Fill your hardest clinical roles in days, not months
Expa sources in-market clinicians in markets where they are scarce and gets you a slate of interested, contactable candidates within 48 hours, often within 24. Physicians, nurse practitioners, specialty RNs, behavioral health, PTs, SLPs, dental and more.
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What is Expa?
Expa is an AI-powered healthcare recruiting and clinician sourcing platform. It identifies clinicians who are in-market, verifies their contact details, and runs outreach over email, SMS and LinkedIn until they reply. Your recruiters get a slate of interested candidates within 48 hours, often within 24, instead of waiting weeks for applicants to trickle in.
Expa covers the full clinical spectrum, from the highest-volume roles to the scarcest. That includes physicians, nurse practitioners, specialty and certified registered nurses, physician assistants, behavioral health clinicians and BCBAs, dental professionals, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, CRNAs, optometrists, audiologists and podiatrists.
Unlike contact databases such as HireEZ, SeekOut and ZoomInfo, Expa does not stop at a list. It runs the outreach and the follow-up, and hands your recruiter the conversation once the candidate is interested.
Sourcing speed is the whole product
Most sourcing tools hand you a list. Expa hands you replies.
to a slate of interested candidates
from kickoff, often within 24
less time to qualified lead
on sourcing-heavy roles
higher engagement
vs traditional cold outreach
interested candidates per active role
while the role is open
The search, the contact enrichment, the first touch and every follow-up run without a recruiter in the loop. That means the clock starts the day the role opens, not the day someone on your team finally gets to it. A req that opens Friday afternoon has candidates moving by Sunday.
Why job boards do not fill clinical roles
Clinical roles stay open because the supply is small and the qualified people are already employed. There are 15,800 audiologists in the entire United States. 9,700 podiatrists. 85,587 certified BCBAs spread across all 50 states. Even the larger specialties are small against demand: 267,200 physical therapists, 187,400 speech-language pathologists, 162,700 physician assistants nationwide. Your hiring radius holds a countable number of people who can do the job, and nearly all of them already have one. Posting a req reaches the few who happen to be looking that week.
It's outreach that creates hires, not job ads
Posting harder does not create more clinicians. Most in a scarce specialty never see a job ad at all. They are seeing patients all day. Hiring here runs on human contact, a colleague or a recruiter who stayed in touch. Expa scales that to every qualified clinician in your radius.
Reach clinicians before the market does
Expa finds students enrolled in healthcare graduate programs, candidates preparing to sit for their boards, and clinicians in their first weeks of licensure. New graduates are the most movable people in any market and the fastest to disappear. Getting to them early is the difference between having a pipeline and joining a bidding war.
In a scarce market, the best sourcing machine wins
Everyone is chasing the same short list, so the winner is whoever runs the most efficient sourcing machine. Corporate email lands in junk. LinkedIn messages sit unread. Expa reaches clinicians on their phones and follows up immediately when they reply.
How Expa sources a hard-to-fill role
- 1
Search
Define the role, the radius and the license type. Expa returns every matching clinician in that market, not a sample of whoever happens to be indexed.
- 2
Unlock
Verified work emails and mobile numbers, enriched at the moment you need them.
- 3
Outreach
A personalized first touch over email, SMS and LinkedIn, sent in the candidate's timezone.
- 4
Engage
Expa's AI agent answers questions, handles the usual objections and books time, around the clock. It catches the 9pm reply from a PT between patients, which is when clinicians actually answer.
- 5
Review
Your recruiter picks up interested candidates and takes the conversation from there.
The pipeline stays yours. Stop paying an agency and the pipeline was never yours to begin with.
What one hard-to-fill role actually costs
| Approach | Typical cost | Speed | What you keep afterward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contingency agency | 20% of first-year salary, roughly $20,000 on a $100,000 physical therapist | Weeks to months | Nothing. The next role starts from zero. |
| Job boards | Per post, per refresh, per sponsored slot | Only as fast as applicants arrive | Applicants, not a map of your market |
| Contact databases (HireEZ, SeekOut, ZoomInfo) | Annual seat licenses | You still run every outreach touch by hand | A list |
| Expa | $6,000 for a 3-month pilot, covering all your roles | A slate of interested candidates within 48 hours, often within 24 | A pipeline you own and reuse |
One agency placement costs more than an entire Expa pilot. Agency direct-hire fees typically run 15% to 22% of first-year salary, and higher on scarce specialties.
