Executive search
Candidates find you. Future clients, not yet.
A board that needs a CFO now asks an AI assistant for names before it calls its network. The engine builds that list from what the web confirms: mandates by function and sector, partner profiles, rankings and press. In many search boutiques, that evidence sits in the CRM and nowhere else.
“Which executive search firm should we use to hire the CFO of a fintech scale-up in Paris?”
- 1.Partners
- 2.& Associés
- 3.your firm?
We ask this question, and the variants your clients use, to four engines. The answer either names your firm or it names someone else.
Why the shortlist forms without you
- Your placements are confidential, so nothing public says which functions and sectors you know.
- Candidate-facing pages rank well. The client-facing evidence a board reads is thin.
- Rankings and trade press name the largest firms by default.
What we build with you
- Anonymised mandate pages by function and sector, approved by the partner who ran them
- A compensation or market barometer that the press and the engines can cite
- Partner pages and LinkedIn profiles that state who each partner places, and where
- Submissions to sector rankings and specialised media
- Entity and schema work so every engine reads the same firm
How we measure
Every month we run your buyer questions across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. We record your share of voice against 5 competitors you name. When a mandate comes in, we trace where the client first heard of you. We publish no result we have not measured.
What we will not do
- Publish a client or candidate name without written consent.
- Produce candidate-attraction content in volume.
- Promise that an engine will name your firm. We measure whether it does.
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Questions search firms ask
How does ChatGPT decide which executive search firms to recommend?
It names the firms the web confirms: mandates by function and sector, partner profiles that say who each partner places, sector rankings and trade press. A firm whose evidence stays in its CRM is rarely named, whatever its track record.
Can a search firm become visible without breaking confidentiality?
Yes. The mandate pages are anonymised and approved by the partner who ran each search. No client or candidate name is published without written consent.
How do you know whether it is working?
Every month we ask your buyer questions to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews and record your share of voice against 5 competitors you name. When a mandate comes in, we trace where the client first heard of you.
Where should an executive search firm start?
With the free Shortlist Scan: 20 buyer questions asked to four engines, showing whether your firm is named. Every paid option and its price is on the pricing page.
Where to start
The free Scan asks 20 of these questions and shows whether you are named. If the gap is real, the Diagnostic maps it in depth and is deducted if you sign.