Built for the hire that matters most.
FoundHuman is a premium talent advisory built on rigor — for VC- and PE-backed companies that can't afford to spend a quarter replacing the person they just hired.
Why we built it this way.
A decade in and around venture- and sponsor-backed companies — first as operators, then as recruiters — taught us the same lesson on repeat. The retained search world hands you a relationship and asks you to trust it. Most of the time, that trust is misplaced, the hire walks at month seven, and the cost shows up on the next board deck.
So we built a different model. Same network depth. Different floor.
Every search runs on a 22-point custom playbook. Every candidate is graded against weighted scorecards, blind-scored, ranked. Every engagement runs inside a real-time dashboard you can pull up at any moment. And every placement is backed by a 15-month guarantee — five times the industry standard — because the rest of the system earns it.
Four principles, applied to every search.
Retention is the only outcome.
A placement that walks at month seven isn't a placement. We measure success at 18 months — and we run the whole methodology to earn it.
Process beats opinion.
The decision is grounded in the rubric, not the loudest voice in the debrief. Blind-scored, weighted, ranked.
Transparent by default.
You see the playbook on day one. The pipeline as it forms. The scoring as it happens. No black box. No status meeting to find out where you stand.
Built to hand off.
We're not in the retainer business. We build the function, train your in-house team, and make sure the system works after we leave.
The numbers we hold ourselves to.
Tell us the next hire that has to land.
A short call. We'll tell you whether the search is built for our process — and what we'd do differently if it were.