Options & Pricing
Hiring Packages & Pricing
We help founders hire senior talent faster and de-risk critical hires with processes that are built to reduce drop-off and improve offer acceptance.
Choose the tier that's right for you based on whether you need a hiring system or a complete search (through offer and acceptance), whether it's a one-off or ongoing requirement, and how business-critical the role is.
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Book a callSenior Hire Search
Best for urgent senior hire where speed matters.
The result: a curated shortlist fast, coordinated process, plus offer support through acceptance.
- Role briefing + finalised scorecard
- Market mapping + targeted headhunt
- Pre-screened shortlist (typically 4–6 candidates)
- Weekly pipeline report (outreach, responses, interviews, market feedback)
- Interview coordination + consistent scoring and debriefs
- Offer strategy + closing support through acceptance
Retained fee in instalments
Executive Search
Best for C-level and VP hires you can't afford to get wrong.
The result: executive search with diligence, finalist referencing, and strong closing support.
- Leadership alignment workshop + a clear, compelling role narrative
- Full retained search + market mapping
- Referencing plan
- Candidate assessment brief (motivators, risks, leadership style, references summary)
- Compensation modelling + negotiation strategy
- Closing plan (counter-offer defence + pre-start engagement to keep candidates warm)
- Enhanced guarantee/replacement terms
Retained fee in instalments
Senior Hire Foundations
Best for teams hiring without a repeatable process in place.
The result: a complete hiring system for one role (or role type) in 10–15 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)
- Hiring workflow design + system recommendations
£1,500 credit on upgrade (30 days)
Senior Hire Partner
Best for multiple hires across a quarter without building an in-house talent team.
The result: predictable hiring capacity across multiple roles.
- A monthly retainer with defined capacity: one full search, or allocated sourcing hours across multiple roles.
- Hiring plan prioritisation (what to hire now vs later)
- Market updates you can act on (salary trends, candidate expectations, competitor hiring activity)
- Pipeline build for 2–3 functions (e.g. GTM + Product + Engineering)
- Process optimisation to reduce drop-outs and improve acceptance
- Monthly reporting + quarterly review
- Fully embedded in your team, aligned to your culture, and invested in building a strong, scalable talent function.
From £3,000/month + success 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
You can buy these on their own, or bolt them onto 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.
HR/People
PeopleOS for Startups
Structured HR support led by an experienced startup HR leader - designed to plug into your hiring packages (not generic HR consulting).
What this solves
Foundational people processes, a strong manager cadence, and a clean hiring experience - so early hires land well 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 (coordination only)
- Onboarding and probation templates
- Starter performance framework
- Hiring scorecards and interview plans
- Offer workflow and approvals
£[X] fixed
HROS Build + Manager Cadence
Best for teams scaling managers and multiple hires.
- All Foundations Sprint deliverables
- Manager 1:1 and feedback toolkit
- Quarterly performance cadence
- Joiner, mover, leaver workflows
- Role leveling and comp reviews
- PeopleOS playbook and training
£[X] fixed
People Partner (Embedded)
Best for founders who want fractional People leadership.
- Monthly people operating reviews
- Manager office hours and coaching
- Hiring interface ownership
- Performance and comp cycles
- Policy updates and maintenance
- Quarterly people planning
£[X]/mo
Next step
Send the role(s), target start date, and compensation range. We'll recommend the simplest tier that gets the hire you need without waste.
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. Senior Hire 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.
Foundations: typically 10–15 business days to deliver the hiring system. Senior Hire Search: shortlist typically in 10 days (timelines then depend on interview availability and notice periods). Senior Hire Partner: ongoing delivery across a quarter (3–6 month minimum term). Executive Search: depends on role complexity and market, but runs as a full retained search through to acceptance.
Foundations: fixed fee (with an upgrade credit window). Senior Hire Search: retained, paid in instalments. Senior Hire Partner: fixed monthly retainer plus a success fee per placement (3–6 month minimum). Executive Search: premium retained, paid in instalments. 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. Senior Hire 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.