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How a Three-Person Search Firm Added €490,000 in Fees Without Hiring Anyone

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Free hire on us

$0 down. No card. We do the setup.

  • €490K

    more in fees a year

  • 27 → 41

    placements a year, same team

  • 19 → 6

    days to a shortlist the client can see

An executive search firm, three people. Our model from its own numbers, not a result yet.

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Our promise

Free hire on us with $0 down.

Give us one open role. If you make a hire on it in the next 4 weeks, you pay nothing for it.

  • $0 down. No card. We do the setup.
  • 4 weeks on one open role, with a real person helping you.
  • Not happy at the week 4 review? Walk away. You owe nothing.
  • You keep your data and everything we built for you.
  • It never turns into a bill on its own.

Week 1 goal: a shortlist on your hardest search that you would send to your client.

We start only 2 new teams each week, because a real person sets up each one. When this week is full, you start next week.

Your client can't tell you apart from the next agency.

Agency founders tell us the same three things.

  1. 1

    Your ATS keeps records. It does no work.

    It stores the people you have met. Finding, reaching out, screening and writing up still happen by hand, in five other tools.

    "I'm a little bit sick with like very expensive solution that are, I would say answering, yeah, almost 60,70% of the needs I have"
    Founder, executive search firm

    13 of 20 told us this

  2. 2

    You pay every month. Fees land in lumps.

    A placement pays well, but not every month. Tools bill you every month anyway, and credits run out in the middle of a search.

    "I wanna make sure I can afford it every month."
    Founder, recruitment agency

    15 of 20 told us this. Twice the rate of other buyers.

  3. 3

    The tools were built for in-house teams.

    Most recruiting software assumes one company hiring for itself. You run many clients, each with its own process, its own report and its own rules.

    "we need something special for a recruitment agency."
    Founder, people consultancy

    12 of 20 told us this

Recruiters feel it too.

"We talk a lot in this industry about giving recruiters a seat at the table. Honestly, most of us just need fewer tabs."
Jen HulmeFreelance Talent Acquisition
"The recruiting tech stack has become its own full-time job."
Dominic JoyceTA Programme Lead, The Weir Group79K followers
"One inbox. One workflow. One price. For a modern agency hiring at pace, the arithmetic is hard to argue with."
Harry PortchTalent Acquisition Lead, Oritain25K followers
"Fewer tabs, more calls, more placements. That's the whole pitch, and it holds up."
Kritika MenonResource Manager, CGI174K followers

The 5 things agency founders liked about Hivemind

From our calls with agency and search firm founders.

  1. 1

    Find people who aren't looking

    Search over a billion profiles in plain words, then reach out by email, LinkedIn and text in one sequence.

    "I'm doing, you know, full time sourcing every day ... And this has to be also maybe automated."
    Founder, executive search firm
    Sample data
  2. 2

    A workflow for every client

    Each client and each role gets its own steps, tests and report. Set it up once, and reuse it for the next search.

    "this decision and workflow creation plan, I think that's where you the different from others and that's the interesting part"
    Partner, search firm
  3. 3

    A shortlist report your client will forward

    Hivemind writes up every finalist in a clean client report, with names hidden until you're ready.

    "No, this is awesome."
    Founder, recruitment agency
    Sample data
  4. 4

    Tests that show who can do the work

    Send a proctored test with cheating flags, so a weak candidate never reaches your client.

    "And it's Proctor as well. That's brilliant."
    Founder, search firm
    Sample data
  5. 5

    Run it from Claude

    Hivemind plugs into Claude. Run a search, move a candidate or pull a report by asking.

    "all of this is connected through MCP connections and API keys via [Claude]"
    Founder, tech recruitment firm
    Sample data

Quotes are from our calls with agencies and search firms, March to October 2026. We keep their names private.

Build the hiring stacks of your dreams.
15+ Native Modules and 275 Integrations

Connects to Gmail, LinkedIn, Claude and the tools you already use. Working inside a client's ATS? That works too.

  • Workday
  • Greenhouse
  • Ashby
  • Ceipal
  • TempWorks
  • Lever
  • SmartRecruiters
  • Workable
  • BambooHR
  • LinkedIn
  • Indeed
  • ZipRecruiter
  • Slack
  • Zoom
  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft 365
  • Docusign
  • Zapier
  • Checkr
  • Built In
  • HackerRank
  • CodeSignal
  • Codility
  • CoderPad Interview
  • Adaface
  • SeekOut
  • Gem
  • Fetcher
  • HireEZ
  • Metaview
  • BrightHire
  • Willo
  • ModernLoop
  • Guide
  • Deel
  • Rippling
  • Gusto
  • ADP

Case study: a three-person search firm

This executive search firm places sales and marketing leaders. It is three people, and the founder runs every client and every screen, about 40 calls a week. It made 27 placements last year and had to turn searches down. We took its own numbers from our call and modeled what Hivemind changes.

