For recruiters, sourcers, and staffing firms

Source the experts AI can't find.

Bring the right person. We screen and verify. You earn 20% on every approved placement, up to $1,000.

Self-serve. No contract, no exclusivity, no waiting list.

20%Commission on every approved placement
$1,000Cap per person you place
InstantPayout the moment a placement clears
Every categoryOpen searches across every category

Recruit for the world's top research companies

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Recruiting partner, supercharged

You bring the candidate. We handle everything else.

No interviews to run, no resumes to format, no invoices to chase. We screen and verify every candidate you submit, so the only thing you own is the part that's actually hard: knowing the right person.

Source

Every open search, not just the ones in your niche

Most platforms only show you roles that match your own background. Terac shows you the whole demand board. Source across industries, countries, and specialties, wherever your network actually reaches.

Submit

One candidate, one link, no back office

No applications to fill out, no resumes to format, no interviews to run. Submit your candidate with a single link and our AI Moderator screens, verifies, and qualifies them for you.

Get paid

Commission lands the second a placement clears

20% deposits straight to your account the moment a candidate you submitted is approved. No invoicing, no net-30, no payout request. It stacks across every study they clear, up to a $1,000 cap per person.

Open searches

These searches are open because we can't fill them.

A live slice of the demand board. Every search here is unfilled right now, across every category, and the placement goes to whoever sources the right person first. The full board updates daily.

From recruiting partner to operator

Real experts. Real payouts. Real work.

Portrait of Claire Cavallini, Head of Talent Ops at Terac

Head of Talent Ops at Terac · Remote

“I started by referring people I trusted into the panel: friends, friends of friends, the niche operators no recruiter could find.”

Claire didn't join Terac as an employee. She joined as a recruiting partner and started quietly placing people she trusted: the niche operators no LinkedIn search could surface. After a few months of doing that, Terac offered her a full-time role running Talent Ops.

240+

Hires sourced through the partner system Claire helped formalize.

By the numbers

You're recruiting into a network that already works.

Experts get paid well and clear fast, so the people you put forward convert instead of stalling. That is what turns a submission into a payout.

140k+Experts already in the network
$144/hrAverage expert payout
80%Acceptance for well-matched candidates
2 daysAverage time to fill a search

Platform averages across live opportunities, updated periodically.

How it works

Four steps to your first payout

From sign-up to commission, here's the path every Terac recruiter takes.

  1. 01

    Sign up

    Create your account in under a minute. No application, no contract.

  2. 02

    Import your LinkedIn network

    Connect LinkedIn and we surface the people in your network worth referring.

  3. 03

    Send links

    Share a unique link for any open search by email, DM, or your CRM.

  4. 04

    Get paid

    Earn 20% on every approved placement, paid the instant it clears.

Got a desk of recruiters?

Bring your whole team on. Same payout, same instant settlement, multiplied.

Each recruiter on your team signs up individually, keeps their own commission, and gets paid the instant their placements clear. No seat fees, no exclusivity, no contracts to negotiate.

Book a call

Recruiting, with the back office built in.

Source the same way you always have. Get paid the moment a candidate clears. Stop chasing invoices, exclusivity clauses, and net-30 terms.

Running a desk or agency? Book a call with our partnerships team.

Already on the platform? Log in.

FAQ

Question not answered? Email us at support@terac.com

Recruiters, sourcers, headhunters, and staffing firms who already know how to find people and want a faster way to get paid for it. You don't have to be the expert yourself. You bring the network and the judgment to know who fits a search; Terac handles the screening, verification, and payout.
Both, and staffing partners are a core part of how Terac fills demand. Whether you're a solo sourcer or a firm running a full desk, you work the same way: find the right person for an open search and submit them. There's no separate partner contract to sign, no minimums, and no in-house delivery team you're competing against.
No. You source; Terac qualifies. Our AI Moderator runs a short voice screening that verifies and qualifies every candidate you submit, so you skip the interviews, resume formatting, and reference checks. Your job is the judgment on who to put forward.
Almost everything in the live feed is open because we haven't filled it yet. The demand board updates daily across AI research, engineering, and dozens of other categories. If your network reaches a niche we're struggling with, that's exactly where the placements are.
You earn 20% of every payout your candidate is approved for on Terac, not just the first study. Earnings stack across every study they clear, up to a $1,000 cap per person you place, stamped when they sign up.
Instantly. The moment your candidate is approved on a study, the commission deposits to your Terac account. No invoicing, no payout requests, no net-30, no waiting period. Withdraw to your preferred method whenever you like.
Yes. This is one of the biggest differences from other platforms. You see every open search in the feed (not just ones that match your background) so you can place the people in your network wherever they fit. A US-based recruiter can place a clinician in Brazil. A fintech recruiter can place a healthcare operator.
None of those. No exclusivity, no seat fees, no contracts to negotiate. You can source on Terac alongside any other platform or your own agency clients. Sign up, submit, get paid.
A placement happens when a candidate you submitted is approved on a study. Approval means their submission passed quality review and got paid. You earn commission on every approval that person generates (not just the first one) up to the per-person cap.
Yes. Each recruiter signs up individually and keeps their own commission. There are no team seats to buy and no manager dashboard yet. Every recruiter on your desk operates independently on the platform.
After sign-up, every search in the feed has a one-click share button that produces your unique link. Send it however you already send intros: email, DM, your CRM, LinkedIn. The link handles attribution, and our AI screens the candidate from there.
No earnings flow until approval, but there's no penalty either. Source broadly, follow the candidate guidance on each search, and the strongest matches will clear. Quality compounds over time as you learn which searches your network is best suited for.
Earnings are treated as independent contractor income. We issue tax forms to US recruiters who earn above the reporting threshold in a calendar year. International recruiters are responsible for filing in their own jurisdiction.

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