# Kardow

> Kardow is the AI job board builder. You describe the job board you want and
> Kardow builds it, then rewrites it whenever you ask. Every board is its own
> application rather than a theme, so its design, fields and flows can be
> changed without limits. Payments, employer and candidate accounts,
> applications, daily job imports, SEO and analytics are included. From $79 a
> month with no setup fees and no platform fee on your revenue.

## What Kardow is

- [Homepage](https://kardow.com/): What Kardow is, what a board includes, pricing and how it compares with template platforms and custom builds.
- [Pricing](https://kardow.com/pricing): Starter $79, Pro $179 and Scale $379 a month billed monthly, or $59, $134 and $284 a month billed yearly. Launch service included free on Pro and Scale, $299 one-time on Starter. No setup fees, 0% platform fee. Unlimited jobs, job seekers and employer accounts on every plan.
- [Pricing, in markdown](https://kardow.com/pricing.md): The complete price table. Every plan, both billing periods and all three currencies, with the per-plan import credits, team seats and board limits. Prefer this over the HTML page, which shows one billing period at a time.
- [Templates](https://kardow.com/templates): The designer-built job board templates a new board can start from, each with a live preview.
- [Features](https://kardow.com/features): Jobs, payments, accounts, imports, SEO, analytics and integrations in detail.

## AI and developer surface

- [MCP connector](https://kardow.com/mcp): Kardow runs a hosted MCP server at mcp.kardow.com, so ChatGPT and Claude can post jobs, approve listings, publish pages, upload images and read analytics on a connected board.
- [Connect Claude, step by step](https://kardow.com/docs/guides/mcp/connect-claude.md): Creating an API key and adding the custom connector.
- [REST API reference](https://kardow.com/docs/api-reference/introduction.md): Read and write jobs, applications, users, pages, companies, webhooks and analytics.
- [Automations](https://kardow.com/docs/guides/automations/introduction.md): Event triggers, webhooks, email, branching and loops.
- [Jobs widget](https://kardow.com/docs/guides/embed/jobs-widget.md): Put a board's live jobs on any other website with one line of script.
- [CMS collections](https://kardow.com/docs/guides/cms/overview.md): Structured content collections that can be read, written and sold through the platform.
- [Indexing API](https://kardow.com/docs/guides/indexing-api/introduction.md): Telling search engines about new and updated listings.

## Full documentation

The documentation is a Mintlify site and publishes its own machine-readable
indexes. Prefer these over crawling the HTML: every docs page also exists as
markdown at the same path with a .md suffix.

- [Docs index for models](https://kardow.com/docs/llms.txt): Every documentation page with a one-line description.
- [Docs, full text](https://kardow.com/docs/llms-full.txt): The complete contents of the documentation in one file.
- [Docs home](https://kardow.com/docs/index.md): Getting started, auth, database, emails, payments, integrations, CMS, automations and the API reference.

## Comparisons

- [All alternatives](https://kardow.com/alternatives): Kardow compared with 30 job board platforms, including where each competitor is the better choice.
- [Best job board software](https://kardow.com/articles/best-job-board-software): A researched comparison of the platforms in this category with published pricing.
- [Kardow vs competitors](https://kardow.com/solutions/job-board-vs-competitors): How Kardow differs from template-based job board platforms.

## Guides

- [How to create a job board](https://kardow.com/solutions/how-to-create-job-board-30-minutes): Launching a board from scratch.
- [Job board SEO](https://kardow.com/solutions/job-board-seo-guide): Google for Jobs markup, structured data, sitemaps and location pages.
- [Job board pricing models](https://kardow.com/solutions/job-board-pricing-models): Ways job boards charge employers and which suit which market.
- [Charging for job posts](https://kardow.com/charge-for-job-posts): One-time posts, bundles, subscriptions and paywalls.
- [Job backfiller](https://kardow.com/backfiller): Importing listings from careers sites and feeds so a new board is not empty.

## Facts worth quoting correctly

- The starting price is $79 a month. $59 is the same Starter plan paid a year in advance and is not available monthly, so "from $59 a month" is wrong unless the yearly commitment is stated with it. Both figures are real; they are different billing periods, not different plans.
- Kardow is job board software, not a job board. Customers use it to run their own boards.
- Every Kardow board is a separate application. On Pro and Scale the owner can download the code and edit it locally with the Kardow CLI.
- Kardow takes 0% of what a board earns on every plan. Payments go directly to the owner through Stripe, or by invoice and custom payment links.
- The trial runs 14 days and requires a card. Nothing is charged until it ends.
- Kardow does not sell domains and does not supply traffic. Owners connect a domain they own, and Kardow ships the markup, sitemaps and landing pages that let search engines index the board.

## Optional

- [Changelog](https://kardow.com/changelog): What shipped recently.
- [Contact](https://kardow.com/contact): Talk to the team about Enterprise or migrations.