1. Companies with a dedicated recruiting team
If you already have a recruiter — internal or agency — who screens for you, Lucida is the wrong tool. Recruiters are paid to do the human filtering work. Lucida exists for the founder who doesn't have that person and can't afford to hire one.
Specifically: if you have a TA function with named recruiters and an existing ATS contract, you'll find Lucida's workflow too tight. Greenhouse, Ashby, and Recruit CRM are built for that role. Use them.
2. Teams that want an ATS replacement
Lucida is not an ATS. We don't do pipeline stages beyond shortlist, multi-recruiter collaboration, agency portal, requisition approval workflows, or any of the ATS feature set that exists for companies hiring 50+ roles a year.
If you're tracking 80 candidates in 6 stages across 12 open requisitions, you need an ATS. We will not be that ATS.
3. Teams that need multi-user access
Each Lucida workspace has one admin user. That's not something we plan to add — keeping it single-admin is what keeps the product simple and the price at ₹2,499/month. If your hiring needs two people to approve every shortlist, our workflow will frustrate you.
4. Recruitment agencies
Agencies serve multiple clients out of one workflow. Our pricing is per-workspace, our data model is per-workspace, and our value prop ("the panel you'd have at a 500-person company") doesn't translate. If you're a recruiter selling Lucida-style scoring to your clients, please don't — we'd rather you build the relationship directly.
5. High-volume, transactional hiring
If you're hiring 50 customer-support agents a quarter, our scoring depth is overkill and our price-per-hire is wrong for you. Naukri or Apna at the top of the funnel + a phone screen is a better fit. Lucida is built for hiring decisions where one bad hire genuinely hurts.
What we do instead
Lucida serves one specific person well: the technical founder of a 5-to-30-person Indian SMB who needs to hire someone outside their own expertise (a designer, a salesperson, a growth lead), can't justify a recruiter, and is going to make the actual call themselves. We give that person a rubric, a score with evidence, and a briefing to walk into the human conversation prepared.
If that's not you, we'd genuinely rather you found the right tool than buy ours.