Sittin' Pretty

Squeeze systems, not people

The problem

The future is agents talking to agents. The present is scrappy, broken systems.

For search firms without a tech team, we're the one partner that prepares you for what is coming while fixing what is slowing you down today.

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We advertise a digital approach to executive search. When you scale that back quite bluntly, I don't know if we're really doing anything that digital.

An MD, executive search

Falling behind is quiet. Every week looks like the one before.

  • Pitches lost to the agency whose offering looks more modern.
  • The MD's week lost to managing vendors who never speak to each other.
  • A fortune paid for tools nobody fully uses.
  • No confidence about the next two years, and no plan for them.
  • A team close to burnout, carrying by hand what a system should carry.

What it costs

A full tech team costs more than a business your size can carry.

Freelancers haven't grown with your business. They arrive, build one thing, and leave with the knowledge of how it works.

So the MD becomes the unofficial CTO, without the time or the skills for it, on top of running the business.

And every month the market moves, so the plan you made in January is wrong by April.

Why it is hard to fix alone

You don't need to teach us how recruitment works.

You don't have to explain every step of your process from scratch. We have worked inside recruitment teams.

Product and engineering sit in one team. The person who understands the problem is the person who builds the fix.

We know where recruitment is heading, and what's worth building now. What we build this quarter still fits in two years.

We turn what your team already knows into tools only you own.

How we fix it

What it looks like when it works

Figures

50+ (2x increase) live searches at peak this quarter at one executive search firm, against a normal peak of about 25, with the same team. They call it their Engine Room: six engines, one login.

14 days to 5 time to placement at one education staffing group, from fourteen days to five

Almost 5,000 recorded interviews at one education staffing group, searchable in plain English, with every answer linked to its source.

Audit first. Quick wins second.

The bigger build once the small ones have paid for themselves.

The plan

Book a call about the bottlenecks you don't have time to think about.

Thirty minutes. No deck. You leave with a written note of what we would fix first.

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The first bottleneck is usually admin. Time wasted on admin