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How it Works

Not a firm. A machine with people
who've been there.

Force combines partners who've held the roles they're hiring for, elite operators who've hired at the world's best companies, and an AI operating system built for search.
The result: a hire you'd make again, every time.

The AI engine

2 hours to a complete market map.

While a traditional search firm starts making calls, Force's AI delivery engine maps the full talent landscape — sourcing, scoring, and giving full insight into the talent market before the first conversation starts.

70%+ of candidates are AI-sourced before the first human outreach. The sourcing work happens overnight.

Every candidate is scored against the brief — stage fit, seniority signal, domain depth — before they reach the longlist.

You receive the market map before outreach begins. No other firm does this. You see the full landscape before committing to a shortlist.

AI Market Map — Live Build
Mapped
Scored
Shortlisted
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The process

From brief to signed offer.

Each stage has a defined output and a defined timeline. You always know where the search is and what's coming next.

01
Day 1

Deep Intake & Brief Lock

What happens

We go well beyond the job description. We align on your company's stage, the real challenges this hire will face, the cultural signals that matter, and what 'great' specifically looks like for this role at this moment. On day one, your brief is locked and every decision from here is measured against it.

What you get

A locked brief that reflects what you actually need — not a recycled job spec.

02
Day 1

AI-Powered Market Map

What happens

Force's proprietary system maps the entire talent landscape against your locked brief. It identifies talent pool depth, movements, compensation, and where the gaps are.

What you get

A complete market map within 2 hours. Not a teaser deck. The full picture of your hiring landscape — before you've committed to anything.

03
Weeks 2–3

Operator Assessment & Shortlist

What happens

Domain experts — executives who have held the exact role being hired, at companies at your stage — review the longlist and calibrate the shortlist. They assess candidates the way a peer would: has this person actually done the thing we need done?

What you get

A shortlist of 3–5 candidates, each one assessed by someone who's done the job. Not a spreadsheet of names — a curated list with real judgment behind every recommendation.

What Happens After the Shortlist

Force supports you through interviews, offer negotiation, and close. Elite operators who've hired at the world's best companies stay involved through the final stage. From there we give a 6-month replacement guarantee.

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Average time from brief to signed offer
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Replacement guarantee on every search
The three layers

How Force is structurally different.

Force isn't a search firm that uses AI tools. It's an AI-native operating system for executive search, with human expertise placed exactly where it creates irreplaceable value.

01

The AI Delivery Engine

A multi-agent orchestration layer handles sourcing, scoring, outreach, and pipeline management — each agent operating under human supervision. Longlist in 48 hours. 70%+ of candidates AI-sourced.

Speed & scale
02

The Operator Network

For every search, Force brings in a domain operator who has held the role being hired — a CFO vetting CFO candidates, a CTO assessing engineering leaders. Their judgment is what 'great' is calibrated against.

Depth & credibility
03

The Intelligence Layer

Every search, every candidate, every outcome builds a proprietary data layer. Over time this becomes a genuine moat — market maps, compensation benchmarks, talent pool intelligence that compounds with every search.

Compounding moat
The difference

Traditional search vs Force.

Traditional search
3–6 month process, often longer
Sourcing by hand — slow and incomplete
Shortlists padded with 8–12 candidates
Generalist assessors — no domain depth
No market map — you never see the full picture
Process ends at placement
Force
4–6 weeks brief to signed offer
AI engine maps 70%+ of candidates in 48 hours
3–5 candidates — every one hireable
Domain operator assesses every candidate
Full market map delivered within 2 hours
6-month guarantee — stays through onboarding
From a client

'Force operates at a different level in every way. It gets the job done.'

Tim Rutten, CMO at Backbase

6-Month Replacement Guarantee on every search

If we take a mandate, it gets filled.

This is why we are selective about what we take on, and why strong leadership teams trust us with the searches they cannot afford to leave open.