Same operating system. Three different rooms.
A solo principal defends the slate to a client. A multi-consultant firm defends the method to itself. An in-house team defends the hire to a board. The pressure is different; the discipline is the same.
- Boutique search
One or two principals
You are the process. Every hour spent reading CVs is an hour not spent with the client.
- Intake to calibrated model in an afternoon, not a fortnight
- A client portal that makes you look like a larger firm
- Search health tells you which mandate is quietly dying
Starts at$999 /mo
- Multi-consultant firms
Five to fifty consultants
Your risk is not speed. It is that every consultant runs a different method, and the quality of a search depends on who took it.
- Custom evaluation lenses encode your firm's point of view into every search
- A shared executive network, deduplicated to people rather than rows
- Portfolio analytics that compare method, not just outcomes
Starts at$1,899 /mo
- In-house talent
Executive hiring inside the company
You will be asked, months later, why this person. The answer needs to exist in writing, from before the decision.
- Executive Intelligence: a gated diligence chain with an append-only audit trail
- Approved records are immutable, so the bar cannot be edited after the fact
- A report that names its own gaps before someone else does
Agency plan plusContact sales
Every plan runs the core agent stack; Executive Intelligence is an add-on. Terms are agreed directly during the pilot. Compare what changes between them.
The same mandate, three different rooms
| Dimension | Boutique | Multi-consultant | In-house |
|---|---|---|---|
| The real question | Can I stay credible across six mandates at once? | Does a search run the same way whoever takes it? | Can I show the board how this decision was made? |
| What breaks first | Follow-up. A slate sits with a client and nobody chases it. | Consistency. Two consultants, two definitions of "senior enough". | Memory. Six months later, nobody can reconstruct the bar. |
| What matters most | Search health and the client portal | Skills studio and the shared network | Executive Intelligence and the audit trail |
| Where to start | Growth, one live mandate | Agency, one team | Agency plus Executive Intelligence |
Tell us how your searches actually run.
We will show you where the method holds and where it leaks — using one of your own open mandates.
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