  • 6 days

    to a shortlist the client can see

    down from 19

  • 41

    placements a year

    up from 27, same team

  • 18

    founder screening calls per placement

    down from 35

  • 25 min

    to write a shortlist report

    down from 5.5 hours

  • 93 of 100

    searches filled

    up from 79

  • 17 hrs

    a week back for the founder

    for clients and new business

Same three people. More searches filled. More time on the phone with clients.

In the model, that is about €490,000 more in fees a year.

"I'm paying, you know, recruiter, LinkedIn recruiter for corporate, which is like killing me."
Founder, on our call

The firm's before numbers are its own, from our call in July 2026. The after numbers are our model of what Hivemind changes, not results yet.

You stay in charge of every call.

"You can't automate being human, so recruiters aren't going anywhere. But the chaos can leave."
Katrina CollierAuthor, The Robot-Proof Recruiter36K followers
"They made a deliberate choice: automate the data collection, never the judgment."
Kobi AmpomaHead of Talent Acquisition, HEINEKEN27K followers

Your free hire. Here is what you get.

  • Your hardest search, done with you. Hivemind finds, reaches out to, tests and writes up people for one live search. We set up your client's process before you start.
  • Your files, safe. Hivemind can read your system. It can't change it.
  • A team that knows how. We train your team on day 0, when we set you up.
  • Proof you can see. Every week, we look at your numbers with you.
  • Help when you need it. One real person and a shared chat for all 4 weeks.

Setup and training normally cost $4,980. In your free hire it is $0, and you keep everything we built.

$4,980

Your price for 4 weeks

$0

Free hire on us

Good questions we hear.

"Your data won't cover my niche or my market."

Fair. That's why we test on your hardest live search, in your market, before we talk price. If the shortlist isn't one you'd send, you've lost nothing.

"I've seen demos. They're never the product."

Agreed. So skip the demo. Give us a live search and judge what comes back.

"I can't take on another monthly bill."

The free hire is $0. After it, we show you the price as placements: how many a year it takes to pay for itself.

"I could build this myself with agents."

Some founders do. Then one person spends the week keeping it running. Hivemind is the system your agents plug into, so you stay small without becoming the IT team.

"Every client has its own process."

Good. Each client gets its own workflow, its own tests and its own report.

"What does it cost after?"

You get a real price on the call, in placements, before you start.

Our promise

Free hire on us with $0 down.

Give us one open role. If you make a hire on it in the next 4 weeks, you pay nothing for it.

  • $0 down. No card. We do the setup.
  • 4 weeks on one open role, with a real person helping you.
  • Not happy at the week 4 review? Walk away. You owe nothing.
  • You keep your data and everything we built for you.
  • It never turns into a bill on its own.

Week 1 goal: a shortlist on your hardest search that you would send to your client.

We start only 2 new teams each week, because a real person sets up each one. When this week is full, you start next week.

Try a free hire on your hardest live search.

Book a 30-minute call. Bring the role and its market. We run the search before we talk price.

After you book

  1. You get an email with the time.
  2. Bring two numbers: your average fee, and placements in the last 90 days.
  3. We set up your role before your free hire starts.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What's included in the free hire?

Four weeks on your hardest live search, and we do the setup. We build your client's process, load the credits and run the search with you. Make the placement and keep the whole fee. Setup and training normally cost $4,980. Here it is $0, and you never give us a card.

Do you work with our ATS?

Hivemind has 275 integrations. Tell us which ATS you run on the call and we'll show you how it connects. You don't have to replace it.

What happens if I'm not happy with Hivemind?

Walk away at the week 4 review and owe nothing. You keep your data and everything we built for you. The trial never turns into a bill on its own.

What happens if I'm happy with Hivemind?

Nothing gets rebuilt. The role, the workflow and the link to your system stay where they are. If you want to keep going, you pick a plan at the week 4 review and add more roles when you are ready.

How many trials do you run at a time?

We start 2 new teams a week, because a real person sets up each one and trains your team. When this week is full, you start the next week.

Your numbers

What would more placements be worth to you?

Move the sliders. Put in your own fee.

More fees each year

$298,667

Same team. Same clients. Same 12 people sent each month. 1.2 more placements each month. That is about $5,744 a week.

These are example numbers. Change them to yours.

12
20% → 30.4%
$
Placements each month now
2.4 / mo
At that firm's jump
3.6 / mo
More placements each year
+15
More fees each year
$298,667 / yr

We use the jump in our model of a three-person search firm: 27 placements a year to 41, with the same team. It is built from the firm's own numbers on a call with us. It is a model, not a promise.