The Rate, In Writing, Before Any Call
VA Horizon's staffing pricing is a $300 one-time setup, covering the list build, your qualification criteria, and calendar integration, then $300 to $550 per held, double-confirmed meeting after that, with the exact number inside that range set on a 15-minute fit call. No retainer, no platform license, and no charge for a meeting that never happened. Both numbers are published on the pricing page before you ever get on a call.
What "Meeting" Means Here
Every meeting billed under this rate is an intake conversation with a hiring decision-maker at a company actively trying to fill roles, someone who can speak to open job orders, hiring plans, or vendor evaluation, not a candidate. VA Horizon does not source, screen, or place candidates, and no meeting counted toward this rate is a candidate interview. This is business development for the staffing firm's client side, filling your pipeline of employer relationships, not your pipeline of placeable talent.
Where That Sits Against What the Market Actually Charges
Cleverly publishes $2,997 a month for 10 to 40 appointments, a monthly retainer that works out to roughly $75 to $300 per appointment depending on how many actually get delivered that month, with no separate per-meeting invoice line. Sapper Consulting publishes tiered monthly retainers of $5,250 to $8,750 on a 13-month term, or $5,750 to $9,250 on a 7-month term, again billed monthly rather than per meeting. Neither model tells you, up front, exactly what a specific delivered meeting costs; that number only becomes clear after the fact, once you divide the month's bill by however many meetings actually landed. VA Horizon's $300 to $550 is the number itself, disclosed before you sign anything, with nothing owed in a month where a meeting does not happen.
What's Actually Included at That Price
Four things are built into every meeting, not sold as an add-on. An in-house prospect list, sourced and qualified to the target industries and hiring signals you set at kickoff, not a shared list already worked by other agencies. A two-way SMS conversation run by Human + AI SDRs, checking whether the company has real open job orders and whether the person on the other end has authority over vendor decisions. Double confirmation, once when the contact picks a time and again as the meeting approaches, with only meetings that clear both checkpoints landing on your calendar and counting toward billing. And the SMS transcript behind every held meeting, so you see exactly what was said before you ever join the call.
What It Deliberately Does Not Include
This is not a live transfer; nobody is handed to you mid-conversation. It is a scheduled, reconfirmed calendar meeting instead. It is also not a raw contact list you work yourself, and it is not candidate sourcing, screening, or placement of any kind, since business development and recruiting are two different functions, and only one of them is ours. The fit call, not the published range on its own, is what sets your exact number inside $300 to $550, because how tightly you define your target industries and qualification bar affects how much sourcing and SMS work goes into finding and confirming each meeting.
Why the Range Moves Where It Does
A $60,000 estimate to set up a single new in-house sales rep, per Intelemark, is the alternative most firms weigh this against, and that figure does not include the 90-plus days most outsourced vendors, including Intelemark itself, cite before a new BD motion produces real ROI. $300 to $550 per held, double-confirmed meeting, with a $300 setup and nothing owed for meetings that do not happen, is priced to compete directly against that in-house alternative, not against a lightly qualified lead list at a lower sticker price.
Sources
The external data in this article draws on the sources below. Figures described in the text as estimates or industry triangulations are directional and are not attributed to a single dataset.
- Cleverly, appointment setting for staffing agencies
- Sapper Consulting, staffing lead generation services
- Intelemark, outsourcing appointment setting for staffing companies