Cavuno

What Cavuno is

Cavuno is a platform for building and running a niche job board without developers. It sits in the directory and marketplace family: employers post jobs, job seekers search and apply, and the board owner earns from paid listings, memberships and ads. The reader it is written for is a founder, a community builder, or a small team that wants a branded job site rather than a general website builder. Its use-case page puts the promise plainly: "Hiring a developer costs thousands and takes weeks. Cavuno replaces custom development with an AI website builder."

What you build and how

You start by describing the board to an AI builder. The use-case page says you "describe the colors, fonts, logos, favicons, navigation, and page layouts you want", then add your logo, connect a custom domain and set pricing with Stripe. The company says you can go from idea to a live job board in under 10 minutes. A website builder and an email editor sit under a Customize menu in the dashboard. The company's blog says full text customization lets you override every label and heading, and that custom domains with automatic SSL come on all plans.

Filling the board is handled by AI job aggregation. The company says it imports listings from company career pages based on rules you set, by industry, location, job type or specific employers, and that the board "populates automatically and refreshes continuously". The home page adds that the platform enriches listings and company profiles and expires closed roles, and that search engines hear about new jobs the moment they go live. You can also accept direct employer submissions next to the aggregated ones. The use-case page lists semantic search and programmatic SEO among the things the platform includes natively, which it contrasts with tools that need weeks of wiring.

The applicant side is built in. The home page says Cavuno includes an applicant tracking system for native applications, candidate review and pipeline tracking, and that employers can instead route applications to their own ATS or application form. Candidate profiles, employer accounts and applications are connected from the start. Job seekers get matches and alerts: an uploaded resume is turned into a profile by AI, and the home page shows job matches based on skills and experience. A talent directory and AI resume parsing are on the Starter plan list, and a built-in blog is there for content marketing.

Money is a central feature. The home page says you can sell individual posts, bundles, employer memberships and talent access through Stripe, and add paid job-seeker access or advertising as the audience grows. Employers can pay for resume access and candidate contact credits, and a job seeker paywall can gate listings behind paid subscriptions. The use-case page shows example pricing cards for a board: Member at $99 a post, Standard at $149 a post with featured placement, and a Subscription at $399 a month for unlimited posts. The home page shows an employer membership at $349 a month with included job posting credits. These are examples of what a board owner might charge, set by the owner and not by Cavuno. Built-in analytics bring traffic, apply clicks and Stripe revenue together.

Integrations are named on the home page. It says you connect Stripe for payments, Google Analytics and Search Console for reporting, and Zapier or n8n for automation. A strip of logos also shows Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor. The page does not say what each of those AI tools does with a board, so check that before relying on it. A helper called Companion assists as you work, and the Cavuno team is available for more help.

Plans, limits and claims

Cavuno publishes five paid plans plus a custom one. Monthly billing is $39 for Starter, $105 for Basic, $249 for Grow, $449 for Advanced and $849 for Scale. Billed annually, the company's blog gives $348, $948, $2,388, $4,308 and $8,148 a year, which it states as $29, $79, $199, $359 and $679 a month. The blog says no transaction fees apply on any plan. The home page also lists an Enterprise tier with custom limits, support or revenue share, billed annually, and it says you can build and explore a board on the free plan with no credit card.

Limits scale by plan. Active jobs are 500 on Starter, 1,500 on Basic, 5,000 on Grow, 15,000 on Advanced and 50,000 on Scale. Email subscribers are 1,000, 5,000, 15,000, 45,000 and 100,000 on the same plans. The blog says all five paid plans include unlimited operator seats and that you can run multiple job boards from a single account on all plans. The use-case page says there are "no row limits, no performance degradation" as a board grows, and that you own your data, domain and audience with no vendor lock-in.

Branding is tied to the plan. Starter includes a small Cavuno footer credit. On Basic and above the credit is optional, and you can also use a custom sending domain for email. The blog is candid about this: it says removing the Cavuno branding and using a custom email domain require Basic or above, from $105 a month or $79 a month billed annually, and that this may price out some solo operators who want full white label. It also says existing customers keep their legacy entitlements until they switch plans.

Cavuno's blog compares its Starter price with a do-it-yourself stack: Airtable Pro at $20 a month, Webflow CMS at $29, Make.com at $10 and Zapier at $20, which it totals at $79 a month before setup and maintenance time. That is the company's own comparison, so read it as a pitch. The home page shows 5 out of 5 ratings on G2 and Capterra.

Who it suits and who it does not

Cavuno suits someone whose product is the job board: a niche community or a startup that wants listings, employer billing, candidate profiles and alerts in one place, set up by describing the site to an AI builder. The plan ladder works for a board that starts small and grows, since a board owner can begin on Starter and move up as active jobs and subscribers rise. Running more than one board from the same account helps anyone who wants a separate board per niche or region.

It is a narrower fit if you need a general website, an application with its own data model or deep integration with an enterprise HR system. The pages describe Zapier, n8n and a Stripe connection, plus routing to an outside ATS, but they say nothing about code export or self-hosting. Cost is the other caveat the company itself raises: full white label starts at the Basic plan, so a solo operator watching every dollar should weigh the $39 Starter plan and its footer credit against the $105 Basic plan.