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Our Services

Search built for the roles that matter most.

Confidential executive search and professional search across every major industry, engineered to reach the passive talent your competitors can't, and backed by a 90-day performance guarantee.

How We Engage

Ways to partner with us

Confidential Executive Search

Retained and Container

For CEOs and boards making the hires that can't be public yet. Net-new C-suite and VP builds, succession moves, and sensitive replacements, run under NDA with your identity protected until you choose to reveal it. We map the entire market, engage passive executives directly, and deliver a calibrated slate with full assessment and referencing. Engagements are retained or container-structured: a portion committed at kickoff for exclusivity and priority focus, the balance on placement, backed by our 90-day guarantee.

  • NDA-backed, client identity protected
  • Exclusive, fully committed search
  • Executive assessment & referencing
  • Regular search readouts

Professional Search

Contingency

For HR leaders and hiring managers filling mission-critical functional roles. Success-based and fast: no retainer, no fee until you hire, first qualified candidates within days, whole-market passive sourcing on every search. Ideal for specialized individual contributors and team builds across our ten practice areas.

  • No retainer, success-based
  • No fee until a hire is made
  • First qualified candidates within days
  • Whole-market & passive sourcing

Contract Staffing & Augmentation

Scaling benches & delivery teams

Flexible, project-based and augmentation talent to scale technical benches, staff client delivery engagements, or stand up a team fast. We act as a deployment partner, sourcing specialists who plug into your delivery model and ramp quickly.

  • Contract & augmentation talent
  • Deploy into client engagements
  • Rapid team buildout support
  • Specialized technical, AI & data talent

Contract-to-Hire

Try before you commit

Bring talent on under contract with a clear path to permanent conversion. De-risk critical hires by evaluating fit on the job before the long-term commitment. Ideal for fast-moving teams and newly created functions.

  • Trial-to-permanent pathway
  • Evaluate fit before converting
  • Lower hiring risk
  • Smooth conversion to full-time
Confidential Mandates

Discretion is a capability, not a courtesy

Some searches can't be public: a build the market shouldn't see coming, a replacement the team hasn't been told about, a move a competitor would love to know. We run confidential mandates as a discipline.

NDA-backed engagements

Mutual confidentiality from the first conversation.

Protected client identity

Candidates learn who you are when you decide they should.

Blind outreach done right

Compelling enough to move a passive executive, revealing nothing.

Candidate discretion, both directions

The people we approach trust us with their careers; that's why they answer.

What we're trusted with stays trusted, during the search and after it.

Every Engagement Includes

A complete, rigorous search

Whole-market mapping

We identify every credible candidate in the market, not just those who apply.

Passive engagement

We reach the top 5% currently excelling elsewhere and bring them to the table.

Cultural DNA mapping

Every candidate is vetted for functional excellence and long-term organizational fit.

Curated shortlist

You receive at least three pre-interviewed candidates: a shortlist, never a stack.

Offer & onboarding support

We manage offers, counteroffers, transitions, and the first 90 days.

90-day guarantee

If a placement doesn't work out within 90 days, we run the replacement search at no additional fee.

Fees & Engagement

Aligned to your outcome, not ours

$0
Retainer on Professional Search
Our contingency model is success-based. You pay only when you hire.
Tailored
Fees scoped to the engagement
Transparent, success-based pricing matched to the role, model, and market, discussed up front.
90 days
Performance guarantee
A complimentary replacement search if a hire doesn't stick.

Confidential Executive Search, run retained or container-structured, commits a portion of the fee at kickoff in exchange for exclusivity and priority focus, with the balance due on placement.

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