Options & Pricing
Hiring Packages & Pricing
We help founders hire senior talent faster and de-risk critical hires with structured processes that reduce drop-off and improve offer acceptance.
Choose the level of support that fits your situation - whether you're building a hiring system, making one critical hire, or scaling a team.
For teams scaling quickly, we also help put the people systems in place that ensure those hires succeed.
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Search
Best for a senior hire responsible for driving results within a defined function.
The result: a curated shortlist built for fit and commitment, aligned to 6–12 month outcomes, with closing support through acceptance.
- Role briefing + defined 6-12 month success profile and scorecard
- Targeted market mapping, proactive headhunt and talent network access
- Pre-screened shortlist (typically 4–6 aligned candidates)
- Weekly pipeline reporting and live market calibration
- Interview coordination + structured scoring and debriefs
- Candidate motivation and fit assessment with alignment insights
- Offer strategy + negotiation support through acceptance
Engagement fee + success fee
Executive Search
Best for CEO, C-level and VP hires responsible for strategy, culture and long-term direction.
The result: an alignment-led executive search designed to de-risk high-impact leadership decisions.
- Leadership alignment workshop + documented 12-month success profile
- Dedicated executive search, comprehensive market mapping and access to our executive leadership network
- Stakeholder-calibrated longlist and shortlist process
- Structured referencing support + executive assessment brief (motivators, risks, leadership style)
- Executive-level compensation modelling and negotiation strategy
- Counter-offer defence + pre-start engagement through notice
- Enhanced guarantee terms
Retained fee in Instalments
Foundations
Best for teams making a critical hire who want a structured hiring framework to run the process themselves.
The result: a complete hiring system for one role (or role type), ready to run in 10 business days.
- Role scorecard (6–12 month outcomes + must-haves)
- Compensation sense-check (market range + trade-offs)
- Draft job description + outreach brief (what we're selling + who we're targeting)
- Interview plan + stage scorecards
- Offer framework (base/bonus/equity principles + sign-off process)
- Structured debrief and decision log to ensure consistent hiring decisions
- Hiring workflow design + system recommendations
£2,000 credit on upgrade
Partner
Best for teams hiring across several roles who need experienced hiring capacity but aren't ready to hire a full-time recruiter.
The result: predictable hiring capacity across multiple roles.
- Dedicated hiring capacity across multiple roles
- Hiring plan prioritisation (what to hire now vs later)
- Pipeline build for 2–3 functions (e.g. GTM, Product, Engineering)
- Market insight on salaries, candidate expectations, and competitor hiring
- Interview process improvements to increase offer acceptance
- End-to-end coordination so founders aren't managing every interview
- Clear weekly hiring progress and pipeline visibility
- Embedded in your team, aligned to your culture
£3,000/month + success fee per hire
Fee structure
Transparent pricing aligned to the scope and seniority of the role.
We operate a retained search model. An engagement fee initiates the search, with the remaining balance structured around key milestones. This model ensures a focused search, full market coverage and dedicated delivery from start to finish, allowing us to commit the time required to identify and engage the strongest candidates in the market.
For most senior hires, the engagement fee secures the search and the balance is payable when your candidate starts.
For executive searches, fees are typically structured in three instalments aligned to the search process.
Fees are confirmed following the role briefing call based on seniority, compensation and search complexity.
Where multiple roles form part of an agreed hiring plan, fees are structured accordingly.
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Book a short call to confirm the right level of support, scope and fee.
Contract/Fractional Hire
Recruit on-demand talent to cover critical gaps quickly - experienced contractors and fractional leaders from early-stage and high-growth startups.
Typical timelines
Shortlist of available contract candidates within 24 hours (including availability and day rates). Weekly aftercare to keep client and contractor aligned.
What you get
- Fast shortlist with availability + day rates
- Reference-checked contractors
- Onboarding support and weekly check-ins
- Proactive oversight to keep delivery on track
How we run it
- Rapid briefing + spec (scope, duration, rate range)
- Targeted sourcing across engineering, product, and GTM
- Shortlist + quick client calibration
- Ongoing aftercare (weekly) during the assignment
Pricing model
Contractors and fractional hires are invoiced on a day-rate basis.
