For Companies
We Don't Start With Candidates.
We Start With Clarity.
The most expensive mistake a growing company makes isn't a bad quarter; it's a bad hire at the senior level. We help you get it right before the search begins.
Most hiring failures don't happen at the interview stage. They happen before the search even begins.
When the role isn't clearly defined, the success criteria are vague, and the team is evaluating experience instead of alignment.
We help leadership teams:
- Define what success actually looks like, before you write the job description
- Understand where risk enters the hiring decision
- Evaluate senior experience more accurately
- Avoid candidates who look good but integrate poorly
Our Process
How We Work With Companies
Step 1: Role Clarity Assessment
Before you search, we conduct a comprehensive 44-question diagnostic with your leadership team. The Role Clarity Assessment evaluates your hiring need across 10 dimensions, from business context and role definition to success criteria, team dynamics, hiring risk factors, and organizational readiness.
Step 2: Signal Alignment
Based on the assessment findings, we help you align stakeholders on what the role actually requires rather than what the job title implies. We clarify scope, boundaries, decision-making authority, and the real success criteria for 90 days and one year.
Step 3: Risk Mapping
Every senior hire carries risk. We identify where that risk enters your decision, such as compensation misalignment, unrealistic candidate expectations, scope creep, cultural assumptions, and capability gaps that don't surface in interviews.
Step 4: Candidate Interpretation
Senior candidates are skilled at presenting well. We help you read between the lines by evaluating not just what they've done, but how they did it, why they left, and whether their pattern fits your environment.
Step 5: Curated Placement
When appropriate, we introduce pre-assessed professionals from our Right Seat Project network, candidates who have already completed our Clarity Assessment and whose career pattern, strengths, and environment preferences align with your role.
The Assessment
44 Questions That Prevent Your Next Bad Hire
The Role Clarity Assessment is a confidential, structured diagnostic designed for employer clients. It evaluates your hiring readiness across 10 critical dimensions:
The assessment takes 30-45 minutes to complete and is followed by a debrief session where we walk through the findings, flag risks, and recommend next steps, whether that's proceeding with the search, realigning stakeholders, or redefining the role entirely.
Placement
We Don't Send Resumes. We Make Introductions.
Every professional we place has already completed our Clarity Assessment, a rigorous diagnostic that maps their career path, identifies their right-fit environment, and pressure-tests their alignment before we ever make an introduction.
By the time you meet a candidate from us, three things are already true:
They know exactly what they do best and can articulate it clearly
They've been matched to your role based on alignment, not just experience
They've been evaluated for integration risk, not just interview performance
This is not recruiting. This is alignment with proof.
The Difference
Traditional Recruiting vs. Right Seat Placement
Services
Employer Services Summary
Role Clarity Assessment
Comprehensive 44-question diagnostic to define the real success criteria and surface hidden risk before you begin the search.
Signal Alignment & Stakeholder Calibration
Facilitated alignment to ensure your leadership team agrees on what the role actually requires.
Senior Candidate Interpretation
Go beyond the resume and interview performance to evaluate true fit, integration risk, and career pattern alignment.
Hiring Risk Evaluation
Identify and mitigate the hidden risks in your hiring decision, compensation, expectations, market availability, scope.
Strategic Placement
Curated introductions of pre-assessed professionals matched to your role. Fee: $10,000-$25,000 at placement.
Post-Hire Integration Advisory
For critical hires, 90-day support to ensure the right person lands well in the right seat.
Who This Is For
- Companies hiring at the director level and above
- Leadership teams that have been burned by a "great on paper" hire before
- Founders and CEOs making their first senior-level addition
- Growing companies ($2M-$50M) where every seat matters
- Organizations with a history of turnover in a specific role