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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 finished search.

This Is What a Talent Map Looks Like

The entire addressable market, indexed by certification depth and proximity fully mapped before engagement

Most firms open a search with a job description and a database. We open with the market. This is a sanitized example of a pre-engagement talent map for a niche, on-site technical leadership role. 455 candidates identified, classified, and indexed before the first discovery call. Most firms ask you to trust them. We give you the receipts.

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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 Partner With

FOUNDER-LED AND OWNER-OPERATED

Every senior hire lands on the person who built it.

Every senior seat sits close to the owner, and the cost of a wrong hire lands in one place. Most search options hand you the few candidates who happened to be looking and ask you to trust the stack. Instead, we show you everyone who could do the job, how deep that market runs, and exactly how the people we bring you rose to the top of it. The decision stays yours. It just stops being a leap.

FUNDED AND SCALING

The first hire after the raise sets the ceiling for the rest.

Building the first real leadership layer.

You come to us at the moment the team has to become an organization. We map the entire market for that seat, not the slice that answers postings, and we measure your finalists against what the role actually demands before you commit. The board sees a hire made on evidence. You get a leader who is still there when the next round closes.

PRIVATELY HELD MIDDLE MARKET

The seats the business actually runs through.

Owner-operated, family-held, or sponsor-backed.

Manufacturers, industrials, builders, and operators. The seats that matter here are the ones production, safety, systems, and growth run through: the plant leader, the head of engineering, the technology executive who owns the modernization nobody else can. These are the searches other firms hand back. Deep markets, specific demands, candidates who are working, not looking. That is precisely the search we built our method for, and it is why the seats we fill stay filled.

PRIVATE EQUITY AND THEIR PLATFORMS

The value plan runs on people, and the clock is already going.

Sponsors and the platform companies they own.

After a deal closes, the seats that carry the plan turn over on a clock, and the technology and integration leadership that makes an acquisition earn its multiple lands right behind the financial seats. A leadership gap inside a hold period costs more than the seat. We run those searches with the whole market visible and every finalist measured, so the platform leader chooses fast and chooses on proof.

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

Problems we are built to solve:

The leadership change

The wrong outside hire can unravel a decade of work in a quarter. Culture is not a slide, it might be 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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The position nobody can fill

Hiring needs that are genuinely hard and have already started to cost something. Aged, niche, geographically restrictive, confidential, or succession-critical.

Months in, and the resumes have stopped telling you anything. It is rarely a sourcing problem. The right person was never in the room: working somewhere else, not looking, never reached by a posting or a database.

Aged, niche, geographically restrictive, or confidential enough that it cannot be advertised at all. Others try and fail because they do not know how to source for it, assess for it, or present it honestly. We built our reputation on the searches others give up on.

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HR is already wearing every hat

A function grew and nobody was put above it, or there is no recruiting capability to go find that person. Someone is absorbing the load on top of their real job, usually the person who can least afford to. The longer it runs, the more the roadmap drifts.

What takes four months of internal distraction takes us 30 to 60 days of precision.

Case Study: When HR Wears Every Hat

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The hires after the raise or the deal

New capital, new ownership, and a hiring plan that just got real. The first senior hires set the ceiling for every one after them, and three at once requires a different operating model than one.

This is not headcount staffing. This is architecting a function, with the whole market mapped and every finalist measured before you commit.

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 role you have not defined.

We benchmark the job first, build the profile, then go find the right person for a role 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 & Distribution

  • 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

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