Which comparison you need
Most agencies weighing up a website platform are choosing between three different things, not three versions of the same thing. A design agency sells you a launch. A builder sells you self-sufficiency. A CMS sells you the ability to assemble whatever you want. They are all reasonable answers to different problems.
Redsun answers a fourth question: what the site does once it is live. The design arrives quickly from curated recruitment themes, the pages are written from your sectors and CRM records, and after launch the platform runs Answer Engine Optimisation, Conversion Wells and visitor intelligence on top of it. If launch day is your whole problem, one of the other three is probably the better buy — and each page below says so.
Redsun vs Sourceflow
A design-led recruitment website platform. Sites are built as a project, with a design team, to a brief — and they look it.
Design project vs subscription
Where each one splits from Redsun
Redsun vs Sourceflow
If you want a bespoke design signed off before launch, that is a design project. Redsun is a subscription: curated recruitment themes get you live in days, and the spend after launch goes on what the site returns.
Read the full comparison →Redsun vs Shazamme
If your constraint is developer access, a builder solves it. Redsun's answer is what happens in the eleven months after launch: AEO, two-sided Conversion Wells and CRM-fed content that runs whether or not anyone logs in.
Read the full comparison →Redsun vs WordPress
WordPress can be made to do anything, which is the cost as well as the appeal — the recruitment parts are yours to assemble and maintain. Redsun ships the job board, CRM sync, funnels and schema as the product.
Read the full comparison →Before you compare anything
A platform comparison is easier once you know what your current site is failing at. We audited 391 UK and US recruitment agency websites against 34 marketing signals; the average scored 27.9 out of 100, and 7% were built in a way that answer engines can cite. The full research report includes the scoring method, and the self-audit scorecard turns the same 34 signals into a checklist you can run on your own site in about twenty minutes.
If you would rather see the shortlist than build one, the platform round-up covers the wider market, and our pricing is published in full — no build fee, £299 or £599 a month, and you only pay when you publish.