Not now parks the person until the date they gave, a referral is offered to you as a new lead, and a no stops every campaign for them across the agency.
Which LinkedIn steps are there?
Visit profile, like a post, comment (Simi writes it from the post), follow, endorse, invite with a note, message and InMail, with email anywhere in the flow, waits, and branches on whether they accepted or replied.
Do I need a separate plan for LinkedIn?
No. Every LinkedIn step comes with LinkedIn Connect, $15 a month for each connected LinkedIn account. Email steps cost what your other Recruitly emails cost.
Do I need Recruitly to use it?
Yes. Outreach only runs inside Recruitly, because the point is that it reads your candidates, clients and jobs. If your agency keeps those somewhere else, Simi has nothing to check against.
Outreach that knows your candidates, your clients and your jobs.
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