The hires that
moved the needle.

Selected case studies

1. 01Financial services

   Chief AI Officer

   Fortune 100 global bank

   New York · Hybrid

   Weeks

   11

   Mapped

   142

   Finalists

   7

   The mandate

   Replaced an internal hire that had stalled twice. We mapped every candidate who had operationalized AI inside a Tier 1 bank globally, narrowed to seven, and closed in under twelve weeks.

   The outcome

   Hire is now leading a 240-person org and chairs the firm's AI risk committee.

   "They mapped a market we thought we already knew. The shortlist was tighter, sharper, and more candid than anything we'd seen in a decade of search."

2. 02Healthcare

   VP Engineering, ML Platform

   Public health-tech ($14B mkt cap)

   Boston · On-site

   Weeks

   9

   Mapped

   96

   Finalists

   5

   The mandate

   Engineering leader to build the company's first unified ML platform across imaging, claims, and clinical NLP. Required rare combination of regulated-domain experience and frontier infra.

   The outcome

   Hire shipped v1 of the platform in seven months; team scaled from 18 to 64.

   "Every candidate they sent us was someone we wished we'd already known. That's the bar."

3. 03Frontier AI

   Head of Applied Research

   Series B foundation-model lab

   London · Hybrid

   Weeks

   12

   Mapped

   88

   Finalists

   6

   The mandate

   Recruited a research leader from a top-3 frontier lab to bridge cutting-edge work with a shipping product roadmap. Search ran entirely off-market against active counter-offers.

   The outcome

   Team published two papers and shipped a new product line within a year of joining.

   "They understood the science well enough that the candidates took the call. That changed everything."

4. 04Enterprise SaaS

   Staff Software Engineer, Platform

   Series D dev-tools company

   Remote · EU

   Weeks

   8

   Mapped

   134

   Finalists

   9

   The mandate

   Distributed-systems engineer to lead a re-architecture of the core ingestion pipeline. Required hands-on Rust plus a track record of mentoring senior ICs.

   The outcome

   P99 latency cut by 62%; hire promoted to Principal within 14 months.

   "We'd been searching for nine months. They closed it in eight weeks with a candidate we didn't know existed."

5. 05Cybersecurity

   Director of AI Security

   Late-stage security platform

   San Francisco · Hybrid

   Weeks

   10

   Mapped

   102

   Finalists

   5

   The mandate

   First-of-kind role combining red-team experience with applied ML. Pool of qualified candidates was under 200 people globally; we engaged 102 of them directly.

   The outcome

   Hire built a 22-person org and shipped the company's flagship AI threat product.

   "The depth of the brief made every candidate conversation count. No wasted cycles."