How it works
One search, every report.
You brief the seat and the market, we do the research behind it to your method, and you ask for any report off that one search, revised until it is right.
The loop
Three steps.
The same three steps on day one and on the last report a search asks for.
01
Brief the search
Two fields is a valid brief: the seat, and the market it sits in. Attach the spec, the deck, the notes you already have, and we read all of it.
What a brief needs
- The seat, in the client’s own words
- The market, however loosely you draw it
- Any firm you want left alone
02
We do the research
The market, the people, the money, the whole read behind that seat. A first draft lands within a day. While it runs the work sits with us, and we bring back only the questions that move the search.
While it runs
- Filings, registries and primary announcements, read in full
- Every figure carrying the record it came from
- A first draft in a day
03
Ask for anything
Any report on the menu, whenever you want it, revised until it is right. It all comes off the one search, so the second report costs you a sentence.
What asking looks like
- 15 reports to choose from
- Unlimited revisions on every one
- Your brand on everything you send on
The standard
Pick a figure and follow it.
Every load-bearing claim carries the record it came from and a label saying which kind of claim it is.
| The label | What it means | From a live document |
|---|---|---|
| Fact | It sits in a filed record, and the link opens on the page it came from. | A CFO total of $9,377,269, HubSpot, Inc. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-27. |
| Estimate | A figure we worked out, with the inputs and the arithmetic printed beside it. | A retained fee of ~$240,000 on a ~$800,000 package, shown as max(0.30 × $800K, $100k). |
| Inference | Our reading of the record, marked as ours so you can weigh it with a client. | MoneyGram seated a CFO from Wells Fargo in February 2026, so the layer beneath is where the next mandates sit. |
That word is the one we sell: sourced. Take any number out of any report, open the record under it, and check us before you walk into the room.
When records disagree
You get both figures, and which one we leaned on.
A registry says 400 employees. The filing implies 250.
Picking one and presenting it as fact is what a single-source report does every time. You get both, the reason we leaned on one, and the record behind each.
It is also why the sources stay separate rather than blended into one number. A blend hides the disagreement that was telling you something.
What the research is built from
- Regulatory filings, what a company must disclose
- Government wage and employment data
- Official registries of who exists and at what scale
- Licensed professional data where the record is thin
Why the work matters
What decides a search
Three arguments a partner recognises, and three places thin research gives way in front of a client.
The denominator
“The market is large and growing” is the sentence that makes a client stop reading. A shortlist means nothing without a denominator, so every pool you get is sized against its set.
The binding constraint
Every search has one binding constraint, and it is rarely finding qualified people. For a payments platform trading under a sponsor bank’s charter, the carve-out at 31 CFR 1010.100(ff)(5)(ii) decides which licensing pedigree counts.
Ring sizing
A core ring of four and a core ring of forty are different searches even when the job spec reads identically. The ring gets sized before a name is called.
Money runs the same way. Base salaries of $538,333 and $471,814 sit 15% apart at HubSpot and PagerDuty, while their filed CFO totals differ by 77%. The gap is equity, not salary. Source: their own DEF 14A proxy statements, HubSpot’s filed 2026-04-27.
On what a retained search costs and what sets its timeline, read the executive search process.
Questions
Common questions
What does a brief actually need?
The seat and the market is enough to start. Attach whatever you already hold and we read it as it arrives.
How fast does the first report come back?
A first draft lands within a day of the brief. Revisions come back the same way, as many times as it takes to get it right.
Does it watch our pipeline or our inbox?
No, it reads the public record only. Your client list is used to exclude the firms you already serve, and for nothing else.
Which markets do you cover?
The United States, in any sector. That is deliberate rather than a limit we have not got around to lifting: the filed evidence we footnote — pay from proxy statements, appointment dates from 8-K filings, wage bands from federal data — is US public record, and it is what lets every figure in a report carry a source you can open. We do not take searches outside the US today.
Does it plug into our ATS or CRM?
No. There is no integration with any ATS or CRM — not Bullhorn, Salesforce, Greenhouse or anything else. Reports land in your portal and carry your own brand, so they move into your system the way any document you send already does.
How current is the research?
The record is read as it stands on the day you ask. Under the SEC 8-K rule a US public company has four business days to report an executive appointment or departure, so ask again when the market moves.
What if a source says something different from your sentence?
Tell us which link and we fix it, then re-issue the report. That is a bug on our side and we treat it as one.
Bring a search you are pitching this week.
A short call, and we start on it. The first draft comes back in a day, every figure carrying the record behind it.
From $2,495 a month, two searches included.