Live business-development intelligence for retained executive search — every VP-and-above seat, which ones no firm has touched yet, and the warmest real route in. Built to win the mandate, not list jobs.
A public posting is the most contested moment in a search — the budget is approved and the shortlist is already forming. The mandate was won weeks earlier, off the trigger. So the board reads in three layers.
A CxO departure, a Series B/C raise, an acquisition, a board change, an S-1. The role doesn’t exist yet — but it’s about to. Win here, before the req is public.
On the board today, no rival firm retained yet. Still winnable — but contested, and the clock is loud.
A competing firm is on the posting. Intelligence only — who’s hiring, and which firm owns which lane.
Most tools only show you 02. The money is in 01. See why →
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.
For the seats that matter, the way in — through someone you already know — ranked by how strong the relationship is, who actually knows the decision-maker, and who bridges your world to theirs. The introduction, not the cold call. Or an honest “no path found.”
Every VP, SVP, Chief and Executive-Director opening — pulled fresh, deduplicated, noise stripped.
We read the posting’s publisher: a rival firm means the search is taken; a direct company post means the field is open.
Sorted by freshness, low competition and seniority. The hottest seats sit at the top.
Every row a real posting · “n/a” over a filler number · no guessed introductions.
The research a great associate would do by hand — watching the market, sorting signal from noise — run continuously, at scale.
Every new leadership posting across the Triangle, pulled fresh from LinkedIn each week — company, role, location, date, applicant count.
Hundreds of raw postings filtered to VP-and-above. Out go mid-level roles and the pay-grade “VP” titles banks hand engineers.
Each seat scored on three things a partner weighs instinctively: how recently it opened, how few applicants it has, how senior it is.
Each seat marked open field or already retained by reading who published the posting.
For an open seat, your own relationship graph is searched for the strongest real-world route to the decision-maker — first contact through someone already trusted.
The same instinct a partner runs by hand at the top firms — reach the decision-maker early, through someone trusted, leading with value.
Ranked by four things a great introducer actually has: do they truly know the decision-maker today; are they the bridge between your world and theirs; is that person in their active circle; how central are they in that room.
Not “can I help?” — that asks a near-stranger to diagnose their own need. A specific give — a name, a comp data point, an intro — earns the reply.
Move in minutes on a hot trigger — the first firm in usually wins. Keep dormant relationships warm with a light, varied touch monthly. Speed where it’s hot; patience where it’s dormant.
Upstream + warm + give-first, in numbers. See the method & sources →
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.
The market map, the signals, the relationship graph — all yours. Nothing to lose when a subscription lapses.
Every search, intro and outcome feeds back in. The graph that powers the warm path gets richer with use.
Because the data sits in your own structure, it plugs into your stack — your CRM, your outreach. A feed can’t.
“Import your network once, and every open seat resolves to a named warm path — or an honest ‘no path found.’”
59 leadership seats, heat-ranked, open-field flagged, with a worked warm-path example.
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.