For retained executive search · Research Triangle

Know every
leadership seat
before the search.

A living radar that surfaces every VP-and-above opening across the Triangle, tells you which ones no firm has touched yet, and traces the warmest real-world path in — built to win the mandate, not just list jobs.

59
VP+ / C-suite roles this pull
47
Distinct companies hiring
58
Open field — no search firm yet
1
Already retained by a rival

Pulled 16 Jun 2026 · Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill · last 14 days

What you get

One page, every Monday — the board a partner actually acts on.

Not 200 alerts. A heat-ranked board of the leadership seats that matter, with the one distinction a recruiter cares about: who you can still win.

Every VP+ seat

Every Vice-President, SVP, Chief and Executive-Director opening in the market — pulled fresh, deduplicated, with the noise stripped out.

Open field vs. retained

The money cut. We read the posting’s publisher: if a rival search firm posted it, the search is taken. If the company posted it directly, the field is open — that’s your opening.

Heat-ranked

Sorted by what makes a seat worth your week: how fresh it is, how little competition it has, and how senior the role is. The hottest seats sit at the top.

Warm path to leadership

For the seats that matter, the route in — through someone you already know — ranked by how strong that relationship is. The introduction, not the cold call.

The method · in plain English

Five steps, run for you every week.

It’s the research a great associate would do by hand — watching the market, sorting signal from noise — run continuously, at scale. Here is exactly what happens, with nothing hidden.

1
Watch

Scan the whole market

Every new leadership posting across the Triangle is pulled fresh from LinkedIn each week — company, role, location, posting date, applicant count.

→ Source: real LinkedIn postings, pulled via Apify. Last 14 days, every pull.
2
Qualify

Keep only the real leadership seats

Hundreds of raw postings get filtered down to VP-and-above. Out go the mid-level roles, the “VP” pay-grade titles banks hand engineers, the operational managers — only genuine leadership stays.

→ ~150 raw postings → ~59 true VP+ seats this week.
3
Rank

Sort by heat

Each seat is scored on three things a partner weighs instinctively: how recently it opened, how few applicants it has, and how senior it is. The result is a board read top-to-bottom.

→ Heat = recency + low competition + C-level weighting.
4
Split

Flag what you can still win

Each seat is marked Open field or already retained by reading who published the posting. A rival firm on the listing means the search is taken; a direct company post means the lane is open.

→ This week: 58 of 59 open field.
5
Path

Trace the warm way in

For an open seat, your own relationship graph is searched for the strongest real-world route to the decision-maker — so first contact comes through someone already trusted, not a cold email.

→ Computed from a graph you own (see the bigger idea below).
Why you can trust the board

Every row defends itself to the committee.

  • Every row is a real posting. Nothing modeled, nothing invented — each seat links back to its source.
  • “n/a”, never a filler number. When the source gives no applicant count, the board says so — it never invents one to look complete.
  • No guessed introductions. A warm path is only shown when a real relationship backs it. If there’s no path, it says “no path found” — never a hopeful guess.
  • Curated, not dumped. The full board is one click away, but the page leads with the seats worth your week — so you act, not triage.
The bigger idea

A system you own — not a tool you rent.

Most tools hand you a feed and a monthly bill. The data is theirs; you’re renting a guess at who you know. This is the opposite: one source of truth that lives in your own database, built around your relationships, getting sharper every week you use it.

Owned

The market map, the signals, the relationship graph — all yours, not a vendor’s. Nothing to lose when a subscription lapses.

Compounding

Every search, every introduction, every outcome feeds back in. The graph that powers the warm path gets richer with use.

AI-first

The research that used to take an associate weeks runs continuously in the background — your people keep the judgment and the relationships.

“Import your network once, and every open seat resolves to a named warm path — or an honest ‘no path found.’ Computed from a graph you own.”

See it for real

This week’s board is live.

59 leadership seats, heat-ranked, open-field flagged, with a worked warm-path example — the same format, refreshed.

Refresh №2 · 16 Jun 2026

58 of 59 open seats have no search firm attached yet. Four roles from the prior board are still open weeks on — worth a fast move. Want it in your inbox every Monday? Just say the word.