Typical roles
Fractional C-suite, GTM leads, marketing specialists, heads of finance, product managers/designers, full-stack/back-end engineers, AI/ML engineers, robotics software engineers.
Standalone Services & Add-ons
Available standalone or as add-ons to any package.
Compensation & benefits benchmark pack(Standalone)
Founder-friendly ranges and trade-offs to align expectations before you go to market.
Intro-only sourcing(Standalone)
We source and qualify the candidates; your team runs the process.
Candidate pre-screen recordings(Add-on)
Standardised video pre-screens so stakeholders can review quickly and consistently.
Hiring process redesign(Standalone / Add-on)
Reduce stages, improve calibration, and tighten decision-making to prevent drop-out.
Fractional embedded support(Standalone / Add-on)
Flexible hours per week for support with pipeline, coordination, and interview ops.
People Operations for Startups
Foundational people processes, a strong manager cadence, and a clean hiring experience - so early hires land well and scaling doesn’t create chaos.
What this solves
Foundational people processes, strong manager cadence, and a clean hiring experience - so early hires succeed and scaling doesn’t create chaos.
HR Foundations Sprint
Best for founders who need the people basics set up fast.
- People audit and risk map
- Core policy set
- Onboarding and probation templates
- Hiring scorecards and interview plans
- Offer workflow and approvals framework
- New joiner pack templates
Fixed fee
People Ops Build
Best for teams scaling managers and multiple hires.
- All Foundations Sprint deliverables
- Manager 101 toolkit
- Performance management toolkit
- Joiner, mover, leaver workflows
- Manager training group session
- Manager operating cadence
Fixed fee
People Partner
Best for founders who want fractional People leadership.
- Annual people plan and calendar
- Organisation design and leadership team support
- Quarterly people operating reviews
- Line manager coaching and support
- Performance and compensation review cycles
- Policy updates, employee relations guidance and ongoing compliance
Monthly fee
Next step
Send the role, target start date, and compensation range. We’ll recommend the simplest tier that gets the hire you need.
FAQs
Choose Foundations if you need a repeatable hiring system for a role. Choose Senior Hire Search for a one-off, urgent senior hire with a full search through offer acceptance. Choose Senior Hire Partner if you have multiple hires across a quarter and want predictable capacity. Choose Executive Search for C-level/VP hires you can’t afford to get wrong.
Foundations gives you a complete hiring system for a role (scorecard, outreach brief, interview plan, and offer framework) so your team can run the process in-house. Search is end-to-end recruitment: we run the market mapping and headhunt, deliver a curated shortlist, and manage the process through to offer and acceptance.
Search: shortlist typically in 10 days (timelines then depend on interview availability and notice periods). Executive Search: depends on role complexity and market, but runs as a full retained search through to acceptance. Partner: ongoing delivery across a quarter (3–6 month minimum term). Foundations: 10 business days to deliver the hiring system.
Search: hybrid-retained, paid in two instalments: an engagement fee and success fee. Executive Search: retained, paid in three instalments. Partner: fixed monthly payments plus a success fee per placement (3–6 month minimum). Foundations: fixed fee (with an upgrade credit window). Contract/Fractional: invoiced on a day-rate basis.
Yes. If you start with Foundations and then move to a search package within the upgrade window, we credit 100% of the fee against the upgrade (within 30 days).
We don’t send volume. You get a curated shortlist (typically 4–6 candidates) who meet the scorecard and have been screened for fit, motivations, and practicalities (comp, notice period, location).
It gives you predictable monthly hiring capacity. You can run one role end-to-end, or allocate a set number of sourcing hours across multiple roles, with monthly reporting and a quarterly review.
Executive Search is built for C-level and VP hires where diligence and closing risk matter most. It adds leadership alignment, deeper assessment and referencing, compensation modelling, and a structured closing plan through acceptance. Search is a faster retained search for urgent senior hires, with a curated shortlist and offer support, but less executive-level diligence.
We can typically share a shortlist of available contractors within 24 hours, including availability and day rates, and we stay close with weekly check-ins during the assignment. Contractors and fractional hires are invoiced on a day-rate basis, agreed upfront based on scope, duration, and rate range.