For Clients
We do not deliver volume. We deliver three or four genuinely credible candidates per mandate — each personally interviewed, each fully briefed, each capable of doing the work. Then we stand behind the result.
01 The guarantee
Every executive placement carries a twelve-month replacement guarantee. If, within twelve months of joining, the placed candidate leaves the business for any performance- or fit-related reason, we will conduct the entire search again — at no further cost.
In practice we have honoured the guarantee on fewer than one in twenty mandates over the past decade. We treat that statistic as the reason we exist, not a marketing figure. The work is done properly the first time, so that it does not need to be done a second.
Our fee is a single, fixed percentage of first-year cash compensation — transparent, agreed in advance, and notably below the average for European executive search. There are no day rates, no retainer top-ups, and no expenses billed beyond pre-approved candidate travel.
Payment is structured in three stages: a modest retainer on engagement, a milestone on shortlist delivery, and the balance only on successful placement. If we do not place a candidate, the milestone alone is yours to keep. We have skin in the outcome, not in the activity.
Request our fee schedule for a confidential, role-specific quotation.
02 Fee structure
03 Process
A half-day on site with you and the people the hire will work alongside. We come away with a written brief and a clear definition of success. Both are signed off before search begins.
Our researchers map the relevant talent pool — typically eighty to two hundred names — and our partner approaches the strongest candidates directly. Within eleven days you receive a longlist with our written assessments.
Every shortlisted candidate is interviewed by the partner handling your search — never by a researcher alone. Three or four candidates are presented. We do not pad shortlists to look busy.
Four to six independently sourced references per finalist — not the ones on the CV — taken up before the offer, not after. Any concerns surface while they can still be acted on.
We mediate the offer conversation, support the candidate through resignation and counter-offer, and stay close through the first ninety days. Settlement is the part where mandates are quietly won or lost.
04 What we do not do
We do not run contingent search. We do not handle high-volume hiring or roles below the senior-leadership threshold. We do not work for organisations whose values we cannot endorse, however well the engagement might pay.
We will tell you, candidly, when a mandate is not the right fit for us — and where we believe it would be better placed. Saying so costs us short-term revenue and earns us long-term clients. The maths works out.
Send us a short note describing the role and the timetable. A partner will respond within two working days with an initial view, a candidate-pool estimate, and a fee proposal.