About
Built as a system. Not staffed as a department.
A research team has always been a room of people, and everything about how research gets bought follows from that. We did not build a room.
Who you work with
2
people, no handoffs
The two of us
One builds it. One runs the searches.
No account managers, and no juniors learning on your brief. The system carries the volume, we carry the judgement, and one of us reads every document before it reaches you.
Mathijs Bronsdijk
Builds the system
Lives in the engine
Writes the thing that does the reading: the orchestration, the research agents, the verification gate that every document has to pass, and the portal it lands in. If a step can be automated and then checked, he has usually already done both.
Bret van Putten
Works with the clients
Lives with the searches
On the calls, in the briefs, and inside the pitch that has to be won on Thursday. He decides what a search actually needs to answer, and he is the reason the engine answers the question a client asked rather than the one it found easy.
Why it is built this way
Hiring differently would have changed nothing.
A room of people is slow because reading is slow, costs what senior people cost, and only ever gets pointed at signed mandates, because nobody can justify a researcher-week on a search you might not win.
| A research department | Custom research, run on agents |
|---|---|
| Turnaround in weeks, because a person has to read everything. | Ready before your kickoff call, because the reading runs in parallel. |
| Priced like the person-week it was. | Priced per search, because it was never a person-week. |
| Pointed only at signed mandates. A pursuit cannot justify the cost. | Pointed at a pursuit as easily as a mandate. That is the segment, not the edge case. |
| Trust the researcher, or re-do the work. | Follow the figure back to the source and check it yourself. |
Where we are
MergeSearch is part of MBWorkers, registered in the Netherlands.
Search and recruiting firms placing senior roles are the market we run in today, and the only one we claim to know.
| Legal entity | MBWorkers Vof |
| KvK | 96195363 |
| Registered | The Netherlands |
| Market | Research for search and recruiting firms |
See what we hand back.
Name a seat and a sector on a call, and we build a sample on your own pursuit, before you decide anything about the people who built it.
A 30-minute call, no pitch. Bring a live search.