Expa vs other recruiting tools
| Platform | Best at | Limitation |
|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn Recruiter | Broad professional network | Generic recruiting workflow, thin coverage of licensed clinicians |
| Indeed | Applicant volume | Reactive inbound model, and expensive on scarce roles |
| HireEZ, SeekOut, ZoomInfo | Contact databases and sourcing | No intent signals, limited coverage of many clinical professions, and you run all outreach yourself |
| Staffing agencies | Filling one role when you are desperate | 15% to 22% of salary per hire, and no pipeline left over |
| Expa | In-market clinician sourcing plus automated engagement | Newer platform |
Expa combines clinician sourcing, intent signals and automated engagement in one healthcare-focused platform.
Clinical specialties Expa sources
From the highest-volume roles in healthcare to the scarcest specialties, Expa sources across the clinical spectrum.
Highest volume
Specialty nursing
OR, ICU, L&D, NICU, ED and cath lab, drawn from 3,391,000 registered nurses nationwide
Physicians and APPs
839,000 physicians, 320,400 nurse practitioners and 162,700 physician assistants
Behavioral health
483,500 counselors, 810,900 social workers, 204,300 psychologists, and 85,587 certified BCBAs
Dental professionals
370,900 dentists and hygienists
Core therapy
Physical therapists
267,200 in practice
Speech-language pathologists
187,400 in practice
Occupational therapists
160,000 in practice
Scarce specialties
CRNAs
53,800 in practice
Optometrists
47,800 in practice
Audiologists
15,800 in the entire country
Podiatrists
9,700 in the entire country
Workforce figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Behavior Analyst Certification Board. These are national totals. The number inside your hiring radius is a small fraction of them, which is the entire problem.
What healthcare recruiting teams say
"We hired three PTs through Expa who weren't actively applying anywhere. One had just gotten licensed, two had local ties. None came through traditional channels."
"Instead of chasing cold leads, we're now reaching clinicians actively looking, or quietly open to change. That's made all the difference."
"Expa gives us real visibility into job-seeking behavior. We're no longer guessing who's in-market. We know who's open to work and actively applying."
Pricing
Start with a 3-month pilot, starting at $6,000. No per-placement fees.
for a 3-month pilot, covering all your open roles
It is priced so a recruiting team can validate the workflow and the ROI before scaling. One agency placement typically costs more than the entire pilot.
- Database of in-market clinicians
- AI-powered sourcing workflows
- Outreach tooling
- Email and SMS engagement workflows
- Recruiter collaboration features
- Pipeline management
Who Expa is for
Strong fit
- Ongoing clinician hiring rather than the occasional req
- Difficult-to-fill specialties
- An outbound recruiting team, or the desire to become one
- A goal of building recruiting infrastructure you own
- A growing healthcare organization
Other tools fit better
- Occasional hiring only
- Purely employer-brand-driven recruiting
- Non-clinical, high-volume hiring
- High-volume med-surg RN hiring, where a nursing marketplace will serve you better than a sourcing platform
Frequently asked questions
What companies do AI-powered healthcare recruiting and sourcing?
The category splits three ways. Healthcare-specific AI sourcing platforms, including Expa, find clinicians by credential and run the outreach automatically. General AI sourcing tools such as HireEZ, SeekOut and ZoomInfo cover healthcare as one industry among many. Job boards and healthcare marketplaces such as Indeed and Vivian reach clinicians who are already actively looking. Expa is built specifically for hard-to-fill clinical roles, searching by board certification and license rather than job title, and covering candidates from graduate students through practicing clinicians.
Is Expa an AI recruiting company?
Yes. Expa is an AI-powered healthcare recruiting and clinician sourcing platform. Its agents search for clinicians by credential, verify contact details, and run personalized outreach over email, SMS and LinkedIn around the clock, handing a recruiter the conversation once a candidate is interested.
