For professionals and executives navigating the AI economy: immediate market clarity, rigorous positioning, and a targeted access strategy to help you secure the right next seat, faster — with complete discretion.
Strictly Confidential. All individual engagements are fully discreet. We never contact your current employer or publish your details.
Clarity fast
Executive search firms build this exact intelligence at the start of every retained engagement. We build it for you, at a fraction of the cost.
For professionals who need immediate, grounded clarity on where they fit, what the market is telling them, and how to move with intent. Delivered in 2–3 working days.
Deeper support
Builds on Market Scan
For Directors, Heads of Function, senior managers, and experienced individual contributors who want to move beyond passive applications and run a deliberate, targeted search campaign.
This is where we apply recruiter-grade thinking to your search — how roles are actually filled, not how job seekers are told to apply.
High-stakes transitions
Builds on Career Offensive
For VPs, SVPs, C-suite leaders, GMs, Country Leads, Founders, and senior Directors managing confidential, complex, or high-stakes transitions.
This is a discreet, high-touch partnership — combining market intelligence, positioning, access strategy, and negotiation support.
Compare all 50+ intelligence features, data enrichment limits, and strategic deliverables across our advisory tiers.
Pick the piece you need next. Each module builds on the scan you already have, so you never pay for the same groundwork twice.
Need something you don't see here? Tell us what you need and we will scope and price it as a one-off piece of work.
A different search entirely: another function, sector or country, run as a full scan.
Same search, new priorities. Turn the dials and we re-score and re-rank your market.
For a pivot. Your three strongest paths, researched properly before you commit to one.
Five companies from your scan, researched deeply enough to approach with confidence.
Turn your experience into a presence in your market. We define a voice that is yours, study what is already earning attention in your field, then build a 90-day plan you will actually keep, wired into how you work.
Your Market Scan, kept live.
A Market Scan is a snapshot of your market on the day it is delivered. Then the market moves: roles open, roles close, and new teams start hiring. Scout checks it for you several times every weekday and emails you only when something is worth your time, so the right role never slips past while you are busy with the last one.
When a new role opens at one of your target companies, an email reaches you while it is fresh, usually the same day it is posted.
Scored on the same 10-point scale as your Market Scan. You hear about Tier 1 roles, not every vacancy. Quiet days stay quiet.
When a target from your scan starts hiring, or a new leader joins in your function, you know about it.
No more checking careers pages one by one. Scout reads them several times a day, so you can spend your time on applications and conversations.
One short email with the roles to act on first, the ones also worth a look, and the teams worth approaching directly.
Checked against where you can actually work: remote US by state, and remote or hybrid in Ireland and the UK.
Why: core function match; a target company from your Market Scan.
Also today: a hidden-market target from your scan has started hiring in your function.
Career transitions are rarely linear. A senior leader exploring a move to a smaller company may also be weighing a board advisory portfolio. A technologist considering public sector impact may simultaneously be evaluating fractional consulting. The reality is that most professionals in transition are navigating two or three of these pathways at once — testing assumptions, narrowing options, and looking for the signal that tells them where they belong next.
That complexity is not a problem to solve. It is the problem we were built for.
Our advisory is structured around seven distinct transition archetypes. Each represents a pattern we see repeatedly in the senior professionals we work with. Your Market Scan, strategy calls, and execution plan are shaped by whichever pathways apply to you — because the best career intelligence doesn't force you into a single lane. It maps the territory and helps you choose.
For professionals who know exactly what they do and want to keep doing it — but in a stronger position. You are not pivoting. You are competing in a market that has changed around you, and you need updated positioning, AI fluency, and a search strategy built for how hiring actually works today. This is about sharpening the blade, not changing direction.
Often driven by: A desire for better compensation, escaping a toxic culture, or an unexpected layoff where the goal is a rapid, strategic return to familiar territory.
Translating domain knowledge into a compelling narrative for high-growth adjacent roles within the same sector. We help you map your existing expertise to new titles, bridge the gap in perception, and position your lateral move as a deliberate, high-value transition.
Often driven by: Hitting a growth ceiling in your current function, or recognising that an adjacent role offers stronger long-term equity and leverage.
Architecting a total professional identity shift, mapping skills directly into an entirely new target sector. We rebuild your professional narrative from the ground up, proving your value to decision-makers who don't yet speak your language.
Often driven by: Industry burnout, a profound shift in personal priorities, or the realisation that your legacy sector is permanently contracting.
Shifting away from full-time employment into a portfolio of fractional or advisory roles and Board seats. We help you package your accumulated expertise into discrete, marketable advisory offerings and target the founders and boards who need them.
Often driven by: A desire for autonomy, a recent liquidity event, or a conscious uncoupling from the 60-hour corporate grind.
For leaders ready to exit corporate life and position their expertise to successfully launch their own venture. We provide the market intelligence and strategic framing to help you transition from employee to founder with confidence and clarity.
Often driven by: Spotting an unserved market need during your corporate tenure, or finally securing the financial runway to build on your own terms.
Crafting the strategic narrative and executive presence required to secure a step-up into the C-Suite. This pathway focuses heavily on stakeholder mapping, executive-level interview preparation, and demonstrating readiness for enterprise-wide impact.
Often driven by: Being passed over internally, or recognising that your current organisation cannot accommodate your ambition for the top table.
For experienced professionals drawn toward roles where impact is measured in policy, public outcomes, or societal change rather than revenue. This pathway covers moves into government, semi-state bodies, regulatory agencies, NGOs, international organisations, healthcare, education, and mission-driven enterprises.
Whether navigating PAS/publicjobs.ie in Ireland, Civil Service Jobs in the UK, or USAJobs, we help translate commercial leadership experience into the specific language, networks, and rigorous application processes these jurisdictions require — because the skills transfer, but the playbook does not.
Often driven by: A fundamental desire for legacy-building impact and public service over commercial scale and revenue targets.
Most of the professionals we work with are exploring multiple pathways simultaneously. Your Market Scan is built around all of them.
"A recent client — a VP of Engineering with 18 years in SaaS — explored pathways across Same Role, Public Sector, and Contract & Advisory before committing to a firm direction after their second Market Scan."