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Every search is a unique, elite engagement that draws on three disciplines.

Precision Headhunting

We build a talent pool from scratch on every search. No shortlists pulled from a database. No rolodex recycling. We define the market, map it, and engage the people who are not applying to jobs, because they are doing them.

Strategic Talent Advisory

Before we go to market, we sharpen the decision: what success looks like, what the market will pay, where the candidate actually lives, and what you can credibly promise once they arrive. The search becomes the easy part when the brief is right.

Data + DNA

As certified behavioral‑science practitioners, we benchmark the job before we assess the candidate. TriMetrix HD, job benchmarking, and compensation analytics turn gut‑feel hiring into a documented decision you can defend: to a board, to a family, to your next CFO.

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Who We Recruit

Leaders & Executives

Directors, VPs, and C‑suite in seats of consequence across the business. We are interested in roles tied to real decisions and outcomes, not just another line on the org chart.

Niche Specialists & SME's

Roles where the real candidate pool is small and the generalist firms cannot find it. Narrow technical expertise, rare cross‑functional profiles, industry‑specific credentials. This is where our talent‑map approach earns its keep.

Business‑critical IC's

Senior individual contributors whose absence stalls revenue, delivery, or operations. Not volume hiring. The specific person who owns work that cannot slip, pause, or be delegated.

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Every client we take on shares two things: the authority to commit to a retained search, and a hire too important to roll the dice on.

Three profiles. One common thread.

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Emerging companies

Headcount: Up to 50
Revenue: $3M+

Founder‑led, PE‑backed, or venture‑funded with real revenue.

The next hire is a company‑defining one. There is no recruiting infrastructure, no TA team, and often no prior reference for a search of this weight. The cost of getting it wrong is obvious, because it is the business.

Small & mid‑market companies

Headcount: 51 – 500
Revenue: $10M+

Privately held, family‑owned, PE‑backed, or owner‑operated.

No dedicated TA function, or a small HR team already at capacity. You have hired before; lived through post‑and‑pray and contingent search. You are past the tipping point and ready for a partner, not a vendor.

Enterprise departments

Headcount: 500+
Revenue: No cap

Department‑level leader with authority to execute a working partnership.

Inside a larger organization, a leader owns a hire that is too hard, too sensitive, or too important to hand to a generalist or a contingent firm. They serve as executive sponsor and move the contract even when that means working across functions to do it.

The problems we are built to solve.

Every search we take fits at least one of the five patterns below. Most fit more than one.

Multigenerational, family‑owned businesses

Companies where the founding family still owns and operates the business. Culture is not a slide, it is the inheritance. Hires carry weight beyond a resume, and the wrong outside leader can unravel a decade of work in a quarter.

Succession tension. Preservation vs. evolution. Promoting loyalty vs. promoting fit. No other search firm speaks to this experience and our behavioral‑science tools were built for exactly this kind of hire.

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Business‑critical and challenging hires

Hiring needs that are genuinely hard and have already started to cost something. One or more of the following is almost always true:

  • The seat has been open an abnormal length of time
  • The role requires narrow, specific expertise the market hides
  • The geography is restrictive, remote, or underserved
  • The brand does not sell itself to top talent (yet)
  • The hire must be run confidentially, off‑market
  • It is a succession hire for departing leadership
  • The cost of the vacancy is compounding daily
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Firms with no TA infrastructure

No dedicated recruiting function, or a lean HR team already wearing every hat; benefits, compliance, onboarding, and now this. Post‑and‑pray is the default, not by choice but by bandwidth.

The question is not whether your team is capable. It is whether pulling them off the work they were hired to do is the best use of the next 90 days. What costs your generalist four months of distraction costs us 30 – 60 days of precision.

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Multi‑hire and team build‑outs

Growth‑phase companies hiring multiple people in the same function, or building a team from scratch. Same skill set, parallel searches, or a sequenced build. Hiring one leader is hard enough. Three in parallel requires a different operating model: ours.

We build the talent map once, sequence delivery, and run concurrent retained searches without compromising on quality. This is not headcount staffing. This is architecting a function.

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New markets, new positions

A new geography. A new function. A role that has never existed inside your company before. You cannot hire well for a seat you have not defined and you cannot define it without a benchmark.

This is where behavioral science leads the conversation. We benchmark the job in behavioral terms first, build the profile, then go find the person. First hires in new functions carry a 10x multiplier on fit, in both directions.

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Companies that have trusted us with critical hires, by industry.

When the work cannot fail, they do not ask for resumes. They ask for the person who will own it.

Software & SaaS

  • Profile Gorilla
  • SharpSpring
  • Tideworks Technology
  • Motor Information Systems

IT Services & Consulting

  • Novus Insight
  • Datavail
  • IvyTEK
  • iMobile3
  • Auditmacs

Infosec

  • Sitelock
  • Sectigo
  • Secure Ideas
  • Quadrant Information Security
  • Deque

Web & App Development

  • Oyova
  • NextGen Web Solutions
  • Station Four

Digital Marketing Tech

  • Convincify
  • Oceanside Ten Management
  • LTK
  • MECLABS

Engineering & Architecture

  • AECOM
  • HNTB
  • Haskell
  • Epic Engineering and Consulting Group
  • Superior Construction

OEM & Manufacturing

  • Swisher
  • Ford
  • Crown Products Co.
  • Caterpillar
  • WestRock

Energy

  • The Energy Authority
  • APR Energy
  • Consumers Energy
  • Powerley

Logistics & Supply Chain

  • Watsco
  • Landstar
  • Mode Transportation
  • The Home Depot
  • XPO

Fintech

  • Finxact
  • Fiserv
  • Cass Information Systems
  • EasyPay Finance
  • Autobooks

Banking, Credit & Investment

  • Ally Financial
  • Corporate One Federal Credit Union
  • Ameris Bank
  • VyStar Credit Union
  • FINRA

Insurance

  • StarWind Specialty Insurance
  • Allstate
  • Gallagher Affinity (TDG)
  • Cypress Property & Casualty
  • Farmers Insurance

Retail & eCommerce

  • Fanatics
  • AG1
  • Floor & Decor
  • Foot Levelers
  • GORUCK

Food & Beverage

  • Domino's
  • Colgate-Palmolive
  • Little Caesars
  • Kellogg
  • The Tea & Spice Exchange

Media & Entertainment

  • NBC
  • Sports Media Technology
  • Disney Streaming
  • Jacksonville Jaguars
  • PBS

Healthcare

  • Baptist Health
  • Nemours
  • LHC Group
  • Availity
  • MotivCare

Real Estate & Hospitality

  • Sleiman Enterprises
  • Watson Realty
  • Gate Hospitality Group

Government & Nonprofit

  • Step Up For Students
  • Safariland
  • Jacksonville Transportation Authority
  • BAE Systems
  • ITHAKA

How can we serve you?

We look forward to exploring a valuable partnership.