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Three disciplines. One commitment.

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.

The Work

On every engagement, we build the talent pool from scratch, map the full addressable market we can legally and ethically reach, and run a surgical sourcing pass that goes far deeper than post-and-pray or contingent models.

The shortlist you see comes from a broader, higher-quality pool than most teams believe exists when they start. Everything is evidence.

You see the talent map, not just the finalists. You see how the role is landing in the market, where compensation actually sits, and how each candidate stacks up against the work, not the job description.

Scroll and see what evidence looks like in a real search.

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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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Who we work for

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.

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Five problems. The ones that break internal teams and outlast vendor lists.

Problems we are built to solve:

Multigenerational, family‑owned businesses

The wrong outside hire can unravel a decade of work in a quarter. 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. Our behavioral‑science tools were built for exactly this kind of hire.

Case Study: When Culture is the Inheritance

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Business‑critical and challenging hires

Hiring needs that are genuinely hard and have already started to cost something. Aged, niche, geographically restrictive, confidential, or succession-critical. Most firms won’t take this on. Or they’ll try and fail because they don’t know how to source for it, assess for it, or present it honestly. We built our reputation on the searches others give up on.

Case Study

 

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Firms with no TA infrastructure

No dedicated recruiting function, or a lean HR team already wearing every hat. Post-and-pray is the default, not by choice but by bandwidth. What takes them four months of distraction costs us 30 to 60 days of precision.

Case Study: When HR Wears Every Hat

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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 at once requires a different operating model. This is not headcount staffing. This is architecting a function.

Case Study: How a PE-Backed Insurer Achieved 5x Technical Hiring Success in a Secondary Market

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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. We benchmark the job first, build the profile, then go find the right person for a seat that did not exist before you called us.

Case Study: When the First Hire Sets the Standard

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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
  • NextGen Web Solutions (Nelnet)
  • IvyTEK
  • Powerley
  • Tideworks Technology
  • Motor Information Systems

IT Services & Consulting

  • Novus Insight
  • Datavail
  • Epic Engineering and Consulting Group
  • Auditmacs

Cybersecurity

  • Sitelock
  • Sectigo
  • Secure Ideas
  • Quadrant Information Security

Web & App Development

  • Oyova
  • Station Four

Digital Marketing Tech

  • Convincify
  • Oceanside Ten Management
  • SharpSpring
  • MeclabsAI

Engineering & Architecture

  • AECOM
  • HNTB
  • Haskell

Manufacturing & Distrobution

  • Swisher
  • Ford
  • Crown Products Co.
  • Colgate-Palmolive
  • Watsco

Energy

  • The Energy Authority
  • APR Energy
  • Consumers Energy

Logistics & Supply Chain

  • Landstar
  • Mode Transportation
  • XPO

Fintech

  • Fiserv & Finxact
  • iMobile3
  • Cass Information Systems
  • EasyPay Finance
  • Autobooks

Banking, Credit & Investment

  • Ally Financial
  • Corporate One FCU
  • Ameris Bank
  • VyStar Credit Union

Insurance

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

Retail & eCommerce

  • Fanatics
  • AG1
  • Floor & Decor
  • The Home Depot
  • GORUCK

Food & Beverage

  • Domino's
  • Little Caesars
  • WK Kellogg Co
  • The Spice & Tea Exchange

Media & Entertainment

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

Healthcare

  • Baptist Health
  • Nemours
  • LHC Group (Optum, formerly Ingenios)
  • Health Designs
  • Availity

Real Estate & Hospitality

  • Sleiman Enterprises
  • Watson Realty
  • Gate Hospitality Group

Built for Hires That Matter.

Leaders. Niche specialists. Business-critical IC's. Tell us about yours.