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A vetted shortlist in five days.

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No retainer · Pay on placement

Fee
15% once, or 25% over 12 months
Retainer
None
First shortlist
5 days
Replacement
90-day window
TalentCompaniesRecruitersNon-profits
No retainerPay on placementFirst shortlist in 5 daysHuman vettingTop 1% networkConfidential roles90-day replacement windowNo retainerPay on placementFirst shortlist in 5 daysHuman vettingTop 1% networkConfidential roles90-day replacement window
For companies
What it looks likeWhat's hardWhat you getHow it worksProofIs it for youQuestions
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01 — What it looks like

The shortlist arrives already screened

Matching runs on skills that have been verified, not on keyword overlap. Every profile carries a recorded intro, so your first call is a conversation rather than a screen you're paying a senior engineer to sit through.

Shortlist · Senior Backend

Ranked by fit
MOMaya OkaforStaff Engineer · 9 yrs · LagosIntro94
DPDan PetrovSenior Backend · 7 yrs · Sofia91
ERElena RuizPlatform Engineer · 6 yrs · Madrid88
HTHiro TanakaBackend Engineer · 8 yrs · Fukuoka84
Brief sent TuesdayShortlist ready Friday

02 — The problem

What's actually hard about hiring senior

01 — The clockYour last senior search took eleven weeks and two agencies, and you still ran every interview yourself.

02 — The feeTwenty per cent of first-year salary, payable whether or not the agency did the work you'd have done anyway.

03 — The noiseHalf the CVs you were sent had never been read by the person who sent them, let alone screened.

03 — The product

What you get

Six things on the platform that exist specifically for companies.

01

Ranked shortlists

Candidates scored against your brief on verified skills and recruiter input — not keyword overlap.

Matching
02

Human vetting

Every applicant is reviewed by an operator from the same discipline, against a top-1% bar.

Vetting
03

Async interviews

Recorded intros on every profile, plus AI-assisted first rounds when you want the funnel wider without more calendar time.

Interviews
04

Confidential roles

Post without revealing your company name or logo until you choose to. Useful for backfills nobody knows about yet.

Privacy
05

Contracts and compliance

Agreements, e-signature, IP assignment and worker classification handled on the platform rather than in a separate negotiation.

Contracts
06

One connected pipeline

Shared scorecards and stages that plug into Slack, calendar and your existing ATS-style workflow.

Workspace

04 — Start to finish

How it works

01

Brief

Role, level, budget. One form, ten minutes, no discovery call.

02

Match

The network returns ranked candidates, and a shortlist inside five days.

03

Meet

Watch the intros. Book only the people you actually want to speak to.

04

Hire

Contract, compliance and payments all run on the platform.

5 days

to your first shortlist

1%

the top of the market — the bar every candidate clears

90 days

replacement window on every placement

“We replaced two agency retainers with one platform, and filled the role faster than either had managed.”

Head of Talent · Series B fintech

05 — Honestly

Is this for you?

We'd rather lose you here than three weeks from now.

This fits if

  • You're hiring senior remote roles
  • You want to run your own interview loop
  • You'd rather pay on outcome than on retainer

This doesn't if

  • You need people on-site in one metro
  • You're filling high-volume junior roles
  • You want a fully outsourced RPO function

06 — Questions

Asked by companies

What does it cost?

A placement fee: fifteen per cent paid once, or twenty-five per cent spread across twelve months. No retainer, no subscription, nothing owed if you don't hire.

Who does the vetting?

People, not a model. Each applicant is reviewed by an operator from the same discipline against a top-1% bar.

Can we keep the role confidential?

Yes. Confidential roles hide your company name and logo from candidates until you choose to reveal them.

What if the hire doesn't work out?

If they resign or are terminated for cause in the first ninety days, we re-source a replacement.

Do you handle contracts and payroll?

Yes. Agreements, e-signature, IP assignment and worker classification run on the platform, with milestones held in escrow and payouts in local currency.

Not you?

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Your next senior hire is already vetted.

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