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Instead
UK hiring: list jobs and posters, compare costs
2407 ms
answered our call
- State
- Answered
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-06-18
- Tools listed
- 7
- Answered
- 3 of the last 3 calls
How to reach it
- MCP, HTTP
https://instead.work/mcp
What it can do
| Tool | What it says it does |
|---|---|
compare_hiring_costs | What hiring costs on Instead next to Indeed, Totaljobs, Caterer.com, Reed, CV-Library, Job Today, Harri, Find a Job and recruitment agencies: each one's published price, when you pay, and what three hires a year cost, every price quoted from the company's own page with the date it was read. For an… |
get_job | Everything about one live job: what it involves, pay, hours, what's needed and the business, with the link to apply. |
how_to_hire | Advice for a small UK business owner who needs staff (café, pub, restaurant, bar, shop, salon): how to find people through those who already know the business, what to pay, the UK rules to follow, and what Instead costs. |
make_hiring_poster | Print-ready posters for a job: an A4 window poster, an A5 poster for regulars and an A6 table card, each with a QR code people apply from. Takes a job made with post_job (its code or link) or a live Instead job (its link or slug). |
pay_rates | The hourly pay independent London cafés, restaurants, pubs, bars and bakeries advertise on their own websites this month, by role: the middle (median), the range and how many ads (Instead's London Hospitality Pay Index). For an owner choosing what to pay, or someone weighing up a job. |
post_job | Make a job for a small business on Instead, free. It takes applications at once through a link and QR code; the owner then publishes it to read and answer applicants by opening the publish link and signing in with their email (30 seconds). The job is public for applications as soon as it is made… |
search_jobs | Live jobs at independent UK cafés, pubs, restaurants, bars, shops and salons on Instead, London first: every job shows the pay, applying takes about two minutes from a phone with no account, and everyone hears back within 48 hours. Also returns independent London places hiring on their own… |
In its maker's words
Hire staff for UK cafés, pubs and shops: post a free job, print hiring posters, find London jobs.
- Website
- instead.work
- Publisher
- instead.work
- Listed from
- the official MCP Registry as
work.instead/instead - Version
- 1.0.0, updated 2 Nov 2026
- Kinds of work
- Jobs and HR, Documents and files, Search and research
The domain it lives on
- instead.work
- registered 25 Oct 2026 (1 months ago), at Cloudflare, Inc.
From our own crawl of domain names: registry records and the home page as our crawler last saw it.
Every call we made
| When | What happened | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Answered | 2407 ms | |
| Answered | 2926 ms | |
| Answered | 768 ms |
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