Built by one of America's best-ranked recruiting firms

Find the hire everyone else misses.

Your best candidate is already employed, isn't applying, and won't show up in any search. We find the people the market can't see, reach them with the right angle, and bring them to your table — at half the cost of an agency.

Built by one of America's best-ranked recruiting firms #76 Forbes Best Recruiting Firms '26 300+ placements behind us
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Successful placements
~50%
Of typical agency cost
Forbes-ranked recruiter
Days
To first matches, not months
The problem

The best people aren't searchable.

The candidate who'd genuinely change your team doesn't write a detailed profile, doesn't apply, and doesn't surface in any keyword search. Every hiring tool matches on what's written down — and the strongest people write down almost nothing.

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Tools match on keywords

Job boards and ATS filters can only find people who described themselves well. Your ideal hire didn't — so they're invisible.

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Agencies charge 20–30%

And they only deliver from the rolodex they already have. You pay a premium for whoever they happen to know.

The role drains the team

Months pass, the work piles up, and eventually you settle for the best of who applied — not the best person for the job.

Finding the right person was always a judgment problem. We turned that judgment into an engine.
What we do

A headhunter's judgment, running at a scale a person never could.

We don't scrape a database and forward résumés. We work the way the best headhunters do — reasoning about who's quietly excellent from the trail of what they've actually built, and what would move them to pick up the phone — on every role, all at once. No junior recruiter learning on your search. The same senior-grade rigor, every time.

We reason

We start where the skill is forged

Instead of keyword-matching, we work out which companies and teams actually produce the capability you need — then go looking there.

We judge

A fit case, in plain language

For every candidate, the reasoning a great headhunter would give: why this person, for this role, right now. You see the logic, not a black-box score.

We reach

The exact angle that lands

The hardest part of hiring a passive star is getting the first reply. We open with the specific lever that moves this person.

We compound

Sharper with every placement

Every hire, pass, and counter-offer teaches us what good judgment looks like. The longer we work together, the better your shortlists get.

How it works

Every search runs the same disciplined process.

Give us a role and we run the full search a great recruiting team would — reasoning through each step, then learning from how it lands. You get a finished shortlist, not a spreadsheet of leads to chase.

01 · Target

Map where to look

We pinpoint the companies and teams that forge the exact skill your role needs.

02 · Source

Find the hidden people

We surface candidates from those places — not whoever happened to apply.

03 · Enrich

Build the real picture

We trace the public record of what they've actually shipped and worked on.

04 · Judge

Weigh the genuine fit

We assess the evidence and explain, in plain words, why they fit.

05 · Reach

Open with the right angle

We reach out with the message built around what would actually move them.

06 · Learn

Sharpen from the outcome

Every result feeds back in, so the next search is sharper than the last.

↻ IT COMPOUNDS Every placement, pass, and reply sharpens our judgment — an edge that grows the longer we work together.

It's the rigor of a top headhunter, applied to every role at once — which is how we move in days, reach people others can't, and still come in at half the agency rate.

Working with us

You brief us once. We bring you the people.

We carry the search; you stay in control of every decision that matters. And you only pay for the steps that actually move you toward a hire.

01

Brief us on the role

Tell us who you need and what "great" looks like for your team. A short call or a form — whatever's faster.You · 5 minutes

02

We run the search

We target, source, enrich, and judge — working the whole funnel in days while you get on with your day.Us · the heavy lifting

03

You review the matches

You get anonymized match summaries with a clear fit case for each — proof the right people exist, before any commitment.You · decide

04

We open the conversations

On your go-ahead, we reach out with a tailored angle and don't stop until a qualified meeting is on your calendar.Us · outreach & persuasion

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You hire — at half the agency rate

Interview, decide, and close. Placement is roughly 12% of first-year salary, about half the standard agency fee.You · hire

The result →A shortlist of qualified, reachable people — that you could not have found alone.
For candidates · 24/7

An AI line that answers the moment they're ready to talk.

The strongest candidates are heads-down all day — they think about their next move at 10pm, not during a 2pm work call. So we give them a number they can call anytime. Our AI phone concierge picks up day or night, walks them through the role, answers their real questions, and handles a first screening conversation — entirely on their schedule.

  • 🕐Always on, never rushed. Evenings, weekends, between meetings — candidates reach a real conversation whenever it suits them, with zero phone tag.
  • 💬Answers the questions that matter. Comp range, scope, team, why the role is open — the things people won't ask a recruiter in the open.
  • Screens as it goes. The call captures fit and interest, so by the time a name reaches you, the groundwork is already done.
HeadhuntEZ Concierge
On a call · live now
“Happy to walk you through it — what would you most want to know about the role?”
“Honestly, the comp band and how senior the team is.”
— 10:42 PM · Tuesday —
Pricing

Pay for the outcome, at every step.

Start free, scale as you see value. No giant retainer just to find out whether we can deliver.

Step 1 · Discover
Match Summaries
Free

See that the right people genuinely exist — with the reasoning behind each — before you spend a dollar.

  • Anonymized candidate summaries
  • A plain-language fit case for each
  • Zero commitment to start
Start here
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Step 2 · Connect
Outreach to Meeting
Per booked meeting

We reach out with a tailored angle and get the candidate to the table — the part most teams can't do themselves.

  • Full candidate reveal
  • Tailored multi-channel outreach
  • A qualified meeting on your calendar
  • Pay only per vetted meeting
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Step 3 · Hire
Placement
~12% success fee

When you hire, you pay a success fee that's roughly half what a traditional agency charges.

  • Only pay when you hire
  • ~Half the standard 20–30% rate
  • End-to-end support to close
Request access

Founding clients start free with match summaries and lock in early pricing across every step.

HeadhuntEZ vs. a traditional agency

Same caliber of hire. Half the cost. None of the runaround.

 
Traditional agency
HeadhuntEZ
Placement fee
20–30% of salary
~12% — about half
Where candidates come from
Their existing rolodex
Reasoned from where skill is built
Speed to first names
Weeks to months
Days, on every role at once
See proof before you pay
Trust us, send the retainer
Free match summaries up front
The model

You pay when you hire. Not per seat. Not per month.

No software subscription. No monthly retainer. No account manager to chase. Our incentives are simple: we only win when you make a great hire.

Not a software tool

Nothing to log into, configure, or pay for by the seat. You get finished work, not another dashboard.

Not a typical agency

No bloated 20–30% fee, no waiting on whoever's in their rolodex, no junior recruiter learning on your role.

Outcomes, priced fairly

Free to see the matches. Pay per booked meeting, and ~12% only when you actually hire.

Early access

We're onboarding a handful of founding clients.

We take on a limited number of companies at a time so every search gets our full attention. Request access, tell us the role you're stuck on, and we'll come back with free match summaries — proof the people you want are out there.