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.
Pulled 16 Jun 2026 · Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill · last 14 days
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. Intel only — who’s hiring, and which firm owns which lane.
Most tools only show you ②. The money is in ①. 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.
Every Vice-President, SVP, Chief and Executive-Director opening in the market — pulled fresh, deduplicated, with the noise stripped out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every new leadership posting across the Triangle is pulled fresh from LinkedIn each week — company, role, location, posting date, applicant count.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The same instinct a partner runs by hand at the top firms — reach the decision-maker early, through someone trusted, leading with value. Industrialized for your Triangle book.
We rank your way in 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, not a stale contact; and how central are they in that room. The strongest real route — or an honest “no path found.”
“Can I help?” asks a near-stranger to diagnose their own need and owe you for the favor. A specific give — a name, a comp data point, an introduction — 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 about once a month — never the same message twice. Speed where it’s hot; patience where it’s dormant.
Sources — 6sense, Forrester, Ashby, Belkins (16.5M emails). 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 you use it.
The market map, the signals, the relationship graph — all yours, not a vendor’s. Nothing to lose when a subscription lapses.
Every search, every introduction, every outcome feeds back in. The graph that powers the warm path gets richer with use.
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.”
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.