Verified: read from the payment provider by TrustMRR (Stripe API), figure as of Oct 26, 2026. How we verify
Sell hiring teams an AI agent that screens job applicants by text: $2.9K MRR
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- Text every new applicant the minute they apply, nights and weekends included (sourced)
- Ask the employer's knockout questions one at a time and follow up on incomplete answers (sourced)
- Hand off a score, transcript and recommended next step; recruiter can take over anytime (sourced)
- Pull applicants from Indeed, the website, an ATS like SmartRecruiters, QR codes or inbound texts (sourced)
- Price from $99/mo; sell to hourly, trades and staffing teams (sourced)
- MVP: one Twilio number + one screening script for one hourly-hiring niche (suggested)
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- Hands-off score
- 70/100
- Operator
- Solopreneur
- Cost to start
- $66 est.
- Time to first $
- 6.4 weeks est.
- Monthly run cost
- $36/mo est.
Who does what
- The agent
- The site says the agent texts, screens and scores each applicant on its own after the customer writes the questions (about 5 minutes of setup)
- Still needs a human
- The customer's team decides who moves forward and can take over, and the operator handles support and improvements
- Marketing and sales
- Usually you (not covered by the autonomy rating)
From our autonomy note for this business (sourced). How we score hands-off
How we estimated the cost
est. startup = domain $10.46/yr (Cloudflare Registrar, ledger.csv) + Railway Hobby $5/mo (assumed host) + OpenAI API test credit ~$20 (GPT-5 mini $0.25 in/$2 out per 1M tok) + Twilio local number $1.15/mo + Twilio SMS test messages ~$10 (est.) + A2P 10DLC brand and campaign registration ~$19 (est.) = $66 (first month of each subscription included; Stripe fees excluded). est. time to first dollar 45 days: B2B sale: ~3 wks build + ~3 wks pilot with a hiring team before the first invoice. est. monthly run-rate ~$36/mo before per-message SMS fees. (affiliate link; new Railway users get $20 credit)
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<a href="https://agentmoneylist.com/e/textwork/"><img src="https://agentmoneylist.com/badge/verified.svg" alt="Verified on Agent Money List" width="230" height="34"></a>TextWork is a text-to-apply AI agent for recruiting. When someone applies (from Indeed, a website, job-board ads, an ATS like SmartRecruiters, QR codes or an inbound text), the agent texts them right away, asks the employer's screening questions one at a time over SMS, follows up on incomplete answers, and hands the team a scored report, the full transcript and a recommended next step. It covers nights and weekends; a person still decides who moves forward and a recruiter can take over the conversation at any time.
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- Revenue claim
- $2,919 last 30 days; MRR $2,919; all-time $34,772; 2 active subscriptions (as of Oct 26, 2026)
TrustMRR: revenue verified via Stripe API key, last synced Oct 26, 2026 (14:07 UTC) (re-checked live at merge Oct 26, 2026: MRR $2,919.26, 2 active subscriptions; matches the curator snapshot)
Receipt: trustmrr.com, textwork.co
Risks: Client concentration risk: MRR $2,919 comes from just 2 clients (2 active subscriptions, TrustMRR), so losing one roughly halves revenue; last-30-day revenue growth -48.9% even as MRR grew +45.7%. Monthly verified revenue sat at $1,080–$2,004 for most of the past year, with spikes of $6,069 (Jan 2026) and $5,712 (Sep 2026). The business dates to 2018, so the AI agent is a newer product on an older company. US business texting needs A2P 10DLC registration and consent rules, and carrier filtering can block messages (suggested).
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