The leadership hire that levels up.
CXO and CXO-1 searches for VC- and PE-backed companies. Confidential, scored, and backed by a 15-month placement guarantee — five times the industry standard.
Retained search, with the rigor your board wants to see.
The retained search world hands you a relationship and asks you to trust their gut. We hand you a 22-point playbook, scored finalists, and a 15-month guarantee. Same network depth — different floor.
Confidential.
Most exec searches are sensitive — incumbents in seat, board awareness, market signal. Every engagement runs on a confidential channel until you say otherwise.
Scored, not sold
The finalist ranking is grounded in evidence.
15-month guarantee
The longest placement guarantee in the category. Backed by structured onboarding through month 12 — so the hire holds.
How an executive search runs.
Calibrate
Working session with the CEO, board, or sponsor. 22-point playbook drafted. Confidentiality protocol locked.
Source
Targeted outbound to a named list, plus warm-network outreach. Anonymized inbound where appropriate. Three engines, confidential.
Score
Dual rubrics — one for capability, one for behavior. Blind submission, ranked finalists, references checked against the playbook.
Place & hold
Offer strategy, onboarding plan, 15-month guarantee window. Onboarding support through month 12.
The seats that decide the next chapter.
CEO & CXO
CEOs for sponsor-backed platforms, COOs for scaling operators, CFOs for the next round, CTOs and Chief Product Officers for product-led growth.
CXO-1
VPs of Engineering, Heads of Product, Chief Clinical Officers, CROs, VPs of Finance — the operators one rung below the CEO who run the company day-to-day.
Functional heads
Heads of People, General Counsel, Heads of Strategy, COO-track and Chief of Staff hires — the seats that quietly move the org forward.
The numbers behind the placements.
Confidential conversation, no commitment.
Tell us the role and the situation. We'll come back with how we'd run it — and a credible timeline before you commit.