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Services / Embedded Recruiting

Your recruiting function,
without the overhead.

Your team interviews. We do everything else. Sourcing, vetting, scheduling, candidate management, pre-close, weekly standups. Week-to-week or quarterly. As few as one role at a time. About a third the cost of a contingent agency.

Why embedded

The whole function.
None of the overhead.

You do not need a part-time agency or a full-time recruiter you might not need in six months. You need a team that runs the hiring function and turns it on and off with the business.
01

End-to-end ownership

Sourcing, vetting, scheduling, candidate management, pre-close, weekly standups. Your team interviews. That's the line. We handle the rest.

02

Flex with the business

Weekly job slots, monthly plans, quarterly plans. Add a role, drop a role, pause for a quarter. Built for the way startup hiring actually works.

03

About a third the cost

Contingent agencies charge twenty-five to thirty percent of salary per placement. Weekly slots come in near the cost of running it yourself, minus the overhead of building it.

The model

How an embedded
engagement runs.

The first week is a calibration. The next twelve are a function. Most engagements end in a hand-off to your in-house team.

  1. 01

    Pilot a role

    Start with one search, week-to-week. References from clients we've worked with for years come on request, before you commit to anything bigger.

  2. 02

    Calibrate

    The 22-point playbook is built for every active and upcoming role together with your team. Scorecards locked before sourcing.

  3. 03

    Run end-to-end

    Sourcing, vetting, scheduling, candidate management, pre-close. Three engines for sourcing, the rubric for evaluation, the dashboard for visibility. Your team interviews.

  4. 04

    Scale or hand off

    Add roles or seasons of work as needed. When volume warrants in-house TA, we hire and train your team. Playbooks, scorecards, and dashboards transfer to you.

Who it's for

Engagement profiles
that fit.

A

Seed through Series B

Companies hiring ten to fifty roles in a year, with no in-house TA leader yet — or one who is drowning in pipeline.

B

PE portfolio companies

Sponsor-backed platforms hitting a value-creation plan that need senior operators delivered quickly and consistently.

C

Scaling teams

Companies running national hiring across clinical, technical, or go-to-market that need standardized scorecards and channel mix across geographies.

Outcomes

What an embedded
engagement delivers.

0%

Average retention at twelve months across embedded placements.

0+

Roles built before transitioning teams to in-house recruiting.

0mo

Placement guarantee. Five times the industry standard.

The conversation begins
upstream of the role.

The first calls that matter are strategic. They surface what the business needs to accomplish over the next four quarters and where the talent question actually sits. Fifteen minutes is enough to start. We come prepared.