How we work together
Jason can lead the full search from mandate through closing, or deliver a standalone Leadership Search Launch for your team to execute. You can commission the full search directly.
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A connected search
Full search connects all five capabilities below. Standalone Launch includes mandate calibration, source-reviewed market examples, an opportunity brief, interview framework and handoff; your team handles subsequent outreach and execution.
01 · Mandate
Turn your company’s next challenge into a clear role, outcomes, and criteria you can hire against.
02 · Market
Research relevant people, keep company evidence separate from personal achievements, and approach them only with an approved opportunity story. Human conversations establish interest and constraints.
03 · Approach
Turn your conviction about the company into a specific, credible opportunity for the person you want to recruit.
04 · Selection
Build interviews around the work this person must do. Compare evidence, investigate gaps, and make the hiring decision with clearer judgment.
05 · Partnership
Jason leads the agreed full search from calibration through closing. Your company brings its context and makes the hiring decision. Standalone Launch is available for teams that will execute themselves.
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Leadership Search Launch is $7,500 for one role. Jason-led full search is quoted at a fixed fee from $30,000 for accepted standard scope: one agreed role, function and seniority, a defined hiring geography/working model, viable compensation and an available company decision-maker. Calibration is included. Larger or materially more complex work receives a separate fixed quote before commitment. The agreed total has no additional percentage-of-compensation commission or placement success fee.
No. You can commission the full search directly. Launch is the standalone option when your own team will handle candidate outreach and execution.
One role over three scoped weeks after inputs and stakeholder availability are agreed. Up to three stakeholder conversations, two working sessions, one handoff and one consolidated revision. Deliverables include the mandate, source-reviewed market examples and tradeoffs, opportunity brief, interview framework and exportable handoff. It includes 30-day correction/support for the delivered scope. Candidate outreach is outside this engagement.
Standalone Launch is $3,750 at kickoff and $3,750 on agreed deliverables and handoff. At a $30,000 full-search fee, installments are $7,500 at kickoff (calibration), $12,500 on approved mandate and explicit authorization of candidate engagement, and $10,000 on client approval of an assessed, interested shortlist and authorization of selection/closing work. Higher fixed quotes specify their installment amounts upfront. Previous Launch payments reduce the calibration installment as explained below. If a stage never starts, it is not billed.
Actual Launch payments are credited for the same company and underlying hiring need if you commission full search during Launch or within 90 days of its agreed handoff. Payments first reduce the calibration installment; you do not pay twice for that work. At a $30,000 total, $7,500 already paid leaves $0 for calibration, then $12,500 and $10,000: $22,500 remaining. With $3,750 already paid, $3,750 remains for calibration, then $12,500 and $10,000: $26,250 remaining. If you switch before handoff, remaining Launch work becomes part of full-search calibration; the conversion agreement replaces any outstanding standalone Launch invoice so its balance is not added on top. Normal calibration changes preserve credit. Materially new work requires a new agreed quote. After 90 days, we assess reusable work and disclose the proposed credit before commitment.
In full search, Jason is the accountable lead, with recruiter support assigned as agreed for research, outreach, screening and coordination. Your team supplies company context, participates in interviews and makes hiring decisions. In standalone Launch, Jason leads mandate/market calibration and your team owns subsequent outreach and execution. Responsibilities are agreed before work starts.
No. Research examples and prospects are separate from people who have been personally assessed and have expressed interest. We distinguish company evidence from individual achievements and show uncertainty, source dates and evidence gaps.
No. The engagement commits to defined work and responsibility, not a guaranteed hire or hiring date. Duration, stopping, handoff and continuation are agreed upfront. The standard full-search scope includes up to 120 active calendar days across calibration, engagement, selection and closing, excluding agreed pauses, with no automatic continuation charges. Treatment of active finalists at term end is specified in the quote before payment. If the active term ends without an approved shortlist or hire, you receive an agreed handoff of completed work for paid stages; a continuation requires a new agreed scope and fee. The selection installment is not charged if that stage never starts.
The standard full-search scope includes one return to the same mandate of up to 30 active calendar days from agreed resumption, without an additional professional-fee installment for that return. Notification and resumption deadlines are specified in your quote before payment. Materially changed assignments require explicit agreement. Any post-start replacement remedy must be stated in the written quote.
Deliverables for paid stages remain available for your hiring use. Third-party profiles and source material retain their applicable rights and data-handling restrictions. You can stop before the next stage, and unstarted stages are not billed. Before you pay, your agreement explains mid-stage stopping, fees earned for delivered work, settlement of advances for undelivered work, and handoff. It also covers an engagement ending because of a conflict or Jason's unavailability; responsibility is not silently transferred to another lead.
Routine research and operating tools are included in the professional fee. We agree the delivery workspace and access. Exceptional background checks, travel or unusual external expenses require separate advance agreement. The free seven-day browser workspace is not the sole delivery record for paid work.
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