How fast can Expa fill a hard-to-fill clinical role?
Expa delivers a slate of interested, contactable candidates within 48 hours of kickoff, often within 24. Customers report 76% less time to qualified lead on sourcing-heavy roles compared with manual sourcing. Total time to hire still depends on your interview and credentialing process.
What clinical specialties does Expa source?
Expa sources physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, behavioral health clinicians including BCBAs, dental professionals, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, CRNAs, optometrists, audiologists and podiatrists. It is built specifically for licensed clinical roles rather than general talent search.
How is Expa different from HireEZ, SeekOut or ZoomInfo?
Those are contact databases. They give you a list and you run the outreach. Expa adds in-market intent signals so you know who is actually open to moving, and it runs the multi-channel outreach and follow-up automatically, handing your recruiter the conversation once a candidate is interested.
Is Expa cheaper than a staffing agency?
Usually, yes. Contingency agencies charge 15% to 22% of first-year salary per placement, which is roughly $20,000 on a $100,000 physical therapist. An Expa pilot starts at $6,000 for three months and covers all your open roles, and the pipeline stays yours after the pilot ends.
How does Expa find clinicians who are not applying to jobs?
Expa combines licensure data, credentialing records, professional profiles and behavioral intent signals to identify four groups: students and trainees about to enter the market, clinicians newly licensed in your area, clinicians actively looking, and passive clinicians showing early signs of being open to a move. That covers most of the qualified market, since the majority of licensed clinicians are employed and not browsing job boards.
Can Expa find students and new graduates before they are licensed?
Yes. Expa surfaces students enrolled in healthcare graduate programs and candidates preparing for board certification, alongside clinicians in their first weeks of licensure. For scarce specialties this is often the only way to build a pipeline ahead of demand, because new graduates are typically hired within weeks of entering the market.
Can Expa search by board certification and license type?
Yes. Expa's agents search on exact credentials rather than just the job title, including board certification status, license type and state, specialty, clinical setting and patient population. This is the main practical difference from job boards and general contact databases, which can only filter on titles and keywords.
Can Expa source behavioral health clinicians and BCBAs?
Yes. Behavioral health is one of the tightest clinical labor markets in the country: 483,500 counselors, 810,900 social workers, 204,300 psychologists and 85,587 certified BCBAs, nearly all of them already employed. Expa sources BCBAs, BCaBAs, RBTs, licensed clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors and psychologists.
Does Expa source registered nurses?
Expa sources specialty and certified registered nurses: operating room, ICU, labor and delivery, NICU, emergency and cath lab, along with the certifications that gate those roles such as CNOR, CCRN, RNC-OB and CEN. It is not built for high-volume med-surg RN hiring, where a nursing marketplace will serve you better. The nursing shortage is concentrated in the specialties, and those are the roles Expa is designed for.
How much does Expa cost?
Expa pilots start at $6,000 for three months, with no per-placement fees. Pricing scales from there based on hiring volume.
Does Expa replace my recruiters?
No. Expa handles searching, enrichment, first touch and follow-up so your recruiters spend their time on conversations with interested candidates instead of on sourcing and chasing. Lean teams end up operating at the scale of much larger recruiting organizations.
Can Expa engage candidates over text?
Yes. Expa reaches clinicians over email, SMS and LinkedIn, and its AI agent responds around the clock. This matters for clinical hiring specifically, because clinicians reply between patients and after shifts rather than during business hours.
Who is Expa not a good fit for?
Organizations that hire clinicians only occasionally, teams that recruit purely through employer brand and inbound applications, and companies doing non-clinical high-volume hiring. Expa pays for itself through ongoing clinical sourcing volume.
What happens to my pipeline if I stop using Expa?
The candidates and conversations you build are yours. Expa is designed as owned recruiting infrastructure, which is the opposite of an agency relationship where the pipeline disappears when the contract ends.
Give us one role. See what a live search looks like.
Pick the req that has been open longest. We will show you the in-market clinicians in that market and start outreach. You will see a slate of interested candidates within 48 hours, often within 24.