Fractional Partner

Embedded access to the deep-tech talent pool, without a permanent hire.

You get a dedicated specialist recruiter working as an extension of your team. Two roles in active search at any time, up to four in the pipeline. Full cycle: sourcing, screening, technical vetting, interview coordination and employer positioning for roles that are genuinely hard to sell.

For teams hiring steadily who don’t have a recruitment function, or have one that’s already at capacity.

Pricing Monthly retainer: £5,000 Setup: £3,500 one-time (intake, calibration, market map, positioning). Flexible engagement, shaped around your hiring plan.

Contingency agencies charge 20–25% a hire. Four hires at £100k, and you’ve spent £80,000 or more, starting cold with a new recruiter each time.

A fixed monthly fee, however many you hire. Recruitment becomes a line you can budget, not a bill that lands with every offer.

Retained Exclusive Search

High-touch, exclusive search for the role that decides whether a programme ships.

For a critical hire, a pipeline of whoever happens to be looking isn’t enough. You need the specific best person, including the ones who will never come through a job board. Reaching them means going to them by name, which means first knowing exactly who they are. That mapping is where the work starts, and it’s the part most agencies skip.

What it delivers

• Deep analysis of global competitors and where the talent actually sits
• The top passive candidates, named and technically validated against your brief
• Direct, discreet outreach and high-touch management through to offer
• Structured interview feedback and live salary benchmarking as the search runs

Pricing Engagement fee: £3,500 at kickoff. Funds the market map, talent map and shortlist, and secures the search. Performance fee: 17% of first-year base salary, on placement. Exclusivity: a 60-day exclusive window.

Traditional retained search runs 25 to 35% of first-year salary. This is fixed, transparent and well below that, with full exclusivity and a named market map you keep whatever the outcome.

Guarantee Every retained placement carries a twelve-week rebate. If the hire leaves early, part of the fee is returned, tapering from full in the first two weeks down by week twelve.

Lighter entry: Market and Talent Map

Want the intelligence without the search? The standalone market analysis and named talent pool is available on its own for £1,500. If you go on to run the search with me, it folds into the engagement.